The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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There is the story of a Sufi who met a young man while traveling and said to him, "Come and see me if you pass the village where I live; you might call on me." This young man asked, "May I know the name of the place where you live?" The Sufi said, "The place of liars, it is near the temple." This young man was very confused; he thought the Sufi was speaking all the time of truth, and yet saying he lived in the place of liars! When he arrived at the village he tried to find the Sufi, but no one knew where the place of liars was. He only found it in the end when he came near the temple and saw the Sufi there. He said, "The first question that arises in my mind is why do you call this place the place of liars?" The Sufi said to the young man, "Come along with me, we shall go for a little walk in the graveyard, which is just close by."


 
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