Category: Letters to mureeds

In an effort to explain the underlying truth of the Universal Worship service, Murshid Hidayat sometimes resorted to the image of various coloured glasses or bottles.  “If you put clear water Continue Reading →

When we say a prayer, are we alone? Or do we pray with others, seen and unseen? Hopefully, if we are sincere we stand in the Divine Presence, so we Continue Reading →

News has come that a long time mureed and diligent worker for the Message has left this world. Sharif Munawwir Graham, who was aged 81, was a mureed of Pir Continue Reading →

The recent post of words from Abul Hassan Kharqani emphasises that if we attain to the presence of God, it is not ‘our’ attainment, but a union bestowed by Him. Continue Reading →

Today, the 5th of February, people around the world are celebrating the life of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Perhaps they have followed his teaching, or read his inspiring lectures and his Continue Reading →

Today the compound is being adorned with flowers and other colourful touches. And this afternoon, the public will come for the first of a number of musical offerings. Hazrat Inayat Continue Reading →

To protect the visitors to the Urs festival a tent is always erected over the terrace around the Dargah. Yesterday a gang worked into the night, lashing together bamboo poles Continue Reading →

Visalat Day, the anniversary of the departure of Hazrat Inayat Khan from this world in 1927, is celebrated on the 5th of February, but at his Dargah in New Delhi Continue Reading →

If anyone should ask us what Sufism is, a number of possible answers might come to mind.  ‘The path of the heart’ or ‘the religion of the heart’ or ‘the search Continue Reading →