News from the Caravan – May 2026

If you have any news to share about births and deaths, or if you have written a book or composed a piece of music you think our community would be interested in, please send it to zephyr@inayatiyya.org with the subject heading “News of the Caravan.” Photos are welcome.

My thoughts I’ve sown in your mind is a composition by Canadian murid Hadi Yves Saint-Pierre. The lyrics are from Murshid’s Alapas in the Vadan and the Gayan (Alapas are described as God speaking to us humans) and are slightly altered to fit the rhythm. In this recording, Hadi is singing, playing bass and soprano clarinets and drumming. He has plans to record more musical settings for Murshid’s words.

 

Hadi’s path to Sufism began through music. He plays soprano clarinet with an ensemble of Armenian and Turkish musicians that sets the poetry of Rumi to music in English and Turkish and plays bass clarinet in a swing trio. Hadi’s lifelong fascination with world cultures has led him to explore many traditions: in the early 1980s he played cello as a bass instrument with recordings of a Moroccan band, and in the 1990s he performed on harmonium in an ensemble devoted to the songs of Mohammed Rafi. Hadi has also studied Circle Songs with Bobby McFerrin and North Indian classical vocal music with Mushfiq Hashimi.