8. What the World Needs, Part 1
Beloved Brothers and Sisters,
The Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan offers a method for changing one's outlook in the midst of the troubles that arise in individual daily life and in the life of our global community.
He encourages us to practice changing our attitude through moral and spiritual advancement, and when we practice changing our own outlook, we participate in serving the cry of the humanity which each of us is a part of.
With loving regards and prayers for an enlightened world,
Nuria and KarimaGita
Social Gatheka No. 8, Part 1, What the world needs today
by Hazrat Inayat Khan
The unrest which one finds throughout the world, the difficulties among nations, the hatred existing among people one for the other, a cry of misery which comes more or less from all sides, make one wonder what may be done to find a solution for the general cry of humanity? What is done today is that the different institutions try to extinguish the fire burning here and there, but that can never solve the problem of the world.
The first thing that should be remembered is that all activities of life are connected with one another, and if one thing is put in order another goes wrong. It is just like a person who is ill, who needs sleep and good diet; if he has sleep without good diet it will not do him good, nor will a good diet without sleep help him. While wanting to straighten up commercial difficulties political problems creep up, while considering the social question moral difficulties manifest to view.
Therefore in wanting to serve humanity in the work of reconstruction, which is the duty and responsibility of every sensible soul, whatever be his rank or position or qualification in life, first the question must be studied what will be the remedy for all the maladies that manifest on the surface of life today? There is one principal thing and that is the changing of the attitude of humanity, which alone can help in all directions of life. And the attitude can be changed by moral, spiritual and religious advancement. The work that the Sufi Message has to accomplish is in this particular direction. The Sufi message is no new religion, nor is it a particular system, but it is a method of changing the attitude in life, which enables man to have another outlook on life.
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