Category: Letters to mureeds

In responding to the question about the importance of doing our practices at a regular time, Hazrat Inayat Khan said, among other things, “Never avoid practices, however tired you are, Continue Reading →

The recent post of a text by Hazrat Inayat Khan concerning sympathy and antipathy produced some interesting reactions.  By antipathy Hazrat Inayat is referring to what we might these days Continue Reading →

A recent post of poems by the Kashmiri Sufi Nuruddin Rishi included this verse: He created man with the earthly nature and shaped him in the frame of clay. He Continue Reading →

Mahmud Shabistari’s poem, the Garden of Mystery, recently quoted in this post, speaks about the circle of existence, saying that ‘the basest –or the most ignoble– place,  … you-ness is the Continue Reading →

In a recent post, Hazrat Inayat Khan responded to a question about vanity, and now a mureed stimulated by this text and the word vanity has come forward with a Continue Reading →

Dear readers of this blog, this is just to let you know we are traveling now, on our way to visit our Sufi family in South America, and the posts Continue Reading →

In a recent post about the journey to the goal, Hazrat Inayat Khan tells a little known story about a man who has fallen in love with a princess.  The Continue Reading →

In a recent post, a teaching ‘from Jesus’ about the friends of God was presented.  It is a Muslim story, first because it was collected from Muslim sources, and most Continue Reading →

Some days ago a post proposed working for a while with the phrase, “O Knower of my heart, fulfil my desires,” and enough reactions and comments have come back through Continue Reading →