{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_msl_msl_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_msl_msl_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_msl_msl_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/msl/msl.htm","summary":"This is a short Sufi spiritual tract by Inayat Khan, an Indian mystic who brought Sufism to the West, delivered as a message in London in 1914. Its central argument is that God is not a separate supernatural figure but the sum total of all personalities and the unified source behind all of nature, with the manifest world (Sifat) being a projection of the unmanifest Absolute (Zat) \u2014 a framework drawn from classical Islamic mysticism and expressed through Quranic verses, Rumi, and Sa'di. Khan argues that all religions and philosophies are different coverings over a single truth (Haq), and that sectarian conflict stems from failing to perceive this underlying unity. A distinctive claim is that self-knowledge and God-realization are identical \u2014 to know one's own deepest nature is to know God \u2014 a position Khan supports by citing the Quran, the Bible, and the Vedanta in the same breath, presenting them as convergent. The work defines Sufism as a tradition of the purified and universal rather than a specifically Islamic sect, accessible to anyone regardless of religion, caste, or nation. It reads as an evangelizing introduction to Sufi metaphysics aimed at a Western audience, less concerned with mystical practice than with establishing the philosophical foundations for a non-dogmatic, perennialist spirituality.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"A Sufi Message of Spiritual Liberty","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":8213}