This month we hear from the Knighthood of Purity: Sublime nature, my ears did not hear your music. Your heart has heard it, your soul has danced to it. – Nirtan, Tanas Indigenous wisdom addresses nature as “all my relations.” What is our moral responsibility toward “all my relations?” Murshid offers us a pathway for examining […]
16 February 2022 Dear Companions on the Path, I hope this finds you well. I have always valued winter as a season of inwardness, a time to turn within, meditate, and focus entirely on work that is quiet. Over the last few weeks I’ve been blessed with the chance to do just that. I am […]
We live in a time of great strain on the living systems of the Earth. A time of mounting extinctions and a world heating up, a planet in fever. We are only a self because we are part of a greater self; we can’t extricate our little self from that larger self. We’re siblings to […]
19 January 2022 Dear Companions on the Path, I was so happy to see so many of you on New Year’s Day. May the coming year be an easeful and illuminating one for all creatures under the Sun. Thank you for your kind messages of congratulation on the birth of my grandson Mir Kara-Suleyman Yüzkhan. I write […]
21 December 2021 Dear Companions on the Path, These lines will reach you on the day of the Solstice. In the northern hemisphere, as we know, this is the darkest day of the year. It is also the beginning of light’s ascendancy. Light emerges from darkness and returns to it, just as the visible manifests from […]
7 December 2021 Dear friends, As we approach year’s end, the Inayatiyya’s North American Board sends greetings! During this time of rapid change, like you we have been riding the waves of unpredictable day-to-day rhythms and sensibilities. We have heard the timely call for the Message and have responded with new opportunities for inspiration, […]
30 November 2021 Dear Friends, The sun, moon, and stars give light … We gather today for Giving Tuesday, a worldwide celebration of generosity. Over the last three weeks, so many of you have shown your immense generosity by helping us successfully meet, and then exceed!, a matching a gift of $50,000. Thank you for […]
November 11, 2020 I am coming from a perfect source and I am bound to a perfect goal. The light of the perfect being is kindled in my soul. I live, move, and have my being in God. And nothing in the world of the past or present has the power to touch me, for […]
9 November 2021 Dear Companions, We feel immense gratitude for our community, always and especially during the past 20 months. Our spiritual link is a lifeline, connecting us upwardly through the transmission of our lineage, and outwardly as we join in a timeless and transformative friendship. Today we look toward the future. What happens next? […]
20 October 2021 Dear Companions on the Path, Outside my window, the leaves are yellowing and beginning to tumble serenely from their branches. Autumn’s golden touch is here. On my screen, the news is of a different kind. BBC News reports, “Facebook has just announced it’s going to hire 10,000 people in Europe to build the ‘metaverse.’” […]
