... believing that the purpose of our creation was to worship Allah, Sufis feel that the reason for our creation is to know Allah. This belief that one must sojourn through whatever means necessary to a establish relationship with God is the cornerstone of Sufi thinking, and its central difference with Islamic thinking. This central belief of Sufism solves a grievance with Islamic thinking ... statement as he believed that he was in no way inferior to his friend. The third man stated, "You are both correct. If only the "I" (pure expression of the self) goes, you can enter paradise." His two...

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