Dear Ones, It is with tremendous enthusiasm that I report to you: “We did it!” This community came together to support the 2025 Fall Appeal. Please bear witness that, by the One who was the First, and will be the Last, each of us accomplished this. The campaign target of $200,000 was a stretch goal […]
31 December 2025 Dear Friends, As this year’s Fall Appeal comes to a close tonight, we write with a simple and timely invitation. We have reached $178,164 – 89.1% of our goal. Just $21,836 remains to be raised by midnight (EST) to fully fund the work of the Inayatiyya for the year ahead. These final hours matter. Gifts made […]
“Vibrations are of five different aspects … appearing as the five elements: Nur (Light/Ether); Baad (Air); Aatash (Fire); Aab (Water); Khaak (Earth)” – Hazrat Inayat Khan 23 December 2025 Dear Friends, Some landscapes cannot be found on any map. There is a terrain more intimate than the cave, more infinite than the ocean, more luminous than […]
“[…] every rock is longing for the day when it will burst out as a volcano, and when all that is valuable in it will come out” – Hazrat Inayat Khan 16 December 2025 Dear Friends, There are mountains that do not rest. Mountains that carry their own heartbeat, hidden beneath layers of stone. These are […]
“Breath, to a Sufi, is a bridge between himself and God; it is a rope for him, hanging down to earth, attached to the heavens.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan 9 December 2025 Dear Friends, If the mountaintop is the symbol of arrival, then the valley is the place of preparation. It is in the valley that […]
2 December 2025 Sharing Sacred Places Wednesday, December 3, 2025 | 3:00 – 4:15 PM EST / 9:00 – 10:15 PM CET Come along for the journey! As a special gift for everyone who has donated to the Inayatiyya in 2025, we invite you to an online gathering on the theme of Sharing Sacred Places. This […]
“My life speeds towards Thee as the blowing of the wind.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan 25 November 2025 Dear Friends, There is a landscape so vast, so open, that it seems the sky itself has come down to dwell upon the earth. This is the steppe – a wide and boundless plain, home to silence, […]
How many a rain of largesse hath rained, so that the sea was made thereby to scatter pearls! – Rūmī’ 18 November 2025 Dear Friends, The mystics have long spoken of the soul as an ocean – vast, unfathomable, and brimming with secrets. Its surface may shimmer with light or boil with storm, but its depths […]
“The sacred river is the sympathy coming out of our own heart” – Hazrat Inayat Khan 11 November 2025 Dear Friends, There is an old Sufi story about a stream that, after descending from the mountains and crossing valleys and meadows, reaches the edge of a vast desert. There, the stream hesitates. How will it […]
“As fire when not kindled gives only smoke, but when kindled, the illuminating flame springs forth, so it is with love.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan 4 November 2025 Dear Friends, Across spiritual traditions, there is one place to which seekers have always fled, or been led: the desert. The desert is not silent. It speaks […]
