The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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It is beyond possibility to explain exactly what the jinn looks like, and yet there is no being who lives without a form. There is much that can be said in support of man's imagination, which pictures the angel or jinn more or less in the form of man. For everything in the world proves on examination that it is striving to culminate in the form of man. Rocks, trees, fruits, flowers, mountains and clouds, all show a gradual development towards the image of man. A keen observer of nature will prove this a thousand times; there is everything in the world to support this argument. Every form shows either a part of the human form or an undeveloped outline of it. As it is with material things and with the lower creation, so it is that even the form of the jinn and the angel is growing towards the human form. It is this idea which is expressed in the words of the scriptures, "We have made man in our own image." If I were to add a word of explanation I would say, "We have made all forms in order to complete the image of man.'


 
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