Rather than trying to describe the contents of the book, I’d like to offer a brief introduction to the man himself and I hope, explain a little as to how come he was as he was. He had a difficult childhood. He had to move home, country, language many times. His parents split up when he was young. They did not always treat him kindly. He experienced racial abuse at school and on the streets. In his early teenage years, things got tough at home and he moved into a room at a large house called Fazal Manzil, in Suresnes, France. It had been the home of his grandfather, Hazrat Inayat Khan and the abode of various members of the wider Inayat Khan family. But there were also schisms and difficulties there. When he was 15 he met his first wife, Valia, and at 16 married her and they left France for America. Throughout his childhood he was aware of the importance of the Sufi Message of his grandfather. He was also aware of some of the infighting within the family and the spiritual organisation. It greatly saddened him. He had a mystical, poetic temperament himself – but also a temper. He wanted things to be different. In America Fazal and Valia set up home together. They both worked, he also took himself through college in order to complete his education and gain higher certification. He was successful in his work with computer technology, rising through into a managerial position. At home, two children were born in quick succession. Fazal and Valia also worked hard for the Sufi Movement, hosting and developing various sufi activities in their home on a regular basis; he corresponded regularly with his Murshid, Musharaff, expressing his love and commitment to the message of Inayat Khan. In 1967 Murshid Musharaff passed away, and in his will, named Fazal as his successor. Fazal had little warning of this, certainly not more than a year. He was 25 years old, with a wife and 2 small children; his career was beginning to blossom. But as always, the Sufi Movement came first for him. In 1968 the family moved to Europe, then to the UK. And so, his life changed not just its course, but its orbit. Murshid Fazal was young, intelligent, deeply spiritual and charismatic. He attracted many young people. He saw in them aspects of his own life, his childhood. He understood that like him, they had been wounded through family dynamics, and that this needed healing alongside (if not before) a deeper spiritual awakening. Some had had drug experiences, opening consciousness but were ungrounded. It didn’t work, didn’t have integrity for him, to simply reteach by rote mystical teachings of the past. He created businesses to help individual mureeds understand the value of work, of having purpose, of financial stability. He understood that the young needed to also develop deeper relationships, friendships, love, family. And most importantly, to live life and to accept changes and challenges with courage, sincerity, and integrity. At the same time, he himself developed his education further in psychology, in various forms of therapy and other experiential ways of releasing and nourishing potential. He was not financially supported by the Sufi Movement and so also needed to earn a living. He too worked in the Sufi businesses in the early days before his career as a psychotherapist. He knew his human being needed healing, no different from his mureeds. He and Valia had 2 more children before divorcing. He had other relationships, a second marriage, and 3 other children. The Sufi familial and organisational relationship difficulties remained, worsened, improved, worsened again until he allowed the Sufi Movement to continue on its historic spiritual track, he continued his offering as Pir through the creation of the Sufi Way. And until his last days, he offered lectures and writings, composed zikrs, held workshops, summer schools, Christmas gatherings, retreats and held one-to-one conversations, often walking up and down the hill outside Four Winds in Surrey. Murshid Fazal was not perfect nor did he seek to pretend that he was. But he did walk his teachings himself. He encouraged each of us individually to be awakened as to who we are, now, in this moment; to find our own sense of the Murshid within and then to be that self, in service to the One, and most importantly, to meet every moment, every circumstance, with love. I hope that explains Fazal a little. And of course, all of what I’ve said is just my interpretation, my prism. More than anything I hope it encourages you to read the book and to understand how he too was and is deeply loved.