The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Someone asked a Sufi the reason for this creation, and he answered, "God, whose being is love itself, desired to experience the nature of His own being, and in order to experience it He had to manifest Himself." God Himself and His manifestation, the soul and God -- this dual aspect -- can be seen in all forms of nature, in the sun and the moon, in night and day, in male and female, in positive and negative, and in all things of opposite characteristics in order that this love principle, itself the original and the only principle behind the whole of manifestation, may have full play. That is why the fulfillment of the purpose of life lies in the full expression of the love principle.


 
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