The Path of Surrender into Tranquility of Heart and Deep Peace
The Path of Surrender into Tranquility of Heart and Deep Peace
A Twelve-Week Deep Dive into the Sufi Path of Love and Oneness.
Embark on a Twelve-Week Deep Dive into the Sufi Path of Love and Oneness, where we are called to surrender into the tranquility and deep peace of God’s Love, inshaallah.
Connect with the essential teachings that keep the yearning of our hearts strong, that inspire and lift us up out of the turbulent waters into the safety and promise of God’s Love, Light, and Goodness.
Our course offers a unique learning experience with four free Bonus classes for small group gatherings. These sessions include Zawiyya, creative art meditations, reflection, lively discussion, and heart sharings on practicing the teachings in daily life. Bonus classes are hosted by beloveds Halima Rabiah Gibson and Sara Rahima Kahn!
Bonus classes are on Tuesdays: Sep 10, Sep 24, Oct 8, and Oct 22.
No books are required for participants. Our primary sources are The Spirit’s Path to Joy and He Who Knows Himself Knows His Lord, available at:
COURSE DATES:
Most classes are on Friday evenings from 7 to 8:30 pm Eastern except the Nov 15, 2024 class which meets from 6:30 to 8 pm Eastern due to Full Moon Dhikr!
Week One Aug 9, 2024 @ 7-830 pm ET
“The Knowledge of the Heart”
Dr. Jamila Dixon, MD
Allah says, “He has written faith in their hearts and strengthened them with a spirit from Himself.” (Q 58:22)
Week Two Aug 23, 2024 @ 7-830 pm ET
“I am Travelling to my Lord”
Na’ama McCreedy
He says, “O you soul whose self is at peace! Return to your Lord well pleased, well pleasing” (Q 89:27-28).
Week Three Aug 30, 2024 @ 7-830 pm ET
"Walking the Path of Sufism with Sidi Shaykh Muhammad Sa’id al-Jamal ar-Rifa’i ash-Shadhdhuli"
Mahdi al-Jamal & Salih Kent
O dear traveler on the path, this is why I will show you how to travel [the road to Allah] and walk to your Lord and Protector.
Week Four Sep 6, 2024 @ 7-830 pm ET
“The Oneness”
Murshid Dr. Ibrahim Jaffe
The Singularity or unity, as in “Say: He is Allah, One. [Q112:1]
Week Five Sep 13, 2024 @ 7-830 pm ET
“Consciousness and Reverence of Allah”
Aisha Sherie McGuffey, MDiv USHS, LMP, NCBTMB
Know that the purpose of traveling the path of taqwa is to ascend gradually to the Lordly Order and to the soul’s original degree.
Week Six Sep 27, 2024 @ 7 to 830 pm Eastern
“The Station of the Love”
Love is a divine attribute by which He describes Himself with the name al-Wadud, the Loving, and al-Muhibb, the Lover.
Week Seven Oct 4, 2024 @ 7 to 830 pm Eastern
“The Secret of the Love of God”
Dr. Rahima Schmall, PhD, RN
A lover of Allah is certain of connection because Allah says, “Wheresoever you turn, there is the face of Allah.” (Q2:115).
Week Eight Oct 11, 2024 @ 7 to 830 pm Eastern
“Criticizing this World and its Pleasures, and Clarifying its Reality”
Hamid Werder, MSW
Know, my beloved, that this world is everything that happens before death – good and evil.
Week Ten Oct 25, 2024 @ 7 to 830 pm Eastern
“The Veils Between the Slave and His Lord”
Amany Shalaby, MA
Know, my beloved, that the greatest spirit is the Adamic spirit, which is a direct order from my Lord, It is a great secret, a Lordly subtlety, and no one fully comprehends it, except Allah (swta).
Week Eleven Nov 1, 2024 @ 7 to 8:30 pm Eastern
“The Praiseworthy Reality: The Muhammadan Spirit”
Beloved Salih Cotten
Know that the Praiseworthy Reality is the true image of the ultimate truth of the realities.
Week Twelve, Nov 8, 2024 @ 7 to 830 pm Eastern
“The Veils and Repentance”
Whoever wants to attain this happiness, and to ascend to the lofty degrees, let him first enter from the gate of all gates, which is repentance (at-tawbah).
Week Thirteen, Nov 15, 2024 @ 6:30 to 8 pm Eastern
*Note Time Change Due to Full Moon Dhikr!
“The Virtues of the Stations of the Unity”
Dr. ‘Abd al Haqq Godlas, PhD
Know that belief in the unity is obligatory for all believers. They know what has been revealed by the knowledge of Allah, that there is no god except Him.