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Mercy Oceans Divine Sources by Shaykh Nazim Haqqani

MERCY OCEANS DIVINE SOURCES

From the Book

Question: “We are always praying for peace.

How may all the different peoples live together in peace?” Your question is a very important one, and I thank you for asking it. We have a saying: “The question is half of the knowledge”.

Asking such important questions indicates an active mental life and sincerity on the part of the questioner.

Not all questions can be described as “half of the knowledge”, for some questions indicate insincerity and closed-mindedness: tire expected answer or desired opinion is built into the question. Such questions are no questions at all, and they come upon us with the weight of a mountain: they narrow the perspective of the discourse.

 But a sincere question such as this one is the kind we are pleased to be asked and to answer. We pray for peace, you pray for peace and Christians pray for peace as well. But neither individually nor generally is peace attained – why?

For anything to occur in this world the right conditions must exist. Peace is no exception to this rule.

For peace to exist certain conditions must be fulfilled, and if they are fulfilled you may attain, firstly, inner peace, and then peace between yourself and those around you. But peace will remain an unattainable ideal as long as the conditions for its attainment are not fulfilled.