One can find faith by practicing self-confidence as the first thing, having self confidence even in the smallest thing. And today most of us have the habit, especially here, to say with everything, "perhaps. " It seems that a new word has come, and in French it is most used. For everything they say "perhaps," "perhaps it will happen." It is a kind of polite word, or a word of refined people, to show themselves pessimistic. I can see their reason, because they think that it is fanatical, it is presumptuous and it is simple to say, "It will be," or, "It will come," or, "It will be accomplished," or, "It will be fulfilled."

But to say "perhaps" makes us free from responsibility, of having committed ourselves. The more pessimistic a person, the more "perhapses" he uses. And this "perhaps" has gone so deep in souls today that they cannot find faith.
And after one's self-confidence is developed, the second thing is to trust another with closed eyes. And one might think that this is not always practical, and one might think that it might lead one to great loss. But at the same time, even that loss will be a gain, and even a thousand gains compared with the loss of faith will be as nothing. A person is richer if he has trusted someone and lost something than if he had not trusted someone and had something preserved that will one day be taken away from him. He could just as well have given it up.

But you might say that every person who is simple is inclined to trust another. Yes. But the difference between the wise person who trusts bravely and the simple person who trusts readily is a great difference. The wise person who trusts, if he is influenced by another person saying, "You may not or you must not trust a certain person," or even if he had a certain proof, even then that habit of trusting would remain with him. But that simple person, as soon as you say, "Oh, but what are you doing? You are trusting somebody who is not trustworthy," his trust will change. That is the difference between the wise person and the foolish person. The foolish person trusts because he does not know better; the wise person trusts because he knows that to trust is the best.
And the third step toward the development of faith is trust in the unseen, which is called trust in God. That when you do not see before you any sign of something that should happen and yet you think, "Yes, it must happen, it will happen, it certainly must happen," and you have no doubt, then your trust is in God.

The first principle of the Sufi Message is faith. It is not occult study only, it is not scientific analysis, nor is it psychic phenomena. The first lesson of the Message is faith. And it is with faith that the Message will be spread. And we shall each work in our own way in serving, in spreading the Message. And it is with faith that the Message of God will be fulfilled. God Bless You.