The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan1

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Topic

Archetypes

Astrology

Attainment

Chakras

Character

Christ

Compassion

Dervish

Desire and renunciation

Destiny and Free Will

Dimensions

Discipleship

Dreams

Duties and debts

Ego

Elements

God

Guidance

Healers

Healing

Health

Heart

Immortality

Initiation

Light and Love

Lovers

Magnetism

Mastery

Material life

Meditation

Message

Mind

Physical Body

Planes

Poets

Power

Prayers

Purpose

Reconstruction of World

Relationships

Religions

Saints

School

Scientists

Sexuality

Sleep

Speaking

Stages

Stories

Sufism

Teaching Style

Voice

Women

World

Wounds of the Heart

Sub-Topic

Answer to the cry

Awakening of Humanity

Central Theme

Conscious of Spirit

Five Aspects

Four Questions

God and Man

God in the Heart

How are we to work?

Infinite & Finite

It is the sphere speaking

Love, harmony and beauty

Message of the Day

Nucleus & Method

One single body

Reawaken the world

Sacred task

The fire I have lighted

The Note of the Day

The Sufi Message

The Two Lines

Witness the divine hand

World Messenger

The Message Papers

Aspects of the Sufi Message

Five Aspects

June 23, 1925

My Blessed Mureeds,

Today I would like to speak on the subject of the different aspects of the Sufi Message. The Sufi Message, having the character of a prophetic message, has five different aspects of work.

  1. The first is warning humanity of the coming danger.

  2. The next aspect is bringing about a friendly understanding between the followers of different religions.

  3. The third aspect is giving the form of universal worship in which people of all different denominations may offer their prayers to the God of humanity.

  4. The fourth aspect is interpreting in the terms of the day life's secret to the generality.

  5. And the fifth aspect of the Message is guiding the seeking souls on the spiritual path.

Since these five different missions the Sufi Movement has to carry out, in order that the Message may reach all people in all parts of the world, naturally the need of helpers is felt every day more and more. When we see how few we are in number, and when we compare our limited actions with the great object we have before us, we cannot for one moment look at the success of our Movement hopefully, except that by our unchanging and everlasting faith. Besides, a few sincere workers can perform miracles, whereas thousands of workers who have not that spirit may not be able to accomplish. Therefore for us there is no need of being disappointed. We must be hopeful. Only we must be conscious of the fact that the work is great, and we are too few. And we must hope that this condition will change. And we must do our best to change it. Besides this, if there are many occupied in the spreading of the Cause, one can say, "Well, I will rest, because my friend is doing." But as we are so few we cannot rest. We must do everything possible for the spreading of the Cause.