14 December 2020 Dear Companions on the Path, Here in the northern hemisphere we are nearing the darkest day of the year. It has not been an easy year. We have lost some dear friends—have lost, at least, their earthly forms—and the lives of many of us have been unsettled in numerous ways. The routines of […]
After closely collaborating on the portrait of the WWII heroine Noor Inayat Khan, unveiled in September 2018 at the Inayatiyya’s headquarters, the Astana in Richmond, Virginia, Pir Zia and the artist Nan Majida Hill turned to co-creating a portrait of Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan. This new portrait, Murshid at Suresnes, was completed in March 2020 […]
Nan Hill Artist Statement on Murshid at Suresnes Portrait When embarking on a portrait, I look for something fundamental about the esteemed person’s character which influences their legacy. With Hazrat Inayat Khan, his capacity for self-discipline came forthrightly to mind. Far from an authoritarian approach, the discipline he required of himself, and modeled as an […]
16 November 2020 Dear Companions on the Path, Just as the pandemic hit this spring, my family and I moved into a little house by the James River. Throughout the summer—our first summer in America in twenty some years—whenever there was a free moment I would go out into the backyard and tend to the herbs […]
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 […]
26 October 2020 Dear Companions on the Path, I hope this finds you well. Here in Richmond, the sidewalks are spangled with golden leaves. As the trees shed their spent foliage, the Light of Nature is calling us to relinquish our outworn devices and sink down into our roots. Thus Shelley sings to the West Wind, […]
Dream Flowers Now in Print! October 22, 2020 Dream Flowers: The Collected Works of Noor Inayat Khan is now in print from Suluk Press. Pir Zia has collected in this volume all of her known creative literary productions from the Inayat Khan family archives in North America and Europe, ranging from short lyric poems to […]
24 September 2020 Dear Companions on the Path, Shanah Tovah! May the Jewish New Year bring new light and life to hearts, and a renewed aspiration toward peace, healing, and the lived reality of kinship in the Holy Land and all of the holy lands of our green Earth. As the pandemic and lockdown continue […]
12 August 2020 Dear Companions on the Path, Late summer greetings to you – and winter greetings to our friends south of the equator. The prayers of all of us, I know, are with the people of Beirut, who have suffered such terrible destruction in the recent explosion. May the Beirutese find the strength to rise […]
PRACTICES & PRAYERS FOR BEIRUT SUBMITTED BY SARIDA BROWN, VICE PRESIDENT, INAYATIYYA HEALING EUROPE We have woken to the vast tragedy in Beirut, one that calls to our living hearts to respond with our living stream of prayer. May we unite across our world in Life’s prayer to heal and protect and console the Lebanese […]
