On September 13^th, 1910 Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan set sail from Bombay, bound for an unknown future in the West.  That long sea voyage was the beginning of his work for the Message. For the next sixteen years he travelled almost constantly, lecturing, guiding and inspiring countless people, while still managing to have a family.

The words below were spoken to a group of students, urging them care for his life’s work, and to help it spread. Readers of the Inner Call may want to give extra thought today to the light of the Message which has touched their lives, and say a prayer that it may shine ever more brightly around the world.

Keep burning the fire I have lighted.
It may seem very small to you, but one tiny flame, if kept burning, can be the means of illuminating a whole city, and someday many lamps that shall be lighted at this small fire will give light to thousands.
This fire of truth is now lighted, and its light will never go out.
Your work is to tend it and keep it burning.
The fuel needed is your every thought,
your faith, your prayers, and your sacrifices.
You cannot see the result of this.
Light can never be lost.
I have kindled this small fire from which millions of lamps can be lit.
Their number cannot be reckoned,
and millions upon millions of other fires can now be lighted.
When all have been kindled the original fire will die out,
and the place thereof be known no more.
Verily the form dieth, and the spirit liveth for ever.
God bless you.