The Sufi learns consideration beginning with his murshid, but this culminates in consideration for God. When one arrives at that tenderness of feeling, every person in the world is considered. To the Sufi the missing of an opportunity of considering another is a great disappointment, for he does not consider it to be a fault towards a human being, but to God. Verily, he is pious who considers human feeling.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Wisdom of Sufism