One will always find such 'Sufi Organizations' engaged in organizing and trying to draw people into their circles, so as to strengthen their communities by expanding their ranks [gelederen uitbreiden]. They usually manifest this tendency by establishing communities in one place and drawing people into it, again, often through the attractiveness of social, economic and psychological advantages provided by such a community.
Our followers, particularly the American followers, have often asked me whether they too should not all gather in one place in the United States to live as a community. Whenever they proposed such ideas, my heart was never in accord. I told them, they should stay in their communities and serve there as lights and guides for others, that they should be examples for all receptive people.
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In physics this is called the principle of diffusion.
A force in the center, sending out energy, which it projects over far distances.
This contrasts to the opposite principle of infusion, whereby energy is drawn to the center.
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And which principle did our Holy Prophet act upon?
When some of his companions asked him, where they should settle and make their lives, once the Prophet’s time had passed, he told them: “You must look to settle in Damascus.” He did not tell them to huddle together [samen-kruipen] in Medina, but to go and live in Damascus among that non-Muslim community, if it was possible to do so peacefully.
~bron~
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