The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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And now coming to the idea of aristocracy or democracy, what does Sufism teach? It is the greatest pity -- and every thoughtful person of every nation will realize it, if he would stand to look at life -- that the chivalry of the knights and the noble manners, the noble ideals that the ancient people, the aristocratic people had, seem to be finished today. And although they are not realizing it today, there will come a day when we will realize that something which was most beautiful in humanity has been lost. I do not mean to say that we must become today what the world was a hundred years before. It is not necessary, and it cannot be. But at the same time we need not forget and we need not disregard all that was beautiful at that time.


 
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