Author Archives: Jennifer Wittman

In this issue— New Kinship Discussion Group! Kinship support for Sufi Remembrance The Science of Belonging – Nur Azad Nayaz-Sister-Brotherhood – From our European Kinship family A prayer for the Holy Land New Kinship Discourse  We invite you to join a new online Kinship forum beginning on April 8th. This dedicated Discourse assembly offers aContinue reading “Kinship Connection Newsletter – April 2024”

The Sufi message warns humanity to know life better and to achieve freedom in life; it warns humanity to accomplish what it considers good, just, and desirable, and before every action, to note its consequences by studying the situation, by judging one’s own attitude, by studying beforehand the method which one adopts to act inContinue reading “New Social Justice Book Group – Begins March 18, 2024”

Below are excerpts from the December 2023 edition of the Hope Project Newsletter. You are invited to view the full edition here. Photo: English language & personality development Dear friends, It’s a true joy to see the snowball effect our work has had in Nizamuddin Basti and our Trans-Yamuna communities. With every new person weContinue reading “Hope Project Update – December 2023”

By Nirtana Vivienne Robertson Creative Director Reclaim the Void | Kinship Coordinator Australia Reclaim the Void: weaving country whole is a partnership between Sufi and Australian First Nations ways. I believe it arose from asking the right question. Whilst in a small remote West Australian town on the edge of the desert I was meeting withContinue reading “Australian Sufis in Partnership with First Nations”

A new book by Sharifa Oppenheimer                            We are happy to share the release of a new publication: A Litany of Wild Graces! Perhaps it will sit on your bedside table and poem by poem seep into your dreams and inspire your days.Continue reading “A Litany of Wild Graces: Meditations on Sacred Ecology”

There are many social justice issues simmering under the surface in New Zealand, a story familiar to all colonized countries, and although New Zealand has a reputation for having good race relations and equal opportunities, many would say that is overstated. Māori make up over 50% of the prison population, despite being 15% of theContinue reading “Aotearoa NZ Kinship Initiative”

The chain of transmission of the Inayatiyya encompasses the teachings and lineages of four great Sufi orders; the Chishti, Suhrawardi, Qadiri, and Naqshbandi. The Chishti Order was founded in Afghanistan and later spread to the Indian subcontinent. In 1910 Ḥazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan was the first Chishti teacher to arrive in the West. In the lastContinue reading “Help Us Honor our Chishti Ancestors”

Submitted by Board members Richard Cuadra and Carmen Hussein Kids in Nature Program (KIN) has been a program at The Hope (in Nazamuddin Basti, Delhi, India) for seventeen years. Years ago we rented a bus with forty children and ten staff and toured different areas of India all the way to the ocean. There, some students becameContinue reading “Important Update from The Hope Project”

Submitted by Halim Bruno Knobel, VP Kinship Europe (Switzerland) Basira Hela Hasemann (Germany) It is part of the tradition of the Kinship branch of the European countries in our Inayatiyya family to hold a meeting every two years in Suresnes, a city on the outskirts of Paris. This is the location of the former homeContinue reading “Pilgrimage 2021 to Fazal Manzil (The House of Blessings)”

Submitted by Anna Latifa Vandevenne (Belgium) Join us with your prayers! Fifty years ago, I joined the human rights organization, Amnesty International by writing letters on behalf of people whose Human Rights were violated. In that time, before computer availability, handwriting letters for “prisoners of conscience” was for me an occasion for prayer and meditation.Continue reading “Nayaz-Sister-Brotherhood Project”