Category: Wisdom of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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 →

While he was growing up in India, Hazrat Inayat Khan took great interest in the New Testament, and when he came to the West his study allowed him to give Continue Reading →

In this conclusion of the session of questions and answers with Hazrat Inayat Khan, the themes are wide ranging, and each response gives us much to ponder. The first part Continue Reading →

In addition to giving lectures on various themes, Hazrat Inayat Khan also took questions from his students, and readers may find the following handful of exchanges very stimulating. The question Continue Reading →

When he concluded his lecture on harmony, posted here and here, Hazrat Inayat Khan took the following questions from his listeners. His answers are more informal and conversational than the Continue Reading →

In the first part of his short lecture, Hazrat Inayat Khan makes clear the need for harmony, and here he considers the results of disharmony, particularly in the mind, which Continue Reading →

All respond to love and to beauty, but as Hazrat Inayat makes clear in the first instalment of this series, it is the perfection of harmony that leads to the Continue Reading →