Dear Companions on the Path, I wish you a blessed Visalat Day! May the peace, blessings, and love of God be with you on this special day as we celebrate the earthly and heavenly life of our guiding spirit, Hazrat Inayat Khan. Today, in the presence of many companions here at Fazal Manzil, and […]
Dear Companions on the Path, New Year’s greetings! As we ring in the year 2018 and bid farewell to 2017, it’s a time to count our blessings and look toward the future with optimism. For my family and the Inayati Order headquarters, the last year brought us a big transition. We moved from the quiet […]
As long as I act upon my own intuition, I succeed, but whenever I follow the advice of others I go astray. An eel would not do well to ask directions to the Sargasso Sea from a pike or a trout. Deep down in its viscera, it already knows the way. Its best course is […]
“Every soul stands before me as a world, and the light of my spirit falling upon it brings clearly to my view all it contains.” Would there be a world if there were no witnesses? It is the perceiving of the world that makes it a world. And as there are many perceivers, there are, […]
December 10, 2017 Dear Companions on the Path, I hope this finds you well. Here at the Astana in Richmond, things are unfolding wonderfully. We now have two weekly gatherings, a Sunday afternoon Universal Worship Service and Gatha Class, and a Wednesday evening Healing Service and Zikr. Do come and join us; the calendar is […]
Wisdom of the Prophets: Sufism & Christianity with Sheikh Ghassan Manasra, Sheikha Fariha al-Jerrahi & Pir Zia Inayat-Khan The Astana, Richmond, Virginia May 3-6, 2018 Hazrat Inayat Khan tells of how the Light of Unity conveyed by the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in the words “Nothing exists but God” (la ilaha illa’llah) summed up […]
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I have learned more by my faults than by my merits. If I acted always aright, I could not be human. We might have been created as flawless beings in a flawless world. But we were not, and for a reason. In a placidly perfect world, there would be no discovery. There is a unique […]
