Top 200 Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “One is never so strong as when one is broken.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

102. “Don’t be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

103. “If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

104. “Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much care the less; but try to obtain what you need in life, and make the best of every moment of your life.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

105. “Toward the One, the perfection of love, harmony and beauty, the only being, united with all the illuminated souls who form the embodiment of the master, the spirit of guidance.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

106. “I can see as clear as a daylight that the hour is coming when women will lead humanity to a higher evolution.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

107. “Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is that life itself is music.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

108. “He who gives love will receive a thousandfold in return.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

109. “The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

110. “Indifference and independence are the two wings which enable the soul to fly.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

111. “By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

112. “Sarcasm is an abuse of the intellect.”

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113. “To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.”

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114. “Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor’s because his coat comes from there; neither can the spirit obtain true happiness from the earth just because his body belongs to earth.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

115. “The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one’s love for humanity, to be the friend of all.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

116. “There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The more open our inner senses, the more we understand the voice of everything.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

117. “Everyone has his own imagination of God. It is best if everyone is left to his own imagination.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

118. “Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

119. “Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

120. “A keen observation shows that the whole universe is a single mechanism working by the law of rhythm; the rise and fall of the waves, the ebb and flow of the tide, the waxing and waning of the moon, the sunrise and the sunset, the change of the seasons, the moving of the earth and of the planets, the whole cosmic system and the constitution of the entire universe are working under the law of rhythm. Cycles of rhythm, with major and minor cycles.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

121. “Our ego is the lion of lions, and if this is conquered, then these external lions – the different egos around us – are conquered also, and wherever we go, with anyone, whether foolish or wise, good or bad, we now have peace.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

122. “Some day music will be the means of expressing universal religion. Time is wanted for this, but there will come a day when music and its philosophy will become the religion of humanity.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

123. “We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

124. “The sage said, “The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget. spiritual Dimensions of Psychology.””

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

125. “The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

126. “We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

127. “If there is anything that gives kingliness to the soul, it is patience. What was the secret of the masters who have accomplished great things, who have inspired many and who have helped many souls? Their secret was patience.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

128. “Belief and disbelief have divided humankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the Oneness of all Life.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

129. “Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape from any danger in order to live a moment longer. And the desire to live is most developed in man.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

130. “For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

131. “The souls of all are from one and the same source but a soul which is unveiled shines out. Love and light come continually from such souls. We need no proof of it for it is living all else is dead in comparison.”

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132. “The Sufi, realizing this, takes the path of annihilation, and, by the guidance of a teacher on the path, finds at the end of this journey that the destination was he. As Iqbal says: I wandered in the pursuit of my own self; I was the traveler, and I am the destination.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

133. “A person however learned and qualified in his life’s work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

134. “In love abides all knowledge. It is mankind’s love and interest in things that in time reveals their secret.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

135. “I have found in every word a certain musical value, a melody in every thought, harmony in every feeling, and I have tried to interpret the same things with clear and simple words to those who used to listen to my music.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

136. “The truth is that man is one individual with two aspects, just like one line with two ends. If you look at the ends, it is two. If you look at the line, it is one. One end of the line is limited, the other end of the line is unlimited. One end is man, the other end is God.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

137. “If the rays are the souls of living beings, then the light of that same divine Sun is the spirit of the whole of nature. It is the same light; but not divided, not distinct, as are the rays which we call souls.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

138. “The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one’s self. To gain a wide and broad heart you must have something before you to look upon, and to rest your intelligence upon – and that something is the God-ideal.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

139. “It is the empty pitcher that makes a noise when you knock upon it, but the pitcher which is full of water does not make any sound; it is silent, speechless.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

140. “For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

141. “It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.”

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142. “The life absolute from which has sprung all that is felt, seen, and perceived, and into which all again merges in time, is a silent, motionless and eternal life which among the Sufis is called Zat. Every motion that springs forth from this silent life is a vibration and a creator of vibrations. Within one vibration are created many vibrations.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

143. “Once you have linked yourself with love, a flood of inspiration is revealed to you, whatever the subject, whatever the problem in life may be. Whatever it be that your eye casts its glance upon, it will disclose itself. Then you are on the real road, and what a joy this is!”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

144. “Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. It is because music is the picture of our Beloved that we love music.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

145. “The happiness of this world is something we cannot keep; it is just like the horizon – the nearer you go, the farther it goes. As soon as you get it, you see it is not the thing you wanted.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

146. “In this world of illusion, where at the end of the examination, we find everything to be of little importance, of little worth, if there is a sign of reality, of something one can depend upon, and in which one can recognize a sign of eternity, it is in the constancy of friendship.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

147. “Be sparing of your words if you wish them to be powerful.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

148. “According to metaphysics, fear is caused by the lack of light.”

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149. “Sometimes there are two persons who disagree, and there comes a third person and all unite together. Is this not the nature of music?”

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150. “The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one’s presence would be healing.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan