Category: Wisdom of Hazrat Inayat Khan

This article was printed in the ‘Sufi’ magazine in May 1917 – a hundred years ago!  It was presented as ‘Words of Pir-o-Murshid by Mary Williams,’  which probably means that Continue Reading →

The path of attainment can be likened to a narrow and steep path that one finds on the mountain and that leads to the top. Therefore the path of attainment Continue Reading →

The Ideal is something we are missing to-day.  The whole working of humanity to-day shows that the ideal is entirely missing, when you look at it in education, in business, in Continue Reading →

The following text was published in the ‘Sufi’ magazine in April, 1918. It was then about eight years since Hazrat Inayat Khan had sailed from the East; he was the father Continue Reading →

Heaven can be defined in three ways. One way is the conception of creeds, as for example in Arabia, when the Bedouin people came to the Prophet and asked him Continue Reading →

The God-Ideal is meant to waken in the soul God, that He may realise His Kingship. It is this which is suggested in the prayer of Christ, where it is Continue Reading →

The Western man in the spiritual path wishes to know first, “What will it lead to? Where will be the resting place? And what will be the destination? What profit Continue Reading →

The reason why the soul seeks for the God-Ideal is that it is dissatisfied with all that momentarily satisfies it. Man attributes to God all the beauty and goodness and Continue Reading →

God is called ‘King of Heaven and of the earth, and of the seen and unseen beings’ only because we have no better words than those we use for all the Continue Reading →

O Thou, the perfection of love, harmony and beauty, All-powerful Creator, Sustainer, Judge and Forgiver of our shortcomings… —Saum— Why is God called the Creator? Because the creation itself is Continue Reading →