Brotherhood & Sisterhood Activity
of the International Sufi Movement
The Way of Illumination
Now when we consider that question from a still deeper point of view, we shall find that in the spirit of Brotherhood/Sisterhood there is the way of illumination. A man who lives by a great principle, or prays all day, or meditates in the caves of the mountains, if he does not show the spirit of Brotherhood/Sisterhood , he is no good to himself or others. Because Brotherhood/Sisterhood is the way to develop spiritually. It is not exclusiveness, it is not running away from the world, which is the way of the real spiritual ones. It is to consider one's obligations, it is to keep by one's word, one's honour, it is to prove sincere in every little capacity in which one may be working, faithful to friends, and true before everyone. Those are the merits which develop by themselves when the spirit of Brotherhood/Sisterhood has become mature in man.