The Universal Worship is a school where we can learn the lesson of tolerance, learn to adhere to all teachers and to respect all scriptures. This lesson teaches us that we need not give up our religion, but we must embrace all religions in order to make the sacredness of religion perfect.
The Ceremony of Universal Worship is a devotional service that offers reverence, homage and gratitude to the one Source of all light, while symbolically acknowledging all the names and religious forms through which the light of Truth has shone.
Hazrat Inayat Khan introduced the Universal Worship to the world in an impressive ceremony performed on Saturday, May 7th, 1921, at Tragantha Road, London, England.
Inner Light
Theme: The Trials and Refuge of the Inner Life
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Shamsher van Hees, Candle Lighting
Zohra M.E. le Rutte, Scripture Readings
Nuria Stephanie Sabato, Sermon
Divine Light
Universal Worship, The Church of All
Theme: Divine Light
Theme: Divine Light
1. Lighting of Candles (5:07) - Reverend Mudita Sabato
2. Reading of the Sacred Texts (15:38) - Reverend Nuria Sabato
3. Sermon (9:41) - Reverend Kabir Kitz
4. Musical Meditation (4:05)
5. Benediction (1:59) - Reverend Kabir Kitz
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Universal Worship - Benediction from International Sufi Movement-USA.
Benediction from International Sufi Movement-USA.
Path of Spiritual Liberty
Theme: Path of Spiritual Liberty by Siraja Nuria Stephanie Sabato
Universal Worship, Sermon from International Sufi Movement on Vimeo.
Sermon: Path of Spiritual Liberty
by Siraja Nuria Stephanie Sabato
1. Musical Introduction (5:16) - Ron McCorkle
2. Lighting of Candles (7:10) - KarimaGita Erickson-Harper
3. Reading of the Sacred Texts (16:30) - Mudita Sabato
4. Sermon (30:41) - Nuria Stephanie Sabato
5. Musical Meditation and Benediction (6:30)
Musical Introduction
Lighting of Candles
Prayer Salat
Benediction
Musical Meditation from International Sufi Movement on Vimeo.
Musical Meditation played by Ron McCorkle during the Universal Worship
Closing Prayer and Benediction from International Sufi Movement on Vimeo.
Understanding & Forgiveness
Theme: Illuminating our Path Towards a Greater Understanding and Forgiveness by Siraja Nuria Stephanie Sabato
READINGS FROM THE HOLY SCRIPTURES From the Chhandogya Upanishad Chapter VI — Meditation as Brahman, Verse 2 "He who meditates on understanding as Brahman attains the worlds of understanding and knowledge and can, of his own free will, reach as far as understanding reaches—he who meditates on understanding as Brahman." From the Dhammpada Verse 3 Mind With single-mindedness The master quells his thoughts. He ends their wandering. Seated in the cave of the heart, He finds freedom. How can a troubled mind Understand the way? If a man is disturbed He will never be filled with knowledge. An untroubled mind, No longer seeking to consider What is right and what is wrong, A mind beyond judgements, Watches and understands. From the Zend Avesta Ohrmazd Yasht (Hymn to Ahura Mazda) 38 'We worship the memory of Ahura Mazda, to keep the Holy Word. 'We worship the understanding of Ahura Mazda, to study the Holy Word. 'We worship the tongue of Ahura Mazda, to speak forth the Holy Word. 'We worship the mountain that gives understanding, that preserves understanding; [we worship it] by day and by night, with offerings of libations well-accepted. From the Old Testament of the Holy Bible 1 Kings 3:9-3:12 {3:9} Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thypeople, that I may discern between good and bad: for who isable to judge this thy so great a people? {3:10} And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. {3:11} And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment; {3:12} Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee. From the New Testament of the Holy Bible Mark 12:28-12:33 {12:28} And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? {12:29} And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments [is,] Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: {12:30} And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. {12:31} And the second [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. {12:32} And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: {12:33} And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love [his] neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. From the Holy Koran Sura 24 AN-NUR THE LIGHT – Chapter 8, Verse 61 …you should greet one another with the greeting of peace prescribed by Allah blessed and pure. Thus Allah makes His revelations clear to you, so that you may grow in understanding. From the Gayan, Vadan and Nirtan “The lover of goodness loves every little sign of goodness. He overlooks the faults and fills up the gaps by pouring out love and supplying that which is lacking. This is real nobility of soul. Religion, prayer, and worship, are all intended to ennoble the soul, not to make it narrow, sectarian or bigoted. One cannot arrive at true nobility of spirit if one is not prepared to forgive the imperfections of human nature. For all men, whether worthy or unworthy, require forgiveness, and only in this way can one rise above the lack of harmony and beauty.”
SERMON The Eastern Indian Philosopher Hazrat Inayat Khan teaches, “All tragedy of life, all misery and inharmony are caused by one thing and that is lack of understanding. Lack of understanding comes from lack of penetration. The one who does not see from the point of view from which he ought to see becomes disappointed because he cannot understand. It is not for the outer world to help us to understand life better; it is we ourselves who should help ourselves to understand it better”. (Sufi Message Volume XIV - The Smiling Forehead, Part I - The Smiling Forehead, Chapter XIX, The Awakening of the Soul, by Hazrat Inayat Khan.) The key here is, that “all misery in life comes from a lack of understanding” and that “lack of understanding comes from lack of penetration”, and it is our responsibility to train ourselves to understand life better. And how? Here Inayat Khan gives us the answer. Through “penetration”! In the Chhandogya Upanishad, Chapter VI — Meditation as Brahman, Verse 2 we heard this teaching: "He who meditates on understanding as Brahman attains the worlds of understanding and knowledge.” What does it mean, “Meditate as Brahman?” It means that we penetrate beyond the surface of our ordinary mind – and as the Sufi Mystic and Scholar Ibn’ Arabi teaches us: “Seek to know that which transpires behind that which appears.” Meditate as Brahman, with the concentrated mind of Braham penetrating the hidden meaning beyond the surface of appearances. Inayat Khan tell us … “God is Everywhere”… the inner life does not consist in closing the eyes and looking inward. The inner life is to look outwardly and inwardly, and to find one's Beloved everywhere. (Sufi Message Volume 1, The Inner Life, The Object of the Journey) But God cannot be made a Beloved unless the love element is awakened sufficiently. The one who hates his enemy and loves his friend cannot call God his Beloved, for he does not know God. When love comes to its fullness, then one looks at the friend with affection, on the enemy with forgiveness, on the stranger with sympathy. There is love in all its aspects expressed when love rises to its fullness; and it is the fullness of love which is worth offering to God. It is then that man recognizes in God his Beloved, his Ideal; and by that, although he rises above the narrow affection of this world, he is the one who really knows how to love even his friend. It is the lover of God who knows love when he rises to that stage of the fullness of love, tolerance, and to all moral principles. All deeds of kindness and beneficence take root in the soil of the loving heart. Generosity, charity, adaptability, an accommodating nature, even renunciation, are the offspring of love alone. The great, rare and chosen beings, who for ages have been looked up to as ideal in the world, are the possessors of hearts kindled with love. All evil and sin come from the lack of love. (Sufi Message Volume 1, The Inner Life, The Object of the Journey) Now we have to ask, how can we develop the art penetration? Our minds are so often active – even overactive – life has so many demands. Our mind so rarely stilled, we find ourselves constantly navigating choppy waters and in doing so our equilibrium may be lost. This in turn can lead us to feeling lack of patience, which gives rise to misunderstandings that ultimately lead to our feeling isolated, separated, and alienated because of our own judgments. Or the judgments we feel from others upon us. Again the answer is through single-minded penetration. As pointed out here in the reading from the Dhamapada Verse 3 on Mind, “With single-mindedness The master quells his thoughts. He ends their wandering.” Quelling ones thoughts can be understood by a concentrated, single-minded effort the energy of the experience … the energy of the moment can be used to penetrate the obscurations leading to our greater understanding. The Dhammapada further teaches us: “How can a troubled mind Understand the way? If a man is disturbed He will never be filled with knowledge. An untroubled mind, No longer seeking to consider What is right and what is wrong, A mind beyond judgements, Watches and understands.” Hazrat Inayat Khan gives us an instructive pathway leading to greater understanding. He teaches us In the attainment of the inner life, there are five things necessary. 1. Unlearning 2. A Spiritual Guide 3. Receiving of Knowledge 4. Meditation 5. A Loving Life Their first moral principle is constantly to avoid hurting the feeling of another. (Sufi Message Volume 1, The Inner Life, Attaining the Inner Life) Holy Bible-New “Testament” “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” This is one of the great commandments. The second principle is to avoid being affected by the constantly jarring influences which every soul has to meet in life.(Sufi Message Volume 1, The Inner Life, Attaining the Inner Life) In the Old Testament we heard: “I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart;…” Returning to the principles of the inner life, “The third principle is to keep balance under all different situations and conditions which upset the tranquil state of mind.” To highlight this principle we turn to another …. (Sufi Message Volume 1, The Inner Life, Attaining the Inner Life) From the text by Inayat Khan titled the Unity of Religious Ideals, “Think of the life of the great Master Jesus... one sees that from beginning to end there was nothing but love and forgiveness [in the manner of Jesus]. (Sufi Message Volume IX - The Unity of Religious Ideals, Part II, The God Ideal, by Hazrat Inayat Khan) It is by unifying our hearts and minds with that of the Master Jesus that we can seize the vitality of mystical transformation offered to us through difficulties, challenges, hurtfulness of another’s thoughtlessness and unite the example Jesus gave to us during his great martyrdom. As Our Beloved Jesus hung on the cross he cried out, “Forgive them Father they know not what they do.” What extraordinary love… What extraordinary forgiveness. Friends our lives all situations and conditions from one point of view we can see only as troublesome, but with a penetrating awareness we can begin to view life’s troubles as little crucifixions that give us the opportunity to experience in small measure what Jesus did in His life and death –¬— Opportunities to practice real forgiveness which develop in us true character and can serve ennoble our souls. Returning to the list of those five things necessary for the development of the inner life, “fourth principle is to love unceasingly all those who deserve love, and to give to the undeserving forgiveness; and this is continually practiced .” (Sufi Message Volume 1, The Inner Life, Attaining the Inner Life) This point again is highlighted in our reading today from Holy Koran. Sura 24, AN-NUR – THE LIGHT – Chapter 8, Verse 61 “...you should greet one another with the greeting of peace prescribed by Allah blessed and pure. Thus Allah makes His revelations clear to you, so that you may grow in understanding.” The fifth principle in the development of the inner life which develops in us “detachment amidst the crowd; but by detachment it is not meant separation. By detachment it is to be understood as rising above those bondages which bind man and keep him back from his journey towards the goal.” In the Zend Avesta we heard: “We worship the mountain that gives understanding, that preserves understanding; [we worship it] by day and by night, with offerings.” From this small teaching we can learn that when one’s mind is full of praise and offering, by day and night, it refocuses our attention on the sublime vision of awakened understanding. Further when it is said, “We worship the mountain that gives understanding” —we understanding here the metaphor of the mountain as something here on earth that represents grandeur and great stability while reaching towards the heaven. Another beautiful metaphor given to us by Inayat Khan is that of the mirror where He teaches, “When the mind is troubled it is confused. It cannot reflect anything. It is the stillness of mind that makes one capable of receiving impressions and of reflecting them. In Persian the mind is called a mirror. Everything in front of the mirror appears in it; but when [the object] is taken away the mirror is clear. It does not remain. It remains in the mirror as long as the mirror is focused on it, and so it is with the mind.” Inayat Khan goes on to teach us: “[The] inner life is something which is within oneself. It has been called a chamber of divine light in one's heart. The door remains closed until an effort is made to open it. Everything becomes spiritual once this door of the chamber of the heart is open.” (9) and… “It is forgiveness and that forbearance which is a recognition of the freedom and dignity of the human being, that consume all ugliness and burn up all unworthiness, leaving only beauty there.” (Sufi Message Volume 3, Life's Creative Forces: Rasa Shastra) May God bless us all with hearts overflowing with understanding, love, and forgiveness.
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Universal Worship Sermon from International Sufi Movement.
Illuminating our Path Towards a Greater Understanding and Forgiveness. This Sermon was given by Nuria Stephanie Sabato at the 2010 International Sufi Movement Summer School in Katwijk, Holland. ***Please note: The last 4 minutes of the Sermon are not available by video. The video will continue to play the audio, with a blank screen. The Universal Worship Service is available in audio in its entirety below.1. Musical Introduction (8:18) - Ragini
2. Lighting of Candles (6:50) - Ameen Carp
3. Reading of the Sacred Texts (15:55) - Rani McGloughlin
4. Sermon (21:58) - Nuria Stephanie Sabato5. Musical Meditation and Benediction (5:43)
READINGS FROM THE HOLY SCRIPTURES From the Chhandogya Upanishad Chapter VI — Meditation as Brahman, Verse 2 "He who meditates on understanding as Brahman attains the worlds of understanding and knowledge and can, of his own free will, reach as far as understanding reaches—he who meditates on understanding as Brahman." From the Dhammpada Verse 3 Mind With single-mindedness The master quells his thoughts. He ends their wandering. Seated in the cave of the heart, He finds freedom. How can a troubled mind Understand the way? If a man is disturbed He will never be filled with knowledge. An untroubled mind, No longer seeking to consider What is right and what is wrong, A mind beyond judgements, Watches and understands. From the Zend Avesta Ohrmazd Yasht (Hymn to Ahura Mazda) 38 'We worship the memory of Ahura Mazda, to keep the Holy Word. 'We worship the understanding of Ahura Mazda, to study the Holy Word. 'We worship the tongue of Ahura Mazda, to speak forth the Holy Word. 'We worship the mountain that gives understanding, that preserves understanding; [we worship it] by day and by night, with offerings of libations well-accepted. From the Old Testament of the Holy Bible 1 Kings 3:9-3:12 {3:9} Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thypeople, that I may discern between good and bad: for who isable to judge this thy so great a people? {3:10} And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. {3:11} And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment; {3:12} Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee. From the New Testament of the Holy Bible Mark 12:28-12:33 {12:28} And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? {12:29} And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments [is,] Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: {12:30} And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. {12:31} And the second [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. {12:32} And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: {12:33} And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love [his] neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. From the Holy Koran Sura 24 AN-NUR THE LIGHT – Chapter 8, Verse 61 …you should greet one another with the greeting of peace prescribed by Allah blessed and pure. Thus Allah makes His revelations clear to you, so that you may grow in understanding. From the Gayan, Vadan and Nirtan “The lover of goodness loves every little sign of goodness. He overlooks the faults and fills up the gaps by pouring out love and supplying that which is lacking. This is real nobility of soul. Religion, prayer, and worship, are all intended to ennoble the soul, not to make it narrow, sectarian or bigoted. One cannot arrive at true nobility of spirit if one is not prepared to forgive the imperfections of human nature. For all men, whether worthy or unworthy, require forgiveness, and only in this way can one rise above the lack of harmony and beauty.”
SERMON The Eastern Indian Philosopher Hazrat Inayat Khan teaches, “All tragedy of life, all misery and inharmony are caused by one thing and that is lack of understanding. Lack of understanding comes from lack of penetration. The one who does not see from the point of view from which he ought to see becomes disappointed because he cannot understand. It is not for the outer world to help us to understand life better; it is we ourselves who should help ourselves to understand it better”. (Sufi Message Volume XIV - The Smiling Forehead, Part I - The Smiling Forehead, Chapter XIX, The Awakening of the Soul, by Hazrat Inayat Khan.) The key here is, that “all misery in life comes from a lack of understanding” and that “lack of understanding comes from lack of penetration”, and it is our responsibility to train ourselves to understand life better. And how? Here Inayat Khan gives us the answer. Through “penetration”! In the Chhandogya Upanishad, Chapter VI — Meditation as Brahman, Verse 2 we heard this teaching: "He who meditates on understanding as Brahman attains the worlds of understanding and knowledge.” What does it mean, “Meditate as Brahman?” It means that we penetrate beyond the surface of our ordinary mind – and as the Sufi Mystic and Scholar Ibn’ Arabi teaches us: “Seek to know that which transpires behind that which appears.” Meditate as Brahman, with the concentrated mind of Braham penetrating the hidden meaning beyond the surface of appearances. Inayat Khan tell us … “God is Everywhere”… the inner life does not consist in closing the eyes and looking inward. The inner life is to look outwardly and inwardly, and to find one's Beloved everywhere. (Sufi Message Volume 1, The Inner Life, The Object of the Journey) But God cannot be made a Beloved unless the love element is awakened sufficiently. The one who hates his enemy and loves his friend cannot call God his Beloved, for he does not know God. When love comes to its fullness, then one looks at the friend with affection, on the enemy with forgiveness, on the stranger with sympathy. There is love in all its aspects expressed when love rises to its fullness; and it is the fullness of love which is worth offering to God. It is then that man recognizes in God his Beloved, his Ideal; and by that, although he rises above the narrow affection of this world, he is the one who really knows how to love even his friend. It is the lover of God who knows love when he rises to that stage of the fullness of love, tolerance, and to all moral principles. All deeds of kindness and beneficence take root in the soil of the loving heart. Generosity, charity, adaptability, an accommodating nature, even renunciation, are the offspring of love alone. The great, rare and chosen beings, who for ages have been looked up to as ideal in the world, are the possessors of hearts kindled with love. All evil and sin come from the lack of love. (Sufi Message Volume 1, The Inner Life, The Object of the Journey) Now we have to ask, how can we develop the art penetration? Our minds are so often active – even overactive – life has so many demands. Our mind so rarely stilled, we find ourselves constantly navigating choppy waters and in doing so our equilibrium may be lost. This in turn can lead us to feeling lack of patience, which gives rise to misunderstandings that ultimately lead to our feeling isolated, separated, and alienated because of our own judgments. Or the judgments we feel from others upon us. Again the answer is through single-minded penetration. As pointed out here in the reading from the Dhamapada Verse 3 on Mind, “With single-mindedness The master quells his thoughts. He ends their wandering.” Quelling ones thoughts can be understood by a concentrated, single-minded effort the energy of the experience … the energy of the moment can be used to penetrate the obscurations leading to our greater understanding. The Dhammapada further teaches us: “How can a troubled mind Understand the way? If a man is disturbed He will never be filled with knowledge. An untroubled mind, No longer seeking to consider What is right and what is wrong, A mind beyond judgements, Watches and understands.” Hazrat Inayat Khan gives us an instructive pathway leading to greater understanding. He teaches us In the attainment of the inner life, there are five things necessary. 1. Unlearning 2. A Spiritual Guide 3. Receiving of Knowledge 4. Meditation 5. A Loving Life Their first moral principle is constantly to avoid hurting the feeling of another. (Sufi Message Volume 1, The Inner Life, Attaining the Inner Life) Holy Bible-New “Testament” “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” This is one of the great commandments. The second principle is to avoid being affected by the constantly jarring influences which every soul has to meet in life.(Sufi Message Volume 1, The Inner Life, Attaining the Inner Life) In the Old Testament we heard: “I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart;…” Returning to the principles of the inner life, “The third principle is to keep balance under all different situations and conditions which upset the tranquil state of mind.” To highlight this principle we turn to another …. (Sufi Message Volume 1, The Inner Life, Attaining the Inner Life) From the text by Inayat Khan titled the Unity of Religious Ideals, “Think of the life of the great Master Jesus... one sees that from beginning to end there was nothing but love and forgiveness [in the manner of Jesus]. (Sufi Message Volume IX - The Unity of Religious Ideals, Part II, The God Ideal, by Hazrat Inayat Khan) It is by unifying our hearts and minds with that of the Master Jesus that we can seize the vitality of mystical transformation offered to us through difficulties, challenges, hurtfulness of another’s thoughtlessness and unite the example Jesus gave to us during his great martyrdom. As Our Beloved Jesus hung on the cross he cried out, “Forgive them Father they know not what they do.” What extraordinary love… What extraordinary forgiveness. Friends our lives all situations and conditions from one point of view we can see only as troublesome, but with a penetrating awareness we can begin to view life’s troubles as little crucifixions that give us the opportunity to experience in small measure what Jesus did in His life and death –¬— Opportunities to practice real forgiveness which develop in us true character and can serve ennoble our souls. Returning to the list of those five things necessary for the development of the inner life, “fourth principle is to love unceasingly all those who deserve love, and to give to the undeserving forgiveness; and this is continually practiced .” (Sufi Message Volume 1, The Inner Life, Attaining the Inner Life) This point again is highlighted in our reading today from Holy Koran. Sura 24, AN-NUR – THE LIGHT – Chapter 8, Verse 61 “...you should greet one another with the greeting of peace prescribed by Allah blessed and pure. Thus Allah makes His revelations clear to you, so that you may grow in understanding.” The fifth principle in the development of the inner life which develops in us “detachment amidst the crowd; but by detachment it is not meant separation. By detachment it is to be understood as rising above those bondages which bind man and keep him back from his journey towards the goal.” In the Zend Avesta we heard: “We worship the mountain that gives understanding, that preserves understanding; [we worship it] by day and by night, with offerings.” From this small teaching we can learn that when one’s mind is full of praise and offering, by day and night, it refocuses our attention on the sublime vision of awakened understanding. Further when it is said, “We worship the mountain that gives understanding” —we understanding here the metaphor of the mountain as something here on earth that represents grandeur and great stability while reaching towards the heaven. Another beautiful metaphor given to us by Inayat Khan is that of the mirror where He teaches, “When the mind is troubled it is confused. It cannot reflect anything. It is the stillness of mind that makes one capable of receiving impressions and of reflecting them. In Persian the mind is called a mirror. Everything in front of the mirror appears in it; but when [the object] is taken away the mirror is clear. It does not remain. It remains in the mirror as long as the mirror is focused on it, and so it is with the mind.” Inayat Khan goes on to teach us: “[The] inner life is something which is within oneself. It has been called a chamber of divine light in one's heart. The door remains closed until an effort is made to open it. Everything becomes spiritual once this door of the chamber of the heart is open.” (9) and… “It is forgiveness and that forbearance which is a recognition of the freedom and dignity of the human being, that consume all ugliness and burn up all unworthiness, leaving only beauty there.” (Sufi Message Volume 3, Life's Creative Forces: Rasa Shastra) May God bless us all with hearts overflowing with understanding, love, and forgiveness.
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The Prayers - Dutch
The Prayers of the Universal Worship Service in Dutch
AANROEP
Tot de Ene,
De volmaaktheid van Liefde, Harmonie en Schoonheid,
Het Enige Wezen, verenigd met alle verlichte zielen,
Die de belichaming vormen van de Meester,
De Geest van Leiding.
SAUM
Geprezen zijt Gij, allerhoogste God,
almachtig, alomtegenwoordig, aldoordringend,
het Enige Wezen.
Neem ons in Uw ouderarmen,
hef ons op uit de dichtheid van de aarde.
Uw schoonheid aanbidden wij,
aan U geven wij ons gewillig over.
Allergenadigst en barmhartig God,
geïdealiseerde Heer van de hele mensheid,
U alleen aanbidden wij
en naar U alleen gaat ons verlangen uit.
Open ons hart voor Uw schoonheid,
verlicht onze ziel met goddelijk licht.
O Gij, de volmaaktheid
van liefde, harmonie en schoonheid,
Almachtig schepper, onderhouder, rechter
en vergever van onze tekortkomingen,
Heer God van het oosten en van het westen,
van de werelden omhoog en omlaag
en van de geziene en ongeziene wezens,
stort Uw liefde en Uw licht over ons uit;
Geef voedsel aan ons lichaam, ons hart en onze ziel;
Gebruik ons voor het doel dat Uw wijsheid kiest
en leid ons op het pad van Uw eigen goedheid;
Trek ons nader tot U, ieder ogenblik van ons leven,
tot zich in ons weerspiegelen moge
Uw genade, Uw heerlijkheid, Uw wijsheid,
Uw vreugde en Uw vrede.
Amen
SALAT
Allergenadigst Heer, Meester,
Messias en verlosser van de mensheid,
wij groeten U in alle ootmoed.
Gij zijt de eerste oorzaak en het laatste gevolg,
het goddelijk licht en de Geest van Leiding,
Alpha en Omega.
Uw licht is in alle vormen, Uw liefde in alle wezens:
in een liefdevolle moeder,
in een vriendelijk vader,
in een onschuldig kind,
in een helpend vriend,
in een bezielend leraar.
Geef dat wij U herkennen mogen in al Uw heilige namen en vormen:
als Rama, als Krishna, als Shiva, als Boeddha.
Laat ons U kennen als Abraham, als Salomo, als Zarathoesthra,
als Mozes, als Jezus, als Mohammed
en in veel meer namen en vormen, bekend en onbekend aan de wereld.
Wij aanbidden Uw verleden,
Uw tegenwoordigheid verlicht diep ons wezen
en we zien uit naar Uw zegen in de toekomst.
O Boodschapper, Christus, Nabi, de Rasoel van God,
Gij wiens hart voortdurend opwaarts reikt,
Gij komt op aarde als een duif van omhoog
wanneer Dharma in verval is
en spreekt het woord dat U in de mond wordt gelegd
zoals het licht de wassende maan vult.
Laat de ster van het goddelijk licht, die in Uw hart schijnt
zich weerspiegelen in het hart van Uw toegewijden.
Moge de Boodschap van God wijd en zijd reiken,
de hele mensheid verlichten
en haar maken tot één enkele broederschap
in het vaderschap van God.
Amen
KHATUM
O Gij, die de volmaaktheid zijt
van liefde, harmonie en schoonheid,
Heer van hemel en aarde,
open ons hart
opdat wij Uw stem mogen horen
die voortdurend van binnenuit komt.
Ontsluit ons Uw goddelijk licht
dat in onze ziel is verborgen,
opdat wij het leven beter mogen kennen en begrijpen.
Allergenadigst en barmhartig God
schenk ons Uw grote goedheid,
leer ons Uw liefdevolle vergeven,
hef ons op boven alle onderscheid en verschil
dat de mensen verdeelt,
zend ons de vrede van Uw goddelijke geest
en verenig ons allen
in Uw volmaakte wezen.
Amen
NOTE: These prayers have been preserved in their original form out of loving respect for the bringer of the Message, Hazrat Inayat Khan. A careful reading of them will show that their wide embrace extends far beyond any gender bias in the language, which was the accepted form at the time they were composed.
AANROEP
Tot de Ene,
De volmaaktheid van Liefde, Harmonie en Schoonheid,
Het Enige Wezen, verenigd met alle verlichte zielen,
Die de belichaming vormen van de Meester,
De Geest van Leiding.
SAUM
Geprezen zijt Gij, allerhoogste God,
almachtig, alomtegenwoordig, aldoordringend,
het Enige Wezen.
Neem ons in Uw ouderarmen,
hef ons op uit de dichtheid van de aarde.
Uw schoonheid aanbidden wij,
aan U geven wij ons gewillig over.
Allergenadigst en barmhartig God,
geïdealiseerde Heer van de hele mensheid,
U alleen aanbidden wij
en naar U alleen gaat ons verlangen uit.
Open ons hart voor Uw schoonheid,
verlicht onze ziel met goddelijk licht.
O Gij, de volmaaktheid
van liefde, harmonie en schoonheid,
Almachtig schepper, onderhouder, rechter
en vergever van onze tekortkomingen,
Heer God van het oosten en van het westen,
van de werelden omhoog en omlaag
en van de geziene en ongeziene wezens,
stort Uw liefde en Uw licht over ons uit;
Geef voedsel aan ons lichaam, ons hart en onze ziel;
Gebruik ons voor het doel dat Uw wijsheid kiest
en leid ons op het pad van Uw eigen goedheid;
Trek ons nader tot U, ieder ogenblik van ons leven,
tot zich in ons weerspiegelen moge
Uw genade, Uw heerlijkheid, Uw wijsheid,
Uw vreugde en Uw vrede.
Amen
SALAT
Allergenadigst Heer, Meester,
Messias en verlosser van de mensheid,
wij groeten U in alle ootmoed.
Gij zijt de eerste oorzaak en het laatste gevolg,
het goddelijk licht en de Geest van Leiding,
Alpha en Omega.
Uw licht is in alle vormen, Uw liefde in alle wezens:
in een liefdevolle moeder,
in een vriendelijk vader,
in een onschuldig kind,
in een helpend vriend,
in een bezielend leraar.
Geef dat wij U herkennen mogen in al Uw heilige namen en vormen:
als Rama, als Krishna, als Shiva, als Boeddha.
Laat ons U kennen als Abraham, als Salomo, als Zarathoesthra,
als Mozes, als Jezus, als Mohammed
en in veel meer namen en vormen, bekend en onbekend aan de wereld.
Wij aanbidden Uw verleden,
Uw tegenwoordigheid verlicht diep ons wezen
en we zien uit naar Uw zegen in de toekomst.
O Boodschapper, Christus, Nabi, de Rasoel van God,
Gij wiens hart voortdurend opwaarts reikt,
Gij komt op aarde als een duif van omhoog
wanneer Dharma in verval is
en spreekt het woord dat U in de mond wordt gelegd
zoals het licht de wassende maan vult.
Laat de ster van het goddelijk licht, die in Uw hart schijnt
zich weerspiegelen in het hart van Uw toegewijden.
Moge de Boodschap van God wijd en zijd reiken,
de hele mensheid verlichten
en haar maken tot één enkele broederschap
in het vaderschap van God.
Amen
KHATUM
O Gij, die de volmaaktheid zijt
van liefde, harmonie en schoonheid,
Heer van hemel en aarde,
open ons hart
opdat wij Uw stem mogen horen
die voortdurend van binnenuit komt.
Ontsluit ons Uw goddelijk licht
dat in onze ziel is verborgen,
opdat wij het leven beter mogen kennen en begrijpen.
Allergenadigst en barmhartig God
schenk ons Uw grote goedheid,
leer ons Uw liefdevolle vergeven,
hef ons op boven alle onderscheid en verschil
dat de mensen verdeelt,
zend ons de vrede van Uw goddelijke geest
en verenig ons allen
in Uw volmaakte wezen.
Amen
NOTE: These prayers have been preserved in their original form out of loving respect for the bringer of the Message, Hazrat Inayat Khan. A careful reading of them will show that their wide embrace extends far beyond any gender bias in the language, which was the accepted form at the time they were composed.
The Prayers - Chinese
祈祷编 The Prayers of the Universal Worship Service in Chinese
根本祈祷文
朝向太一，
您是爱、和谐与美的极致，
您是独一的存在，您与所有开悟的灵魂合一
这些灵魂成为主元的化身，
成为引导之灵。
撒乌姆（晨间祈祷文）
赞颂归于您——至高无上的神，
您是无所不能、无所不在、充满一切的，独一的存在。
请把我们揽入您父母般的怀抱里，
请把我们从尘世的稠林中提拔出来。
我们确实尊崇您的美，
我们确实愿意臣服于您，
至仁至慈的神啊，
全人类心中的完美之主，
我们只尊崇您，并且我们唯独渴望您。
请您打开我们的心扉，让我们朝向您的美，
请您用神性之光照亮我们的灵魂，
啊，您是爱、和谐与美的极致，
您是全能的造物主，是维护者，是我们缺点的判知者和宽恕者，
东方和西方的，在世界上方和下方的，
可见和不可见存在中的，尊贵的神啊，
请把您的爱和您的光倾洒在我们之上吧，
请您把营养赐给我们的身体、心和灵魂吧，
请按照您的智慧所抉择的目的来使用我们吧，
并请在您自身的仁爱之路上引导我们吧。
在我们生命的每一个片刻，都请您把我们拉近您吧，
直至在我们里面映现出您的慈悲、您的荣耀、您的智慧、您的欢喜
和您的平静。
阿门。
瑟拉特（午间祈祷文）
至慈的主、宗师、弥赛亚和人类的救世主，
我们以所有的谦卑向您致敬。
您是最初的原因和最终的结果，您是神性之光
和引导之灵，您是开始和结束。
您的光在所有的形式之中，您的爱在一切的存在之中：
在慈爱的母亲之中，在慈祥的父亲之中，在天真的孩子之中，
在益友之中，在循循善诱的老师之中。
请让我们在您所有的神圣名字和形式中辨认出您：
诸如罗摩、克里希那、湿婆、佛陀。
请让我们以亚伯拉罕、所罗门、查拉图斯特拉、
摩西、耶稣、默罕默德等名字和形式来认出您，
也请让我们在许多其他
对这个世界已知和未知的名字和形式中认出您吧。
我们仰慕您的过去，您之恒在善妙地照亮了我们的存在，
我们还希望在未来得到您的福佑。
啊，您是信使、基督、先知、神的使者，
您的心上达无息，
当佛法陵替之时，
您如鸽子般从上方带着讯息来到世间，
经您金口宣出的圣言
如光明盈满新月。
拥有神性之光的恒星，在您心中照耀，
请把这恒星，映现在您的爱慕者心中吧。
愿神的讯息散播广远，
在神的父爱之中，照亮全人类，
并且，把全人类融为一个单一的兄弟情谊。
阿门。
喀图姆（晚间祈祷文）
啊，您是爱、和谐与美的极致，
天上和地下的主啊，
请打开我们的心，好让我们可以听到您的话语，
您的话语永不停息地从内在而来。
请为我们展现您的神性之光吧，它隐藏在我们的灵魂里，
好让我们可以更好地知道和理解生命。
至仁至慈的神啊，
请赐给我们您伟大的仁德吧。
请教导我们您慈爱的宽宥吧，
请把我们从分隔人们的分别心和差别性中提拔出来吧，
请把您神性之灵的平静馈赠我们吧，
并且，请把我们都融合在您完美的存在里吧。
阿门。
NOTE: These prayers have been preserved in their original form out of loving respect for the bringer of the Message, Hazrat Inayat Khan. A careful reading of them will show that their wide embrace extends far beyond any gender bias in the language, which was the accepted form at the time they were composed.
根本祈祷文
朝向太一，
您是爱、和谐与美的极致，
您是独一的存在，您与所有开悟的灵魂合一
这些灵魂成为主元的化身，
成为引导之灵。
撒乌姆（晨间祈祷文）
赞颂归于您——至高无上的神，
您是无所不能、无所不在、充满一切的，独一的存在。
请把我们揽入您父母般的怀抱里，
请把我们从尘世的稠林中提拔出来。
我们确实尊崇您的美，
我们确实愿意臣服于您，
至仁至慈的神啊，
全人类心中的完美之主，
我们只尊崇您，并且我们唯独渴望您。
请您打开我们的心扉，让我们朝向您的美，
请您用神性之光照亮我们的灵魂，
啊，您是爱、和谐与美的极致，
您是全能的造物主，是维护者，是我们缺点的判知者和宽恕者，
东方和西方的，在世界上方和下方的，
可见和不可见存在中的，尊贵的神啊，
请把您的爱和您的光倾洒在我们之上吧，
请您把营养赐给我们的身体、心和灵魂吧，
请按照您的智慧所抉择的目的来使用我们吧，
并请在您自身的仁爱之路上引导我们吧。
在我们生命的每一个片刻，都请您把我们拉近您吧，
直至在我们里面映现出您的慈悲、您的荣耀、您的智慧、您的欢喜
和您的平静。
阿门。
瑟拉特（午间祈祷文）
至慈的主、宗师、弥赛亚和人类的救世主，
我们以所有的谦卑向您致敬。
您是最初的原因和最终的结果，您是神性之光
和引导之灵，您是开始和结束。
您的光在所有的形式之中，您的爱在一切的存在之中：
在慈爱的母亲之中，在慈祥的父亲之中，在天真的孩子之中，
在益友之中，在循循善诱的老师之中。
请让我们在您所有的神圣名字和形式中辨认出您：
诸如罗摩、克里希那、湿婆、佛陀。
请让我们以亚伯拉罕、所罗门、查拉图斯特拉、
摩西、耶稣、默罕默德等名字和形式来认出您，
也请让我们在许多其他
对这个世界已知和未知的名字和形式中认出您吧。
我们仰慕您的过去，您之恒在善妙地照亮了我们的存在，
我们还希望在未来得到您的福佑。
啊，您是信使、基督、先知、神的使者，
您的心上达无息，
当佛法陵替之时，
您如鸽子般从上方带着讯息来到世间，
经您金口宣出的圣言
如光明盈满新月。
拥有神性之光的恒星，在您心中照耀，
请把这恒星，映现在您的爱慕者心中吧。
愿神的讯息散播广远，
在神的父爱之中，照亮全人类，
并且，把全人类融为一个单一的兄弟情谊。
阿门。
喀图姆（晚间祈祷文）
啊，您是爱、和谐与美的极致，
天上和地下的主啊，
请打开我们的心，好让我们可以听到您的话语，
您的话语永不停息地从内在而来。
请为我们展现您的神性之光吧，它隐藏在我们的灵魂里，
好让我们可以更好地知道和理解生命。
至仁至慈的神啊，
请赐给我们您伟大的仁德吧。
请教导我们您慈爱的宽宥吧，
请把我们从分隔人们的分别心和差别性中提拔出来吧，
请把您神性之灵的平静馈赠我们吧，
并且，请把我们都融合在您完美的存在里吧。
阿门。
NOTE: These prayers have been preserved in their original form out of loving respect for the bringer of the Message, Hazrat Inayat Khan. A careful reading of them will show that their wide embrace extends far beyond any gender bias in the language, which was the accepted form at the time they were composed.
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