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Hazrat Inayat Khan teaches about the relationship of Murshid (teacher) with Mureed (student)
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| There are several steps on the path. This is a vast subject, but condensing it I would say that there are five principal steps. The first is responsiveness to beauty of all kinds, in music, in poetry, in color or line. The second is one's exaltation by beauty, the feeling of ecstasy. The third step is tolerance and forgiveness, when these come naturally without striving for them. The fourth is that one accepts as if they were a pleasure things one dislikes and cannot stand:in the place of a bowl of wine, the bowl of poison. And the fifth step is taken when one feels the rein of one's mind in one's hand; for then one begins to feel tranquillity and peace at will. This is just like riding on a very vigorous and lively horse, yet holding the reins firmly and making it walk at the speed one desires. When this step is taken the mureed becomes a master. |
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| The task of the Sufi teacher is not to force a belief on a mureed, but to train him so that he may become illuminated enough to receive revelations himself. |
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| If a person does not become enlightened, one can find the explanation by watching the rain: it falls upon all trees, but it is according to the response of those trees that they grow and bear fruit. The sun shines upon all the trees; it makes no distinction between them, but it is according to the response that the trees give to the sun that they profit by its sunshine. At the same time a mureed is very often an inspiration to the murshid. It is not the murshid who teaches; it is God who teaches. The murshid (teacher) is only a medium, and as high as the response of the mureed reaches, so strongly does it attract the message of God. |
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