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Prayer of the Heart: With Mindfulness and Consciousness By Shaykh Taner Ansari Some translate salat as worship. We translate it as prayer, especially prayer of your heart. Prayer of your heart is very important. Establish the prayer when you are eating, establish the prayer when you are sleeping, establish the prayer whatever you are doing. Establish the formal prayer, which we call namaz. Allah said this to all the nations. ""My Lord, please help me to establish salat, and do the same for my offspring. Our Lord, please accept my dua [supplication]."" (Ibrahim:40) Establish the prayer does not just mean you have to establish namaz which means formal Islamic worship that is observed five times daily. Establish the prayer means all of that, and especially zikr [repeated remembrance of Allah]. Some people say Sufism is bid'a [harmful religious innovation]. First of all, Sufism is not bid'a. Second, our Prophet (peace be upon him) himself established zikr for everybody. Zikr, in Sufism, is special to those people who want Allah's Zat, Essence. BE CONSCIOUS What I am trying to do is to bring you to the consciousness of your actions and your acceptance and the belief so that you do not do actions blindly. You have to be conscious of what you are doing and acknowledge the importance of being conscious of what you are doing.

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Es-Seyyid Es-Shaykh Taner Vargonen Tarsusi el Ansari er Rifai el Qadiri was born in Tarsus, Trkiye, to a devout Muslim family of seyyids, descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). He received a Bachelor degree in English Pedagogy from Gazi University in Ankara, Trkiye, and a Bachelor degree in Linguistics from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. In Michigan he helped found the Muslim Students Association of the United States and Canada. He later served as a professor of English Pedagogy at Cukurova University in Adana, Trkiye. While completing his university studies in Michigan, Shaykh Taner was initiated into the Qadiri Rifai Tariqa in Istanbul by his dear shaykh Es-Seyyid Es-Shaykh Muhyiddin Ansari, from whom he later received his ijaza, the license to teach Sufism. His spiritual lineage also includes the Naqshbandi, Mevlevi, and Bektashi Sufi orders. Later on, Shaykh Taner and Es-Seyyida Es-Shaykha Muzeyyen Vargonen Tarsusi el Ansari er Rifai el Qadiri were charged to create a new Sufi order called Ansari Qadiri Rifai Tariqa (AQRT). Throughout their life, Shaykh Taner and Shaykha Muzeyyen taught Sufism and guided seekers on the spiritual path in-person, online and through his books. They established centers of the AQRT in the United States, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Tanzania, Mauritius, Germany, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Together they traveled extensively to speak on Sufism, Islam, alternative healing, and sustainable living, giving talks and interviews at universities including Harvard, Humboldt State, Boston University, and Napa Valley College, as well as at churches, synagogues, conferences, and interfaith gatherings. They spoke at the annual Sufi Symposium in California for many years, and gave weekly live internet talks to an international community of students. Shaykh Taner and Shaykha Muzeyyen were also healers. They presented healing workshops for health professionals and spiritual seekers in many parts of the world. Shaykh Taner wrote and published books on Sufism including The Sun Will Rise in the West: The Holy Trail, What About My Wood! 101 Sufi Stories, Alternative Healing: The Sufi Way, Between the Loved and the Beloved: Sufi Poems and Sayings and Grand Masters of Sufism, which contains his translations of Abdul Qadir Geylani's Secret of Secrets and Ahmed er Rifai's Guidance to Mysticism. He translated the Holy Qur'an into modern English from a Sufi perspective (The Qur'an: Daily Reading for All Humanity, Chronological Edition), having launched that project with a smaller publication of Sura Ya Sin. He also published numerous articles on spiritual topics. Posthumous publications of his works are forthcoming. After Shaykh Taner passed away on August 27, 2023, Shaykha Muzeyyen Vargonen Ansari carries on their work and continues to act as Pir of the order. Shaykh Taner's life work of teaching, healing, and guiding seekers of the path remains a lasting legacy. Es-Seyyida Es-Shaykha Muzeyyen Vargonen Tarsusi el Ansari er Rifai el Qadiri was born in Tarsus, Trkiye, where the culture of Sufism permeated her upbringing. In 1986, Shaykha Muzeyyen was initiated into the Qadiri Rifai Tariqa through Shaykh Nureddin Ozal, khalifa of Es-Seyyid Es-Shaykh Muhyiddin Ansari. Soon after, she and her husband, Es-Seyyid Es- Shaykh Taner Vargonen Ansari, were instructed to move to the US to establish the Ansari Qadiri Rifai Tariqa (AQRT). Shaykha Muzeyyen and Shaykh Taner worked together to bring the loving way of Sufism to the modern seeker. They adapted the teachings of the original Turkish Sufi order to include a modern-day, science-oriented, understanding of the nature of Divine Reality. They established Sufi learning centers throughout the US and in Australia, Canada, Germany, Mauritius, Mexico, South Africa, Tanzania, and the United Kingdom. Shaykha Muzeyyen and Shaykh Taner co-founded Ansari Holistic Healing Institute (AHHI). Shaykha Muzeyyen is a healer and teacher of Sufi healing, which includes spiritual, physical, and emotional modalities. She is dedicated to training and supporting holistic and complementary healers. Shaykha Muzeyyen and Shaykh Taner established Ansari Publications (AP). They collaborated on and published all of Shaykh Taner's books and articles on Sufism, healing, and sustainability. These works include Between the Loved and the Beloved: Sufi Poems and Sayings (AP 1995, 2nd edition 2023); The Sun Will Rise in the West: The Holy Trail (AP 2000); What About My Wood! 101 Sufi Stories (AP 2006); Alternative Healing: The Sufi Way (AP 2007); Grand Masters of Sufism: Abdul Qadir Geylani's Secret of Secrets and Ahmed er Rifai's Guidance to Mysticism (AP 2008); Ya Sin: Sura 36 of the Holy Quran from a Sufi Perspective (AP 2008); Surviving 2012 & Beyond (AP 2010); Dua: The Way of Supplication (AP 2019). Shaykha Muzeyyen co-authored Aqim al Salat: Connections to the Divine (AP 2023), and was program director for Shaykh Taner's decade-long translation project The Qur'an: Daily Reading for All Humanity, Chronological Edition (AP 2023) and companion book In-depth Analysis of the Qur'an (to be published 2024). Shaykha Muzeyyen has translated texts, songs (ilahis), poetry, and the history of various Sufi masters from Turkish into English. Her essay ""A Journey to the Beloved"" was published in Sufi Women: Journey Towards the Beloved (International Association of Sufism, 1998). Shaykha Muzeyyen assumed the mantle of leadership of AQRT International upon the passing of her husband Shaykh Taner in 2023. In her role as Murshida of AQRT, Shaykha Muzeyyen oversees the spiritual development of AQRT students and develops the AQRT centers. Shaykha Muzeyyen has a special interest in the youth and works with young people in the Ansari Youth Club (AYC). The international headquarters of AQRT is in upstate New York, where Shaykha Muzeyyen resides when she is not traveling as Murshida of AQRT.

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