Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat KhanText Box: Dervish Healing Order Murshid Samuel L. Lewis Photo by Saul Barodofsky

Samuel L. Lewis at age 31 (1927)

1967, weeding the garden in Bolinas, California

Murshid Samuel Lewis & Moineddin Jablonskui

Unless otherwise noted, photos are from:

Sufi Vision & Initiation, Meetings with Remarkable Beings,

Samuel L. Lewis, Edited by Neil Douglas-Klotz

Sufi Ruhaniat International/Prophecy Publications,

San Francisco & Novato
Text Box: Murshid Sam once remarked that he grew his long hair and beard at the insistence of his senior female mureeds. — Hakim Saul

Hazrat Murshid Sufi Ahmed Murad Chishti

(Samuel L. Lewis)

1896—1971

Above:  Samuel Lewis, wearing robe of investiture

as a Sufi Murshid given by Pir Barket Ali of Pakistan in 1962.

In the photo Murshid exhibits the Sufi practice of tawajjeh,

or sharing magnetism through the glance.

At Lama Foundation, 1970 (photo: Saul)

Samuel Leonard Lewis was born October 18, 1896 at 2:20 a.m. in San Francisco. His father Jacob was a Vice President of the Levi Strauss Company. His mother was Harriett Rosenthal, the daughter of Lenore Rothschild of the international banking family.

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