Category: Glimpses

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 →

During his last months in India, (ninety years ago in 1926) Hazrat Inayat Khan lived in Delhi in a bungalow called Tilak Lodge, near the west bank of the  Jumna River Continue Reading →

Murshid sometimes had the greatest fun about people’s attitude. In San Francisco there was a waiter who aways became very confused while serving Murshid, very hurried and red and shaken. Continue Reading →

This anecdote was recounted by Kismet Stam, one of the secretaries of Hazrat Inayat Khan (and who traveled with him to India and was present at his passing), and appears Continue Reading →

Hazrat Inayat Khan recounted these memories about his Murshid, Hazrat Abu Hashim Madani. One day, six months after I had been received by my murshid as his pupil, he began Continue Reading →

Hazrat Inayat Khan told this story about meeting a ‘philosopher’ in the city of Hyderabad, in India. Once I met a learned man, a doctor of philosophy with a great many Continue Reading →

Hazrat Inayat Khan told the following anecdote from his days in India. While walking in a district where dervishes lived in solitude, I found ten or twelve dervishes together sitting Continue Reading →

Hazrat Inayat Khan gave the following account regarding the ‘common’ way of seeing things. One day I was introduced to a very well-known poet by a friend immediately after I Continue Reading →

Hazrat Inayat Khan recounted the following anecdotes: Once in India I was staying near a Hindu temple, and there were two porters who took care of that temple.  They were Continue Reading →

Extracted from ‘Memories of a Sufi Sage’* In the autumn of 1924, after the Summer School, I had accompanied Murshid to Rome where, one morning during our stay, we heard Continue Reading →