01 Sufi Invocation

With this invocation Hazrat Inayat Khan used to open his inspiration

for the Only One and for all the Masters.

With this invocation he opened also the hearts of the audience

for that spiritual Truth of Universal Guidance.

This invocation is always said to start Sacred Readings or Activities

or Universal Worship in the Sufi Movement.

Chanting this invocation together will connect us to that same source

of Unity and lnspiration to come to understanding and realisation of Truth.

It may start the heartsinging as well and any part of the sema or zikar.

For other purposes the monotone version or free chanting can be used.

 

"The sufi recognizes the Master in all beings of the world, and is ready

to learn from young and old, educated and uneducated, rich and poor,

without questioning from whom he learns.

Then he begins to see the light of Risalat, the torch of truth which

shines before him in every being and every thing in the universe.

Thus he sees Rasul, his Divine Message Bearer, a living identity before him

Thus the Sufi sees the vision of God, the worshipped deity,

in His immanence, manifest in nature, and life now becomes for him

a perfect revelation both within and without".

 

Hazrat Inayat Khan in the Way of Illumination (vol. l p.14-15).