Category: Letters to mureeds

August 6th is the birthday of Murshid Hidayat Inayat-Khan; on this day he turns 99 years of age. Today is also the day on which a message has been sent to the members Continue Reading →

The first word of the prayer ‘Saum’ is ‘Praise,’ and it is an excellent way to begin a prayer, inasmuch as ‘praise’ is a word that can unlock the gates Continue Reading →

During this year’s International Summer School in the Netherlands, a Universal Worship service was held at Murad Hassil in Katwijk.   The texts, on the theme of ‘Impressions of Beauty,’ are below, and Continue Reading →

Dear friends, This is to let you know that it won’t be possible to continue regular posting for a few weeks.  Various commitments, including the International Summer School in the Continue Reading →

After posting the explanation of the allegory of the play ‘Una’ yesterday, a very interesting statement appeared unexpectedly in a letter written by Ibn ‘Abbad of Ronda.*  A student had Continue Reading →

A recent post (Hazrat Khwaja Usman Harooni: The Signs of the Enlightened) gave the answer of Khwaja Usman to the question, ‘What are the signs of the enlightened?’ In his reply, Continue Reading →

The word ‘mindfulness’ gave rise to a recent post [The Being of Here and Now] that examined the work of controlling the focus of consciousness, and how the development of Continue Reading →

Recently the practice of ‘mindfulness’ came up in a conversation; the word is widely associated with a particular technique taught  in a secular context to deal with stress, chronic pain Continue Reading →

In the mystical sense, intelligence is light, the divine light of consciousness; where there is much light, there is clarity, and where there is less light (‘less’ since there is Continue Reading →

The beginning of this post considered three of the five aspects Hazrat Inayat Khan describes as constituting the heart: thought, memory and reason.  The remaining two aspects are will and ego, Continue Reading →