{"id":2142,"date":"2018-04-04T00:15:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T08:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becomingclear.org\/blog\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2021-03-30T08:04:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T15:04:51","slug":"bowl-of-saki-for-april-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becomingclear.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/04\/bowl-of-saki-for-april-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowl of Saki for April 04"},"content":{"rendered":"

To give sympathy is sovereignty, to desire it from others is captivity.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan<\/em><\/p>\n

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Related Material by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Compiled by Wahiduddin Richard Shelquist – wahiduddin.net<\/a><\/h5>\n

Although sometimes it gives a tender sensation in the heart to say, ‘Oh, how poorly I am’, and it is soothing to hear from someone, ‘Oh, I am so sorry you are not well’, yet I should think that one would prefer if another thing were said in sympathy, namely, ‘I am so happy to see you are so well’. In order to create that tender sensation one need not be ill. What is needed is to be thankful. We can never be too thankful.<\/p>\n

( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume IV – Mental Purification and Healingm Part I: Health, Section XI<\/a> )<\/p>\n

The first lesson given to humanity was to be grateful for our daily bread, because that was the greatest necessity of our lives. Now that has become so simple and life has changed so much that we forget to be thankful. We even think, ‘Why should I give thanks?’ We forget that behind our own personalities we cover God. Our own toil seems more to us than the toil of every atom of nature that is preparing blessings for us.<\/p>\n

Self-pity is the worst poverty; it is the source of all unhappiness and blinds us to all we should be thankful for. The constantly complaining habit and the tendency to demand sympathy from others bring the greatest thorn into our lives: we become dependent upon the sympathy of others. The best thing is to give sympathy.<\/p>\n

( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume VIII – The Art of Being: The Privilege of Being Human, Chapter XI – Overlooking (Darquza)<\/a> )<\/p>\n

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Commentary by Murshid S.A.M. (Sufi Ahmed Murad)
\nSamuel L. Lewis<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Ishk Allah<\/b>. Sympathy (Ishk) is God; there is no difference. When one gives out sympathy, one is expressing God; one has found God whether conscious of it or not. But when one desires it, one has not found it; the search is not complete.<\/p>\n

This sympathy is the very root-force of the Universe and when one comes to the heart of it — which is found even within the human heart — all keys to all mysteries are found. There is no lost key to mysteries other than love and sympathy, and to look for anything mental or magical or evocative is lost effort. By removing the ego in love and sympathy, with love and sympathy, the Golden Key becomes one\u2019s possession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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