Welcome to our new site, the Hazrat Inayat Khan Centennial Jubilee, 2010 Blog. It is the idea of this blog that Mureeds of all Orders, Dancers and many other Friends, will be posting information about events they will be hosting or attended throughout the upcoming Centennial Jubilee Year. Thoughts, writings, poetry and more dedicated toward gratitude, and your own journey with the Path of Love Harmony and Beauty that Hazrat Inayat Khan brought to the world 100 years ago, will be most welcome here throughout this Centennial Jubilee Year! I am on the Centennial Jubilee Committee with Jami Klein, and will be overseeing our site. If you have any difficulties posting, please email me:
neshamah.emi@sbcglobal.net
Here is a brief introduction to Hazrat Inayat Khan, from the archives of the Sufi Movement:
September 13, 2010 is the 100th anniversary of the journey of Hazrat Inayat Khan embarked upon that brought Sufism to the Western World. He was fulfilling the last words of his Murshid, "Fare forth into the world, my child, and harmonize the East and West with the harmony of thy music. Spread the wisdom of Sufism abroad, for to this end art thou gifted by Allah, the most Merciful and Compassionate."Companions on that journey were his brother Maheboob Khan and his cousin, Ali Khan, who left auspicious careers in India to share his hardships and his work. Within a year they were joined by Inayat's youngest brother, Musharaff Khan.
During the next sixteen years, Inayat founded the International Sufi Movement and travelled widely, inspiring many and teaching the Sufi Message from California to Moscow. In America, he met the woman destined to become his wife and companion, Ora Ray Baker, Pirani Amina Begum Inayat Khan, about whom Inayat Khan often said, that without her loving support he would not have been able to bring the Message to the west. Their first child was born in Russia, and the remaining three in England, where they sheltered during the First World War.
In the early 1920's, the family settled in Suresnes, a quiet suburb of Paris, and here Summer Schools were held for the growing number of students. The lectures given here and elsewhere have subsequently been published under such titles as "The Unity of Religious Ideals," "In an Eastern Rose Garden," "The Mysticism of Sound," "Love, Human and Divine," and "Health, Mental Purification and the Mind World."
In 1926, Inayat returned for a visit to India, leaving his family in the West. After a brief illness, he passed away in Tilak Lodge, New Delhi on February 5th, 1927, at the age of 44. His Dargah, or tomb, located near that of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, is now a place of pilgrimage for Sufis from all over the world.
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As we are from many countries and Orders and Spiritual Communities, it would be nice if you would sign your Blog Post with where you are living, and your particular path.
We look forward to hearing from you, soon!
with all love,
Neshamah Emi
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