Category: Letters to mureeds

What do we really know about ourselves? The conversation was turning around this phrase from the Gayan, Boulas : He who realizes the effect of his deed upon himself begins Continue Reading →

Remembrance is a fundamental principle in the Sufi path, as we have discussed before, but it is important to know that remembrance is not the same as memory. In the Continue Reading →

One of the sayings of his father that Murshid Hidayat loved to quote was this, from the Alapas* portion of the Gayan, “Make God a reality, and God will make Continue Reading →

Once Hazrat Inayat Khan was asked by a dinner companion, a lady who had evidently enjoyed some good meals in her life, if it were spiritual to fast. With a Continue Reading →

In the midst of a pandemic that seems to be accelerating rather than slowing down, and with social disorder and political tensions rising everywhere, with the consequences of the neglect Continue Reading →

The brief anecdote about Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya receiving a visitor, throws light on several themes. We can learn, for example, that there is a right way and a wrong way Continue Reading →

We are all familiar with the moving image of Jesus placing a small child in front of his disciples and counselling them that unless they changed and became like little Continue Reading →

Once an egg has been cracked the pieces of shell are fragile, and yet while it is still intact the form is strong. It is surprisingly difficult to crack an Continue Reading →

Perhaps when we hear the wise saying of Hazrat Inayat Khan that ‘a Sufi has two points of view – his own and that of the other person,’ we feel Continue Reading →

“The soul is eternal – so we have been taught, and so I believe. What can Hazrat Inayat Khan mean by ‘the birth of the soul’?” The discussion was turning Continue Reading →