Using Sufi Healing and Prayer to Support Our Community
Who are we and whom do we serve?
The Mercy Circle is a group of beloveds who pray for individuals who are dealing with stress, mental illness, anxiety, worry, physical illness, economic hardship, or any other stressor. We host a twice-monthly zoom program during which we pray as a group using Sufi healing methods and we also pray individually for people as needed.
In the spirit of Unity, we recognize that when any person in the community is suffering, the whole community suffers too. May mercy replace stigma and compassion replace judgement. May our love lift up the hearts of our brothers and sisters. We hope, inshallah, to be doorways for Allah’s Mercy and healing to reach those in need.
Our Zoom Sufi Healing Circle
First Monday of the Month – Sufi Healing
8:00 pm ET / 5:00 pm PT
This call includes a teaching and a healing recitation using the Authorized Invocation, a Sufi healing method given to us by Sidi. There is a different host each month who offers a teaching and recites the Sufi healing prayer.
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Third Monday of the Month Sufi Healing
8:00 pm ET / 5:00 pm PT
The theme of these calls is Sufism is a Complete Path. The science of Sufism is the science of how to reach God. The Sufi path is a complete path, full of Mercy, and it contains a healing for all illnesses. When you “take the way” completely, miraculous things happen.
Each call features a teaching and a Sufi healing, practices, and/or recitations that facilitate our healing and walking, by Allah’s Permission. Calls will be hosted by Sufi practitioners who are walking with sincerity and wish to share how they see, through their individual disciplines, that everything we need is contained in this path.
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Recordings of Past Calls
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Our Prayer List
We pray for everyone on our prayer list, which is periodically updated. Those who have taken the bayah or are considering taking the bayah can sign up to be members of the circle and receive updated prayer lists. To add yourself or someone else to the prayer list, send an email to Ellen Rahmana.
What is Our Sufi Healing Method?
First, it is to be cognizant that we are part of a bigger circle and that together, we create, (insha’allah) a net of healing and prayer support for our sisters and brothers in need.
We use and highly recommend the Authentic Invocation from Sidi’s book The Gift of Healing to heal yourself and others. Ideally, the seeker would do this several times a week, however, we realize that there are times when all you can muster is a Fatiha and sincere du’a from the heart. This is fine. After salah is a wonderful time to do the Authorized Invocation. A practice some of us have adopted is to pray every evening after the Maghrib Prayer. Here is the Du’a we were inspired to say but feel free to make up your own version:
Oh Allah, please send Your Love, Peace, Mercy, Healing, Protection, Strength and Patience to all those struggling with mental illness or psychological distress, and also to those who love them and care about them. Please also bless those who pray for them. We ask You Allah to make this prayer reach everyone on the Mercy Circle List and everyone who is not on the list but who needs these prayers. Amin, Amin, Amin
The Authentic Authorized Invocation Sufi Healing
Al-ruqyah ash-shar’iyyah
Sidi left us with a powerful Sufi healing formula called The Authentic Authorized Invocation in his last healing book, The Gift of Healing, which can be ordered at sufimaster.org.
- Be in a state of ablution or wudu’
- Pray 2 rak’ah with the intention of directing your whole self to Allah while intending to bow in service to Allah though His creation
Basic Instructions
- We recommend you start with the elongation of the Name that Sidi taught us and used to open his teachings as protection for us.
- Repeat the following 3 times: “O Allah! Please take away this difficulty – O Lord of humankind, please grant healing, for You are the Healer and there is no healing but Yours – a healing that leaves no trace of illness.”
- Repeat the following 3 times: “Bismillah. Audhu billahi wa qudratihi min sharri ma ajidu wa ukhiru”
- Repeat the chosen surahs 7 times each, traditionally in the following order:
Suratu-l-Fatihah 1: verse 1-7
Suratu-l-Baqarah 2: verse 255 Ayat al-Kursi
Suratu-l-Baqarah 2: verse 285-286
Suratu-l-Iklas 112: verse 1-4 (optional 11 times)
Suratu-l-Falaq 113: verse 1-5
Suratu-l-Nas 114: verse 1-6
Recite these to yourself or to another person. Recite in a slow, audible and melodious voice paying attention to their meanings as much as possible.
Notes
For self-healing, repeat each of these surahs/verses 7 times in the morning upon waking and 7 times at night before going to sleep.
In addition to these surahs, there are recommendations made by our guide in The Gift of Healing that treat specific ailments. For example, suratu-l-quraysh is recited for high anxiety.
To enhance the transmission, insha’allah, and increase efficacy, whenever possible listen to a slow recitation of the Qur’an and reflect on the verses you are hearing. You may also listen to it while sleeping because the brain continues to be active and will respond to the sound.
We have also found it is beneficial to incorporate the Healing by Water as you do the Authorized Invocation. Sidi writes about this:
“Healing by water is a complete medicine. Take a cup of water and recite audibly on it an authorized invocation (ar-ruqiyah ash-shar iyyah), the Beautiful Names of Allah, and surah from the Qur’an that fit the type of illness. Then drink the water or make the patient drink it. Also wipe the face and area of the body that has pain with this water. Water stores the healing knowledge within the ayat during the recitation and drinking it carries it to every cell of the body. Healing can then be granted by the permission of Allah… (subhanahu wa ta’ala).”
Sidi al Jamal, The Gift of Healing
To find more recommendations, read pages 1-27 in The Gift of Healing. In these pages you will find answers to most of your questions, as well as extra prayers and deeper understandings.
Contact Us
For more information please email Shamsa at shamsahouck@suficommunitiesorg, or Maryam at maryamhand@suficommunities.org To join the circle, or to make prayer requests, please email Ellen Rahmana at ellenrahmana@suficommunities.org.
