The only way to live in the midst of inharmonious influences is to strengthen the will power and endure all things, yet keeping fineness of character and nobility of manner together with an everlasting heart full of love.
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
September 13 is Hijrat Day
(the day that Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
departed from India, and headed for America, in 1910)
Related Material by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
Compiled by Wahiduddin Richard Shelquist – wahiduddin.net
Many seek protection from all hurting influences by building some wall around themselves. But the canopy over the earth is so high that a wall cannot be built high enough, and the only thing one can do is to live in the midst of all inharmonious influences, to strengthen the Will Power and to bear all things, yet keeping the fineness of character and a nobleness of manner together with an ever-living heart.
To say, “You are different and I am different, your religion is different and my religion is different, your belief is different and my belief is different”, will not unite, it will only divide humanity. Those who, with the excuse of their great faith in their own religion, hurt the feelings of another and divide humanity which has the same source and goal, abuse religion, whatever be their faith. The Message, at whatever period it came to the world, did not come just to a certain section of humanity; it did not come to raise only some few people who perhaps accepted the faith, the message, or a particular organized Church. No, all these things came afterwards. The rain does not fall in a certain land only; the sun does not shine only on a particular country. All that comes from God is for all souls. If they are worthy, they deserve it; it is their reward; if they are unworthy, they are the more entitled to it. Verily, blessing is for every soul; for every soul, whatever be its faith or belief, belongs to God.
( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume IX – The Unity of Religious Ideals: Part I – Religion, Section ii )
When we begin to see all goodness as being the goodness of God, all the beauty that surrounds us as the Divine Beauty, we begin by worshipping a visible God, and as our heart constantly loves and admires the Divine Beauty in all that we see, we begin to see in all that is visible one single vision; all becomes for us the vision of the Beauty of God. Our love of beauty increases our capacity to such a degree that great virtues such as tolerance and forgiveness spring naturally from our heart. Even things that people mostly look upon with contempt, we view with tolerance.
~~~ Hijrat Day (Departure Day) — The day that Inayat Khan departed from India, headed for America, September 13, 1910.
Commentary by Murshid S.A.M. (Sufi Ahmed Murad)
Samuel L. Lewis
There are two ways to reach and hold this stage. One is through Darood — to hold tight to the Divine Thought on the breath. Keep unbroken concentration no matter what the occurrence or cause for complaint. Stay focused, and concentrate all the thought upon Allah so that nothing another says, does, or thinks can affect the mind. Then the mind is protected and the karmic reaction strikes the other.
At the same time, the heart should be kept pure for even the thought of another as other, even the idea of dualism with favorable opinions is not conducive to the spiritual welfare of any party concerned. Heart full of love is heart that does not conceive differences, which holds another as the self, which feels all people as the offspring of the one Divine Parent.