Category: Glimpses

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 →

On April 9th 1919, the ‘Southern Daily Echo’ of Southampton published the following article, giving a glimpse of the sense of anticipation that filled a hall when Hazrat Inayat Khan Continue Reading →

The following observations, recounted for us by Kismet Stam, one of the Dutch mureeds and a secretary for Hazrat Inayat Khan, show some of the reactions of those who were Continue Reading →

The following short memory from Kismet Stam is probably of the time when Hazrat Inayat Khan was staying in Tilak Lodge, the bungalow near the Jumna River where he ultimately Continue Reading →

The following account, told by Kismet Stam, gives us a glimpse of the attitude that Hazrat Inayat Khan held toward the art of music. Murshid said, “Music in India is Continue Reading →

Near the end of 1926, Hazrat Inayat Khan was living in a bungalow called Tilak Lodge, not far from the banks of the Jumna River. Although the area has now Continue Reading →