Category: Glimpses

In 1910, Inayat Khan sailed to New York with his brother Maheboob and his cousin-brother Mohammed Ali Khan, but his youngest brother, Musharaff was left behind. Although the first months in the Continue Reading →

The following is taken from “Pages in the Life of a Sufi” by Musharaff Moulamia Khan, youngest brother of Hazrat Inayat Khan, and gives some of his memories of a Continue Reading →

The life of Hazrat Inayat Khan underwent remarkable transformations in the princely state of Hyderabad, principally because of two men whom he met there.  One, of course, was the great and saintly Continue Reading →

This is an excerpt from the Journal of Hazrat Inayat Khan, which begins with a review of religions and religious movements as he encountered them in the west. One group with which Continue Reading →

Musharaff Khan, the youngest brother of Hazrat Inayat Khan and later Pir-o-Murshid of the Sufi Movement, returned to India on a pilgrimage in the 1930’s.  In the following passage, he Continue Reading →

By the mid-1920’s, Hazrat Inayat Khan was traveling almost continuously for the sake of the Message.  The following brief excerpt from his Journal gives a taste of the challenges he Continue Reading →

The following is taken from the memoir, Pages in the Life of a Sufi by Musharaff Moulamia Khan, the youngest brother of Hazrat Inayat. When Inayat Khan met his Murshid, Continue Reading →

Many strangers always addressed Murshid wherever he went.  And the direction of their admiration in life moulded the shape of their questions. Some simply asked, “Who are you?” or “From Continue Reading →

Although Hazrat Inayat Khan devoted his life to helping people onward on the inner path, he also made it clear that very little can be said about one’s spiritual experience; Continue Reading →

Hazrat Inayat Khan here gives an account of something that happened while he was living and working in London.  This was during the First World War, and it was a Continue Reading →