Category: Wisdom of Hazrat Inayat Khan

Other recent posts of the words of Hazrat Inayat Khan on music may be found here, here, here and here. Why is music called the divine art and all other Continue Reading →

Although he begins by speaking of the effects of music on animals, including his own experiments of playing music to cows and peacocks, Hazrat Inayat Khan quickly moves on to Continue Reading →

The following short talk was given by Hazrat Inayat Khan in response to a request from his students to say something about the vina, his chosen instrument. Near the conclusion, Continue Reading →

Hazrat Inayat Khan dictated the following short passage, which explains something which many find incomprehensible, that a musician of such high attainment, who today might be called a ‘world-class’ musician, Continue Reading →

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 →