The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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In the first place, what a person calls right or wrong is according to his or her own knowledge. A person calls something right which one knows as right and which one has learned to call right; a person calls something wrong which one has learned to call wrong. In this way various nations, communities, and races differ in their conceptions of right and wrong. A person accuses another of wrong doing only on the grounds that one knows it as wrong. How does one know it to be wrong? It is because one has learned it, read it in a book, or been told so. People have looked with horror and prejudice at the doings of other individuals, communities, nations, and races. Yet there is no label, no stamp, or seat upon actions which point them out as right or wrong. This is one aspect of the thing.


 
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