Social Gatheka Number 8
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, makes 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.
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 on 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 member
and its own religions 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.
