Join us to celebrate Rumi’s Urs~ The Blessed night of his Passing into the Next World~  December 16th, at 8pm until December 17th going into the night, honoring Love together.

Bring your favorite Rumi poem to read, we will have ney playing (Turkish Flute), zikr (chanting), illahis, songs of love, whirling and special treats.

Come, come, whoever you are!

Love, Jessi and Akbar 

Suggested donation 11-33$ at Rising Tide join us in the Divan of Love celebrating Rumis life your presence is most welcome!!

“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.”
― Jelaluddin Rumi

An evening of zikr and songs, reading from the masnavi, whirling , prayer , poetry, tea and treats. 

Urs means “wedding” and in Sufism, death anniversaries of mystics are celebrated as wedding ceremonies. For them, death is an occasion to rejoice, not to mourn. They call it Urs (wedding) and sometimes Visal (union) because death of a Sufi saint is realized as the most mystical merging with the Divine.

Fee: $11-$22-$33  Nobody turned away come come whoever you are.

BIOS:

Arsalaan Douglas Fay

Mevlevi Semazen (Whirling Dervish), Zikr, Meditation, Rumi discussion leader

Arsalaan started meditating in 1969, and studied with ministers, Buddhist mindfulness, before finding Sufism, where he discovered the practice of Zikr (remembrance of the true self) through chanting. He later learned to “turn”, the Whirling Dervish ceremonial dance, to play Turkish Flute (Ney), and take part in Mevlevi Sema as musician and dervish. He was in the zikr leading rotation at Rising Tide for many years, and held Rumi discussion classes. Currently he leads meditation and Rumi classes in Klamath, OR, where he lives with his wife Phyllis.

Sheikh Ghassan Manasra & Family

Sheikh Ghassan Manasra, Sheikh in the Qadiri-as-Salaam Sufi Tariqa of the Holy Land, is from Nazareth, Israel, living in Sarasota, FL. He is a 2nd generation Sheikh, leading zikr, teaching Sufi philosophy and mysticism, and is an inter-cultural peacemaker in the Abrahamic Reunion.

Sheikh Ghassan will be joined by members of his family of musicians, chefs, a spiritual, Sufi, musical, peacemaking family, who have a Sufi and Arabic Music band called ILLAHI.

ILLAHI: Arabic & Sufi Music Band from Nazareth, Israel

ILLAHI Plays in Palm Beach County, FL

Hosts:   Akbar Chris Miller & Jessica Bromby