Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

Sufis were always spreading love with their music, and if some kind of extremism is a threat to it, it is a threat to all humanity.

Sufi music talks about connecting people. It talks about connecting hearts and connecting man with God. Everything that talks about connection is Sufi.

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.

THE ART OF PEACE is the religion that is not a religion; it perfects and completes all religions.

My religion is, to live through Love.

Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.

Love, peace and soul.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

I believe if religion brings you to a sense of peace, that's beautiful. But I also believe if religion's not your thing, that's fine, too, just so long as you're a good person and you find that one thing that leads you to peace and teaches you to have harmony with yourself and other people around you.

No matter where you're from, no matter what religion you practice, your ethnicity, race, or anything else - what is it that can bring us together as people? It is, what we call in Hawaii, aloha... sincere, deep love and respect for other people as children of God.

Just as 'Islam' literally means 'peace,' none of the 99 names of Allah mean violence. Similarly, every religion in the world stands for peace, compassion, and brotherhood.

I like people of faith, and I believe the more people who have spirituality, the better the world will be. It's about peace and tolerance.

Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love, becoming one.

Keep your heart pure. A pure heart is necessary to see God in each other. If you see God in each other, there is love for each other, then there is peace.

If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For religion goes beyond words and actions, and attains to the ultimate Truth only in silence and Love.

The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.

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

Forming a new world religion is difficult and not particularly desirable. However, in that love is essential to all religions, one could speak of the universal religion of love.

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one.

Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.

I'm a very open and loving person. My whole thing has been "let love rule" since my first album. I'm about unity and peace and God.