Visalat Day, Hidayat Inayat-Khan

Photos and text supplied by Hamida Verlinden

Hidayat Inayat-Khan, born in London on the 6th of August 1917, died in Munich on the 12th of September 2016. Pir-o-Murshid from 1992-2009. Co-Representative General of the Sufi Movement, with Karimbakhsh Witteveen.

Hazrat Inayat Khan told his children that they should decide for themselves which scripture they would like to study. Hidayat thoroughly investigated Sufism and Patthana, the law of cause and effect. After a successful career as a professional musician and composer, Hidayat took on the leadership of the Sufi Movement at the age of 74, bringing peace, and overturning the injustice done to the creator of the Ruhaniat. We remember him with gratitude for his commitment to the Sufi Message and the support that he and Aziza gave to the Sufi Movement.

Oh Seeker, did you know responding to the call for the Unity of Religious Ideals is like sailing on the great waters of wisdom; attuned to the Ideals of Love, Harmony and Beauty; and driven by the compass of the Message in our time, and driven by the energy of Spiritual Liberty; while heading onwards towards the Goal assigned by Destiny and finally realising that the sailor is a ray of the all-pervading Divine presence sailing in the Past, Present and Future, on the infinite waves of illusions.

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