Invitation to Celebrate Rumi's "Wedding Night" in Liverpool, Sat 14th December 2019

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“Come, come, whoever you are....”

As the sky turned to sunset radiance on the night of 17th December 1273, Jelalud’din Rumi, the great Sufi mystic and poet, passed into the realm of his Divine Beloved. Ever since, Rumi’s friends and lovers of God have gathered to celebrate what has come to be known as his “Wedding Night.”

The Liverpool Mevlevi Circle invites all friends and lovers to come together on 14th December to celebrate Rumi’s passing with spiritual conversation, music and the turning dance which personifies the soul’s transformation from ordinary life to ecstatic union with Divine Being.  David Bellak, shaikh (guide) of the Edinburgh Mevlevi Community, a successor to the late Suleyman Hayati Dede, the last Mevlevi shaikh of Konya, will lead the gathering.

There will be time for thoughtful conversation from and a ceremony of Sufi 'zikr', Divine Remembrance, in Mevlana ('beloved master') Rumi's tradition from 7.30pm, in which everyone is invited to participate.

At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love:
We are going to the sky, who wants to come with us?
We have gone to heaven, we have been the friends of the angels,
And now we will go back there, for there is our country.
We are higher than heaven, more noble than the angels:
Why not go beyond them? Our goal is the Supreme Majesty.
What has the fine pearl to do with the world of dust

Mevlana Rumi

If you would like to attend, please email willowtreeblues@gmail.com. All our gatherings are free of charge, and open to people of all beliefs.

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