Hazrat Inayat Khan
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Inayat Khanwas the founder of The Sufi Order in the West in 1914and teacher of Universal Sufism. He initially came to the West as a Northern Indian classical musician, having received the honorific "Tansen" from the Nizam of Hyderabad, but he soon turned to the introduction and transmission of Sufi thought and practice. Later, in 1923, the Sufi Order of the London period was dissolved into a new organization, formed under Swiss law, called the "International Sufi Movement". His message...
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth5 July 1882
divine-beauty divine persons
By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves.
wise views judging
While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.
spiritual nature order
A soul who is not close to nature is far away from what is called spirituality. In order to be spiritual one must communicate, and especially one must communicate with nature; one must feel nature.
perfection humanity divinity
Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.
music heart reality
I played the vina until my heart turned into the same instrument. Then I offered this instrument to the Divine Musician, the only muscian existing. Since then I have become His flute, and when He chooses He plays His music. The people give me credit for this music which, in reality, is not due to me, but to the Musician who plays his own instrument.
depth rhythm
To attain peace, what one has to do is to seek that rhythm which is in the depth of our being.
heart flames doe
If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path.