This issue explores the integration of inner refinement and outward conduct as essential dimensions of the Sufi path. In his discourse, Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh distinguishes sayr (traveling) and sulūk (social conduct) as twin aspects of spiritual growth, illustrating that one cannot advance toward God without embodying ethical grace in community. Essays range from Carl W. Ernst’s study of classical Sufi traditions in India to reflections on hidden masters, Akbar’s cosmopolitan order, and the life of ‘Aziz Nasafi, while poetry and stories reveal devotion, humility, and transformation through love. In the Old Wine in New Bottles piece, adapted from Rumi’s Mathnawi, Solomon’s cook flees in terror from the angel of death only to fulfill the very destiny he seeks to escape, revealing that human effort cannot evade the divine decree.