I.
There is One God,
The Only Being;
Nothing else exists.

II.
There is one Master,
The Spirit of Guidance,
Constantly leading
Its followers
Toward the Light.

III.
There is one
Holy Writing,
The Sacred
Book of Nature,
The only scripture
That truly enlightens
Its reader.

IV.
There is one Religion,
Unswerving progress
On the true course
Toward the Ideal,
Fulfilling the
Life-purpose
Of every
Soul.

V.
There is one Law,
The Law of Reciprocity,
Observed by a
Selfless conscience
Wedded to a sense of
Awakened justice.

VI.
There is one Family,
The human family,
Uniting the children
Of the Earth,
Indiscriminately
In the Parenthood
Of God.

VII.
There is one Moral,
Love springing from
The transparency
Of the self,
And blooming
In deeds of
Loving-kindness.

VIII.
There is one
Object of Praise,
Beauty that lifts
The heart
Of its worshipper
Through all of its aspects,
Seen and unseen.

IX.
There is one Truth,
The true knowledge
Of our Being,
Within and without;
The essence of all
Wisdom.

X.
There is one Path,
The path of
Making the self
Transparent to the Real,
Raising the limited
Beyond limitation,
The dwelling-place
Of all Perfection.

* These are updated gender-inclusive versions of Inayati Sufism’s ‘Ten Remembrances’ (sometimes called the ‘Ten Sufi Thoughts’) created for murids of the Inayati-Maimuni Order, and for the personal use of Inayati Sufis of other orders. * These and other prayers and remembrances are found in Gayatri (2024), our universalist Sufi prayerbook.