"The purpose of the Sufi Healing Order is to awaken humanity
to a greater realization of the Divine Spirit to heal."
- Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
HAZRAT PIR-O-MURSHID INAYAT KHAN, founder of the Sufi Healing Order, was born in Baroda, India, on July 5, 1882, into a family of great musicians. As a child, Inayat Khan took a great interest in music and visits to holy men. Due to his deep love of the Indian musical heritage, which had become very decadent, he dedicated his early life to reinstalling the spiritual value of music by traveling and performing in the high classical style. One of the greatest patrons of music, the Nizam of Hyderabad, responded to Inayat Khan's singing by awarding him the greatest musical title in India, Tansen of India.
Inayat Khan had fulfilled his purpose in music and began to look for a spiritual teacher. He found his ideal teacher in the being of Hazrat Abu Hashim Madani, the successor to one of the branches of the Chishti Sufi Order in India. After taking the sacred vow of initiation, he went through a course of training in four Sufi Schools: Chishti, Naqshbandi, Qadiri, and Surawardhi. Before Abu Hashim Madani died, he called his pupil Inayat Khan to his bedside to bless him and enjoin him to bring the message of Sufism to the West, saying that he had received the order from Moinuddin Chishti, founder of the Chishti Order in India.
Following the call of God, Inayat Khan left India for the Western world on September 13, 1910. He landed in America, and later traveled to Europe and Russia, sowing the seeds of Sufism.
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Last Updated Nov 2007