Karma in Universal Sufi Thought
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Inayat Khan did not speak of the term Karma, but he did refer to it using the terms "Law of Reciprocity" (see Creedal Statement number 5). It can be explained thus:
- Right and Wrong depend upon the attitude and situation, not upon the action itself. None are innate but we have the ultimate choice between them.
- When we give do any action it echoes back to us in the same form. Therefore Reciprocity is likened to a dome, in order to have a good echo one gives good, and to have evil one gives evil.
- Because we "Live, Move and Have Our Being in God" everything we do must be in awareness of this and therefore it is our duty to refresh the world and help to rid it of negative action and rebound. This is why it is said that humans have free-will. If we blame God for the evil in the world, and say that he is responsible, in truth it is us who are responsible because through us God has his experience, through us God's will is done.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan said "If you wish to be happy, think of the happiness of your fellow human being"
[edit] References
^Hazrat Inayat Khan, Complete Sayings, 200 ^ACTS 17, 28 ^Hazrat Inayat Khan, Moral Culture, P5
