8. What the World Needs, Part 2
Beloved Sisters and Brothers,
The Sufi Message does not expect a person to give up their own religion or faith. It is a stream of wisdom and understanding that supplies water to the many faiths of the world, as fields that all belong to God.
May the stream of this message flow through our heart, upon the field of our faith.
Loving regards and prayers for an enlightened world,
Nuria and KarimaGita
Social Gatheka No. 8, Part 2, What the World Needs Today
by Hazrat Inayat Khan
The chief thing that the Sufi Movement will try to avoid is sectarianism, which has divided man in all ages of the world's history. The Sufi Message is not opposed to any religion, faith or belief; on the other hand it is a support of all religions; it is a defense for religions which are attacked by the followers of other religions. At the same time the Sufi Movement provides humanity with the religion which is in reality all religions. The Sufi Movement is not supposed to take the whole humanity in its arms, but in the service of the whole humanity is the fulfillment of the Sufi Mission. The Sufi Movement therefore does not stand as a barrier between its members and its own religious faith, but as an open door leading to the heart of his faith. The member of the movement is a messenger of the divine message to the followers of the church or the sect to which he belongs.
The work of the Sufi Movement is not to collect all the rainwater in its own tanks, but to work and make a way for the stream of the message to flow, supplying water to the fields of the world. The work of the Sufi mission is sowing; reaping we shall leave to humanity to do for the fields do not belong to our particular movement; and all the fields belong to God. We who are employed on this farm of the world, to do the work, we must do, and leave the rest to God. Success we do not trouble about, and those who strive for it, let them seek in some other directions. Truth alone is our success, for lasting success is truth.
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