The Zephyr, October 2023
12 October 2023 Dear Companions on the Path, As I write, rockets are flying between Tel Aviv and Gaza. Apartment buildings are thundering to the ground. Parents and children cannot find each other. The grief is immeasurable. How did we get to this point? How did the Holy Land
The Zephyr, September 2023
6 September 2023 Dear Companions on the Path, May these lines find you very well. It has been an eventful month. After the Alps Camp I was able to spend some quiet time at Fazal Manzil working on my manuscript Tears from the Mother of the Sun. It’s a prosimetrum,
The Zephyr, August 2023
16 August 2023 Dear Companions on the Path, There is something numinous about a place of striking natural beauty. The visitor is transported from the mundane world to the Earth of Visions. The Zenith Sufi Summer Camp in Ticino, Switzerland, is such a place. Amidst the brays of donkeys and
The Zephyr, July 2023
1 July 2023 Dear Companions on the Path, Summer greetings! In the past I’ve had the pleasure of recommending books that captured my imagination. This time I would like to recommend a movie. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) by Werner Herzog is an enthralling exploration of the Paleolithic art
The Zephyr, June 2023
17 June 2023 Dear Companions on the Path, Urs Mubarak! Today marks the nineteenth anniversary of my father Pir Vilayat’s death – or as he would always describe it in anticipation, his journey to the galaxies. For those who had the good fortune to know Pir Vilayat in life, it’s
The Zephyr, May 2023
17 May 2023 Dear Companions on the Path, May these lines find you well. I am now back in Richmond, where classes have resumed at the Astana and angelica is cheerfully multiplying in the backyard of our little cottage. My recent stay in Europe culminated with the Spring Retreat that convenes
Inayatiyya International Board Newsletter, May 2023
Inayatiyya International Board May 2023 Newsletter Update on changes in the Organisation Our friend Alia Sura Kirsten will be stepping down from her role as European Vice President of the Knighthood of Purity. She is the first person to have taken on this role since the Knighthood Activity was re-instigated
The Zephyr, April 2023
12 April 2023 Dear Companions on the Path, I hope this finds you well. I am writing to you from Fazal Manzil on a sunny spring day. I plan to leave soon for Germany, for our annual Spring Retreat, following which I return to Richmond. When these lines reach you next
The Zephyr, March 2023
15 March 2023 Dear Companions on the Path, May this find you well. In my last letter I had the pleasure of describing some of the auspicious and inspiring events in which I took part in India. That was the light; now comes the shadow. Not long after writing
The Zephyr, February 2023
Please note that Pir Zia wrote the following letter on 8 February 2023, while visiting Baroda, the birthplace of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Dear Companions on the Path, May this find you well. I am writing to you on my phone from a picturesque room on the top floor of