Category: Wisdom of Hazrat Inayat Khan

If anybody asks you: “What is Sufism? What religion is it?” you may answer, “Sufism is the religion of the heart, the religion in which one thing is most important, Continue Reading →

The service of the Universal Worship offers sincere respect to various world religions, and obviously our reverence will have more meaning if we have some insight into the teaching of each belief.  Here, Continue Reading →

There are three kinds among those who are in the habit of offering prayer. There is one who by praying fulfils a certain duty which he considers as one among Continue Reading →

Sometimes the question is asked: “How can we make God intelligible?” You can make a chair intelligible by touching, by looking at it and seeing how it is made. You Continue Reading →

Some thoughts recently posted about the horizontal and the vertical stimulated an interesting comment (following the Spanish version of the post) pointing to a connection with the practice of the external zikar, Continue Reading →

In the prayer of the Christian Church there is a sentence: ‘Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.’ This gives a great key to metaphysics. It Continue Reading →

The following text by Hazrat Inayat Khan was given as a ‘Gatheka’ (the word means the singing of a sacred song) to offer inquirers some basic orientation as to what Sufism Continue Reading →

The following was spoken by Hazrat Inayat Khan to a small group of mureeds in 1926, shortly before the end of the Summer School in Sureness, France.  The mureeds, of course, Continue Reading →

While meeting with a small group of students, Hazrat Inayat Khan was asked if it was advisable for a mureed to study  and to read books. I would say that Continue Reading →

In a recent post, Hazrat Inayat Khan spoke about not troubling oneself over the faults of others.  Just as it is today, mureeds of the time asked questions, trying to Continue Reading →