Karya Hazrat Inayat Khan
Sufi Thoughts # 2
There are ten principal Sufi thoughts, which comprise all the important subjects with which the inner life of man is concerned.
I (one)
There is One God, the Eternal, the Only Being; none exists save He. The God of the Sufi is the God of every creed, and the God of all. Names make no difference to him. Allah, God, Gott, Dieu, Brahma, or Bhagwan, all of these names and more are the names of his God; and yet to him God is beyond the limitation of name.
He sees his God in the sun, in the fire, in the idol which diverse secs of worship; and he recognizes Him to be beyond all form; God in all, and all in God, He being the seen and yhe Unseen, the Only Being. God to the Sufi is not only a religious belief, but also the highest ideal the human kind can conceive.
The Sufi, forgetting the self and aiming at the attaintment of the divine ideal, walks constantly all through life in the path of love and light. In God the Sufi sees the perfection of all that is in the reach of man's perception and yet he knows Him to be above human reach. He looks to him as the lover to his beloved, and takes all things in life as coming from Him, with perfect resignation. The sacred name of God is to him as medicine to the patient. The devine thought is the compass by which he steers the ship to the shores of immortality. The God-ideal is to a Sufi as a lift by which he raises himself to the eternal goal, the attainment of which is the only purposes of his life.
Hazrat Inayat Khan's classic books were among the first to bring Sufism to the West. They remain among the most important introductions Westerners have to the concepts of the ancient religious tradition. In Rassa Shastra, Khan shares his teachings on Sufi ideas about the the spiritual and sacred purpose to sex and relationships and stresses true union, one of the Sufi keys to perfection. He warns
against the danger of misusing this most sacred of divine gifts and stresses that misunderstanding sex and sexual desires leads to the deepest problems betwee
