Murshida Rabia Ana Perez-Chisti
Senior Teacher, National Representative
Centennial Urs Celebration of the Sufi Message
of Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927)
It is a great honor to be with you all in this Centennial Urs Celebration of our Holy Master, Hazrat Inayat Khan, the bringer of the Sufi Message of Spiritual Liberty. May all blessings of peace surround and bless him as we invoke his spirit in us during this night of remembrance.
Murshid explained that Sufism is the ancient school of wisdom from which sprung many cults of a mystical philosophical nature such as the ancient School of Egypt. In this school Abraham received his initiation. Further connections and traces of Sufism can be found in the ancient Greeks that use the term “Sophia” meaning wisdom and in the Arabic word “Saf” meaning “pure” terms which later reformed as “Sufi”. Sufis were known as the “Knights of purity”, “discovers of the truth”, “those that can see behind the cause of the cause,” and “those who can harmonize with the inner being of all beings”. Sufis found their reality in the spirit living in all things. Master Sufi poets and musicians found these symbolic connections and there arose such masters as Hafiz, Rumi, Shams Tabriz, Saadi, Nizami, and Attar giving beauty and wisdom to the world.
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