Category: Letters to mureeds

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 →

We have been looking at the great wishes or petitions that conclude the prayer Khatum – earlier posts on this theme are here, here and here. The fourth supplication is Continue Reading →

The unfolding of the human personality – when it happens – can be seen as the cream of creation, for it is there that the physical world begins to reach Continue Reading →

We have been examining the five great petitions that are found at the conclusion of the prayer Khatum, considering what we might really be asking for when we pray.  Where will Continue Reading →

At the Dargah of Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan in New Delhi, work has been going forward on a number of changes, including a very beautiful maqaam* in honour of Hazrat Continue Reading →

In a recent post in the Inner Call we looked at the first of the five wishes found at the conclusion of the prayer Khatum : ‘Give us Thy Great Continue Reading →

There is a common theme in fairy tales about a person who is granted a wish – or sometimes three wishes. Just how such a special gift is gained varies Continue Reading →