Glimpses : Subuhan Azil
During the last Serai, in which the birthday of Hazrat Inayat Khan was celebrated, reference was made to the song or Invocation, called Subuhan Azil, with which Pir-o-Murshid at times Continue Reading →
Category: Glimpses
Glimpses : Young Inayat and the sweets
Once, when Inayat was still very young, it happened that his father brought him home some sweets, but finding the child asleep, put them aside till morning. During the night Continue Reading →
Glimpses : Remembering Begum Inayat
Ora Ray Baker, destined to be the support and soul-mate of Hazrat Inayat Khan, was born in Albuquerque on May 8th, 1888, and passed away in Paris on May 2nd, Continue Reading →
Glimpses : A visit from the police
The following event was recounted by Shaikh-ul-Mashaik Maheboob Khan, one of the brothers of Hazrat Inayat Khan. ‘Murshid,’ below, refers, of course, to Hazrat Inayat Khan. During the war of Continue Reading →
Glimpses : Easter in Suresnes in 1930
When Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan returned to India in 1926, and subsequently passed away there in early 1927, he left behind not only his wife and four children and his Continue Reading →
Glimpses : Known and unknown
The following is a recollection by an anonymous mureed of a story told by Sheikh-ul-Mashaik Maheboob Khan, the brother of Hazrat Inayat Khan who accompanied him to the West and Continue Reading →
Glimpses : Meetings of east and west
The following is taken from Pages in the Life of a Sufi, the memoir of the younger brother of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Musharaff Moulamia Khan. The family lived in Baroda, Continue Reading →
Glimpses : Dargah Retreat
This video was kindly provided by Irene Feuz, one of the participants in the recently concluded retreat at the Dargah of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Irene’s skills as a film-maker are Continue Reading →
Glimpses : Flowers at the Dargah
There is a tradition that there should be flowers and fruit in the vicinity of any dargah, or tomb, of a Sufi saint. In that connection, it is said that Continue Reading →
Glimpses : The Healer and the Cobra
Mureeds who knew him remember that Mohammed Ali Khan, the cousin-brother of Hazrat Inayat Khan, used to tell this story, which he himself witnessed, about a case of snakebite and Continue Reading →