Category: Letters to mureeds

Hazrat Inayat Khan spoke with deep feeling about the need to ease the pains of a world that was cruelly divided by war, injustice and inequality. Remember that he and Continue Reading →

In one of the Sufi prayers, after reminding ourselves who we are – which is to say, recollecting that we are children of the Divine family (…take us in Thy parental Continue Reading →

Perhaps one of the defining features – or should we say, symptoms – of our age is the widespread phenomenon of the ‘selfie.’ The ubiquity of the mobile phone makes Continue Reading →

On the 7th of May, 1921, a Divine inspiration was brought into form when the very first service was held in the Universal Worship, the Church of All and of Continue Reading →

Most people enjoy contact with nature – by which is meant, perhaps, Life not obviously modified by humanity. A walk in the woods, a bike ride through the mountains or Continue Reading →

Under the title ‘The Best Act of Worship,’ the Inner Call recently posted a brief but very profound thought from the early Sufi al-Qushayri, about the essential nature of breath.  It Continue Reading →

There is a popular saying that a person’s home is their castle, meaning that we claim the right to refuse entry to whomsoever may knock at the door. This is Continue Reading →

Attentive readers of the Inner Call may have noticed that by a happy coincidence the image of the fish looking for water appeared in two successive posts recently. In her Continue Reading →

Dear friends, today, February 5th, is the anniversary of the departure from this earth of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Among the Sufis, this day is called his ‘Urs’, a word that Continue Reading →