Top 200 Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

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2. “There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

3. “Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

4. “God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

5. “For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

6. “Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

7. “Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

8. “The soul is covered by a thousand veils.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

9. “The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

10. “The religion of the Sufi is the religion of the heart. The principal moral of the Sufi is to consider the heart of others, so that in the pleasure and displeasure of his fellow-man he sees the pleasure and displeasure of God.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

11. “Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

12. “Music should be healing. Music should uplift the soul. Music should inspire.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

13. “When we pay attention to nature’s music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

14. “Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

15. “Love is the Divine Mother’s arms; when those arms are spread, every Soul falls Into them.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

16. “It is a very high stage in the path of love when man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

17. “My intuition never fails me, it is I who fail when I do not listen to it.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

18. “Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to reach this final state of healing.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

19. “My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

20. “The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life’s destruction.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

21. “The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

22. “All ignorance is the lack of love.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

23. “Music is the basis of the whole creation. In reality the whole of creation is music, and what we call music is simply a miniature of the original music, which is creation itself, expressed in tone and rhythm.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

24. “If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

25. “Love is the merchandise which all the world demands; if you store it in your heart, every soul will become your customer.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

26. “Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

27. “If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the heart, the religion in which the thing of primary importance is to seek God in the heart of mankind.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

28. “What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

29. “Love is the essence of all religion, mysticism, and philosophy, and for the one who has learned this, love fulfills the purpose of religion, ethics, and philosophy, and the lover is raised above all diversities of faiths and beliefs.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

30. “The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

31. “Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

32. “When I open my eyes to the outer world I feel myself as a drop in the sea. But when I close my eyes and look within, I see the whole universe as a bubble raised in the ocean of my heart.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

33. “There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

34. “Moth: I gave you my life. Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

35. “You carry all the ingredients to turn your existence into joy. Mix them, Mix them!”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

36. “While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

37. “Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

38. “He who sincerely seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that search a light begins to clear his confusion, call it revelation, call it inspiration, call it what you will. It is mistrust that misleads. Sincerity leads straight to the goal.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

39. “Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man’s life.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

40. “One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

41. “A person does not hear sound only through the ears; he hears sound through every pore of his body. It permeates the entire being...”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

42. “Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special kind of mysticism, being free from the usual religious sectarianism. If ever it could be called a religion, it would only be as a religion of love, harmony, and beauty.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

43. “Everything in life is speaking in spite of it’s apparent silence.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

44. “True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change is a kind of struggle with one’s false self.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

45. “Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

46. “We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

47. “The purpose of creation is beauty. Nature in all its various aspects develops towards beauty, and therefore it is plain that the purpose of life is to evolve towards beauty.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

48. “He who knows the secret of sound, knows the mystery of the whole universe.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

49. “The discrimination between good and evil is in man’s soul. Every man can judge that for himself, because in every man is the sense of admiration of beauty. Happiness only lies in thinking or doing that which one considers beautiful. Such an act becomes a virtue or goodness.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

50. “The rain does not fall in a certain land only; the sun does not shine only on a particular country. All that comes from God is for all souls. Verily, blessing is for every soul; for every soul, whatever be one’s faith or belief, belongs to God.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan