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The Bowl of Saki Commentary

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Every purpose has a birth and death; therefore God is beyond purpose.

— Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):

God is beyond purpose and God is not purpose, yet if there were no God there would be no purpose. Logos and Ilm contain the idea of intelligence. There is intelligence in purpose and intelligence beyond purpose because purpose operates through mind and mind alone cannot partake of the supreme joys.

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