{"product_id":"the-sufi-message-vol-ix-the-unity-of-religious-ideals","title":"The Sufi Message - Vol. IX : The Unity of Religious Ideals","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Hazrat Inayat Khan\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Motilal Banarsidass\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2009\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 291\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8120806891\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the ninth volume of the Indian edition of all the works of Hazrat Inayat Khan, the great Sufi mystic who lectured and taught in the western world. This book and other volumes in this series contain his lectures, discourses and other teachings as taken down in shorthand.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe complete series contains fourteen volumes.  Each volume is complete in itself, and therefore may be read without any necessity to study following or previous ones.  However, one may get a spiritual and mental appetite to continue reading .  One will find that a meditative way of reading will convey not only the words but also the spiritual power emanating from them, tuning mind, heart and soul to the pitch which is one's own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book, ‘The Unity of Religious Ideals’, may lead you straight on the path to your ideal, discover for you the religion, in whatever form it may appear, waken in yourself the longing for the Light and the Goal, and thus you may find the Self, as a pearl hidden in the shell of your heart.  In six parts the whole field of religion is covered from the point of view of the mystic, the philosophy of religion, the concept of God and the God-ideal, the spirit of guidance and the spiritual hierarchy; then various religions and messengers are discussed, followed by a presentation of some religious symbols and their explanation.  Finally, the concept of the divine message is presented, followed by an exposition of the role of universal Sufism, and what contribution it can give to the development of the individual and of humanity at large.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll Religions are essentially one: since there is only one God and one truth it cannot be otherwise.  This is one of the principal tenets of Sufism, and is one of the most important elements of Hazrat Inayat Khan’s message.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTowards the one \u003cbr\u003eThe perfection of Love, Harmony and Beauty\u003cbr\u003eThe Only Being\u003cbr\u003eUnited with all the Illuminated Souls\u003cbr\u003eWho form the Embodiment of the Master\u003cbr\u003eThe Spirit of Guidance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis invocation by Hazrat Sufi Inayat Khan represents the truth behind this book, in extremely subtle and meaningful words.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface to the Series\u003cbr\u003ePreface to Volume IX\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I\u003cbr\u003eUnity and Uniformity\u003cbr\u003eReligion\u003cbr\u003eThe Religion of the Heart\u003cbr\u003eThe Coming World Religion\u003cbr\u003eSeeking for the Ideal\u003cbr\u003eLaw\u003cbr\u003ePrayer\u003cbr\u003eBelief\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART II\u003cbr\u003eThe God-ideal\u003cbr\u003eGod the Infinite\u003cbr\u003eDeity and Divinity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART III\u003cbr\u003eThe Spiritual Hierarchy\u003cbr\u003eThe Master, the Saint, and the Prophet\u003cbr\u003eThe Prophet\u003cbr\u003eThe Spirit of Guidance\u003cbr\u003eThe Prophetic Soul\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART IV\u003cbr\u003eHinduism\u003cbr\u003eRama\u003cbr\u003eKrishna\u003cbr\u003eBuddha\u003cbr\u003eJainism\u003cbr\u003eAbraham\u003cbr\u003eMoses\u003cbr\u003eZarathushtra\u003cbr\u003eJesus\u003cbr\u003eMohammad\u003cbr\u003eIdolatry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART V\u003cbr\u003eThe Symbology of Religious Ideals\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART VI\u003cbr\u003eThe Message and the Messenger\u003cbr\u003eThe Sufi Message\u003cbr\u003eSufism\u003cbr\u003eThe Spirit of Sufism\u003cbr\u003eThe Sufi’s Aim in Life\u003cbr\u003eThe Ideal of the Sufi\u003cbr\u003eThe Sufi Movement\u003cbr\u003eThe Universal Worship\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Hazrat Inayat Khan \/ Motilal Banarsidass \/ Paperback","offer_id":68153726468464,"sku":"6908","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/6908.jpg?v=1793913187","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/the-sufi-message-vol-ix-the-unity-of-religious-ideals","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}