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  "ar": "ولاية عنايت خان",
  "en": "Vilayat Inayat Khan",
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  "ar": "معلّم صوفي (1916–2004)، وُلد في لندن وتوفي قبل يومين من عيد ميلاده الثامن والثمانين؛ ابن عنايت خان وخليفته في قيادة طريقته، درّس التأمل وتقاليد الطريقة الجشتية، وأسس «دار الرسالة» في أمريكا سنة 1975، وله كتب صوفية منها «اليقظة: تجربة صوفية» و«بحثًا عن الكنز الخفي».",
  "en": "Sufi teacher (1916–2004), born in London and died two days before his 88th birthday. A son of Inayat Khan and his successor as head of his order, he taught meditation and the traditions of the Chishti order, founded The Abode of the Message in the United States in 1975, and wrote Sufi books including Awakening: A Sufi Experience and In Search of the Hidden Treasure.",
  "ur": "صوفی استاد (1916–2004)، لندن میں پیدا ہوئے؛ عنایت خان کے بیٹے اور ان کے سلسلے میں ان کے جانشین، انھوں نے مراقبے اور چشتی سلسلے کی روایات کی تعلیم دی، 1975 میں امریکا میں «دار الرسالة» قائم کیا، اور ان کی صوفی کتب میں «بیداری: ایک صوفی تجربہ» شامل ہے۔"
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   "note": "Born 19 June 1916 in London (English and Arabic articles' dates, and Wikidata, which gives London as the birthplace). London has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "note": "Died 17 June 2004 (English and Arabic articles; Wikidata gives Suresnes, France, as the place of death). Suresnes has no place entity, so no died_in edge is written. Both articles record that his dargah (shrine) is in Delhi.",
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   "note": "Died 17 June 2004 (English and Arabic articles; Wikidata gives Suresnes, France, as the place of death). Suresnes has no place entity, so no died_in edge is written. Both articles record that his dargah (shrine) is in Delhi.",
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    "value": "sufi",
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    "note": "Two article texts name his Sufi affiliation personally, beyond his succession to his father, which is office and is not relied on. The English text's description calls him a mystic of the Inayati Order, and its lead calls him a teacher of meditation and of the traditions of the Chishti Order of Sufism who taught in the tradition of Universal Sufism; its bibliography lists his own Sufi books, among them Awakening: A Sufi Experience (1999) and In Search of the Hidden Treasure: A Conference of Sufis (2003). The Arabic text likewise describes him personally as a teacher of meditation and of the traditions of the Chishti Sufi order. Wikidata carries no religion value for him.",
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   "source": "English and Arabic Wikipedia articles on Vilayat Inayat Khan, each fetched by its recorded revision id (EN 1377035041, AR 74209882) with the returned id asserted equal before use, and Wikidata item Q721476 (revision 2548785143). No Urdu Wikipedia article exists for him; the Urdu prose is written from the English and Arabic sources. Existence checks by name fragments (Vilayat Inayat Khan, ولاية عنايت) and by QID across data/person and data/source found no prior record; the musician Vilayat Khan is a different person. He is a son of Hazrat Inayat Khan, built in this same wave; the child_of edge is written here, in the child's record, once. The lane queue gives 1916–2004; the sources agree.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ولاية عنايت خان (19 حزيران 1916 – 17 حزيران 2004) مدرّس للتأمل ولتقاليد الطريقة الصوفية الجشتية، وهو ابن عنايت خان مؤسس الطريقة الصوفية في الغرب، وخليفته في قيادتها، وشقيق نور النساء عنايت خان.{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "قبل التدريس",
     "markdown": "قبل مسيرته في التدريس عمل في لندن سنة 1949 مساعدًا لغلام محمد، وزير مالية باكستان، ومساعدًا شخصيًا لرئيس الوزراء لياقت علي خان أثناء زيارته إنجلترا.{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تعليمه ومؤسساته",
     "markdown": "في سنة 1975 أسس «دار الرسالة»، المجمع السكني المركزي للطريقة الصوفية الدولية ومركز مؤتمراتها واعتكافها ودراساتها.{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-ar} ومن كتبه «الحياة حج» و«النشوة التي تتجاوز المعرفة: دليل التأمل»، و«رسالة في زماننا» عن حياة أبيه وتعاليمه، و«اليقظة: تجربة صوفية».{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-ar}{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-en} وقد اختار ابنه الأكبر ضياء عنايت خان خليفة له.{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته",
     "markdown": "تُوفي في 17 حزيران 2004، قبل يومين من عيد ميلاده الثامن والثمانين، ويقع ضريحه في دلهي بالهند.{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-en}} {{cite:wikidata-vilayat-inayat-khan}}"
    }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Vilayat Inayat Khan (19 June 1916 – 17 June 2004) was an Indian teacher of meditation and of the traditions of the Chishti Order of Sufism, and a mystic of the Inayati Order.{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-en} He was a son of Inayat Khan, founder of the Sufi Order in the West, whose teaching he carried on in a form tailored to Western seekers, and a brother of Noor Inayat Khan.{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Before his teaching career",
     "markdown": "Before teaching, he worked in London in 1949 as an assistant to Ghulam Mohammed, the finance minister of Pakistan, and served as a personal assistant to Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan during his visit to England.{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Teaching and foundations",
     "markdown": "In 1975 he founded The Abode of the Message, the central residential community of the Sufi Order International, a conference and retreat centre and a centre of esoteric study.{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-en} His own books include The Message in Our Time (1978), on the life and teaching of his father, Awakening: A Sufi Experience (1999), and In Search of the Hidden Treasure (2003).{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-en} He chose his eldest son, Zia Inayat Khan, as his successor.{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "He died on 17 June 2004, two days before his 88th birthday; his dargah is in Delhi, India.{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-ar}} {{cite:wikidata-vilayat-inayat-khan}}"
    }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "ولایت عنایت خان (19 جون 1916 – 17 جون 2004) مراقبے اور چشتی صوفی سلسلے کی روایات کے استاد تھے، عنایت خان — مغرب میں صوفی سلسلے کے بانی — کے بیٹے اور ان کے جانشین، اور نور النساء عنایت خان کے بھائی۔{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تدریس سے پہلے",
     "markdown": "تدریس سے پہلے وہ 1949 میں لندن میں پاکستان کے وزیرِ خزانہ غلام محمد کے معاون رہے اور وزیر اعظم لیاقت علی خان کے دورۂ انگلستان میں ان کے ذاتی معاون رہے۔{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تعلیم اور ادارے",
     "markdown": "1975 میں انھوں نے «دار الرسالة» قائم کیا، جو صوفی سلسلۂ بین الاقوامی کی مرکزی رہائشی جماعت، کانفرنس و مراقبہ مرکز اور باطنی علوم کا مرکز ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-en} ان کی کتب میں اپنے والد کی زندگی و تعلیمات پر «زمانے میں پیغام» (1978)، «بیداری: ایک صوفی تجربہ» (1999) اور «پوشیدہ خزانے کی تلاش» (2003) شامل ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-en} انھوں نے اپنے بڑے بیٹے ضیا عنایت خان کو اپنا جانشین منتخب کیا۔{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "وہ 17 جون 2004 کو، اپنی 88ویں سالگرہ سے دو دن پہلے، وفات پا گئے؛ ان کا مزار دہلی، ہندوستان میں ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-vilayat-inayat-khan-ar}} {{cite:wikidata-vilayat-inayat-khan}}"
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