Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.
Khan, Hazrat Inayat. The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Vol. XI: Philosophy, Psychology, Mysticism. Barrie and Rockliff, 1964, p. 11.
This seemingly abstruse philosophical statement actually found its way into one of the major political debates of the 21st Century when the Secretary of Defense was defending the management of the Iraq War and the interpretation of intelligence. See {586062}.
Inayat Rehmat Khan Pathan (Urdu: حضرت عنایت رحمت خان پٹھان) was the founder of the Sufi Order in the West in 1914 (London) and teacher of Universal Sufism. He initially came to the West as a Northern Indian classical musician, having received the honorific "Tansen" from the Nizam of Hyderabad, but he soon turned to the introduction and transmission of Sufi thought and practice. Later, in 1923, the Sufi Order of the London period was dissolved into a new organization, formed under Swiss law, called the "International Sufi Movement".
