The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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We all have the tendency to see faults in another; they try to see faults in themselves. They see virtue in sin, and sin in virtue. The world says, "That man is bad, he has done this, he has done that." They do not call anyone bad, they see what good there is even in the one who is called bad. Therefore Christ, because he was a dervish, did not condemn the sinner. He said to those Jews who thought themselves righteous, "Your father is the devil" that is: the nafs, the ego. In every virtue, in everything appearing in the garb of virtue, there is sin, or at least conceit: "I am virtuous, I am moral, I am religious." This is the worst of virtue. Therefore Hafiz says, "Show me the way of the free-thinkers. Suitable it appears to me, for the way of virtue and piety seems very far off and long."


 
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