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From The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Volume 1, The Way of Illumination, Part 1:
"There are ten principal Sufi thoughts which comprise all the important subjects with which the inner life is concerned."
- There is One God, the Eternal, the Only Being; none else exists.
- There is One Master, the Guiding Spirit of all Souls, Who constantly leads followers towards the light.
- There is One Holy Book, the sacred manuscript of nature, the only scripture which can enlighten the reader.
- There is One Religion, the unswerving progress in the right direction toward the ideal, which fulfills the life's purpose of every soul.
- There is One Law, the law of reciprocity, which can be observed by a selfless conscience, together with a sense of awakened justice.
- There is One Family, the human family, which unites the children of the earth indiscriminately in the heart of God.
- There is One Moral, the love which springs forth from surrender of attachment to self, and blooms in deeds of beneficence.
- There is One Object of Praise, the beauty which uplifts the heart of its worshippers through all aspects from the seen to the unseen.
- There is One Truth, the true knowledge of our being, within and without, which is the essence of all wisdom.
- There is One Path, the dissolution of the false ego in the real, which raises the mortal to immortality, in which resides all perfection.