Category: Letters to mureeds

On September 13th, 1910 Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan set sail from Bombay, bound for an unknown future in the West.  That long sea voyage was the beginning of his work for the Message. Continue Reading →

As a child grows, graduating from infancy to toddlerhood to superhero of the playground, it learns the mostly logical rules of manifestation: there are objects, forces make them move, some Continue Reading →

Everyone is familiar with the image of Jesus telling the disciples to let the children come to him. Perhaps his students had been feeling superior, assuming that they knew better Continue Reading →

When difficulties fall upon us, we try to put the blame on circumstances, or someone else, or the broken government, or even the weather. It is often the last option Continue Reading →

On the 10th of August, a major earthquake shook the western region of Colombia. The temblor, which lasted for more than a minute, was centred in the ‘coffee-axis’ but the Continue Reading →

When Hazrat Inayat Khan visited Scotland in 1919, at the conclusion of his address in Edinburgh he was asked to say something about how to live in the world. He Continue Reading →

Viladat means nativity or birth, and in the International Sufi Movement the 5th of July is called Viladat Day, the birthday of Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan – he was born Continue Reading →

When is a journey not a journey? It sounds like a children’s riddle, the kind that would delight an eight year old with an unexpected twist, but today it has Continue Reading →

The Master Jesus told us to love one another, a lesson that all the wise have given in various forms, but most people know from experience that their love has Continue Reading →