Category: Wisdom of Hazrat Inayat Khan

When we speak about men we all understand this to mean individuals, but about God everyone has his own meaning. To the one God means the abstract, to the other Continue Reading →

Apart from the school of the inner cult, there is another aspect of the work of the Movement, about which little can be said in words. But as the souls Continue Reading →

Man’s purpose is like the horizon. As the horizon appears before the eyes so the purpose appears before the mind, and as the horizon is in fact non-existent so the Continue Reading →

Sensitiveness is the sign of a living heart. It is sensitiveness which makes the heart a mirror. Sorrow makes the heart sensitive, but it can also make it sore, and Continue Reading →

The soul and what is around it live on each other. It is the attention of the soul which feeds the mind and body, and it is the contact of Continue Reading →

What attitude must a mureed take towards his fellow mureed, if he does not seem to get on with him, if he thinks that there is something lacking in him? Instead of Continue Reading →

Many holy scriptures give evidence of the power of the word; but where has the knowledge of that science gone, so well know to the prophets of all times. The Continue Reading →

Thought has a voice which the mind can hear, and the voice of the heart is audible to the heart; there is also a voice of the soul, which reaches Continue Reading →

There are no principles that the Sufi is obliged to follow, but there are certain characteristics that are favourites of the Sufi, and which make his life easy on the Continue Reading →