Category: Letters to mureeds

We recently celebrated Visalat Day, the 5th of February, the day on which Hazrat Inayat Khan left this world, and amongst Sufis this moment of transition is sometimes called ‘the Continue Reading →

In his lecture on treating the sick and wounded, Hazrat Inayat Khan tells us that one of the essential qualities needed for healing a person is concentration. He says:When we Continue Reading →

The spiritual path could be described as a wandering search for perfection, but what makes the journey so frustratingly difficult for us is that we live in the world of Continue Reading →

In a recent conversation, the question arose about doing practices when we are in a bad mood – feeling angry, for example, or caught up in some other way in Continue Reading →

The tale about the businessman asking Sri Ramakrishna to send the goddess Maha Kali to visit him is worth examining, for it displays a profound truth. In the world of Continue Reading →

The ancient Roman god Janus, from whom we have the name of the first month of the year, is portrayed as having two faces, one looking back upon what has Continue Reading →

There is a tradition in Scandinavia, and in various parts of Europe, that at the time of Christmas – some say from the stroke of midnight when the baby Jesus Continue Reading →

This time of year, it is easy to remember the cycles of nature in which we live. In the north, (setting aside for the moment, with apologies, readers in the Continue Reading →

When Bullhe Shah tells us that the divine is found by those of pure heart, it might make us think of Hazrat Inayat Khan’s explanation of purity, expressed in several Continue Reading →