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2 Memories for “Iman Ibrayni-Kiss”

1. on 08 May 2009 at 8:52 pm1Sami Greene

   I met Iman in the late ’70’s at an Abode summer camp with Pir Vilayat. Iman had an engaging, beautiful spiritual aura which drew me to her. A friendship developed quickly between us. Something she said has stuck with me over the years: that one has to rest, equal to the energy one expends, in order to maintain good health. It was a painful shock to hear of her accident.

2. on 01 Dec 2009 at 5:20 pm2Akhbar Quddus Cumming

   Iman and I were the same age. I visited her Manhattan Center which had a huge picture of Murshid on the wall as the elevator doors opened. She led the sufi dancing one night in the alps which was one of the more powerful ones I experienced showing how beautiful the counter point female -male zhikr could become. She also said “Children have a blank check in the Sufi Order”, when commenting on the young ones wandering about the Somet Bucher camp. She also visited Barton Farm in the UK when it was starting up and gave much helpful advice to those interested in community building. Her book “Seven Women” is a treasured part of my collection. She taught me some practices for elevators and before meetings, and shared many humorous and amazing “airport stories” about meeting Pir Vilayat in the NYC airports. When she passed it was so amazing that there was no major marks on her and the car was full of white roses, on the way to Universal Worship. She was an amazingly powerful and positive force within the Order, the first female to learn turning from Sulieman Dede, and she taught us how to do it.
   It has been said that Iman worked with Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan in the unseen realms with children who had passed over “early” and did not understand what was happening with them.

   She will always be in my heart.
   Akhbar Quddus Cumming

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