Being in the World

Please join us for our spring Sunday series where we delve into a core theme for those of us on the Sufi path—What does it mean to be in the world yet not of the world?

All are invited—from brand new students to longtime practitioners—to join Pir Zia for this six-part series where vital topics like joy, death, incarnation, romance, balance, and the pain of life will be illuminated through the teachings of the Sufi mystic, Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927). All classes are fully on Zoom, with no in-person option this semester. Also, please note that classes will be shorter than before, for 1 hour 15 minutes, to better fit into life.

This special, experimental course is held Sundays, April 14th through May 19th, at 11 am PDT (San Francisco), 2 pm EDT (New York), and 8 pm CET (Paris). You can find your local time using timeanddate.com or your favorite time zone converter. Here are our weekly topics:

April 14th—Enjoying the World

• How do we find the cosmos in the worldly life?

April 21st—Living with the Dead

• How do we keep good relations with the deceased?

April 28th—Incarnation

• How do we reclaim our soul’s mission?

May 5th—Romance

• How do we know if romance is alive or dead?

May 12th—Balance

• How do we walk life’s tightrope?

May 19th—The Flame of Pain

• How do we cook, and not burn, the heart?

Please join us in real time, via Zoom, the day of each class, or watch the video after. Pre-registration is required to receive the video.

REGISTRATION DETAILS

General tuition is $60 ($12/class) with a limited income rate of $48 ($8/class) for the six-part series. Donations of any amount are also welcome.

As part of your registration, you will receive the course video which will be posted within 24 hours of each class via Dropbox. The course is designed to be attended in its entirety. If you begin with us after the course starts, video from past classes will be made available to you.

If you have questions about the Being in the World series, please reach out to us at astana@inayatiyya.org.

COURSE READING

Spiritual Liberty

This volume comprises six books from Hazrat Inayat Khan’s London period that include A Sufi Message of Spiritual Liberty, Hazrat Inayat Khan’s first book, and the only didactic work he would ever personally write. The subsequent books are lecture compilations of the London period assembled by two prominent early disciples, Sherifa Goodenough and Zohra Williams: Aqibat: Life after Death; The Phenomenon of the Soul; Love, Human and Divine; Pearls from the Ocean Unseen; Metaphysics. This volume contains early works by Hazrat Inayat Khan and feature his distinctive mystical vision of life, a numinous music that quickens attuned minds with the gentle vigor of its ethereal harmonies. Spiritual Liberty is available from Suluk Press.

BIOGRAPHY

Pir Zia Inayat Khan, PhD, is a scholar of religion and teacher of Sufism in the universalist Sufi lineage of his grandfather, Hazrat Inayat Khan. Pir Zia is president of the Inayatiyya and founder of Sulūk Academy, a school of Sufi contemplative study and practice. He is author of Immortality: A Traveler’s Guide; Dream Flowers: The Collected Works of Noor Inayat Khan with a Critical Commentary by Pir Zia Inayat Khan; Mingled Waters: Sufism and the Mystical Unity of Religions; and Saracen Chivalry: Counsels on Valor, Generosity and the Mystical Quest. Pir Zia divides his time between Richmond, Virginia and Suresnes, France. inayatiyya.org