Asma al-Husna: The Beautiful Names w/ Pir Zia Inayat Khan, Fall 2025

This one-day retreat was offered by Pir Zia in the fall of 2025, via Zoom. Includes five hours of audio and video + class notes.

As we deepen our spiritual study, we are initiating a series of one-day retreats on themes core to the Sufi path. Join us for this initial retreat with Sufi teacher Pir Zia Inayat Khan on an essential practice—the contemplation and recitation of the Asma al-Husna: The Beautiful Names. 

In our tradition, as part of spiritual practice it is common for a guide to prescribe wazifas, as a quickener of qualities, as an antidote to what ails us, and as an answer to our questions. Singular, paired or threefold wazifas are given, generally with the new moon. A wazifa is usually in the Arabic language and is often one of the 99 Names of God. Above and beyond the semantic meaning of a Name, its mantric resonance can have a transformative effect.  

During our one-day retreat, we explored the practice of wazifas through both spiritual teachings and recitation led by Pir Zia.

• What is the practice of wazifas?
• Why and how do we do this practice? 
• How does a wazifa fit within our daily practice?
• How does this practice influence our lives?
• How do we deepen our wazifa practice? 

Everyone interested in learning more about the practice of wazifas is invited—this is an open program for people at every stage on the spiritual path of Sufism.