The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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In working towards the establishment of brotherhood, the main object of the Sufi Movement is to bring about a better understanding among the different classes, among the followers of different religions and the people of different races and different nations; but by this we do not mean mixing them up. If this were our idea, it would have been quite a different thing. We want to let the farms of wheat be farms of wheat; on the farms where rice grows, let rice grow; where there are woods, let there be woods, where there are gardens, let there be gardens--all are necessary. Our ideas have not reached to the extreme of wanting to cook everything in the same dish. We do not wish to stretch the fingers so as to make them all even, for their natural size is the proper size for them; our conception of equality does not conform with such an idea. Our only motive is that the East and the West, the North and the South, instead of turning their backs upon each other, may turn their faces towards each other.


 
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