Basira Beardsworth, Secretary
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Waduda Welsh, Treasurer
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The Ruhaniat is blessed by the generous service of many volunteers who are involved in a wide array of activities ranging from website and tech support, to the Board of Trustees, the Murshids' Circle, and many councils and committees. We are enriched by their talents and expertise and grateful to them all. Ya Shakur!

The first Sammy Award was handmade by Fazl Olivier (photo at right) in honor of Pir Shabda Kahn's 60th birthday on September 3, 2007. The delight of receiving this creative gift inspired Pir Shabda to begin a tradition of naming a Sammy Award recipient each year. It is presented to a person (and sometimes more than one person) who has given extraordinary and long-standing service to the Ruhaniat community.

Our Sammy Award recipients hold a special place of honor and recognition in our communal heart. Ya Fattah! upon their lives and service!

2023 2022 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2015 2014 2013 2012

Barakat Bryan Quan Yin Williams Inayat John Tal Tarana Wesley Abraham Sussman Magdalena Zubin Goldman Vakil Forest Shomer Malik Lee Braun Waduda Welsh Andalieb Lacock James Dupre Munir Peter Reynolds Farrunnissa Rosa Abdul Shafee Howard Ballinger

Mission Statement:

"To support the awakening process of the mureeds of Sufi Ruhaniat International to the divinity within all, as well as to support those guiding mureeds, through offering a living transmission of the teachings given by Hazrat Inayat Khan, Murshid Samuel Lewis, as well as other teachers in our lineage, past or present."

Together with the Murshids' Circle and all the teachers, guides, and mureeds in the Ruhaniat, we aspire to protect, support and transmit the living baraka of our lineage. Collectively, we share a deep commitment to see our lineage teachings flourish in a manner that meets the needs of our time and the call of the future.

Council Members:

	Pir Shabda Kahn		Himayat Inayati, chair		Abraham Sussman		Barakat Bryan		Diana Lyon
	Halima Sussman		Jelaluddin Hauke Sturm		Lakshmi Tamariz		Muiz Brinkerhoff		Munira Elizabeth Reed
	Rahimah Sweeney		Rahmat Moore		Saladin Pelfrey		Sauluddin Barodofsky		Wali van der Zwan

Murshid Mariam Baker

Murshid Saul Barodofsky

Murshida Leilah Be

Murshida Rahmana Dziubany

Murshid Himayat Inayati

Murshida Darvesha MacDonald

Murshid Rahmat Moore

Murshid Tansen Philip O'Donohoe

Murshida Sophia Gita Onnen

Murshid Allaudin Ottinger

Murshid Jelaluddin Hauke Sturn

Murshid Abraham Sussman

Murshida Halima Sussman

Murshida Rahimah Sweeney

Murshida Baraka von Kügelgen

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The Board of Trustees was established by the Sufi Ruhaniat International to serve the living stream that flows from the life and teachings of Murshid Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti). The Board is responsible for the development, accomplishment, and safeguarding of the Ruhaniat’s programs, projects, and fiscal health, with guidance from the Murshids' Circle.

Board of Trustees members are: Pir Shabda Kahn (President), Jilani Prescott (Meeting Facilitator), Abraham Sussman, Aliye Gallagher, Arjun Jorge Calero, Diana Lyon, Maitreya Jon Stevens, Rahimah Sweeney, Rashida Diane Cullumber.

Staff members supporting the Board are: Farrunnissa Rosa (Recording Secretary), Waduda Welsh (Treasurer), and Basira Beardsworth (Secretary).

Pir Shabda Kahn	Jilani Cordelia Prescott	Abraham Sussman	Aliye Gallagher
Arjun Jorge Calero	Diana Baqia Lyon	Jon Maitreya Stevens	Rahimah Sweeney
Rashida Cullumber	Farrunnissa Rosa	Waduda Welsh	Basira Beardsworth

Mission and Background

Murshids' Circle

Board of Trustees

Councils, Committees, and Staff

Ethics Agreement and Ethics Council

Ruhaniat Affiliated Centers

Ruhaniat Press

Sammy Award

Volunteer Opportunities

Privacy Policy

Financial Reporting and Board Minutes

About User Accounts

Most all of the content on this website is available to the public.

User Accounts are only required for:

-  Ruhaniat website editors

-  Jamiat Khas members (Ruhaniat teachers and guides) for access to restricted materials

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Revised May 6, 2019

Sufi Ruhaniat International (SRI) seeks to protect and preserve the privacy of all of its members. SRI collects personal information about its members for administrative purposes and to enable SRI to communicate with its members regarding relevant issues and activities. Collection of information can be both explicit (for example: volunteering personal information for the membership database) and implicit (for example: tracking of email sent from SRI or SRI web site usage).

SRI does not provide this information to other organizations or to non-administrative individuals within SRI, except as may be required by law or to act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of its members or the public.

Some tangible implications of this policy:

• MAILING LIST - SRI will not sell its mailing lists or share them with any other groups or organizations
  • To help reinforce this principle, communication with SRI members will typically be from a well-recognized member of SRI or a communication address that is easily recognizable as representing SRI.
  • SRI will favor communication mechanisms and operational procedures that allow appropriate use of the information without proliferating copies of the information.
  • SRI may at times send messages to its membership on behalf of other groups. These messages may offer individuals the opportunity to affiliate with these other groups directly and receive future communication from them directly. These messages, where possible, should be explicit about the SRI relationship (e.g. “On behalf of SRI…”). This is to avoid creating the misrepresentation that the list has been disclosed.

• ONLINE PAYMENTS - Recurring donations and event payment policy.
  • In common with other websites, log files are stored on the web server saving details such as the visitor's IP address, browser type, referring page and time of visit.
  • Cookies may be used to remember visitor preferences when interacting with the website.
  • Where registration is required, the visitor's email and a username will be stored on the server.

• REFUNDS - A full refund for event registration may be given with more than 60 days notice or as stated on specific event website or flyer. This policy is related to SRI sponsored events only, (when payments have been made to Sufi Ruhaniat International).

• MEMBERSHIP PRIVACY - The fact that an individual is a member or initiate of SRI will not be disclosed publicly unless that individual so chooses (typically in relation to an individual taking on a role that is intrinsically public).

• EVENT ATTENDEE PRIVACY - Individuals at SRI events that do not wish to be part of published photos, videos, or recordings may ask the event coordinators to be excluded whereupon good faith efforts to that effect will be made. Regardless, individuals may ask SRI administrators to remove from any SRI publications or websites, any photo, video, or recording that identifies them personally.
  • We ask that participants who attend SRI sponsored events or retreats respect attendee privacy by not using personal contact details provided by SRI for the purposes of advertising other events, products, or services.
  • We ask that participants who attend SRI events (i.e. Jamiat Aam or Khas, Youth Jam) not post or disseminate photos or videos of other participants without their permission.

Any individual that works with private information on behalf of SRI or with SRI approval, is acting in an administrative role and thus, will be informed of, and bound by, this privacy policy.

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Financial Statements
2020 Statement of Activities
2020 Statement of Financial Position
2021 Audited Financial Statements
2022 Statement of Activities
2022 Statement of Financial Position
2022 Financial Pie Charts and Treasurer's Report

About Our Non-Profit Status
Frequently Asked Questions
Non-Profit Financial Transparency and Compliance
Donation Request Letters and Restricted Funds

Articles of Incorporation & Bylaws
Articles of Incorporation, Original Filing, August 2, 1971
Articles of Incorporation, Restated, March 20, 2002
Certificate of Amendment, December 5, 2016
Certificate of Amendment, July 10, 2017
Certificate of Amendment, January 8, 2018
Bylaws, November 21, 2016

Board of Trustees' Meeting Minutes
May 9, 2022
June 23, 2022
August 08, 2022
September 08, 2022
November 15, 2022
December 19, 2022
February 13, 2023
May 15, 2023
June 19, 2023
August 7, 2023
November 6, 2023
December 11, 2023