Category: Glimpses

For the next two years [Sept. 1924–Sept. 1926] I went everywhere with Murshid on his extensive travels though Europe and America. I had to prepare his lecture tours many months Continue Reading →

Hazrat Inayat Khan tells this story: I came to Hyderabad, a young musician without any letter of recommendation, without any help to go to the Nizam [the ruler or king] Continue Reading →

For his parents, Inayat was the greatest problem. Inayat wakened to sympathy, ready to be friends with anybody, willing to take interest in everything that attracted his curiosity, emotional, besides Continue Reading →

Frequently Inayat would play at circus. Assembling as many children as he could, he made each represent some animal, which was to jump high or low, walk, trot, run or Continue Reading →

Sufism & Zen Nyogen Senzaki* When Inayat Khan, the Sufi teacher, came to America some ten years ago, I met him in San Francisco and wrote an account of our Continue Reading →

In all stages of his evolution, progress and work, one thing never left Inayat Khan through all joys and sorrows and it was a sense of mirth, and he mostly Continue Reading →

Someone said to Murshid, seeing him to be a religious man from the East, that it is Christianity which is the cause of all the progress that the Western world Continue Reading →

Anecdotes told by Kismet Stam, who served as a secretary to Hazrat Inayat Khan.  Kismet accompanied her Murshid to India in 1926 and was with him in Tilak Lodge in Continue Reading →