Our virtues are made of love, and our sins are caused by a lack of it.
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
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There is one moral; the love that springs forth from self-denial and blooms in deeds of beneficence.
The orthodox say, ‘This is good, that is bad. This is right, that is wrong,’ but to a Sufi the source of all good deeds is Love. Someone may say that this is the source of bad deeds also, but that is not so; it is lack of love.
Our virtues are made of love, and our sins are caused by lack of it. Love turns sins into virtues, and its lack makes virtues meaningless. Christ said when a woman was brought before Him accused of sin, ‘Her sins are forgiven, for she loved much.’ Heaven is made so beautiful with love, and life becomes a hell through the lack of it. Love in reality creates harmony in one’s life on earth and peace in heaven.
Commentary by Murshid S.A.M. (Sufi Ahmed Murad)
Samuel L. Lewis
As the Sufi Thoughts teach, there is one moral, there is one virtue, which is Love. Particular virtues arise from the qualities displayed by love in everyday affairs. Thus arise courage, mercy, kindliness, compassion, adoration, friendship, fidelity, charity, fellowship and many other virtues. Yet all are aspects of Love.
So soon as the heart ceases to be active, so soon as mind gains control over will, the Love-Life energy from the higher spheres no longer touches the personality. This brings about the reign of sin over one. This is the Fall of humanity, true of Adam [, true of Eve,] and true of all [their] descendants.