Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Pir Hazrat Vilayat Khan (Indian Sufi Mystic)

Ḥazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927) was an Indian musician and a Sūfī mystic of the Niẓāmī branch of the Chishtī ṭarīqah order. A pioneer in the dissemination of Sūfī spirituality in the West, he founded the Sūfī Order in North America.

Born in Baroda, Bombay Presidency, British India, Ḥazrat Inayat Khan was a well-known classical musician and a disciple of Ḥazrat Abu Hashim Madani, a Sūfī master from a branch of the famed Chishtī Order in India. After his master’s death, Inayat Khan came to the United States in 1910, initially as a performer and later as a spiritual teacher.

Khan established the Sūfī Order International. A New Age religious conviction, it embraces traditional religious practices. It synthesizes science and religion and draws from both Eastern and Western approaches to psychological, physical, and spiritual healing.

The teachings of the Sūfī Order are eclectic and interfaith—the Order encourages followers to connect to the “universal spirit of guidance.” The Order is not recognized as a traditional Islamic Sūfī order because it is open to people of all faiths and does not advocate conventional Islam.

Khan married Ora Ray Baker (Pirani Ameena Begum,) an American. Their eldest daughter, Noor Inayat Khan (1914–44,) served as a British spy during World War II. She was executed at Dachau by the Nazis, and their son, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916–2004,) headed the Order after Inayat Khan’s death.

The Inayati Order, as Sūfī Order International is called since 2016, is currently led by Vilayat Inayat Khan’s son, Pir Zia Inayat Khan (b.1971.)

Ḥazrat Inayat Khan’s works include The Unity of Religious Ideals (1921,) The Way of Illumination (1924,) Nirtan or the Dance of the Soul (1928,) and Rasa Shastra: The Science of Life’s Creative Forces (1938.)

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My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.
Pir Hazrat Vilayat Khan
Topics: Wilderness

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.
Pir Hazrat Vilayat Khan
Topics: Balance

Everything in life is speaking, is audible, is communicating, in spite of its apparent silence.
Pir Hazrat Vilayat Khan

If one studies one’s surroundings one finds that those who are happy are so because they have less thought of self. If they are unhappy it is because they think of themselves too much. A person is more bearable when he thinks less of himself. And a person is unbearable when he is always thinking of himself. There are many miseries in life, but the greatest misery is self-pity.
Pir Hazrat Vilayat Khan

Words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Pir Hazrat Vilayat Khan

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