Sunday Worship

Worship with Imam Jamal Rahman: “Gratitude”

Date: Sunday, April 21, 2024
Time: 10:00 am — 11:30 am
With Imam Jamal Rahman

This event is In Person, Live Streaming
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Music and Chanting by Isla Ross  

Monthly Community Potluck follows the service.

In 2024, our spiritual discernment will be Making a Home for the Mystic Heart
The month of March will focus upon  “Gratitude”

Our main source of inspiration for this year is Interspiritual Meditation by Edward W. Bastian. In this book, he points out the necessity for our spiritual practices to be performed in a context of intention and wisdom that supports and informs them. He outlines a series of steps we can take to help integrate our practice, wisdom, and daily life.
We can consider each of these steps in a personal, communal, or universal domain. Also, as particular independent practices or as elements in a ritual sequence.

Interfaith Community Sanctuary
1763 NW 62nd Street
Seattle, WA 98107
https://interfaithcommunitysanctuary.org/
A center of light for all seekers of divine wisdom

Imam Jamal Rahman is a popular speaker and author on Islam, Sufi spirituality, and interfaith relations. Along with his Interfaith Amigos, he has been featured in The New York Times, CBS News, BBC, and various NPR programs. Jamal is co-founder and Muslim Sufi Imam at Interfaith Community Sanctuary, and adjunct faculty at Seattle University. He travels nationally and internationally, presenting at retreats and workshops. Jamal’s passion lies in interfaith community building and activism.

Visit Jamal’s Websites:
JAMALRAHMAN.COM
JAMALRAHMAN.BLOG
INTERFAITHCOMMUNITYSANCTUARY.ORG
NORTHWESTINTERFAITH.ORG

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Your generous DONATION may be mailed to:
Interfaith Community Sanctuary
1763 NW 62nd Street
Seattle, Washington 98107

Land Acknowledgement:
We would like to acknowledge that we gather today on the ancestral homelands of the Coast Salish Peoples, who have lived here from time immemorial. Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude for our Indigenous neighbors, for their enduring care and protection of our shared lands and waterways.
The Coast Salish is a group of ethnically and linguistically related Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, living in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon. They speak one of the Coast Salish languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_Salish_languages

Special Events

Chant and Drum Circle for World Peace 

Date: Friday, April 26, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Led by: Isla Ross

This event is In Person

All are warmly invited to bring hand drums and percussion ,songs, chants and prayers to share ! Together we will make a difference. 

The songs and chants will be participatory, simple and easy to follow, from various cultures.  Sound carries intention out into the world.

Everyone is welcome to bring a hand drum, shakers, and other hand percussion to play along.  Also bring Prayers of Peace to share with the Circle at the end. 

About Isla Ross:
Isla Ross is a Devotional Artist and Composer who offers Healing Songs, Interfaith Chants, and Meditative Music, accompanied by an array of exotic instruments. Even as a child , she was fascinated by the spiritual practices and music of many cultures.

In 2002, Isla experienced a transformative year in Europe, including a Sacred Clowning retreat in a Tibetan monastery. The lessons included Sacred chants of India. She continued studying with several sound healers in England and back in the US. In 2005, Isla found her way to the Interfaith Community Sanctuary in Seattle, where she shares music for services and events.

Ongoing Gatherings

NEW SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT CLASS: Sufi Spiritual Practices to Enrich Our Life: Reflecting Deeply upon Sacred Verses and Poetry (6)

Date: Saturday, April 20, 2024
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Led by: Imam Jamal Rahman

This event is Zoom
ID: Please register in order to acquire Zoom Link

Meditations and Discourses by Jamal will be recorded for later viewing by registered
participants. Detailed notes, quotes and play work are sent out after each class session.

List of suggested texts – students are asked to pick one text you would like to study deeply
during the course. You may use our own copy of any sacred text or poetry. Below are some
suggestions, which are all available on amazon.com:

• The Light of Dawn: Daily Readings from the Holy Qur’an, trans. by Camille Helminski
• Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu, translated by Steven Mitchell
• Dhammapada, Sayings of the Buddha, translated by Thomas Byron
• Holy Bible – your choice of translations
• The Torah – your choice of translations
• Spiritual Gems of Islam, by Jamal Rahman

Content: Each 2-hour class meeting begins with chanting and centering, and a guided
meditation. Jamal gives a one-hour discourse on a specific topic, sharing specific insights and
guiding the class in spiritual practices related to the topic at hand. After a short break, class
resumes with some gentle movement and breathing, followed by small group discussions.
The class ends back in the large group with Q & A and shared insights.