Universal Worship Activity
of the International Sufi Movement
Universal Worship Current Lesson
Answer to the Cry of Humanity
Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:25:00 +0000
"In reality this Movement is the answer to the cry of humanity."
Dear siraj(a)s, cherag(a)s and candidate-cherag(a)s,
Please find below a part from Religious Gatheka 47. In this Gatheka our beloved Master Hazrat Inayat Khan speaks about the Sufi Movement. He emphasizes that the Message is not for one community, but for the whole world. We have to respect each other. In the prayer Khatum we say: "raise us above the distinctions and differences which divide men".
"I would like to speak a few words, before the service begins, on the subject of our Sufi Movement. One wonders what this Movement is; is it a religious movement, is it a philosophical movement, or is it a social movement? In reality this Movement is the answer to the cry of humanity. Whose answer? God's answer.
Is it is a religious movement, it is not a movement to make propaganda for a particular creed. It is a religious movement in this sense that this Movement is meant to bring about peace between the followers of all religions. It is a religious movement in this sense that we all may learn, whatever be our belief or faith, whatever be the faith of our ancestors, that we may learn to respect the religion of another. That eventually by doing so we may rise to that state of understanding, when to our mind comes one religion as the sum total of all religions. At that moment we rise above the differences and distinctions which come from the narrow outlook of man, from his limitation, and we begin to understand that this religion or that religion, its name and its form, was only a cover. A cover over that religion which always was and which always is and which always will be.
God is one, the Truth is one; how can there be two religions? There is one religion, the only religion. It is the smallness of human nature that he has snatched the credit from his fellow man. If there was any religion, it was one religion, at any time, at any part of the world, followed by any people or nation. Yes, we are living in different lands, but under one sky; so we have many churches, but one God, many scriptures, but one wisdom, many souls, but one spirit, the only spirit of God. It is to understand this ideal that we have this Movement."
May in this time more and more people become conscious of the idea of "Unity of Religious Ideals". We are privileged to spread the Message of God far and wide and let us do it with joy.
Sending you most loving greetings,
Ulma
