International Women’s Day 2019 “Celebrating Our Lights”

Nimah recently participated at the opening sessions of the first event celeberating International Women’s Day in Dhahran.

Starting with special appreciation to partners and mentors male and female who with the known and unknown pioneering women. The pioneers– beacons and banners who have helped ignite the drive to grow on this journey. A growth on all levels, professional, emotional, spiritual and physical.


Reading two unpublished poems of hers, starting with ” Celebrating Our Lights’ a tribute to pioneers known and unknown. The audience was also engaged in the second poem ” Revolutions and Rising” a highly interactive poem on balance and the possible versus the impossible….

Celebrating Our Lights can be heard at http:// https://soundcloud.com/nimah-nawwab/celebrating-our-lights-poem-on-women

An excerpt of the poem follows

Igniting us and igniting our ancestors

igniting us and igniting our progeny

They are the named above all

the Known and the Unknown,

the recorded and unrecorded

Our treasures beyond perceivable price

here    and in    the hereafter.


The Blessed

Sittana Maryiam,

Sayyidatina Asia,

Sayyidantuna Khadijah,

Fatimah, Aisha, Safiayyah

Nusaybah, al Khansa 

Rabia

Mothers,

 Our Mothers of the Spirit…

Imagine Writing to the Best of Creation

Join the ummah of lovers in the “Letters to The Beloved” initiative offered to children and adults alike.
Sumbit at 
https://letterstothebeloved.com/
or via email to
letterstothebeloved@sanadcollective.org  

Deadline January 31, 2019 awards announced February 14, 2019

Imagine expressing your love and joy for the Greatest Blessing, for the Best of Creation ﷺ
Taking the time and contemplating his birth, his life, his mercy, his journey ﷺ

Voice your love into words through 
a letter
a poem 
or a video 
in English, French or Arabic.

Kindly note down name, age, city and country 
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A New Book Published in the Al Ghazali Children’s Series, Long-awaited Announced by Fons Vitae

 

                        Al Ghazali The Mysteries of Prayer for Children

 

Al Ghazali
The Mysteries of Prayer for Children

 

 

Available through https://fonsvitae.com/

For more check out https://ghazalichildren.org/

New book on Mawlana Rumi by Shems Friedlander Now Published

 Today, when so many would like to read Rumi and remove any reference to Sufism and Islam, Shems Friedlander places him unequivocally within Sufism and the Heart of Islam, clearly and emphatically stating the necessity of studying Rumi in his essence, as a Sufi saint, the founder of the Mevlevi Order of Dervishes, as well as one of the greatest metaphysical poets and literary figures the world has known.

Friedlander sheds new light on the relationship of Shems and Rumi and offers a theory about Shems’ disappearance not previously voiced. We are the heirs of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi. How will we treat this inheritance? Will we squander it among those who have been deceived by the world? Argue its validity with scholars in classrooms and teahouses; or will we feed yearning hearts, enhance the intellectual desires of youth, and fill the gap of disappointment of those who have reached maturity and seniority and are still empty?  (From Amazon review)

To order online  https://www.amazon.com/Mevlana-Jalaluddin-Rumis-Forgotten-Message/dp/6059778453/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1499602958&sr=8-7&keywords=shems+friedlander