Author Archives: Jennifer Wittman

by Zakir-Amin Povich I’m pleased to share an experience that was close to my heart for several years: a functioning Kinship Circle, a porous group of people from different faith and spiritual expressions engaging in heartfelt conversation. This grew out of monthly “Interfaith Pray for Peace” gatherings of song, prayer and meditation, that began inContinue reading “The Interfaith Cooperation Central of Central Virginia (ICCCV) – A “Kinship Circle””

Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10—the day in 1948 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: a milestone document proclaiming the inalienable rights which everyone is inherently entitled to as a human being regardless of race, color, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national orContinue reading “Write a Letter – Change a Life”

“Humankind is far removed from nature both within and without, and has become an exile from the ideal state of life.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan “If one only knew what intelligence, what emotion, what beauty lies beneath the spectacular display of life on the planet, one would realize how much is gained by discovering andContinue reading “Responding to the Global Ecological Crisis – The Call of the Sacred: Healing our Relationship with the Earth”

Stages in the Development of the Ideal of Kinship by Mikail Davenport Between 1922 and 1923, Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan gave a number of lectures on the topic of the Manner of Friendliness [‘ilm-i-Adab] which he considered the main part in the study of Sufism, the development of Akhlaq Allah, the Manner of God. ThroughContinue reading “Stages in the Development of the Ideal of Kinship”

A Beautiful World of Beautiful People The Knighthood of Purity and the Kinship Activity by Suhrawardi Gebel One of the three objects of the Sufi Movement reads: To help to bring the world’s two opposite poles, East and West, closer together by the interchange of thought and ideals, that the Universal Brotherhood may form ofContinue reading “A Beautiful World of Beautiful People”

Harmonizing Relationships Class Seattle, WA Nurah Grace Uding The Seattle Inayatiyya community hosts a monthly gathering focused on the Inayatiyya’s prayers that Hazrat Inayat Khan brought to us. The Confraternity of Prayer is a pledge to say a certain set of prayers every day. The prayers are on the website of the national Inayatiyya (https://inayatiorder.org/teachings/prayers/).Continue reading “Harmonizing Relationships Class”