The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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We, with our narrowness of faith or belief, accuse others of belonging to another religion, another chapel or church. We say, "This temple is better, that faith is better." The whole world has kept on fighting and devastating itself just because it can not understand that each form of religion is peculiar to itself. Therefore the ideal life is in following one's own ideal; it is not in checking other people's ideals. If a certain thing is one's ideal, that does not mean that another person will agree that it is best to offer prayers ten times a day. He may be doing better by following his religion in his shop than by going to a mosque and offering up a prayer twenty times a day. Perhaps somebody with that ideal cannot see that the other person's way is an ideal also. Leave everyone to follow his own ideal.


 
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