Ask Inayat!

What is this??

This project strives to get as close as possible to allowing you to directly "Ask Inayat" a spiritual or philosophical question, and discover how his spiritual message and his insightful viewpoints can help you better understand and rise above life's daily challenges.

This is an opportunity to "Ask Inayat" a heartfelt question regarding your own spiritual path and receive a unique reply to your enquiry directly from the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan without having to search through dozens (or hundreds) of pages of search engine results hoping to find some helpful guidance.

Please note that this is not an attempt to try to simulate, or pretend to be, Hazrat Inayat Khan, but rather this is a tool which will gather together a compilation of direct quotes from his teachings regarding your specific topic, woven together in a cohesive manner.

Historically, search engines hunted for the appearance of specific words, called a lexical search. The breakthrough with this technology, called semantic search, is that it searches for concepts or ideas, not merely specific words. 

When you enter your request, the program will retrieve a variety of direct quotes from Hazrat Inayat Khan’s various books and papers which seem to be most highly related to your query, and then use artificial intelligence to create a compilation of those various direct quotes as a single, integrated document.

In essence, when you enter your request, you’re saying:

“Prepare for me a compilation of exact quotes from the books and papers of Hazrat Inayat Khan on my topic, all connected together in a realistic manner, similar to how he might have personally responded to my question.”

The clarity and thoughtfulness of your question will have a great affect on the usefulness of the reply which you receive. If the reply does not seem to properly address your concerns, feel free to make some changes to the wording of your question, trying to express your issue more clearly, and submit a new request.

In the reply to your question, please note that all of the text in the reply which is in italics will be exact quotes from the books and papers of Hazrat Inayat Khan, gracefully interwoven by artificial intelligence (as denoted by plain text) which attempts to emulate his manner, vocabulary, style and philosophy while assembling the compilation.

Examples:

You will likely get the most useful results by asking questions which seek to expand the depths of your own understanding and/or reach out for new ways in which you can best achieve your own highest goals and desires.

Questions, or requests, which are brief and to-the-point, using around 10 to 15 words, will generally receive a higher quality reply than those which are long, rambling or disorganized.

For example, here are some sample questions:

In what way is meditation helpful in our lives?

How can I be a better friend?

What do you mean when you speak of the Music of the Spheres?

How can I best help a friend who is in deep despair?

How can I remain kind when others confront me with anger or hatred?

Tell me about love, harmony and beauty.

How can we remain hopeful when democracy seems to be crumbling?

Should I befriend a person who is unreliable and unkind?

Please help me learn how to control the nafs.

Tell me about the peril of those who are unloving.

Enter Your Question or Request: