Tasting God: A Weekend Seminar/Sohbet
with Taj Inayat and Himayat Inayati
June 22 - 23, 2024
“The saying, “Hearts bear witness to one another,” refers to a hidden reality. If all reality were openly revealed, what need
would there be for words? Similarly, when the heart bears witness, what need is there for the testimony of the tongue?”
Hazrat Mevlânâ Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī
‘The heart becomes the vehicle for the soul to see all within and without. One not only communicates with another person, but also with God.” Hazrat Inayat Khan
Tasting God refers to being present to what is present in the heart, after the seeker recites a divine name or does zikr. This weekend we will explore four stages of interacting and being with the Divine: tasting God, drinking God, being taught by God, being prepared by God. This culminates by bringing an ethos to personal practice, that which Hazrat Inayat Khan called Akhlak Allah where “One thinks, speaks, and acts according to the pitch to which one’s soul is tuned.”
Dinner will be served the evening of the 21st with the retreat starting the morning of the 22nd.
Taj will be leading a prior retreat from June 13th to June 16th. You can register here
About the Teachers
Taj Inayat
Taj Inayat is the spiritual director of the Hurqalya Center and an initiate since 1967 in the Sufi Order International, now the Inayatiyya Order, a mystical and ecumenical fellowship rooted in the visionary legacy of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Three years after initiation she met Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, head of the Order, and became his spiritual partner. They collaborated […]
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Himayat Inayati
Himayat Inayati received the transmission of the Sufi Master Samuel Lewis in the early seventies through Sheikh Mansur Johnson. As a student he worked closely with Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan from the seventies until his death. During that period Himayat was both a teacher in the esoteric school of the Sufi Order International for several decades and its International Kefayat […]
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