Category: Wisdom of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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 →

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 →