Category: Glimpses

Salima van Braam was a mureed of Hazrat Inayat Khan, meeting him in 1922 in Arnhem, which was one of the first centers of Sufism in The Netherlands. After his Continue Reading →

Here is another memoir of Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan from the collection “Once Upon a Time” by Murshid Hidayat Inayat Khan. Murshid was like a Father to some of his Continue Reading →

The following memoir is taken from “Once Upon a Time…” by Murshid Hidayat Inayat Khan. Later, in 1925, Murshid went to Paris alone, several times, without telling us children where Continue Reading →

During the Summer School of 1926, in the course of a lecture about mysticism, Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan spoke about people seeking answers to their questions, and illustrated his thought with Continue Reading →

On the 10th of September, 1926, Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan met with a small group of chosen students in what he called a ‘Collective Interview.’ It was the last such meeting Continue Reading →

Through social media we are familiar with the ‘like’ button as a way of expressing support for the issue or content displayed, but it is only a digital recreation of Continue Reading →

During the Summer School of 1926, in the course of a conversation with some mureeds about practices and esoteric subjects, the question was raised about some people apparently hearing the Continue Reading →

In July of 1926 Hazrat Inayat Khan spoke to a small group of students about the way in which a Murshid works with mureeds, and he made it clear that Continue Reading →

When, during our travels, [wrote Sirdar van Stolk, one of Hazrat Inayat Khan’s secretaries, in “Memories of a Sufi Sage”] Murshid returned to his hotel after the day’s lectures, he Continue Reading →

This memory, concerned with the weighing of personal comfort against sacrifice, was recounted by the mureed Kismet Stam, one of Hazrat Inayat Khan’s secretaries. Murshid one day had to choose Continue Reading →