Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan<\/p>\n
Someone once said to a Brahmin, ’O ignorant man, you have worshipped this idol for years. Do you think it can ever answer you?’ ’Yes,’ said the Brahmin, ’even from this idol of stone the answer will come if your faith is real. But if you have no real faith, you will get no answer even from the God in heaven.’ … The first necessity is the belief that there is such a Being as God, in whom goodness, beauty, and greatness are perfect. In the beginning it will seem nothing but a belief; but in time, if kept in sincerity and faith, that belief will become like the egg of the Phoenix, out of which the magic bird is born. The birth of God is the birth of the soul. Every soul seeks for happiness, and after pursuing all the objects which for the moment seem to give happiness, it finds out that nowhere is there perfect happiness except in God.<\/p>\n
from http:\/\/wahiduddin.net\/mv2\/IX\/IX_9.htm<\/p>\n
Once imagination has helped a man to bring the presence of God before him, God is awakened in his own heart. Then before he utters a word, it is heard by God. When he is praying in a room, he is not alone. He is there with God. Then to him God is not in the highest heaven but close to him, before him, in him. Then to him heaven is on earth and earth is heaven. No one is then so living, so intelligible as God; and all names and forms disappear before Him. Then every word of prayer he utters is a living word. It not only brings blessing to him, but to all those around him. …<\/p>\n
Not only belief, but faith too is necessary. Belief is a thing, but faith is a living being. We rise by treading the path of faith. Some day we shall realize what God is, but that only comes after the first lesson has been learned. Faith is the ABC of the revelation of God, and the way to faith is begun by prayer.<\/p>\n
from http:\/\/wahiduddin.net\/mv2\/IX\/IX_7.htm<\/p>\n
~~~ Faith is the A B C of the realization of God. This faith begins by prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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