The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Man shows the traces of the animal kingdom in him by his passions, emotions, and attachments, by his willingness for service and usefulness. And if one were to say what represents the human in him, the answer is all things, all the attributes of earth and heaven.

  • the stillness, hardness and strength of the stone;
  • the fighting nature, the tendency to attachment from the animals;
  • the fruitfulness and usefulness of the vegetable kingdom;
  • the inventive, artistic, poetical and musical genius of the sphere of the jinn;
  • the beauty, illumination, love, calm and peace of the angelic planes.
All these put together make man. The human soul consists of all, and thus culminates in that purpose for which the whole creation has taken place.


 
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