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Virtue...

Do not limit God to your virtue. He is beyond your virtues, O pious
ones!

Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

There is no such thing as impossible. All is possible. Impossible is
made by the limitation of our capacity of understanding. Man, blinded
by the law of nature's working, by the law of consequences which he
has known through his few years life on earth, begins to say, 'This
is possible and that is impossible.' If he were to rise beyond
limitations, his soul would see nothing but possible. And when the
soul has risen high enough to see all possibility, that soul
certainly has caught a glimpse of God.

Many have been resentful towards God for having sent them misery in
their lives, but misery is always part of life's experience. Some may
become very angry and say, 'This is not just', or 'This is not right,
for how could God who is just and good allow unjust things to
happen?' But our sight is very limited, and our conception of right
and wrong and good and evil is only our own, and not according to
God's plan. It is true that as long as we see it as such, it is so
for us and for those who look at it from our point of view; but when
it comes to God the whole dimension is changed, the whole point of
view is changed.

It is for this reason that the wise in all ages, instead of trying to
judge the action of God, have so to speak put aside their sense of
justice for the time being; and they have tried to learn one thing
only, and that was resignation to the will of God.

The Being of God is recognized by His attributes. Therefore man
speaks of God as the just God. He sees all power, all goodness in
God; but when the situation is changed, when he sees God as
injustice, he begins to think that God is powerless, and to judge the
action of God. But one must look at this from a different point of
view. Human beings are limited, imperfect, and yet we try to judge
the perfect Being, or His perfect action, from our own imperfect
standpoint. In order to judge, our vision must become as wide as the
universe; then we might have a slight glimpse of the justice, which
is perfect in itself.

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