Universal Sufi Prayers are also known as the Confraternity Prayers.

The three prayers read daily by Universal Sufis

Universal Sufism

Universal Sufism is a universalist spiritual movement founded by Hazrat Inayat Khan while traveling throughout the West between 1910 and 1926, based on unity of all people and religions and the presence of spiritual guidance in all people, places and things. It is to some extent influenced by the ...

. They are not obligatory. but recommended by their author Hazrat Inayat Khan.

Sunrise or waking prayer

Includes:

• Invocation
• Saum
• Dhikr
  Dhikr
  Dhikr , plural ; ), is an Islamic devotional act, typically involving the repetition of the Names of God, supplications or formulas taken from hadith texts and verses of the Qur'an. Dhikr is usually done individually, but in some Sufi orders it is instituted as a ceremonial activity...
  
   of "May the Message of God reach far and wide". Recited eleven times.
• Pir
• Prayer for the Universel

The prayer is written by Hazrat Inayat Khan and read by Universal Sufis as a prayer for the building of a universal centre of worship - the "Universel," which would have a function similar to the Bahá'í House of Worship

Bahá'í House of Worship

A Bahá'í House of Worship, sometimes referred to by its Arabic name of Mashriqu'l-Adhkár ,is the designation of a place of worship, or temple, of the Bahá'í Faith...

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• Prayer for Peace
  Prayer for Peace
  Prayer for Peace may represent:* A prayer for peace* "A Prayer for Peace", a Sufi prayer developed by Hazrat Inayat Khan, see Prayer for Peace * Prayer for Peace in the World, a Sufi prayer developed by Hazrat Inayat Khan...
  
  

Midday prayers

• Invocation
  • Written by Hazrat Inayat Khan and read at the beginning of every Universal Sufi gathering, prayer or event. It is read as an orientation prayer and is thought of as the inner meaning of the qibla in Islamic thought.
• Salat
• "Pour upon us Thy Love and Thy Light". Recited eleven times.
• Nabi
• Prayer for the Universel
• Prayer for Peace
  Prayer for Peace
  Prayer for Peace may represent:* A prayer for peace* "A Prayer for Peace", a Sufi prayer developed by Hazrat Inayat Khan, see Prayer for Peace * Prayer for Peace in the World, a Sufi prayer developed by Hazrat Inayat Khan...
  
  

Evening prayers

• Invocation
• Khatum
• "Disclose to us Thy Divine Light". Recited eleven times.
• Rasul
• Prayer for the Universel
• Prayer for Peace
  Prayer for Peace
  Prayer for Peace may represent:* A prayer for peace* "A Prayer for Peace", a Sufi prayer developed by Hazrat Inayat Khan, see Prayer for Peace * Prayer for Peace in the World, a Sufi prayer developed by Hazrat Inayat Khan...
  
  

Additional prayers

Read on certain occasions or before certain activities, including:

• Prayer for Peace
• Nayaz
• Nazar
• Dowa
• The Healing Prayer
• Prayer for the Dead
  Prayer for the dead
  Wherever there is a belief in the continued existence of man's personality through and after death, religion naturally concerns itself with the relations between the living and the dead...
  
  
• Blessing
• Prayer for the New Year
• Prayer for Peace in the World
• Prayer of Invocation

External links

• Cherag Library
• Sufi Live