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Awareness, Awakening & the Journey Toward the Beloved |
A Sufi Women's Retreat |
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This workshop occurs during Retreat Week.
In this retreat for women only, we explore three aspects of the spiritual life: awareness, awakening, and the inner journey. Through experiential sessions of meditation, self-examination, and purification, we focus on creating inner and outer peace.
The Sufi tradition is the ancient, mystical root of Islam that holds women in high regard. Within the Sufi tradition, ultimately there is no male or female, only Being. The recognition of this idea among the Sufi has encouraged the spiritual maturation of women in a way that has not always been possible in the West.
During the week, we have the opportunity to cleanse our mind and heart from the accumulated images that distract us from our true essence, awakening to appreciate our divine qualities. By learning about the Eternal Beloved, as portrayed in Sufi poetry and literature (the Sufic tradition holds that it was a woman who first expressed our relationship with the divine in a language that refers to God as the Beloved), we come to recognize the divine feminine in ourselves and in each other.
Nahid Angha, Ph.D., is the codirector of the International Association of Sufism (IAS), founder of the Sufi Women Organization, and main representative of the IAS to the United Nations. Through her steadfast leadership, She has paved the way for Muslim women to assume leadership roles within the Sufi community, the greater Islamic community, and the international interfaith religious community. www.sufiwomen.org |
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