Top 100 Hazrat Quotes
#1. Begum Hazrat Mahal of Oudh was the last of the breed of able queens and generals. The queen led her kingdom's army into battle during the revolt of 1857. Even after she was defeated she defied Queen Victoria's famous Proclamation and issued a counter Proclamation ...
Qurratulain Hyder
#2. Remedy
Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.
Hazrat Ali
Idries Shah
#4. I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity.
Mahatma Gandhi
#5. Hazrat Abu Darda'a said: He who thinks that to go at dawn in search of knowledge is not jihad is deficient in intellect.
Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
#6. Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.
Karl Marx
#7. Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'.
Idries Shah
#8. To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#9. I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#11. Our thoughts have prepared for us the
happiness or unhappiness we experience.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#12. 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
#13. 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.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#14. He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#16. The sighing of the devotee clears a path for him into the world unseen, and his tears wash away the sins of ages. All revelation follows the ecstasy; all knowledge that a book can never contain, that a language can never express, nor a teacher teach, comes to him of itself.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#17. This is the picture of the spirit world. It is the world of the optimist. The pessimist has no share in its great glory, because he refuses to accept the possibility which is the nature of life. Thus he denies to himself all he desires, and even the possibility of achieving his desires.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#18. When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#19. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. To be really sorry for one's errors is like opening the door of Heaven.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#25. 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
#26. For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#27. One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#28. 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
#30. 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
#31. He is thoughtful whose mind is directed by his will, whose mind fulfills his intentions, whose mind is under the control of his intention ... It is not till a person has gained mastery over his mind, till he is above this activity, that he is a ruling power, a true person.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#33. for only the eye of sincerity can see. The eye of curiosity has the cataract of doubt, and is blind already.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#34. In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation ...
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#36. The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#37. Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
#39. The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#40. The highest and greatest goal that every soul has to reach is God. As everything needs renunciation, that highest goal needs the highest renunciation.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#41. Associate with people in such a manner that they weep for you when you die and long for you if you are alive
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib
#43. The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#44. 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
#46. Generosity is to help a deserving person without his request, and if you help him after his
request, then it is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib
#48. Consciously or unconsciously, every being is capable of healing himself or others.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#49. The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#51. Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to take repose, one does not know what is behind one's being.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#52. If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#53. A soul who is not close to nature is far away from what is called spirituality. In order to be spiritual one must communicate, and especially one must communicate with nature; one must feel nature.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#54. The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#55. Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#57. 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
#58. When one bell is rung, by the sound of that one bell other bells will also vibrate. So it is with the dancing of the soul ... it produces its reaction, and that again, will make other souls dance.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#59. From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#60. Once you have given up your limited self willingly to the Unlimited, you will rejoice so much in that consciousness that you will not care to be small again.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#61. What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express.
Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#62. The secret of mysticism, therefore, is to feel, think, speak, and act at the same time, for then all that is said, or felt, or done, becomes perfect.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#63. To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights.
Hazrat Ali R.A
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. In love abides all knowledge. It is mankind's love and interest in things that in time reveals their secret.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#67. If a man through his life became like an angel he would accomplish very little; the accomplishment which is most desirable for man is to fulfill the obligations of human life.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#69. People have fought in vain about the names and lives of their saviors, and have named their religions after the name of their savior, instead of uniting with each other in the truth that is taught.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#70. Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.
Idries Shah
#71. While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#72. 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
#73. Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#74. 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
#76. My intuition never fails me, it is I who fail when I do not listen to it.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#77. By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#78. 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
#79. To a soul which is wide awake, the Judgment Day does not come after death.
For that soul every day is a Judgment Day.
The Judgment Day is every day, and one realizes this as one's sight becomes more keen. Every hour, every moment in life has its judgment.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#80. What one really wants is attracted by one, and one is attracted by what one wants.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#81. My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#82. When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#84. There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#85. 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
#86. 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
#88. The one thing to rely upon is God's favor. Do not build either on your study or on your meditation, although they both help you. But you are dependent on God, not even on your murshid. Seek Him, trust Him. In Him lies your life's purpose, and in Him is hidden the rest of your soul.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#89. He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#91. All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#93. As water in a fountain flows as one stream,
but falls in many drops divided by time and space,
so are the revelations of the one stream of truth.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#94. I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#95. To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self).
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#96. And yet the most valuable things are attained with the least effort. But one does not realize their importance. One would rather have something which is attained with a great effort
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#97. 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
#98. The teaching of Jesus Christ has as its central theme unfoldment towards a realization of immortality.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#99. Sometimes there are two persons who disagree, and there comes a third person and all unite together. Is this not the nature of music?
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#100. The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is vain when the beloved is adorned.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
