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  "ar": "عنايت خان",
  "en": "Hazrat Inayat Khan",
  "ur": "عنایت خان"
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  "ar": "موسيقي ومعلّم صوفي هندي (1882–1927)، وُلد في برودة وتوفي في دلهي؛ رائد نقل التصوف إلى الغرب، تلقى التربية والإجازة في أربع طرق صوفية عن شيخه سيد أبو هاشم مدني، وأسس الطريقة الصوفية في لندن سنة 1914، وله مؤلفات موسيقية وصوفية كثيرة جُمعت لاحقًا في «الرسالة الصوفية».",
  "en": "Indian musician and Sufi teacher (1882–1927), born in Baroda and died in Delhi. A pioneer of the transmission of Sufism to the West, he received training and authorisation in four Sufi orders from his teacher Sayyid Abu Hashim Madani, founded the Sufi Order in London in 1914, and left many musical and Sufi works, later collected as The Sufi Message.",
  "ur": "ہندوستانی موسیقار اور صوفی استاد (1882–1927)، بڑودہ میں پیدا ہوئے اور دہلی میں وفات پائی؛ مغرب تک تصوف پہنچانے کے اولین مبلغ، اپنے استاد سید ابو ہاشم مدنی سے چار صوفی سلسلوں کی تربیت و اجازت حاصل کی، 1914 میں لندن میں صوفی سلسلے کی بنیاد رکھی، اور ان کی موسیقی و تصوف پر متعدد تصانیف بعد میں «صوفی پیغام» میں جمع ہوئیں۔"
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  "latest": 1927.0969972004584
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   "note": "Born 5 July 1882 in Baroda, Bombay Presidency, British India (English article and Wikidata; the Arabic article gives the years 1299–1345 AH). Baroda has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "note": "Died of pneumonia in Delhi on 5 February 1927 (English article); he is buried in his dargah in Nizamuddin, Delhi (English article).",
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    "value": "Inayat Khan Rehmat Khan",
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    "value": "عنایت خان رحمت خان",
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   "note": "Born 5 July 1882 in Baroda, Bombay Presidency, British India (English article and Wikidata; the Arabic article gives the years 1299–1345 AH). Baroda has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written.",
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    "note": "Two independent article texts name his Sufi affiliation personally. The English text states that he was a pioneer of the transmission of Sufism to the West, that he received fourfold training and authorisation — succession in the Chishti, Suhrawardi, Qadiri and Naqshbandi orders — from Sayyid Abu Hashim Madani, and that he founded an order of Sufism in London in 1914. The Arabic text's lead calls him personally a Sufi (متصوف) and founder of the International Sufi Movement; the Urdu text likewise describes him as the founder of Western Sufism who took up the practice of Sufism. No Sunni or Hanafi segment is recorded: Sunni as denomination and Hanafi as jurisprudence appear only in the English article's infobox, and one infobox never counts; Wikidata's religion value is Sufism only, an echo of the texts.",
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   "source": "English, Arabic and Urdu Wikipedia articles on Inayat Khan, each fetched by its recorded revision id (EN 1377845110, AR 68352617, UR 6646356) with the returned id asserted equal before use, and Wikidata item Q120411 (revision 2558923148). Existence checks by name fragments (Inayat Khan, عنايت خان, عنایت خان) and by QID across data/person and data/source found no prior record for this man; other Wikidata items of the same name (a Pakistani actor Q117322850, a Pakistani cricketer Q110885447, a Mughal historian Q16847057) are different people and were not used. The word Hazrat is part of his documented name in the sources and is kept as a name element only. The lane queue gives 1882–1927; the sources agree.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "عنايت خان رحمة خان (1299–1345 هـ / 1882–1927 م) متصوف هندي، يعتبر مؤسس الحركة الصوفية الدولية، وكان أستاذًا في علم الموسيقى ومغنيًا وشاعرًا وفيلسوفًا، ورائد نقل التصوف إلى الغرب.{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-ar}{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "نشأته",
     "markdown": "وُلد في برودة لأسرة مغولية نبيلة؛ فجدّه لأمه هو الموسيقي والمعلّم مولا بخش شولاي خان، وجدّته لأمه من بيت تيبو سلطان، سلطان ميسور.{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تصوفه وطريقته",
     "markdown": "قامت تربيته الصوفية على تقليد أسرته وعلى تتلمذه على سيد أبو هاشم مدني من حيدر آباد، إذ تلقى عنه أربع إجازات: الخلافة في الطرق الجشتية والسهروردية والقادرية والنقشبندية، وكانت الجشتية هي الأصل.{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-en} وفي سنة 1914 أسس في لندن طريقة صوفية، وبحلول وفاته كانت مراكزها قد قامت في أوروبا وأمريكا الشمالية وصدرت مجلدات من تعاليمه.{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-en} وكان في تعليمه الغربيين يؤكد القيم الروحية الجامعة دون أن يطلب من تلاميذه اعتناق الإسلام.{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته وأثره",
     "markdown": "عاد إلى الهند سنة 1926، وتوفي بالالتهاب الرئوي في دلهي في 5 فبراير 1927، ودُفن في ضريحه في نظام الدين بدلهي.{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-en} ومن آثاره المترجمة إلى العربية «يد الشعر» و«تعاليم المتصوفين».{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-hazrat-inayat-khan}}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Inayat Khan Rehmat Khan (5 July 1882 – 5 February 1927) was an Indian professor of musicology, singer, poet, philosopher and writer, and a pioneer of the transmission of Sufism to the West.{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-en} The Arabic article describes him as an Indian Sufi and the founder of the International Sufi Movement.{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life",
     "markdown": "He was born in Baroda to a noble Mughal family; his maternal grandfather was the Hindustani classical musician and educator Maulabakhsh Sholay Khan, and his maternal grandmother came from the royal house of Tipu Sultan of Mysore.{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sufism and the order",
     "markdown": "His Sufi formation rested on his ancestral tradition and on the tutelage of Sayyid Abu Hashim Madani of Hyderabad, from whom he received four transmissions — succession in the Chishti, Suhrawardi, Qadiri and Naqshbandi orders, the Chishti lineage being primary.{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-en} In 1914, in London, he established an order of Sufism; by his death, centres had been established throughout Europe and North America and multiple volumes of his teachings published.{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-en} In teaching Western students he stressed universal spiritual values and did not require his disciples to convert to Islam.{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Teaching",
     "markdown": "His teaching emphasised the oneness of God and the underlying harmony of the revelations given through the prophets of the world's religions, and its primary concern was the mystical pursuit of God-realisation; his foundational principles are set out as the Ten Sufi Thoughts.{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death and legacy",
     "markdown": "He returned to India in 1926 and died of pneumonia in Delhi on 5 February 1927; he is buried in his dargah in Nizamuddin, Delhi.{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-en} Since his death he has been viewed as an early pioneer in bringing Sufi teachings and practices to Western audiences.{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-hazrat-inayat-khan}}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "عنایت خان رحمت خان (5 جولائی 1882 – 5 فروری 1927) ہندوستانی موسیقار، گلوکار، شاعر و فلسفی تھے، اور اہلِ مغرب تک تصوف پہنچانے کے اولین مبلغ۔{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-ur}{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-en} اردو مضمون انھیں مغربی تصوف کا بانی قرار دیتا ہے، جنھوں نے 1914 میں لندن میں ایک صوفی سلسلے کی بنیاد رکھی۔{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی",
     "markdown": "وہ بڑودہ میں ایک معزز مغل خاندان میں پیدا ہوئے؛ ان کے نانا ہندوستانی کلاسیکی موسیقار و معلم مولا بخش شولے خان تھے، اور نانی میسور کے حکمران ٹیپو سلطان کے شاہی خاندان سے تھیں۔{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تصوف اور سلسلہ",
     "markdown": "ان کی صوفی تربیت اپنے خاندانی سلسلے اور حیدرآباد کے سید ابو ہاشم مدنی کی صحبت سے مکمل ہوئی، جن سے انھیں چار سلسلوں — چشتی، سہروردی، قادری اور نقشبندی — کی اجازت و خلافت ملی، جن میں چشتی سلسلہ مقدم تھا۔{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-en} لندن میں قائم کردہ سلسلہ 1923 میں عالمی صوفی تحریک میں ضم ہوا، اور ان کا پیغام محبت، خوبصورتی اور یگانگت پر مبنی کائناتی وحدانیت کا پیغام تھا۔{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات اور ورثہ",
     "markdown": "وہ 1926 میں ہندوستان لوٹے اور 5 فروری 1927 کو دہلی میں نمونیا سے وفات پائی؛ ان کا مزار نظام الدین، دہلی میں ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-en} ان کی تحریک سے وابستہ لوگ آج بھی فرانس، ہالینڈ، انگلستان، جرمنی، امریکا، کینیڈا، روس اور آسٹریلیا میں ملتے ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-ur}} {{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-hazrat-inayat-khan-ar}} {{cite:wikidata-hazrat-inayat-khan}}"
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