The Ecstasy Beyond Knowing: A Manual of Meditation by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan is now in print and ready to order.

The Ecstasy Beyond Knowing represents the distilled wisdom of Pir Vilayat’s long lifetime of spiritual seeking and experiences, his dialogues and deep friendships with other mystics and spiritual teachers, and his explorations into the nature of reality with scientists and philosophers.

Noorunisa Inayat Khan’s life is honored as part of a new series of “Remarkable Lives” stamps in the United Kingdom.

Here at the Abode the snow is slowly but surely melting, exposing a perilous morass of thick brown mud. It’s a messy business, but as we know, before long the spongy ground will send up crocuses, daffodils, bloodroot, fiddleheads, and all manner of sprouts, tendrils, and blooms—and Spring will be here. With Spring’s arrival come new opportunities to live, work, and study at the Abode, or just to visit. Here are four ways to participate:

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT THROUGH FRIDAY, MARCH 28th!

The world constantly pulls our attention outwards. By turning the focus within, our natural inner radiance is kindled and begins to illuminate life’s journey. In this weekend workshop, Pir Zia Inayat-Khan, the lineage holder and grandson of the great Sufi mystic Hazrat Inayat Khan, will introduce the history, philosophy and foundational practices of the Hazrati Sufi tradition.

Would you like to deepen your inner life through the study of Sufism while living and working in spiritual community?

A newly designed Khidmat Work Study program is launching this spring. Come live, work and study Sufism at the Abode. New semesters begin March 30th, June 15 and September 7, 2014. To learn more, please visit www.theabode.org.

Greetings of peace and love! Following a month of travel, I am again home at the Abode. My travels took me first to Suresnes and Epernon in France, and then, together with my family, to Delhi, Baroda, and Ahmedabad, India.

Credit: Dr. Karin Jironet

The 87th Urs of Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan was celebrated at his Dargah (tomb), and the Dargah of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, on February 5th.

The festival was hosted this year by Pir Shabda and the Sufi Ruhaniat International in conjunction with the Hazrat Inayat Khan Memorial Trust.

Pir Zia will lead the opening meditation for Winter Feast for the Soul, online the evening of Tuesday, January 14, 2014, at 9 pm EST.

Winter Feast for the Soul takes place every January 15th – February 23rd, and unites people in their commitment to a 40-day practice of stillness.

By Scott Kugle

Here are 18 recollections of Pir Rasheed’s teachings, may God embrace his soul with mercy.  This bereft follower of his, Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle, collected these so that loving people who met him only briefly can benefit from his wisdom.

Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim

With a heavy heart, I must announce the passing of Hazrat Sayyid Muhammad Rasheed-ul-Hasan Jeeli-Kaleemi, popularly known as Pir Rasheed.

May God enfold his soul in Love and Light.

Dargah of Hazrat Sufi Inayat Khan

You are most cordially invited to the

87th Urs Celebration of
Hazrat Sufi Inayat Khan

New Delhi, India

Monday, February 3 –
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Hosted by Sufi Ruhaniat International, under the auspices of the International Sufi Movement, Sufi Order International, Sufi Way & the Hazrat Inayat Khan Memorial Trust

A book on Noor Inayat Khan for teens and young adults has been published in the A&C Black Real Lives series. Sarah Brew of Parents in Touch describes it as, “well written and engrossing … an excellent read.”

Available through www.amazon.com.