The Sufi Order International is an organization dedicated to "Universal Sufism" as elaborated by Hazrat Inayat Khan. Sufism (Arabic تصÙÙ tasÌ£awwuf) is the school of esoteric philosophy in Islam, which is based on the pursuit of spiritual truth as a definite goal to attain. ... Hazrat Inayat Khan (July 5, 1882 - February 5, 1927), founder of Universal Sufism, and the Sufi Movement International, came to the west as a representative of several musical traditions of his native India. ...
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Sufi Order and Sufi movement
Inayat Khan was asked by his teacher to "unite the West and the East" with his music
Sufis believe that their teachings are the essence of every religion, and indeed of the evolution of humanity as a whole.
The Sufi cosmology is not a uniform and coherent doctrine.
Some Sufis consider under the term "Nafs" the entirety of psychological processes, encompassing whole mental, emotional and volitional life; however, the majority of Quranic-based Sufis are of the opinion that Nafs is a "lower", egotistical and passionate human nature which, along with Tab (literally, physical nature), comprises vegetative and animal aspects of human life.