This blog will offer some thoughts and inspiring quotations of Hazrat Inayat Khan. There is an opportunity here for you to reflect on them, and to comment or ask a question. Murshida Rani will respond to your comments. The Universal Sufism which Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan founded in the West is a teaching of understanding, tolerance, and acceptance, and we can benefit from hearing it. We will also look at the spiritual practices which can help us all realize the Divine Light in our souls.
International Headquarters of the Sufi Movement Visalat day 2015 Beloved Sufi Brothers and Sisters, Today, we have the privilege of gathering together in homage to the sacred memory of our Master, the Murshid of us all, whose guidance is always there, in as much as we are able to attune to that privilege, with a […]
Every day on the news we can hear terrible things that people are doing to each other in the name of religion. But this is not real religion, not real spirituality. This is fanaticism and fundamentalism wearing a mask of religion. Fanaticism does not belong to one religion. I heard today about Christians in northern […]
Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan identifies the purpose of the Sufi Message, which is an eternal Message expressed in many different languages and traditions, in two ways. He says that our Sacred Task in our current world is to develop the spirit of tolerance. This is important in the world as we try to understand and […]
Recently I read about a woman named Antoinette Tuff. She worked at a school in Georgia; and, on August 23, 2013 she stopped a man who walked into the school with an AK-47. She talked him into laying down his gun and surrendering. No one was hurt. She said that her pastor was teaching a […]
“The Teacher, however great, can never give his or her knowledge to the pupil; the pupil must create his or her own knowledge.” Bowl of Saki, September 19, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan: “The work of a mystical Teacher is not to teach, but to tune, to tune the pupil so […]
Murshid writes: The awakened soul looks about and asks: ‘Who is my enemy?’ While the unawakened soul thinks that it is one’s neighbor or one’s relation who is one’s enemy, the awakened soul says, ‘It is my self; my ignorant ego is my enemy; and it is the struggle with this enemy that will bring […]
One thing is true: although the teacher cannot give the knowledge, he or she can kindle the light if the oil is in the lamp. Bowl of Saki, September 20, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan: “No one can give spiritual knowledge to another, for this is something that is within every […]
“What do I mean by love? It is such a word that one cannot give one meaning. All attributes like kindness, gentleness, goodness, humbleness, mildness, fineness, are names of one and the same thing. Love therefore is that stream which when it rises, falls in the form of a fountain, and each stream coming down […]
“If you seek the good in every soul, you will always find it, for God is in all things; still more God is in all beings.”
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