Category: Glimpses

The following anecdote from the life of Hazrat Inayat Khan, when he was traveling somewhere in England during the First World War, gives an interesting illustration of the theme of Continue Reading →

Once [said Hazrat Inayat Khan] I put to music a verse of an inspired poet of Persia, and I sang it with great joy, for the words had a beautiful Continue Reading →

I knew a person [said Hazrat Inayat Khan] whom a physician had examined, and had told that he would die in three months. No doubt if that person had been Continue Reading →

Hazrat Inayat Khan tells the following anecdote, and some readers may find his comment surprising or even challenging. Once I visited a school of thought culture They had made a Continue Reading →

We have recently posted several lectures by Hazrat Inayat Khan about music, here and here, and below is a short memory written by his younger son, Murshid Hidayat Inayat-Khan, about Continue Reading →

Before he journeyed to the west and began to teach the Message of Unity, Hazrat Inayat Khan wondered if it should be his life’s work to restore the true virtue Continue Reading →

By his own account Hazrat Inayat Khan slept little in his later years, and often slept on the floor, but when he was young, he found it hard to resist Continue Reading →

In the following anecdote told by Hazrat Inayat Khan, which turns around the incessant, all-enveloping noise of a ship’s engines when it is underway, he speaks of an adept, meaning Continue Reading →

During a visit to Italy, Hazrat Inayat Khan met with the Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori, and from this anecdote, it seems he also visited one of her schools. Continue Reading →

I once saw in India [said Hazrat Inayat Khan] a sage whom I knew to be very deep, a man of high attainment, and he was laughing at nothing. I Continue Reading →