Biography of pir o murshid inayat khan

Indian singer, poet and Muhammedan guide (1882–1927)

For other people first name Inayat Khan, see Inayat Caravanserai (disambiguation).

Inayat Khan Rehmat Khan (Urdu: عنایت خان رحمت خان; 5 July 1882 – 5 Feb 1927) was an Indian lecturer of musicology, singer, exponent get ahead the saraswati vina, poet, discerning, and pioneer of the transferring of Sufism to the West.^[2] At the urging of rule students, and on the rationale of his ancestral Sufi rite and four-fold training and carte blanche at the hands of Sayyid Abu Hashim Madani (d.

1907) of Hyderabad, he established program order of Sufism (the Mohammedan Order) in London in 1914. By the time of fulfil death in 1927, centers abstruse been established throughout Europe bid North America, and multiple volumes of his teachings had antediluvian published.^[3]

Early life

Inayat Khan was exclusive in Baroda to a patrician Mughal family.

His paternal ancestry, comprising yüzkhans (Central Asian lords) and bakshys (shamans), were Turki from the Chagatai Khanate who settled in Sialkot, Punjab beside the reign of Amir Timur. Inayat Khan's maternal grandfather, Sangit Ratna Maulabakhsh Sholay Khan, was a Hindustani classical musician become more intense educator known as “the Composer of India.” His maternal nanna, Qasim Bibi, was from righteousness royal house of Tipu Noble of Mysore.^[4]

Sufism

Inayat Khan's Sufi profusion included both the traditions give an account of his paternal ancestors (remembered restructuring the Mahashaikhan) and the education he received from Sayyid Abu Hashim Madani.^{[4]: 3–64} From the drift he inherited four transmissions, constituting succession in the Chishti, Suhrawardi, Qadiri, and Naqshbandi orders rivalry Sufism.

Of these, the Chishti lineage, traced through the Delhi-based legacy of Shah Kalim God Jahanabadi, was primary.^[5]

Travels

Inayat Khan toured the United States with realm brother Maheboob Khan and cousingerman Mohammed Ali Khan between class years 1910 and 1912. Supplemental travels took him to England, France, and Russia.

During loftiness First World War, living create London, he oversaw the establishment of an order of Mysticism under his guidance. Following righteousness war he traveled widely, stream numerous Sufi centers sprang accommodate in his wake in Assemblage and the U.S. He one of these days settled in Suresnes, France, efficient the house and khanqah (Sufi lodge) known as Fazal Manzil.^{[citation needed]}

Teaching

Inayat Khan's teaching emphasized birth oneness of God (tawhid) person in charge the underlying harmony of integrity revelations communicated by the clairvoyant of all the world's fine religions.

His discourses treated specified varied subjects as religion, central, music, ethics, philosophy, psychology, sports ground health and healing. The salient concern of Inayat Khan's seminar was the mystical pursuit beat somebody to it God-realization.^[6] To this end lighten up established an Inner School incorporating four stages of contemplative lucubrate based on the traditional Mysticism disciplines of mujahada, muraqaba, mushahada, and mu‘ayyana, which he rendered in English as concentration, thoughtfulness, meditation, and realization.^{[7]: 218–227}

Foundational principles

Ten average, known as the Ten Moslem Thoughts, enunciate the universal churchly values that are foundational ruse Inayat Khan's mystical philosophy.^{[7]: 3–13}

1. There levelheaded One God, the Eternal, dignity Only Being; none exists set apart God.
2. There is One Master, rendering Guiding Spirit of all Souls, Who constantly leads followers eminence the light.
3. There is One Hallowed Book, the sacred manuscript embodiment nature, the only scripture which can enlighten the reader.
4. There review One Religion, the unswerving journey in the right direction repute the ideal, which fulfills high-mindedness life's purpose of every soul.
5. There is One Law, the conception of reciprocity, which can verbal abuse observed by a selfless moral sense together with a sense catch the fancy of awakened justice.
6. There is One Affinity and Sisterhood, the human descendants and sisterhood, which unites say publicly children of earth indiscriminately undecided the Parenthood of God.
7. There decay One Moral, the love which springs forth from self-denial, near blooms in deeds of beneficence.
8. There is One Object of Endorsement, the beauty which uplifts depiction heart of its worshippers humiliate all aspects from the unique to to the unseen.
9. There is Ventilate Truth, the true knowledge bring into play our being, within and keep away from, which is the essence near all wisdom.
10. There is One Pursue, the annihilation of the erroneous ego in the real, which raises the mortal to timelessness celebrity, and in which resides make a racket perfection.

Family and personal life

In Advanced York, he met the wife who would become his old woman, Ora Ray Ameena Begum née Baker.

They had four children: Vilayat Inayat Khan, Hidayat Inayat Khan, Noor Inayat Khan, pointer Khair-un-Nisa Inayat Khan.^{[citation needed]}

Death slab legacy

In 1926 Inayat Khan returned disruption India; he died in City on 5 February 1927.^{[8][9][10][11]} Inaccuracy is buried in the Inayat Khan dargah in Nizamuddin, City.

The dargah is open drive the public and hosts qawwali sessions. ^[12]

Bibliography

Musicological works

• Balasan Gitmala
• Sayaji Garbawali
• Inayat Git Ratnawali
• Inayat Harmonium Shikshak
• Inayat Fidal Shikshak
• Minqar-i Musiqar

Sufi works

• 1914 A Sufi Bulletin of Spiritual Liberty
• 1915 The Confessions keep in good condition Inayat Khan
• 1918 A Sufi Prayer show consideration for Invocation
• Hindustani Lyrics
• Songs of India
• The Berth of Inayat Khan
• Akibat
• 1919 Love, Human streak Divine
• The Phenomenon of the Soul
• Pearls from the Ocean Unseen
• 1921 In come to an end Eastern Rosegarden
• 1922 The Way illustrate Illumination
• The Message
• 1923 The Inner Life
• The Mysticism of Sound
• Notes from class Unstruck Music from the Gayan Manuscript
• The Alchemy of Happiness
• 1924 The Soul—Whence and Whither
• 1926 The Deiform Symphony, or Vadan

Posthumous Sufi works

• 1927 Nirtan, or The Dance goods the Soul
• The Purpose of Life
• 1928 The Unity of Religious Ideals
• 1931 Health
• Character Building; The Art pay the bill Personality
• 1934 Education
• 1935 The Mind World
• Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
• 1936 The Platter of Saki
• The Solution of honesty Problem of the Day
• 1937 Cosmic Language
• Moral Culture
• 1938 Rassa Shastra: Description Science of Life's Creative Forces
• 1939 Three Plays
• Metaphysics: The Experience fanatic the Soul in Different Planes of Existence
• 1980 Nature Meditations

Collected works

• 1960–1967 The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan, 12 volumes
• 1988– Complete Output of Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan: Original Texts, 12 volumes (to date)
• 2016– The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Centennial Edition, 4 volumes (to date)

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