Category: Letters to mureeds

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 →

We have been looking at the conclusion of the prayer Khatum.  The name of the prayer means ‘completion,’ so we could anticipate that there would be a suitable summation of the Continue Reading →

Readers of the Inner Call will be familiar with the Universel Murad Hassil, the temple in Holland that was built beside the small valley where Hazrat Inayat Khan once had Continue Reading →

How happy are we?  According to Sufi teaching, our purpose in life is to find happiness, not because it is enjoyable but because happiness is our very being, and until we Continue Reading →

When Moses saw the burning bush on the mountain, it must have been a thorn bush that he saw.  What else could it have been? A scraggly, twisted, unforgiving bush with Continue Reading →

When the calendar rolls over to another year, some people make resolutions : affirmations about something positive they wish to accomplish in the year to come. It is certainly healthy Continue Reading →

Near the close of the Summer School of 1926, on September 3rd to be precise, Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan used the opportunity of a Collective Interview to discuss a very important topic Continue Reading →