Description
Join Mevlevi teachers Mahmoud Mostafa and Khadim Chishti, and other Mevlevi dervishes, for this interactive discussion on how the Masnavi can guide us through our everyday challenges.
Rumi’s Masnavi is perhaps the most celebrated text within Sufism, the mystical heart of Islam. But how can we engage with this spiritual text so that we can transcend to a deeper level, as its author intended?
The Mevlevi Order grew out of Rumi’s teachings and has been guiding dervishes through the Masnavi for over 800 years. Sufi whirling (or turning) is a form of moving meditation rich with spiritual symbolism. The dervishes’ turning bodies echo the motion of the planets, emptying themselves to receive and channel divine grace. Through their meditation, dervishes aim to reach the source of all truth and perfection and lose their egos under the gaze of God.
Audience members will be invited into a safe, non-judgmental space to share their own responses to passages from this deeply transformative work.
About the Speakers
Mahmoud Mostafa
Mahmoud Mostafa is a deputy teacher of the Threshold Society and follows the Mevlevi path of Jalaluddin Rumi under the guidance of Shaikh Kabir and Camille Helminski. Since 1995, Mahmoud has been devoted to the study and practice of Tassawuf. In the course of his development, he received teachings from Sufi shaikhs in the USA, Turkey, Syria, South Africa, and Egypt.
Khadim Chishti
Khadim Chishti has been on the Sufi path since 1974. She is initiated in three Sufi orders: as Senior teacher in the Chishti Sufi Order of the West under Pir Vilayat Khan; as Khalifa in the Helveti Jerrahi under Nur Lex Hixon; and currently as Khalifa/Deputy in the Mevlevi Threshold Society under Camille and Kabir Helminski. She trained with a Lakota Medicine Man while he lived in Portland, Oregon for a time and was adopted as his sister. She has been leading a Sufi circle for over 38 years in her local community in Portland, Oregon, and also teaches in Islamabad Pakistan, as well as other online communities.
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