Week One: Jan 24, 2025

The Time of Al-Mahdi

Amany Shalaby, MA

The message of Mahdi who carries the love for everyone without separation because everyone is a part of him, and his face is the face of him.

Song of the Flute of the Deep Knowing, pp. 76-77 and pp. 39-43

Supplemental Reading:
Music of the Soul, pp. 18-20, 88, 451-453
The Sufi Realities, pg. 22. 118-119, 238, 270-273, 404-405, 433-434, 473
Conversations in the Zawiyah, pg. 182

Week Two: Jan 31, 2025

The Song of the Peace

Dr. Mahabbah Young, MD, M.Div.

Pray for all those people who have lost Me, who have lost themselves, or who do not know Me. Pray for all those people who have lost the love in the darkness of the world and who have lost their way. Be the candle of mercy for them. Pray that they may also return and find something, even the smallest light in their hearts.’

Allah says, ‘Pray and pray because in the darkness of the night, the light must be very bright in order to guide people back to Me.’

“Sidi says, ‘Beloved, who I love and about whom I know everything. I know about where you are now. For that I am happy. Do not worry about your father. Yes, this is a strong time for me in this Holy land, but it is a very holy time. Sometimes because of what happens here in the Holy Land, you see me in a very strong station. Sometimes I am like water, sometimes like air, and sometimes like fire.

I am what Allah wants me to be. I am where He puts me and where I have arrived because I am between His hands. I am a very poor slave, not more than that, and I also live for the poor people. I live for everyone who is sad and for those whose hearts have been broken. This is my life in this holy time. Allah does not leave me. He helps me always.’”

Song of the Flute of the Deep Knowing, pg. 61 and 63-70

Supplemental Reading:
The Meaning of the Names of Our Lord, Al-Qahhar, pp. 25

Week Three: Feb 7, 2025

Carrying and Giving the Message

Nura Laird, MEd

How to be one of His children, who carries the light everywhere and sends the light to everyone who wants to see the truth.

“My beloveds, for whom I live to be the perfect one in the world of the unity in this life, and who carries the light everywhere, and sends the light everywhere to everyone who wants to see the truth through this line, and who carries the essence of the wine of the truth every step you take, and always drinks, when you walk, when you sleep, when you work, and you send your fragrance to all who need if you see they can carry what you give.

Open your heart and give and give until you see everyone carrying what you carry. Through your message, the message of Allah which you carry, you can give what Allah wants you to give… Then after that, you see everyone who lives around you very happy like you, because he sits with his beloved God face to face, and more than that – soul to soul without separation.”

Song of the Flute of the Deep Knowing, pp. 71-72, pg. 80 “One Circle,” and pp. 121-122, pp. 156-157.

Supplemental reading:
Music of the Soul, “Who is the Guide Who Carries the Truth?” pp. 168-170

Week Four: Feb 21, 2025

The Unveiling of the Presence

Salih Kent

“Allah says He does not look at your body, at your presence, at your money, or at your dunya, but He looks into your heart. If your heart is a special home for your beloved God, this is enough. The heart is the heart, my beloveds, and it is important for the heart to be full of the love of Allah. Allah does not speak about the heart of the woman or the heart of the man or of the children. But He says, “Neither My heavens nor My earth contain Me. Only the heat of My faithful believer contains Me.

When you are still walking deeper and deeper, you do not make a separation between the water and the glass because the glass becomes exactly the same as the water. After you have walked very deeply, your presence reveals itself without veils. There is only the water, and this is a sign from Allah. He wants you to return this holy veil, this holy presence, to be for Him. He is the Beauty and He wants to see everything beautiful. He created everything beautiful.

Song of the Flute of the Deep Knowing, pp. 88-94

Supplemental reading:
The Degree of the Woman in the Religion of Islam, pp. 7-22
Music of the Soul, “The Lights of the Knowers of God,” pp. 179-181

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Week Five: Apr 4, 2025

The Beloveds of Allah

Halima Rabiah Gibson

“Beloved, the mirror of my beloved God, who lives with me and with all my children around the table of the truth, always in the deep holy marriage to feed themselves from the essence of the deep secret holy water through the slave of his beloved God, who puts his heart under every foot who wants to travel from this world to the world of his beloved God through me, and I make everything special for them if they surrender completely and trust.

My holy beloveds, who give everything without why or what, how I thank them. There are no words to contain the thanking because, if I thank, I thank my beloved God. I thank myself for myself through my reality and that is exactly your reality, the reality of my Beloved who I love and for whom I live like every one of my children.”

Song of the Flute of the Deep Knowing, pp. 102-104, pp. 163-165

Supplemental Reading:
He Who Knows Himself Knows his Lord, ”The Human Being is with Whom he Loves,” pp. 136-139

Week Six: April 11, 2025

The Table of Isa/ Jesus (عَلَيْهِ ٱلصَّلَاةُ وَٱلسَّلَامُ)

Said bin Yunus

“After people have completely lost the quality of humanity, like when the human being kills his brothers and sisters and forbids them food, water and medicine for the sick, then God will send the real beloved who carries His spirit and His heart again to this world. This beloved will give them the real message through His message.

Before my beloved Prophet Muhammad ( صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ) came this special one who carried a banch of the olive tree, gave his life for those who were hungry and his blood for those who were thirsty to help and guide them to the safe shore. He sent his hand to the ship of all the world and sent his light. He put his oil in this ship and began to drive it to the safe shore.

God will send His beloved Jesus (عَلَيْهِ ٱلصَّلَاةُ وَٱلسَّلَامُ) again with the message, the complete message. He carries the message of the real Islam to clean the earth and sent His light again. Allah will send him to Jerusalem, the heart of the world, to help the beloveds of Allah to change everything not for Allah and not from Allah. And he will guide the people to establish a holy government.”

Song of the Flute of the Deep Knowing, pp. 189-190, p. 183-184

Supplemental Reading:
Stories of the Prophets, 2020 edition, pp. 320-349
The Resolute Prophets, pp. 177-193
Conversations in the Zawiyah, pp. 56-94

Week Seven: Apr 18, 2025

The World of the Presence of Pictures and the World of the Truth

Salih Cotten

About the white mind & more on the world of al-fana;

“The world of the presence is a complete world, but it is really an illusion. This is the world of the pictures and everything from the material world.”

“My spirit and my beloved who lives inside this spirit, who is always crying because he wants his beloved God to give him everything in one moment. I am writing to you, my beloved, with the tears of my spirit, because they are the right medicine for you. Look deeply inside these tears to understand the deep meaning that they carry.

Your father is not like any thought, but he is behind every thought and behind every word. If you look at me with the eye of the presence, you see a man, but if you look at me with the eye of the truth, you see that I am something else, like the example [of the snow and the water] which I gave you. This is not only [the story] of your father, but it is the story of anyone who knows how to be and how to reach like your father.”

Song of the Flute of the Deep Knowing, pp. 107-110

Supplemental Reading:
How the Arrival is Realized, O People of Hearts and Souls and Intellects, “Fana’ of the Nafs,” pp. 14-20

Week Eight: Apr 25, 2025

The Wisdom of Allah in the Stories of the Prophets (عَلَيْهِنَّ ٱلسَّلَامُ)

Murshid Dr. Wadude Laird

My beloveds, who are carried in my heart and for whom I live, I am very happy to have received your letters through the hand of your beloved sister who carries all  your messages for me. And I thank Allah that my beloved son sends the deep secret love for his father in the letter he wrote for me. All the time I carry him in my heart and Allah does not leave any of His beloveds for one moment.

Do you know the story of al-Khidr and Moses (عَلَيْهِنَّ ٱلسَّلَامُ)? Moses

(عَلَيْهِ ٱلصَّلَاةُ وَٱلسَّلَامُ) wanted to follow al-Khidr so that al-Khidr could teach him his wisdom—the wisdom of Allah.

It is important for everyone of my children to know this deep station of Moses. This is the station where the student goes through every appearance to see Who moves everything by His wisdom. This is the way of the walking of the prophets.

It is important to go through every station and to see the truth behind every picture; to not stop only with the shariah, but to carry also the haqiqat in everything. For this reason, Allah sends this station to all my children, to know Him in everything.

Song of the Flute of the Deep Knowing, pp. 110-120, pp. 234

Supplemental Reading:
Stories of the Prophets, “Musa and Harun (عَلَيْهِنَّ ٱلسَّلَامُ) The Station of Reverence and Leadership,” pp. 219-223

Week Nine: May 2, 2025

Note time change on May 2nd
Class is 4-5:30 pm ET/ 1-2:30 pm PT

The Prayer for Peace in the Holy Land

Murshida Salima Adelstein, MEd, DD

“This is the real book about Jerusalem. This is the deep story about the Holy City, and all my life is for this Holy city. She is my heart, my beloved.”

“My beloved, who lives in the ocean of the deep secret love, I am writing this letter to you from the eye of my spirit after I have returned from the pilgrimage. I am happy about everything that you write because I know that everything is from your beloved God and I know that you surrender completely to Him. You are like the wool between His hands and He is your beloved as He wants, He makes with his beloved what He wants.

Trust and do not care about any thing. I am with you every moment and I prayed for you near the tomb of my beloved Prophet Muhammad 

 (عَلَيْهِ ٱلصَّلَاةُ وَٱلسَّلَامُ). I prayed for you and all my children. And I prayed for the peace in every holy place. Allah gave a deep message to me when I was on the pilgrimage. Do not care, He does not leave your father and he does not leave Jerusalem. What He makes, He makes with His wisdom. Pray, my holy beloved, with me for the peace in Jerusalem.

This is the deep story about the Holy City, and all my life is for this Holy City. She is my heart, my beloved. Wait and wait until you come to be the real Jerusalem. Do you understand my holy beloved, what I mean? … Continue your message and then you will see yourself. You are really the bride for your beloved God. When you are the bride, you will see Him in His Holy City.”

“My beloveds, I give you everything and you have the teaching.”

Song of the Flute of the Deep Knowing, pp. 124-126, pp. 129-131

Supplemental Reading:
Conversations in the Zawiyah, pg. 177

Week Ten: May 9, 2025

The World of Laila

Dr. Rahima Schmall, PhD, RN

How to carry the essence of the truth and give the essence of the love;

“You are a single jewel and no one can know you if he does not come to you and take the love from you to be you. Then when he drinks from your wine, he is absent in the world of the unity. This is the world of Laila, and there is no one else, only Laila.”

“This is the world of Laila, and there is no one else, only Laila. This means there is no one, only the beloved God. There is no other and you carry Him inside you. You are the throne and He sits on the thone. He is always sleeping between your arms and you are with Him in the complete holy marriage. You drink from His wine and you drink and you drink. There is no beginning and there is no end to His wine and He wants you to be the special bride for Him.

This is from the religion of His love and you could not live without Him because you are a part of Him.”

Song of the Flute of the Deep Knowing, pp. 168-174

Supplemental Reading:
Music of the Soul, pp. 182-184

Week Eleven: May 16, 2025

The Station of the Servant

Hamid Werder, MSW

“My beloved, for whom I send my soul and inside this soul is the essence of the deep secret of my unity. From this unity I can feed everyone where they are. For that I send my holy beloveds everywhere to give the holy message through those who are weeping for the real medicine from the suffering or sadness. For that I write to my beloveds to carry what I carry because I am sure that everyone is completely me and can give like what I give because they drink from the cup, and this cup is full of the wine of Allah.

This wine gives the real life for everyone who knocks at the door of any of my beloveds, because everyone of them is the real medicine for everyone who needs the real medicine through my holy teachings, which Allah gave to me to give to my beloveds. Those beloveds, in the same way, give to all what they have because eveyone in the world now needs from everyone who carries the message of Allah, to know what Allah wants from him to be.

Song of the Flute of the Deep Knowing, pp. 140- 143 and 185-188
Music of the Soul, The Station of the Servant of God, pg. 70

Week Twelve: May 23, 2025

Living in the Real Fana

Dr. ‘Abd al-Haqq Godlas, PhD

How to make the journey through one’s brothers and sisters and work together to carry everything Allah wants to give.

“My beloved, the son of my spirit in the world of the unity, who opens his heart to be the real beloved for his beloved God after he gives everything to Him because he drinks from the essence of His water and cleans the glass he has. Then, from this glass, he tastes the real wine from his Beloved God without reason, but He.

My beloved, who makes the real sajda to his beloved God to be from the real children who always carry Him inside, you have travelled completely from the world of the presence, and you have begun to live in the world of the truth. You have made this jorney through your brothers and sisters, because no one can know me without knowing my children, and no one can know God without God. This means that you need to continue travelling until you have rubbed out all these pictures, the pictures of your brothers and sisters and the pictures of me, and to not stop with any things until you see the unity on every level.

Then you do not see any presence at all, but you see the reality of your truth, which is the same reality of your brothers and sisters, and the same reality of your father, and the same reality of your beloved God.

Song of the Flute of the Deep Knowing, pp. 105-107

Supplemental Reading:
Music of the Soul, “The Death in Allah is the Life in Him,” pp. 231-237

Week Thirteen: May 30, 2025

About the Nasut 

Murshid Dr. Ibrahim Jaffe, MD

“When Allah sent ‘the kind of the humanity’ (an-nasut) to this earth, He wanted to keep the humanity the way He wanted it. So He put everything around the glass in order to keep what He had sent. You can say that this glass is really the home of Allah, and what you carry inside you, what you are, if you look deeply, is no other than Allah.

When you come here and when others come here, the kind of the humanity begins to make another world around the glass which becomes thicker and thicker and carries many colors. The first color is light. I really cannot say light, but I use this word to mean that the light is very soft, and more than light.

Allah says, “Be careful about what I give you. Be careful not to break this glass. Be careful not to lose anything that I write in this glass. You are the book. Read your book. Look inside yourself, then you find Me, and at exactly the same time, you find yourself, the essence of yourself.”

Song of the Flute of the Deep Knowing, pp. 95-102

Supplemental Reading:
Al Wadhifatu-S-Salatu-l-Mashishiyyah with an explanation by The Honorable Shaykh Muhammad Sa’id al-Jamal ar-Rifa’I, pg. 100-101
Stories of the Prophets (2020 edition), “Musa and Harun,” peace and blessings upon them, pp. 202-223