Category: Glimpses

Hazrat Inayat Khan sometimes told this story, and mureeds also recall Pir-o-Murshid Ali Khan performing it in a most humorous manner. If the Sufi Message is intended to unite ‘East’ Continue Reading →

In the following brief anecdote, Pir-o-Murshid Musharaff Khan tells about Hasan al Basri (642-728 CE), whose mother Khayra was a maidservant to one of the Prophet Muhammed’s most influential wives, Continue Reading →

As the ‘Day of the Mother’ was recently celebrated in some parts of the world, the following post seems timely. It is a very personal, anonymous account told by a Continue Reading →

The following brief anecdotes of Hazrat Inayat Khan visiting New York communicate something of his subtle atmosphere and interactions in daily life; they come to us from Kismet Stam, one Continue Reading →

In his book Memories of a Sufi Sage, the Dutch mureed Sirkar van Stolk (1894-1963) provides very interesting accounts of his experiences with Hazrat Inayat Khan, and also gives some Continue Reading →

We recently posted a short audio recording made by Hazrat Inayat Khan in 1926. For many it is very inspiring to hear his voice, but because of the quality of Continue Reading →

Readers who watch the skies may be interested in the following account by Sirkar van Stolk of the reaction of Hazrat Inayat Khan during a lunar eclipse nearly a hundred Continue Reading →

This time, our ‘glimpse’ into the life and times of Hazrat Inayat Khan comes as a brief audio-recording of the Master’s voice. During his visit to New York in early Continue Reading →

Here is an anecdote told by Hazrat Inayat Khan of a brief exchange he once had with someone.  He frequently used the metaphor of digging in the earth in search Continue Reading →

During the lifetime of Hazrat Inayat Khan, long journeys, such as he took from India to America, back and forth across the Atlantic  a number of times, and his final Continue Reading →