Category: Letters to mureeds

During the precious years Hazrat Inayat Khan spent in the physical presence of his Murshid Sayed Abu Hashim Madani, the young man once asked his teacher, “How may one recognise a Continue Reading →

The poem by Juan de la Cruz, ‘On a Dark Night,’ recently posted, gives a picture, as well as words can express such a subject, of a mystical experience: a Continue Reading →

The prayer Salat contains the words, “Thou art the first cause and the last effect, the divine light and the spirit of guidance, Alpha and Omega.” Alpha is the first Continue Reading →

The program for the Urs celebration in New Delhi has been posted now [see ‘Events and Engagements’ in the menu bar above], and perhaps it is a good moment to Continue Reading →

Hazrat Inayat Khan said that “The Message is a call to those whose hour has come to awake, and it is a lullaby to those who are still meant to sleep.” Continue Reading →

When Hazrat Inayat Khan came to the west, he encountered a culture that placed a premium on the rational, logical mind, in preference to the unpredictable, irrational, often confusing world of Continue Reading →

The ocean of life in which destiny has placed us is infinite, at times lit with sunshine, at times stirred by storms, and the only boat we have to make this Continue Reading →

Now in December many are preparing to celebrate the festival of Christmas through innumerable customs involving worship, display, behavior and food. If one looks with careful insight, one can see Continue Reading →

That evening we began to discuss the ‘Ten Sufi Thoughts’ but people were troubled, their minds veiled by impressions of recent violence in Europe and elsewhere. Unsurprisingly, we came to Continue Reading →

We enter the spiritual path because of a calling, a call from within. If we understood the call well, it should make us hopeful, even ecstatic, like the drunk who Continue Reading →