The dervish communicates in the silence of the Essence, the only goal of all humanity’s religions. When the dervish demands her/his own pristine reality, Allah the Most Near simply says to the soul, “Always pray.” And all living beings reply with burning intensity: “Oh Most Holy Virgin, oh Wisdom, pray for us, oh divine shepherdess, oh sweet refuge.” – Shaykh Nur al Jerrahi (excerpted from Epistle of Love – letter to the dervish community in Mexico City, 1987)