The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Our work is not only to speak before you, to lecture before you, to bring you the Sufi Message in books and lectures, but to bring it to you also in music, to play before you, to sing before you, to bring you the truth in the realm of music. In ancient times it was very difficult to speak openly of the truth. The governing authorities were so strict, the religions were so narrow in their interpretations, in their understanding. Especially it was difficult for the Sufis. Many of them have been beheaded for speaking the truth. The mystics therefore invented a way of speaking the truth in music, in words such as, "tum," "dim," "tarona," "la," that apparently had no meaning, so as to be understood by the initiates while to the uninitiated it seemed merely a meaningless song. At the present time, even in the East, there are many who do not know that such words have any meaning. They know that the song is called "tarona;" they do not know what it means.


 
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