The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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I should like to speak a few words today on the subject of Christ's phrase, "Resist not evil." Often one wonders at this saying, and it is not always given the right interpretation. In order to give an interpretation to this, the first thing is to explain what evil means. Is there any particular action or is there any particular thing which one can point out as evil? No doubt man is always apt to point out a certain action as evil, but nothing can be evil as a fixed principle. Then what is it? It is something which is void of harmony, it is something which lacks beauty, it is something which is missing love in it. Beyond and above all it is something which is not fitting in the accommodation of life. What fits in the accommodation that life offers cannot be an evil. It is the character of evil that is signified by its not being fitting in the accommodation.


 
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