Category: Letters to mureeds

The recent post from al Ghazali’s Book of Love, Longing, Intimacy and Contentment puts a very simple problem in front of us, and perhaps because of its simplicity, it is Continue Reading →

When Hazrat Inayat Khan was working in the west to spread the wisdom of Sufism, he noted that he was often asked a certain kind of question, usually put like Continue Reading →

In the autumn of northern India, when the monsoons have finished and the weather is becoming moderate, it has been a custom for some years now to hold a retreat Continue Reading →

In the recent post from The Book of Love, after describing the manner in which a certain Sufi intentionally destroyed his reputation for goodness, Al Ghazali explains why this would Continue Reading →

The group had been working for some weeks with a phrase from the Copper Rules in the Vadan: Do nothing which will make your conscience feel guilty. As they talked Continue Reading →

At the end of his talk aboard the SS Volendam on the deeper side of life, Hazrat Inayat Khan was asked a question about finding common ground between Buddhism and Continue Reading →

A recent comment on a post to the Inner Call mentioned the capital sin of gluttony, and as words and meanings sometimes appear in our lives in clusters, it wasn’t Continue Reading →

The Urs of Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan has passed, and in India this year it is closely followed by ‘Basant Panchami’, meaning the fifth day of spring according to the Continue Reading →

In a recent post to the Glimpses department, Sirkar van Stolk recounted the way in which Hazrat Inayat Khan reacted to an eclipse of the moon, and also gave some Continue Reading →

My thoughts I have sown on the soil of your mind; My love has penetrated your heart; My word I have put into your mouth; My light has illuminated your Continue Reading →