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God is love
Bowl of Saki for April 16
"GOD IS LOVE" -- THREE WORDS WHICH OPEN UP AN UNENDING REALM FOR THE THINKER WHO DESIRES TO PROBE THE DEPTHS OF THE SECRET OF LIFE. ? Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
In this we have three ideas, two of which the mind can partially grasp, the other of which -- although it names -- it grasps not at all. This is "God", who in the form called by the Sufis "Zat", is beyond all predication, but in the aspects of Life and Love, there is predication about Him.
Thus when one says "is", that means that God and the Life are identical, Allah is essence, Allah is Eternal Being; thus "God is". God is and no one else is; God is and nothing else is. Only God is and there is nought else.
But what is God? What is the nature of Life? It is Love. If it were not Love, nothing would hold on to anything else -- neither cell to cell in the physical, nor thought to thought in the mental, nor heart to heart in the spiritual. Without love nothing would adhere to anything else, there would be no things, all would be chaos. And
upon this much meditation is needed.
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Commentary by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Every kind of power lies in this one thing which we call by the simple name: love. Charity, generosity, kindness, affection, endurance, tolerance, and
patience -- all these words are different aspects of one; they are different names of only one thing: love. Whether it is said, 'God is love,' or whatever
name is given to it, all the names are the names of God; and yet every form of love, every name for love, has its own peculiar scope, has a peculiarity of its own. Love as kindness is one thing, love as tolerance is another, love as generosity is another, love as patience another; and yet from beginning to end it is just love.
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Mystics of all ages have not been known for their miraculous powers or for the doctrines they have taught, but for the devotion they have shown through out their lives. The Sufi in the East says to himself, 'Ishq Allah Ma'bud Allah, which means 'God is Love, God is the Beloved', in other words it is God who is love, lover, and beloved. When we hear the stories of the miraculous powers of mystics, of their great insight into the hidden laws of nature, of the qualities which they manifested through their beautiful personalities, we realize that these have all come from one the same source, whether one calls it devotion or whether one calls it love.
When we look at this subject from a mystic's point of view, we see that love has two aspects. Love in itself, and the shadow of love fallen on the earth. The former is heavenly the latter is earthly. The former develops self-abnegation in a person; the latter makes him more selfish then he was before. Virtues such as tolerance, mercy, forgiveness and compassion rise of themselves in the heart which is awakened to love.
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"GOD IS LOVE" -- THREE WORDS WHICH OPEN UP AN UNENDING REALM FOR THE THINKER WHO DESIRES TO PROBE THE DEPTHS OF THE SECRET OF LIFE. ? Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
In this we have three ideas, two of which the mind can partially grasp, the other of which -- although it names -- it grasps not at all. This is "God", who in the form called by the Sufis "Zat", is beyond all predication, but in the aspects of Life and Love, there is predication about Him.
Thus when one says "is", that means that God and the Life are identical, Allah is essence, Allah is Eternal Being; thus "God is". God is and no one else is; God is and nothing else is. Only God is and there is nought else.
But what is God? What is the nature of Life? It is Love. If it were not Love, nothing would hold on to anything else -- neither cell to cell in the physical, nor thought to thought in the mental, nor heart to heart in the spiritual. Without love nothing would adhere to anything else, there would be no things, all would be chaos. And
upon this much meditation is needed.
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Commentary by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Every kind of power lies in this one thing which we call by the simple name: love. Charity, generosity, kindness, affection, endurance, tolerance, and
patience -- all these words are different aspects of one; they are different names of only one thing: love. Whether it is said, 'God is love,' or whatever
name is given to it, all the names are the names of God; and yet every form of love, every name for love, has its own peculiar scope, has a peculiarity of its own. Love as kindness is one thing, love as tolerance is another, love as generosity is another, love as patience another; and yet from beginning to end it is just love.
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Mystics of all ages have not been known for their miraculous powers or for the doctrines they have taught, but for the devotion they have shown through out their lives. The Sufi in the East says to himself, 'Ishq Allah Ma'bud Allah, which means 'God is Love, God is the Beloved', in other words it is God who is love, lover, and beloved. When we hear the stories of the miraculous powers of mystics, of their great insight into the hidden laws of nature, of the qualities which they manifested through their beautiful personalities, we realize that these have all come from one the same source, whether one calls it devotion or whether one calls it love.
When we look at this subject from a mystic's point of view, we see that love has two aspects. Love in itself, and the shadow of love fallen on the earth. The former is heavenly the latter is earthly. The former develops self-abnegation in a person; the latter makes him more selfish then he was before. Virtues such as tolerance, mercy, forgiveness and compassion rise of themselves in the heart which is awakened to love.
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