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Bowl of Saqi for January 24
THERE IS AN ANSWER TO EVERY CALL;
THOSE WHO CALL ON GOD, TO THEM GOD COMES.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
Jesus Christ has said, "Not every one who saith 'Lord, Lord'
will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he that doeth the Will
of the Father." This is very im****tant and a mighty
teaching. To call upon God one not only needs to use a Name
of God -- or the Name may be dispensed with under certain
conditions -- but other names, thoughts and desires must be
rejected at that time.
Nevertheless, every call, whether expressed in speech or
thought, rises to its proper sphere and returns to earth. If
it is confined to the karmic sphere, it brings its natural
fruit, but if it is united to pure will, it brings something
Divine. So the speech or prayer to God, not coupled with any
thought, feeling or emotion, which would return to the nufs,
reaches God.
This does not bring God to one, God is already there; but it
enables the person to recognize and realize God and to serve
Him so that God's success and man's success are one.
karma, nufs....
http://www.rosanna.com/sufiwritings/glossary/glossary.htm
http://www.rosanna.com/saki/janjun/jan/january24.htm
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