Category: Letters to mureeds

Many people will be familiar with the teaching that we should die before death. There is an appealing sort of mental neatness to this thought, that our (supposedly) worst enemy, Continue Reading →

Students of the Sufi path usually have at least a general ideal that ‘breath’ is a central aspect of spiritual development. We are taught breathing practices as part of our Continue Reading →

In one of the Gathas, the short but very illuminating talks given by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan to students starting out on the Sufi path, which he called ‘a skeleton outline Continue Reading →

For many people in the modern world, crossing cultures is an enjoyable pastime.  People seek out that which seems to them unusual for their holidays (so long as certain comforts are Continue Reading →

Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan left an enormous treasury for those who feel the call of the Message – innumerable lectures which so often sound like our own heart speaking to Continue Reading →

People often feel dissatisfied with the unevenness of life. While some folk seem to stroll along easily in the sunshine, others stumble over one hard stone after another; a few Continue Reading →

During the first week of May, we may remember Amina Begum, the wife of Pir-o-Murshid Inayat and the mother of their four children, for she was born in Albuquerque on Continue Reading →

Readers of the Inner Call are kindly reminded of the possibility of an eight day retreat at Dargah Sufi Inayat in New Delhi. For details about the retreat, see https://innercall.towardthe1.com/dargah-retreat-october-2025/ Continue Reading →

On the 7th of May, 1921, the first first Universal Worship service was performed in a house in London. It was conceived as a gift to the world so that Continue Reading →

In one stream of Zen Buddhism, it is customary for the teacher to offer the student a koan – a seemingly unanswerable question, like “Show me your face before your Continue Reading →