Joint Prayer for Gaza
Friday, May 17th, 2:00 pm ET / 8:00 pm CET
Please join the Anjuman i Islam of the Inayatiyya in collaboration with the Nur Askhi Jerrahi Order in a Joint Prayer for Gaza on Friday, May 17th.
8 am Honolulu, 11 am San Francisco, 12 pm Boulder, 2 pm New York, 7 pm London, 8 pm Paris, 9 pm Istanbul, 10 pm Dubai, 11 pm Lahore, 11:30 pm New Delhi, 2 am Next Day Perth, 3 am Next Day Tokyo, 4 am Next Day Sydney, 6 am Next Day Auckland.
Shaykha Fariha and Pir Zia will guide us in prayer, together with faith leaders of different communities. All of us will come together to pray for peace. This is an open prayer session—please invite friends of all backgrounds.
Please note that our Joint Prayer for Gaza will be in English.
If you have questions, please email astana@inayatiyya.org.
Speakers
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Pir Zia Inayat KhanPir Zia Inayat Khan, PhD, is a scholar of religion and teacher of Sufism in the universalist Sufi lineage of his grandfather, Hazrat Inayat Khan. Pir Zia is president of the Inayatiyya and founder of Sulūk Academy, a school of Sufi contemplative study and practice. He is the author of Immortality: A Traveler’s Guide; Mingled Waters: Sufism and the Mystical Unity of Religions; Saracen Chivalry: Counsels on Valor, Generosity and the Mystical Quest; and the editor and compiler of Dream Flowers: The Collected Works of Noor Inayat Khan, for which he also wrote the critical introduction. Pir Zia divides his time between Richmond, Virginia and Suresnes, France. inayatiyya.org
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Shaykha FarihaShaykha Fariha is the spiritual guide of the Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order in New York City. She was born in 1947 into a socially committed, eclectic Catholic family in Houston, Texas. At the age of 29, she met her teacher, Shaykh Muzaffer Ozak of Istanbul, and received direct transmission from him in 1980. Shaykh Muzaffer also gave direct transmission to Lex Hixon (Shaykh Nur al-Jerrahi), who envisioned a radical and illumined path of the heart which he called Universal Islam. After Shaykh Nur’s death, Fariha took on the guidance of the Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order, with circles around the world. This lineage offers the nectar of teachings of the Prophet Muhammed, peace be upon him, which guide the seeker to self-knowledge and immersion in God. The sacred practices of zikr, prayer, charitable living, fasting and retreat are all embraced.
