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.

The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Sufi Mysticism (ed. Library of Alexandria, 1960) - ISBN: 9781613106570