Beloved Family,

Mid-summer Heart greetings from California! 

We had a lovely 51st Annual Mendocino Sufi Camp with some 175 people, 30 of them kids!

Tomorrow morning 9AM is my right knee replacement surgery. Thank you in advance for all your prayers and well wishes. My aspiration is that when this heals, I will be able to have good walking skills again.

I continue to cry at our world’s human conditions of hatred, exclusion, racism, sexism, nationalism, income inequality, using violence as a solution, environmental degradation, all the while feeling into the natural state of Joy. As a way to serve all that ails us, I know that if I can bring Health and Happiness into the community, the community will be more healthy and happy. This is the perennial challenge for humanity, it is not unique to our current insanity.

In order to be effective, we can continue to call on and practice the ancient wisdom of developing strength, balancing the breath, daily mediation, recitation of the Name of God and practicing kindness and compassion to the best of our ability.

For a change, I have no immediate travel on the horizon giving my body and knees time to heal.

For our next wazifa I suggest we recite YA NUR YA JABBAR. Invoking the aspect of the One, the Primordial Light, which naturally is the same as Primordial Love, sometimes referred to as Nuri Muhammed or the Light of Christ. We combine it with YA JABBAR which has as its root the physician who puts what is broken back in alignment, said in another way “the Healer of Fractured Existence.”

For our next text let's study Cosmic Language by Hazrat Inayat Khan with Commentary by Murshid Sam. From Murshid Tansen - Certainly, one of Murshid SAM’s best papers and arguably Inayat Khan’s best too. In 1969 Murshid S.A.M. wrote to his friend Paul Reps, “At the present time my most important work is the commentary on Hazrat Inayat Khan’s "Cosmic Language.”

Much love,

Shabda

Wazifa Practice  

Recite 101x

YA NUR ~ YA JABBAR

93. Ya Nur (yaa NOOR) 

An-Nur is the essence of light, luminosity itself. A Qur'anic verse says, "Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth." An-Nur is the light of every soul and an inherent characteristic in every pore of your body. Munawwir is a form of the same root and means the one who illuminates. It is interesting that the word for "hell" in Arabic is naar, which has the same root as Nur. What makes it hell is that the burning heat there is lacking in light. That kind of burning heat is our inner condition if we don't embody God's loving mercy and compassion (rahma) and instead become full of rage.

Whatever way we may turn, we see the all-pervading light of An-Nur. Even the darkness shines from within it. All the various forms of wisdom and guidance are expressions of An-Nur. For example, Nur-ul-Haqeeqah is the light of truth and guidance on the path. What continues to live on in God when we die is also a legacy of light.

9. Ya Jabbar (yaa jab-BAAR)

Al-Jabbar is an expression of divine power that allows you to accomplish things or to act in the world. It is a healing strength. It carries the root meaning of setting a broken bone to heal it. Al-Jabbar means the strength to continuously heal all things all the time, the strength to heal brokenness. It is compelling, but only in the sense of stabilizing you in a consistent direction of movement.

When recited, Ya Jabbar empowers the sincere practitioner with an enduring strength so that nothing can shake you. Through embodying this quality your existence becomes unified. It is the mender of our fractured existence.

To hear the pronunciation: Ya Nur ~ Ya Jabbar

Text and Commentary to Study

This month we begin studying the Sangatha Cosmic Language of Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan with commentary by Murshid Samuel Lewis. Read pages 7-20

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Commentary Cosmic Language

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