Category: Wisdom of Hazrat Inayat Khan

This post continues the careful explanation by Hazrat Inayat Khan about the importance and meaning of initiation. The first instalment may be found here. Very often the word initiation is Continue Reading →

With this post we begin a series of talks by Hazrat Inayat Khan on initiation, a subject poorly understood in the West, and frequently subject to misinterpretation. It is worth Continue Reading →

This brief text reefers to the Universal Worship service established by Hazrat Inayat Khan in 1921 and now performed in many countries. The form of the service features a light Continue Reading →

The following lyric by Hazrat Inayat Khan was published in Songs of India, a collaboration with the Scottish poet and translator Jessie Duncan Westbrook (1873-1952). Westbrook made translations from Persian, Continue Reading →

With this post we conclude Hazrat Inayat Khan’s teaching about Divine Grace. In Part I he makes a distinction between law and love, and notes that while many people claim Continue Reading →

There is a saying, that the one who troubles much about the cause is far removed from the cause. Many wonder, ‘If I am happy in life, what is the Continue Reading →

The following text by Hazrat Inayat Khan was evidently given either before or during a Universal Worship service. Religion has its place in the world, whatever be the condition. From the Continue Reading →

This post concludes the text begun here. There are different human beings in different stages of evolution and it is natural that every human being imagines God according to his Continue Reading →

God and the God-ideal may be explained as the sun and the light. And as there come times when the sun becomes covered by clouds, so there come times when Continue Reading →

Mohammed is the one among the prophets, the account of whose life is to be found in history. Born of the family of  Ishmael*, Mohammed had in him the prophetic heritage, Continue Reading →