Category: Wisdom of Hazrat Inayat Khan

Here is a jewel of wisdom from Hazrat Inayat Khan, describing the inherent unity of the Divine and music. Music, the word that we use in our language, is nothing Continue Reading →

Concluding his lecture about guidance, begun here, Hazrat Inayat Khan moves from the theme of the spiritual government of the world to a subtle but very helpful explanation of the Continue Reading →

With this post we begin a subtle and challenging topic on the work of guidance in the world, and the easily misconstrued idea of spiritual government. These teachings could be Continue Reading →

In the previous post of this series, Hazrat Inayat Khan began to take questions, and here he concludes the session, giving his listeners the challenging advice to learn to see Continue Reading →

As he continues his theme, begun here, Hazrat Inayat Khan takes us into subtle, seemingly paradoxical realms, where ‘God is in the ideal of God.’ In this portion he concludes Continue Reading →

Hazrat Inayat Khan laid great emphasis on the God ideal, not only because it is central to the Sufi path, but also because he saw that the lack of the Continue Reading →

With this post Hazrat Inayat Khan concludes his lecture on the purity of life. The previous post in the series may be found here. External purity or cleanliness does not Continue Reading →

Continuing his lecture, Hazrat Inayat Khan speaks of physical purity, purity of conduct, and the perils that we face if we do not learn purity of the heart. The first Continue Reading →

With this instalment, Hazrat Inayat Khan begins a discourse on an essential theme for the spiritual seeker, telling us that the attainment of purity is none other than the fundamental Continue Reading →

Hazrat Inayat Khan here gives brief and subtle answers to some questions from his mureeds. The second question refers to a ‘Wali,’ which is one of the degrees of spiritual Continue Reading →