Ten Sufi Thoughts by Hazrat Inayat Khan

The Perspective of Universal Sufism

From The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Volume 1, The Way of Illumination, Part 1:

"There are ten principal Sufi thoughts which comprise all the important subjects with which the inner life is concerned."

1. There is One God, the Eternal, the Only Being; none else exists.

2. There is One Master, the Guiding Spirit of all Souls, Who constantly leads followers towards the light.

3. There is One Holy Book, the sacred manuscript of nature, the only scripture which can enlighten the reader.

4. There is One Religion, the unswerving progress in the right direction toward the ideal, which fulfills the life's purpose of every soul.

5. There is One Law, the law of reciprocity, which can be observed by a selfless conscience, together with a sense of awakened justice.

6. There is One Family, the human family, which unites the children of the earth indiscriminately in the heart of God.

7. There is One Moral, the love which springs forth from surrender of attachment to self, and blooms in deeds of beneficence.

8. There is One Object of Praise, the beauty which uplifts the heart of its worshippers through all aspects from the seen to the unseen.

9. There is One Truth, the true knowledge of our being, within and without, which is the essence of all wisdom.

10. There is One Path, the dissolution of the false ego in the real, which raises the mortal to immortality, in which resides all perfection.

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