Wherever a person goes, there he takes his influence, thereby creating harmony or inharmony in the atmosphere. As a person who is drunken feels most delighted to see another person also drunken in the same way as he, and enjoys his company and offers him a drink, so the inharmonious person creates inharmony, and so the harmonious person spreads the vibrations of harmony, tuning the whole atmosphere to the pitch of his soul. The tendency of the inharmonious person is to create inharmony; the quarrel of two people he enjoys, every manner of inharmony he creates, for it becomes his gain, his occupation in life. There is nothing dearer to him in life than seeing others in the same inharmonious state as he himself. Partly, it is the feeling of jealousy that comes to him when seeing another person harmonious with himself or with his surroundings, or he becomes proud to feel that he is not the only inharmonious one, but there are others also travelling in the same boat.

In time a person gets accustomed to inharmony, just as some sailors on the sea during the storm do not feel it. To such a person life becomes dull if it be quiet and peaceful. An association where there is not some friction, some conflict, some warm discussions, some hot arguments, becomes most uninteresting. However, whatever be man’s stage of evolution, his innate yearning is for quiet and for peace. No-one in the world from the depth of his heart desires inharmony. For a Sufi every effort made to bring about harmony in one’s own life and in the lives of others is the principal moral.