The Four Archangels
Sources of Sustenance
A Sufi Seminar with Pir Zia Inayat Khan
London Sufi Centre, United Kingdom & Via Zoom
6th – 7th September 2025
‘The Universe, continually emerging from the Divine Source, is in reality a Tricosm of angelic, imaginal and physical beings. These angelic and imaginal presences, which we sometimes feel and are inspired by, are our partners in the unfoldment of our life, light and our love.
In the angelic realm, four vast beings function as celestial personifications of the essential vibratory currents pervading and organising the Universe. These four archangels – Mika’il, Israfil, Azra’il, and Jibra’il – have their being both outside us and within us. In this weekend retreat we will familiarize ourselves with their natures and learn to invoke and recognize their presence.’
Pir Zia Inayat Khan, Sufi scholar and teacher of Sufism in the lineage of his grandfather, Hazrat Inayat Khan, guides us in spiritual discourse (suhbat), contemplation (muraqaba), meditation (mushahada), and ritual remembrance (zikr).
SEMINAR VENUE
The Four Archangels will be held at the London Sufi Centre, the Inayatiyya’s national headquarters at Beauchamp Lodge, 2 Warwick Crescent, London, England W2 6NE. The London Sufi Centre is easily accessible by car, bus, and the Tube.
You may also participate online via Zoom. We invite all global friends to join us. Please note the seminar will be conducted in English.
If you have any questions about the seminar, please contact the Inayatiyya UK under info@inayaytiyya.org.uk.
Speaker
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Pir Zia Inayat KhanPir Zia Inayat Khan, PhD, is a scholar of religion and teacher of Sufism in the universalist Sufi lineage of his grandfather, Hazrat Inayat Khan. Pir Zia is president of the Inayatiyya and founder of Sulūk Academy, a school of Sufi contemplative study and practice. He is the author of Immortality: A Traveler’s Guide; Mingled Waters: Sufism and the Mystical Unity of Religions; Saracen Chivalry: Counsels on Valor, Generosity and the Mystical Quest; and the editor and compiler of Dream Flowers: The Collected Works of Noor Inayat Khan, for which he also wrote the critical introduction. Pir Zia divides his time between Richmond, Virginia and Suresnes, France. inayatiyya.org