[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ layout=”1_1″ last=”yes” spacing=”yes” center_content=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” border_position=”all” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”” animation_speed=”0.1″ class=”” id=”” min_height=”” hover_type=”none” link=””][fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_spacing=”” rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_color=”” class=”” id=””]Continuing our study of The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Centennial Edition, we come now to the second half of the book, “The Mysticism of Sound.”

The teachings contained in this volume represent the fruit of Sufi mystic Hazrat Inayat Khan’s (1882-1927) lifelong study of sound and music as a musician and philosopher whose geographical, artistic and spiritual peregrinations encompassed multiple continents, musical genres, and spiritual paradigms. Hazrat Inayat Khan’s teachings show how music is much more than an entertaining pastime. It is, in fact, the underlying code of the whole universe. Music is life, and Hazrat Inayat Khan’s subtle elucidations on the nature of sound and music open broad vistas of discovery in the pursuit of life’s inner meaning.

Sukhawat Ali Khan is a master Indian musician, specializing in Classical Raga singing and Sufi Qawwali music. He first began singing and playing harmonium under the guidance of his father, the legendary Pakistani/Indian vocalist Ustad Salamat Ali Khan. Sukhawat has performed at the Montreal, Monterey and Prospect Park Jazz Festivals, the Fillmore in San Francisco, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and at many other major venues across the United States and Europe, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Pir Zia Inayat-Khan continues his grandfather’s teachings as the spiritual leader of The Inayati Order, an interfaith, mystical fellowship with branches worldwide. His books include Saracen Chivalry: Counsels on Valor, Generosity and the Mystical Quest (2012) and Mingled Waters: Sufism & the Mystical Unity of Religions (2017). Pir Zia and his family live in Richmond, Virginia, where he teaches regularly at the Inayati Order’s North American headquarters, called the Astana.

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