Category: Wisdom of Hazrat Inayat Khan

There are many different paths: the intellectual path, by which one studies and attains to spiritual perfection; the meditative path, in which one develops spirituality; the path of good action, Continue Reading →

What I have found in my study and experience of the mentality of mureeds is that with one mureed it is most easy to go on further and with another Continue Reading →

As an individual outwardly passes through five different stages of life, so inwardly a soul passes through five different stages of life. As there is infancy, childhood, youth, middle age, Continue Reading →

What offering does the Sufi Message bring to the modern world? It brings intuition to the world of science, harmony to the world of art, unity to the social world, Continue Reading →

Man seems to have lost at this time a communication with himself by the tremendous responsibilities of everyday life. The Sufi Order by its initiation helps one to come in communication with Continue Reading →

There are certain considerations necessary while treading the path of initiation. It is a process of melting. A personality is first put to melt by the initiator, and it is Continue Reading →

September 13th is Hejirat Day, the anniversary of the day on which Inayat and his brothers set sail from Bombay for the West, a date that symbolises the beginning of his Continue Reading →

The exercises which a mureed practices must be considered as a winding, the winding which keeps the mechanism of the clock going. And when one cannot continue the practices at Continue Reading →

One often notices a tendency in the traveler on the spiritual path, who considers the change of spiritual practices as a sign of progress, but this is an error. And Continue Reading →

A talk given to a group of mureeds in June, 1924: What do I expect from my mureeds? I expect a right attitude towards that motive for which they have Continue Reading →