Category: Wisdom of Hazrat Inayat Khan

The Sufi Manner of Sympathy* I would like to say something about the Sufi manner of sympathy: that it is the first and most essential thing for the Sufi to Continue Reading →

Q.: What is the greatest illness of this present time? A.: I think the greatest illness is the thought of self. The person who is concerned with his own self is Continue Reading →

I would like to speak on the subject of personal power. By personal power what do I mean: the power of thought, the power of will, and the same expressing Continue Reading →

Hazrat Inayat Khan answers a question in a collective class: Q.: I am disgusted with life, with my fellowmen, I always try to be friendly to all, but I receive Continue Reading →

Three questions about prayer, taken from a collective class with Hazrat Inayat Khan. Q.: I have been for some time a mureed, and think it all very beautiful, it gives Continue Reading →

Tact is a thread which connects Heaven and earth, making them one. Tact, therefore, is not learnt by worldly cleverness; earthly qualifications do not make a man really tactful. He Continue Reading →

Our happiness and unhappiness depends upon one thing in life, and that is how we look at life: if we appreciate and value all we have in life or whether Continue Reading →

The Sufi Order* Beloved ones of God, I wish to speak a few words this evening on the Sufi Order and its work in the world. In the first place, people Continue Reading →

I want to tell my mureeds something about the Sufi teaching. My mureeds must know that they are not obliged to subject themselves to all the work that is to Continue Reading →