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The Minqār-i-mūsīqār of Inayat Khan and its history – 39

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Summarising the work of the Minqār-i-mūsīqār: the book reveals a good deal about the young Inayat Khan during the peak of his early career, especially when read in the context of his family background and the early twentieth century musical milieu.

Apparent here are the ecstatic joy, scientific realism, eclectic interest in human behaviour, ambition and talent at communicating his ideas which characterized the work he did in later public life.

We also sense the frustration and dissatisfaction that he felt at the circumstances, musical and other, in which he lived in India. And here is expressed his curiosity about, and admiration of, the West.

He would soon seize the opportunity to travel to the United States.

But it was in Hyderabad where his sense of music, self, and the divine had really begun to come together in the powerful combination that would inspire his later work.

Some of the final verses in the book express the larger issue that was driving this extraordinary human being:

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Inayat, whether every phrase falters or not,

the divine melody will resound

until the Day of Resurrection.

 

What form can be more beautiful than ours?

Still, with all our delicate beauty,

we mingle with dust in the end.

 

As many dances as the stars and the peacocks have

all of these movements are just ringings of Truth.

 

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With deep gratitude to you, dear Allyn Miner, for your sparkling work and testimony.

Puran


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