The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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This shows that there is a struggle between what we call life and the life which is behind it. In Sufi terms we call these two aspects of life qadha (Kaza) and qadr (Kadr): qadha the unlimited aspect of life, qadr the limited aspect. Qadr draws upon the life of qadha for its existence, and qadha wakes with its mouth open to swallow what comes into it. Therefore the thinkers and the wise men, those who are called mystics or Sufis, have discovered the science of how to withhold the experience of life - which alone gives us the evidence of life from the mouth of qadha, the ever assimilating aspect of life. If we do not know how to withhold it, it will fall into the mouth of qadha; for qadha is always waiting with open mouth. As an illness awaits the moment when a person is lacking in energy, so in all different forms qadha is waiting to assimilate all that comes to it, and which then is merged in it.


 
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