Category: Wisdom of Hazrat Inayat Khan

This post concluded the text by Hazrat Inayat Khan on ‘the mystic.’ The first portion may be found here, and the second instalment is here. Now, let us come to Continue Reading →

We continue with Hazrat Inayat Khan’s text on ‘The Mystic.’ It is worth remembering that, as Hazrat Inayat himself observes, ‘mysticism’ was then sometimes used in popular speech for a Continue Reading →

Mysticism is neither a faith, nor a belief. Neither is it a principle or a dogma. A mystic is born. Being a mystic means having a certain temperament, a certain Continue Reading →

In order to progress in the spiritual path in everyday life, in the first place one must keep one’s heart tuned. Intuition becomes closed when the heart is out of Continue Reading →

When Hazrat Inayat Khan came to the west, the people to whom he gave the Sufi Message were deeply affected by war: the tensions preceding World War One, the enormous Continue Reading →

There are two things which cause a person to praise another, and there are two things which make one find fault with another. An idealising tendency and goodwill causes one Continue Reading →

Hazrat Inayat Khan took these questions during a class for mureeds. The ‘wishes’ he mentions in the concluding paragraph may seem difficult to memorise, but they could be written out Continue Reading →

Although Hazrat Inayat Khan says that there is no act which can be labelled purely good or purely bad, nevertheless, as we see in this short passage, the Sufi has Continue Reading →

Among the many challenges Hazrat Inayat Khan faced in his work to deliver the Message was the reaction of his own mureeds, as can be seen from the following talk. Continue Reading →

The spirit of feeling is lost when a sentiment is expressed in words. If words did not exist, the power of man’s feelings would be a thousand times greater. The Continue Reading →