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Mit sonnigen Grüßen aus dem Sekretariat Latifa

Inayatiyya Deutschland e.V.

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Please pass on to all murids in your countries and through the activities.

Dear friends,

March 8th is the Urs of Murshida Sharifa Goodenough.

Lucy Goodenough was born in London August 5th, 1876 and died in Suresnes March 8th, 1937.

She was the second daughter of Colonel W. H. Goodenough (later Lt. General Sir William Goodenough K.C.B.) and of Mrs. (later Lady) Goodenough, born Countess Kinsky.

She met Hazrat Inayat Khan in London in 1916 and became a mureed quite quickly. She became one of the first four Murshida’s of the Sufi Movement and for many years provided the composition and distribution of the papers for the various centers in the world. In the 1930s she was the national representative of France as successor of Baronesse d’Eichthal. During this time she gave a lot of lectures on Sufism in France and Austria. Besides English she mastered French, German and Italian. It is said that she even knew Dante’s Divina Comedia by heart.

You can read articles written by her in Sufism (please see content list to find one), the quarterly Magazine that was published during Murshid’s time, which has been made available by the Nekbakht Foundation.

Please take a moment to celebrate her life and service to the Message on the day of her Urs. She was one of the central leaders in ensuring that the Message was available to the world so it is fitting to be celebrating her on International Women’s Day!

In friendship,
Gulrukh

P.S. If you have the chance to be in Suresnes at some point, you can visit her grave.