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    The Bowl of Saqi: A Sufi Book of Days
    The Bowl of Saqi: A Sufi Book of Days
    The Bowl of Saqi: A Sufi Book of Days
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    The Bowl of Saqi: A Sufi Book of Days

    By Hazrat Inayat Khan

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    FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1922, The Bowl of Saqi is a collection of 366 aphorisms lovingly culled from the talks and personal notebooks of Hazrat Inayat Khan and arranged according to the days of the year, each aphorism serving as a meditation theme for the day. This much beloved classic of Sufi wisdom is for many Western Sufis the simplest and most accessible collection of Hazrat Inayat Khan's teachings and the one with which they are most familiar. Now, in this new edition, the original text has been revised, annotated and reformatted for a new generation of readers, making the language gender inclusive and explaining non-English vocabulary.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlbion-Andalus Books
    Release dateSep 8, 2015
    ISBN9781311477354
    The Bowl of Saqi: A Sufi Book of Days
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    Hazrat Inayat Khan

    HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN was born in India in 1882. A master of Indian classical music, he gave up a brilliant career as a musician to devote himself full-time to the spiritual path. In 1910, he was sent into the West by his spiritual teacher and began to teach Sufism in the United States, England, and throughout Europe. For a decade and a half he traveled tirelessly, giving lectures and guiding an ever-growing group of Western spiritual seekers. In 1926, he returned to India and died there the following year. Today, his universalist Sufi teachings continue to inspire countless people around the world and his spiritual heirs may be found in every corner of the planet.

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      The Bowl of Saqi - Hazrat Inayat Khan

      The Bowl of Saqi

      A Sufi Book of Days

      Second Gender Inclusive Edition

      Adapted into Modern English

      Hazrat

      Pir-o-Murshid

      Inayat Khan

      Edited and Annotated by

      Pir Netanel Miles-Yépez

      Published by Albion-Andalus Books at Smashwords

      Boulder, Colorado 2015

      "The old shall be renewed,

      and the new shall be made holy."

      Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kook

      2nd Edition Copyright © 2015 Netanel Miles-Yépez

      All rights reserved.

      This ebook may not be re-sold or given away. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, except for brief passages in connection with a critical review, without permission in writing from the publisher:

      Albion-Andalus, Inc.

      P. O. Box 19852

      Boulder, CO 80308

      www.albionandalus.com

      Cover design by Daryl McCool

      Design and layout by Albion-Andalus Books

      Rose-Heart and Wings illustration

      © 2008 Netanel Miles-Yépez

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      ISBN: 9781311477354

      Contents

      Editor’s Preface

      January

      February

      March

      April

      May

      June

      July

      August

      September

      October

      November

      December

      Endnotes

      Biography

      Editor’s Preface

      Despite the similarity of sound and contexts between the culturally separate homonyms saqi and saki, the title of this work is actually The Bowl of Saqi, and not A Bowl of Saki, as some have mistakenly read it. Nevertheless, it is an interesting coincidence that the Japanese word for rice-wine fits so neatly into this title, especially as the Persian word of similar pronunciation actually means ‘wine-bearer,’ or ‘one who pours the wine.’ In a Sufi context, the saqi is the murshid or spiritual guide who pours the wine of divine love from their own bowl into the bowl of the murid, the spiritual aspirant, leading to an intoxication with the Divine Beloved. But, on another level, the saqi is also the Spirit of Guidance itself, as the following poem from the personal notebooks of Hazrat Inayat Khan makes clear:

      Your light which rises in my heart,

      May in the hearts of my murids shine.

      The juice that intoxicated me so,

      O Saqi, give my murids that wine.

      Surround my murids with Your beauty,

      Create in them Your harmony divine,

      Give them sympathy for one another

      May they forget the world’s mine and thine. [1]

      Another meaning implicit in this title has more to do with a Sufi’s capacity to receive. A Sufi must always have an empty ‘bowl’ with which to receive divine love from the Beloved. Thus, we must continually go through a process of self-emptying (often referred to in

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