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Letters from a Sufi
70 Letters on Love, Suffering, Letting Go, and the Art of LivingBy Dr. Sam Irani
Length2h 17m
About this audiobook
Some nights, you need someone to tell you that you are not too much.
Letters from a Sufi is a collection of seventy short, tender letters on love, loss, loneliness, envy, exhaustion, and the plain difficulty of being a person. Drawing on the stories and poems of the great Sufi storytellers, each letter speaks to you the way a wise and loving friend would, gently and without judgment.
Inside, you will find letters for heartbreak and rejection, comfort for loneliness, words for sleepless nights, permission to say no and to rest, courage for starting over, and old stories retold with warmth about what really matters.
There is no need to read in order. Each letter stands on its own, like a lamp in a long hallway. Keep it by your bed or in your bag, and open it whenever you need company. There are no rules, exercises, or steps to follow. Only a loving voice.
For readers of Rumi, Hafiz, and gentle books on healing, self-compassion, and living with an open heart.
Audiobook details
GenreSpirituality and Religion, Self-Help
Length2 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 18, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction 5
2Letter One: Say It Badly 6
3Letter Two: The Loneliness You Cannot Explain 8
4Letter Three: Before You Had a Name 10
5Letter Four: You Have Done Enough for Today 12
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6Letter Five: When Someone Does Not Choose You 14
7Letter Six: The Chickpea Jumps Out of the Pot 16
8Letter Seven: You Cannot Hold the Future Still 18
9Letter Eight: The Dog on Layla’s Street 20
10Letter Nine: Look at Your Feet 22
11Letter Ten: Stop Comparing Your Life to Theirs 24
12Letter Eleven: The Key Under the Streetlight 26
13Letter Twelve: Let Yourself Feel the Loss 28
14Letter Thirteen: The Raindrop Who Felt Small 30
15Letter Fourteen: Who Is Knocking? 32
16Letter Fifteen: When You Have Everything and Still Feel Empty 34
17Letter Sixteen: The Flower Hurts More Than the Stones 36
18Letter Seventeen: The Lost Joseph Will Return 38
19Letter Eighteen: You Are Allowed to Say No 40
20Letter Nineteen: The Voice That Blames 42
21Letter Twenty: When You Slip 44
22Letter Twenty-one: Solitude in the Crowd 46
23Letter Twenty-two: A Boat With a Hole in It 48
24Letter Twenty-three: The Person You Keep Trying to Defeat 50
25Letter Twenty-four: Bury It in the Soil 52
26Letter Twenty-five: The Clay That Smelled of Roses 54
27Letter Twenty-six: Closer Than Your Own Vein 56
28Letter Twenty-seven: When Your Mind Refuses to Rest 58
29Letter Twenty-eight: Ali Puts Down His Sword 60
30Letter Twenty-nine: The Friend Who Wakes You 62
31Letter Thirty: A Heart That Can Hold Every Form 64
32Letter Thirty-one: Come Back, Even Now 66
33Letter Thirty-two: You Do Not Have to Become Someone Else 68
34Letter Thirty-three: What the Grammarian Forgot 70
35Letter Thirty-four: The Excuses of the Birds 72
36Letter Thirty-five: Waiting for News 74
37Letter Thirty-six: Keep Your Old Coat 76
38Letter Thirty-seven: Both Faces of Love 78
39Letter Thirty-eight: I Was a Hidden Treasure 80
40Letter Thirty-nine: The Parrot Who Played Dead 82
41Letter Forty: The Valley of Bewilderment 84
42Letter Forty-one: Members of One Body 86
43Letter Forty-two: A Prince Walks Away From His Throne 88
44Letter Forty-three: The Elephant in the Dark House 90
45Letter Forty-four: The Child of the Moment 92
46Letter Forty-five: Nothing Owns You 94
47Letter Forty-six: The Turk of Shiraz 96
48Letter Forty-seven: When the Mood Passes 98
49Letter Forty-eight: Hands at Work, Heart with the Friend 100
50Letter Forty-nine: When They Speak Badly of You 102
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