Category: Letters to mureeds

Most children – if not all – have a keenly developed sense of justice. They react vigorously, hotly, to any apprehension of unfairness, denouncing loudly the scheming villain in a Continue Reading →

Today – in the lunar calendar – is the anniversary of the passing of the Sufi saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya (1238 – 1325 CE). He is one of the most Continue Reading →

If we see someone in pain or a child in danger, it is a human impulse to help in some way. The urge seems to jump from eye to body Continue Reading →

A recent post of a text by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan on the question, ‘What is a Sufi?” concluded with thoughts about the sacred step of initiation. Hazrat Inayat says that Continue Reading →

There is no doubt that we love to judge. We do not hesitate to offer our opinion about subjects in which we have no qualification (‘Which do you think was Continue Reading →

The short poem written by the Tang era Buddhist monk, Chiao Jan, has a message for all of us, and it deserves some attention. He begins by speaking about ‘the Continue Reading →

Readers of the Inner Call might want to know that an unusually heavy rainstorm in July caused damage to the upper terrace that surrounds the Dargah of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Continue Reading →

We live in a material age, in which everything is weighed and measured according to its commercial value, and it is not at all surprising that spirituality also seems to Continue Reading →

In the first portion of the series ‘Aspects of Sufism,’ in which Hazrat Inayat Khan discusses the purpose of our life on earth, he uses the startling term ‘moral hallucination.’ Continue Reading →

Readers of the Inner Call might be interested in the following possibility of a eight day retreat in India. Places are still available, but those wishing to participate should write Continue Reading →