| Name(s) |
Hazrat Inayat
Khan |
| Date of
Birth |
July 05, 1882
– Vadodara, Gujarat, India. |
| Date of
death |
February 05,
1927 – Delhi, India. |
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Identity |
Sufi Saint from India |
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Date-wise
Events / Works |
He set forth ten principles that formed the foundational
principles of his Universal Sufism:
- There is
one God; the Eternal, the Only Being; None exists save He.
- There is
one master; the guiding spirit of all souls that constantly
leads all followers toward the light.
- There is
one holy book; the sacred manuscript of nature, the only
Scripture that can enlighten the reader.
- There is
one religion; unswerving progress in the right direction toward
the Ideal, which fulfills every soul's life purpose.
- There is
one law; the law of reciprocity, which can be observed by a
selfless conscience, together with a sense of awakened justice.
- There is
one brotherhood; the human brotherhood which unites the children
of earth indiscriminately in the fatherhood of God. This was
later adapted by followers to; "There is one Family, the Human
Family, which unites the Children of Earth indiscriminately in
the Parenthood of God."
- There is
one moral; the love which springs forth from self-denial and
blooms in deeds of beneficence. ... (later alternative; "which
springs forth from a willing heart, surrendered in service to
God and Humanity, and which blooms in deeds of beneficence").
- There is
one object of praise; the beauty which uplifts the heart of its
worshipper through all aspects from the seen to the unseen.
- There is
one truth; true knowledge of our being, within and without,
which is the essence of Wisdom.
- There is
one path; annihilation of the false ego in the real (later
alternative; "the effacement of the limited self in the
Unlimited"), which raises the mortal to immortality, in which
resides all perfection.
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He was a Sufi teacher from India
who started "The Sufi Order in the
West" (now called the Sufi Order
International) in the early part of
the 20th century.
- He was a stauch believer of the
notion that religions have their
value and place in human evolution.
- He was, as if, in direct link
with God.
- He initially came to the West as
a Northern Indian classical
musician, duly decorated
with the honorific "Tansen"
from the Nizam of Hyderabad.
- But soon he turned to the
introduction and transmission of
Sufi thought and practice.
- His message of divine unity
focused on the themes of love,
harmony and beauty.
- Branches of Inayat Khan's Sufi
movement can be found in a number of
countries of the world.
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