Category: Wisdom of Hazrat Inayat Khan

In this series of teachings, Hazrat Inayat Khan gives a very concise indication of the application of Sufism to all parts of life. The first post in the series is Continue Reading →

Relatively early in his work, Hazrat Inayat Khan gave a series of very clear and apparently simple lectures on some basic aspects of Sufism intended to help students from the Continue Reading →

The following reflection on the common conception of the unseen was made by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan as he began a talk on the ‘superhuman,’ an idea which was promulgated by Continue Reading →

As he concludes this series of teachings on the struggle of life, Hazrat Inayat Khan advises us that any fault we observe in others we must also have in ourselves, Continue Reading →

Hazrat Inayat Khan now explains that in everyone there is the false self and the real self, and he concludes this passage with a devastatingly clear portrait of the false Continue Reading →

Hazrat Inayat Khan now makes clear that both inner and outer struggle are unavoidable in life, and that the Sufi uses the benefit of the spiritual struggle to console and Continue Reading →

At the conclusion of the previous post in the series, Hazrat Inayat Khan said that there are three aspects to the struggle of life: struggle with oneself, struggle with others Continue Reading →

As Hazrat Inayat Khan continues his discourse on the struggle of life, he now draws inspiration from portions of the Sermon on the Mount. The first post in the series Continue Reading →

Hazrat Inayat Khan begins his teaching on the struggle of life by telling us that it is necessary to struggle, that we cannot reach perfection without it, and that we Continue Reading →

As Hazrat Inayat Khan concludes his teaching on this subject, he sums up the Sufi view of reincarnation, and shows how free will is in fact an expression of the Continue Reading →