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The Message Papers
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The Sufi Message
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The Message Papers
The Sufi Message
In all periods of the world-history and all ancient traditions one finds traces of a call from above given to communities, nations, races, and the world at large. In the Qu'ran it is said: We have sent our Messenger in all parts of the earth that people may not say they were not warned in time. All traditions hold that a Messenger is given to the world at the time of the world's need. No doubt people have given unnecessary and greater importance to the personality of the Messenger instead of to the Message. And this is the great error that humanity made at every age. While taking the Messenger instead of recognizing the Message they regarded the pen that wrote the letter instead of the letter's contents. The letter and the writer are important, the pen is only the instrument. Thus differences came in religion. The Message had always been given in periods when it was more needed loudly given, when it was less needed gently.
Christ has said: I am the Alpha and the Omega. This means that He is first and last and thus is ever there, not that He is absent in between times. The prophecy of Muhammad was: Now that the world has received a Message through a man who is subject to all limitations and conditions of human life, the Message will in the future be given without the claim.
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