The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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The question arises: What hope is right, and what hope is not right? A wise person will never hope for what is impossible. Hoping to be a queen, when there are no means of being a queen, is hoping the impossible. First we must know what is possible - this is wisdom - and then we must hope. The Quran speaks of khawf, hope with consideration. This word does not mean fear, as it has sometimes been translated, but consideration, conscientiousness. Hope with the consideration of the purpose for which the manifestation was made, with the consideration of God - that hope is always right. Hope without consideration is wrong.


 
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