Hazrat Inayat Khan composed four sets of rules to cultivate a morally attuned culture and instill awareness in our inter-relationship with all beings. These belong to the tradition of spiritual chivalry (futuwwa), an essential part of the Sufi path.
General Instructions: At first, the rules may seem self-evident and obvious, but if you work diligently with them, you will find that each rule opens up onto a vast field of inquiry and awareness. For this reason, some take on the rules as a disciplined practice. Starting with the first one, you say a rule out loud every day for forty days and seek to apply it in your life. Then you do the same for the next rule, until all are finished.*
The rules come in four sets of ten rules, forty in all, called the Iron Rules, the Copper Rules, the Silver Rules, and the Golden Rules.
* If you would like to undertake this practice and receive a certification of completion when you are done, please visit the Knighthood of Purity.
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The Chivalric Futuwwa Rules
Golden Rule 1: My conscientious self, keep to your principles in prosperity as well as in adversity. How easy it is to be kind and just and friendly when …
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Golden Rule 2: My conscientious self, be firm in faith through life’s tests and trials. The first rule concerns being consistent in our principles amidst tests and trials, and …
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Golden Rule 3: My conscientious self, guard the secrets of friends as your most sacred trust. Murshid often links these two words: secret and sacred. When one undertakes initiation …
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Golden Rule 4: My conscientious self, observe constancy in love. May this rule remind us to be true to love and not to succumb to distraction and apathy, but …
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Golden Rule 5: My conscientious self, break not your word of honor whatever may befall. These words concern our honor, our conscious commitment to our ideal. We are reminded …
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Golden Rule 6: My conscientious self, meet the world with smiles in all conditions of life. It is ordinary to smile when circumstances are favorable. The challenge of this …
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Golden Rule 7: My conscientious self, when you possess something, think of the one who does not possess it.If we could take a moment to be aware of the …
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Golden Rule 8: My conscientious self, uphold your honor at any cost. Can you sense within, beyond concepts, the subtle substance of honor? Just think how tragic it is …
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Golden Rule 9: My conscientious self, hold your ideal high in all circumstances. This rule calls upon us to hold our ideal high. If one reflects on it, one …
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Golden Rule 10: My conscientious self, do not neglect those who depend upon you. (Commentary by Taj Inayat) Upon entering this world as helpless infants, we were the very …