Abstract:

Hazrat Inayat Khan, who studies the mysticism of music, sees music as a means of getting closer to the divine and emphasizes the importance of progressing on the path of truth. He did not neglect to mention the importance of music and sound, their vibrations and frequencies, and their healing properties on the mind, body and soul. He emphasized the importance of thought, word, sound and mind, all kinds of vibrational phenomena that affect our will, and conveyed the ways of meditating and activating the mind and consciousness in his works. He examined how it is possible to awaken the sleeping mind through meditation and become one with the truth. He tried to convey the harmony between God and the universe, man and all known beings by exemplifying it with the harmony of music. The aim of this study is to show Hazrat Inayat Khan’s methods of seeking and finding the truth through music and sound. The similarities between the perspectives of ancient Greek, Islamic and modern philosophers on music and Inayat Khan’s thoughts are expressed. For this purpose, the article tries to elucidate the relationship between the universal harmony of music, its inner teaching and the transcendental understanding of God by starting from the important representatives of music in philosophy.

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