WOW – 5 Sundays Talks

What? Why? Who? Where? and When? -  Tasawwuf  Now. A series of 5 Sunday programs plus a workshop, under the auspices of Shaykh Ahmed Abdur-Rashıd and Shaykh Nooruddeen Durkee, will be held at the Islamic Sufi Study Center, 10th St., Charlottesville, VA.

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3 days of Ramadhan Retreat

The Circle Group’s Ramadan Retreat was an opportunity for spiritual rejuvenation and clarification, through practice, of one’s understanding of Islam and Tasawwuf in daily life. A schedule of suhbat, prayer, recitation, and meditation uplifted our souls and increased our piety and our understanding.

All audio dars from the Retreat, as Read more

Travels on the Road to Peace

“Years of inner striving and outer action have created in me a framework for recognizing the greatness of Islam and its positive and constructive approach to peace. It is one that transcends the limits of this physical life, but also includes it, indeed uses it exclusively as a means to Read more

Nights of Light Lecture Series

In his presentation,” Shaykh Rashid explains, “From the sacredness of submission in sawm, to the sanctifying upliftment of suhbat, to the subtleties of dhaahir and baatin, and today, to discussing the dynamics of the Isra Miraaj (to be followed by Nisfu-Shabaan and Laylatu-l-Qadr), we are on Read more

Ramadhan Retreat 2010

The Circle Group’s Ramadan Retreat is an opportunity for spiritual rejuvenation and clarification, through practice, of one’s understanding of Islam and Tasawwuf in daily life.  A schedule of suhbat, prayer, recitation, and meditation will uplift our souls and increase our piety and our understanding.

Imam Junayd

Imam Junayd ibn Muhammad Abu al-Qasim al-Khazzaz al-Baghdadi (d. 297 AH/  909-910 CE) 

By GF Haddad and Dr. Alan Godlas

Al-Junayd ibn Muhammad ibn al-Junayd, Abu al-Qasim al-Qawariri al-Khazzaz al-Nahawandi al-Baghdadi al-Shafi`i (d. 298). The Imam of the World in his time, shaykh of the Sufis and “Diadem of Read more