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Heart to Heart Heart to Heart A Newsletter of Sufi Circle Canada Issue #2 “Sacred Connections” Fall 2020 Welcome to the 2nd Issue – Editors’ Notes Upcoming Events Annual General Meeting 2020 Dear Canadian Sufis and Friends, Our Beloved Inayat Khan wrote: "When souls meet each other, what truth they can exchange. It is uttered in silence yet always surely reaches the goal." The great teachers of humanity become streams of love ~ our stream of love is the Universal Sufi message of Inayat Khan. It is a joy and honour to meet and move forward with you within this stream. As guest editor for this Fall 2020 edition of Heart to Heart, I encourage you to step forward in further issues and allow your voice to be heard as we move in a concert of unity toward the goal-less goal. Kuan Yin Pujos-Michel, Banff, Alberta. In this second issue of the revived Heart to Heart we ex - plore the heart ties streaming between each other – The sacred ties of spiritual friendship are evident whenever sufis gather, as whether as longtime or recent travellers on the spiritual in this photo from the Crossing Retreat 2019. We’ll gather online for an journey or between ourselves and those pathfinders in AGM and conversation October 5th. Please put yourself in that vacant chair. Photo by David Murray. whose footsteps we follow. We consider different perspec - tives on the great being of Sayed Madani, our Murshid’s Join our 2020 Annual General Meeting Murshid, provided by Kuan Yin, David and myself. An arti - Members and Friends of The Sufi Circle Canada / Sufi cle by our inspiring friend Sufia reminds us that time and Movement Canada are invited to an electronic Annual space dissolve in the wisdom of the heart. Akbar reflects on General Meeting (via Zoom), Monday October 5 at 1 pm the unique period in which we are living and what lessons PST, 2 pm Mountain time, 3 pm Central time, 4 pm East - it may bring. Qahira helps us understand the connections ern time. Those who identified themselves as members between colour, line and thought in the beauty of sacred have been notified. Only members can vote on resolutions, imagery. You’ll also find poems, reflections, artwork by old but we welcome everyone to participate in conversation and new friends. We hope you enjoy this issue and look following the short formal meeting. To join us please con - forward to your submissions for our Spring edition. Please tact Sufi Circle Canada Secretary, David Murray, send submission of articles (400-700 words), art, poetry, [email protected] for the Zoom access link. recipes, reviews etc. by Feb. 1 to [email protected]. Also please consider helping to coordinate the next issue as Conference of the Birds 2021 ‘Guest Editor.’ Nirtan Carol Ann Sokoloff, co-editor Gathering to celebrate the Sufi Message This issue of Heart to Heart has been prepared by Guest Editor of Love, Harmony and Beauty Kuan Yin Pujos-Michel, copyedited and designed by Nirtan Carol Ann Sokoloff. Contributors include: Qahira Fran Becker, Frank Dooge, Inayat Khan, Akbar Lody Kieken, David Murray, Get Ready to Soar! Kuan Yin Cindy Pujos-Michel, Sufia Carol Sill, Jo Going, Julia see page seven Knowlden, Nirtan Carol Ann Sokoloff and Daniel White. Thank you Azima Martha Toy for proofreading and David Thou comest on earth with a Message as a dove from above..." Sufi Prayer Salat Murray for mailing assistance. My life has been that of a bird, who must descend on earth to pick up a grain, b t h joy is in flying in the air." I t Khan, Autobiography " Inayat Khan’s Sufi Path beloved murshid. Inayat writes, “My joy in him was so by Kuan Yin Cindy Pujos-Michel great that it found its expression in poetry and music. I had at last found my pearl among men, my guide, my As a young man Inayat Khan's interest in mysticism treasure and beacon of hope...In him I saw every rare qual - attracted him on a deep level to the strange but beautiful ity, while his unassuming nature and his fine modesty life of the Sufi dervishes. “The sweetness of their nature could hardly be equalled even among the highest mystics and the innate perfume of their manner of using music of the world.” He continues, "His death years later was as and dance as food for the soul,” drew him even closer to saintly as his life had been..I can never forget the words he them and their ways.* Among them were the madzubs spoke to me while he placed his hands upon my head in who were, “so absorbed with the inner vision of God that blessing, ‘Fare forth into the world my child and harmo - they became unconscious of the external,” life around nize the East and the West with the harmony of thy music. them.* Also at that time Inayat Khan, visited Ajmer and Spread the wisdom of Sufism abroad for to this end art thou the tomb of Khwaja Moin-ud-Din Chishti, “the most cele - gifted by Allah, the most merciful and compassionate.’" brated Sufi saint in India.”* Inayat was so impressed by the beautiful atmosphere of the tomb that he committed him - Quotations are from The Sufi Message, self to a further study of this illustrious path. Inayat Khan, Vol. XII, Confessions, My Thereafter he began to have a series of dreams and Initiation in Sufism, p.146-150, except visions. In one powerful dream he saw, for * Vol. XII, My Interest in Sufism . p. 140-145. “a great gathering of prophets, saints and sages all clad in their Sufi garments,” and felt himself, “absorbed into their blissful state of ecstasy.” Again during many of his meditations he took note of, “visions of a most haunting and spiritual face, radiant with Ring given to Inayat Khan by his Murshid, light.” Seeking clarity on these dreams Sayyed Mohammed Abu Hashim Madani, inscribed, "The Bringer of the Message" and visions, he consulted a friend, “a (from Once Upon a Time, lover of the mystical and begged him Hidayat Inayat Khan, p. 48) for his interpretations.” Inayat reports that his friend answered, “that the My spiritual teacher, dream was a symbol of my inner initia - tion into the Sufi Order of Chishtia my Murshid, once said, Khandan...while the vision was the "People say that there are image of my spiritual guide and protec - many sins and virtues, but I tor.” He counseled Inayat Khan to take think there is only one sin." initiation as a Sufi. After six months of searching for a I asked him what it was, teacher and, upon visiting with an old and he said, "To let one acquaintance, Maulana Khairulmubin, 19th century die of the Chishti Order lineage breath go without being Inayat Khan writes that he, “confided in Maulana my de - conscious of it." sire to embrace,” the Sufi path. After reflecting on this, Maulana suddenly realized that his friend, a great murshid, Inayat Khan was about to visit. They awaited with heightened expecta - Rabia Martin on Murshid Madani tion the arrival of this esteemed teacher. Suddenly, “the In 1923 after her journey through India Murshida Pir-O-Murshid entered, bringing with him a very great sense of light...I remembered that his was the face which so Rabia Martin wrote: "The blessed Murshid of our Mur - persistently haunted me during my silence.” When the shid Inayat Khan was Sayad Abu Hashim Madani, who murshid's eyes fell upon Inayat, he turned to say, “O was born in Madras. He was one of the most profound Maulana, tell me who this young man may be? He appeals and blessed of sages. His sacred remains are near the intensely to my spirit.” Maulana Khairulmubin answered, Puran Pul (old bridge) in the compound of Mian Paisa “Your Holiness, this young man is a genius in music and he Dargah at Hyderabad. There are three tombs there in a desires greatly to submit himself to your inspiring guid - row. This man was of a very gentle disposition, soft and ance.” Inayat writes that, “the Master smiled and granted kindly, yet inwardly powerful. He had an almost hyp - the request...there and then,” initiating Inayat Khan into notic ability to purify the minds and hearts of all he the path of Sufi wisdom. contacted through his inner purity and perfection of Sayyed Mohammed Abu Hashim Madani of Medina personality." was that master and he became Inayat Khan's most https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Glossary.html Discovering Murshid Madani’s Dargah by David Murray When visiting India, one of the most valuable experiences is to visit the graves (dargahs) of sufi saints and mystics. It is most precious to experience the atmosphere of the Saint and the centuries of pilgrims’ devotion that has been poured into each location. Aside from the wonderful Dar - gah of Hazrat Inayat Khan, among my most memorable sufi dargah visits was to the beautiful 16th C. tomb of Salim Chishti (1478-1572) in Fatehpur Sikri, not too far from Delhi. It is located in the ancient and short-lived walled city founded by the Mughul emperor Akbar. Hazrat Inayat Khan has told of his love for his Murshid, Meeting the Murshids Sayed Abu Hashim Madani. There is very little record of by Nirtan Carol Ann Sokoloff Murshid Madani except in the journals and writings of In - I was on my way to an Islamic sufi camp when I crossed ayat Khan whose praise of his murshid has made us all cu - paths with Murshid Shamcher Bryn Beorse at a Sufi camp rious to know more about this wonderful teacher.
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