The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan      

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Volume

Sayings

Social Gathekas

Religious Gathekas

The Message Papers

The Healing Papers

Vol. 1, The Way of Illumination

Vol. 1, The Inner Life

Vol. 1, The Soul, Whence And Whither?

Vol. 1, The Purpose of Life

Vol. 2, The Mysticism of Sound and Music

Vol. 2, The Mysticism of Sound

Vol. 2, Cosmic Language

Vol. 2, The Power of the Word

Vol. 3, Education

Vol. 3, Life's Creative Forces: Rasa Shastra

Vol. 3, Character and Personality

Vol. 4, Healing And The Mind World

Vol. 4, Mental Purification

Vol. 4, The Mind-World

Vol. 5, A Sufi Message Of Spiritual Liberty

Vol. 5, Aqibat, Life After Death

Vol. 5, The Phenomenon of the Soul

Vol. 5, Love, Human and Divine

Vol. 5, Pearls from the Ocean Unseen

Vol. 5, Metaphysics, The Experience of the Soul Through the Different Planes of Existence

Vol. 6, The Alchemy of Happiness

Vol. 7, In an Eastern Rose Garden

Vol. 8, Health and Order of Body and Mind

Vol. 8, The Privilege of Being Human

Vol. 8a, Sufi Teachings

Vol. 9, The Unity of Religious Ideals

Vol. 10, Sufi Mysticism

Vol. 10, The Path of Initiation and Discipleship

Vol. 10, Sufi Poetry

Vol. 10, Art: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Vol. 10, The Problem of the Day

Vol. 11, Philosophy

Vol. 11, Psychology

Vol. 11, Mysticism in Life

Vol. 12, The Vision of God and Man

Vol. 12, Confessions: Autobiographical Essays of Hazat Inayat Khan

Vol. 12, Four Plays

Vol. 13, Gathas

Vol. 14, The Smiling Forehead

By Date

THE SUPPLEMENTARY PAPERS

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1920

1921

1922

1923

1924

1925

1926

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Saluk, Graciousness

Service to the Cause

Knowledge and Wisdom

The Attributes of the Five Great Degrees of Initiates.

The Soul Towards Manifestation

By Date

1923

Service to the Cause

In order to do the service to the Cause, it is not necessary that a person must wait until he was given a certain position. Everyone must do according to his capacity all he can in order to further the Cause. For in this path it is the work which counts more than anything else.

A quiet working is most necessary in the spiritual work; for noise spoils. Although noise is the expression of enthusiasm; but in the noise enthusiasm is wasted.

The rules and regulations are necessary but not of the greatest importance. They must not hinder the working by forcing them too much upon people. The spiritual work is the work of freedom; and that freedom must be given wisely, gently, not seeming to break the law, not trying to force the law. The spiritual working is different from martial work, although the construction is the same. In one it is rigid, in the other it is fine.

In short, for the spiritual working it must be remembered by the workers, whatever position they may occupy in the scheme of working, that they are the trustees of the Message, which is to be received, studied, followed, and preserved for the coming generation. And as trustees they are responsible more or less for the Message, which is their most secret and sacred trust.