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A note about gender-inclusive language: Although the language in the most frequently recited prayers has been revised in consideration of present-day awareness, much of the language in Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan's published works reflects a grammar in which possessive and collective pronouns always took the masculine form. In most cases, we have left the language in its original form. It should be remembered that Pir-o-Murshid, both in word and deed, always taught that the role of women was never to be considered as secondary, or subordinate to the role of men in any way. Though God is often referred to by convention as He, the wisdom of unity denies this kind of basic duality. God is all and therefore cannot be either exclusively male or female. “Mother's arms receive me when I come to the earth; Father's arms lift me up at the moment when I depart hence.” “Love is the divine Mother's arms; when those arms are spread, every soul falls into them.” Meditation Theme for Each Day (PDF)
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