| The central aim of Sufism, the self-extinction in the merger with God, is obviously borrowed from Buddhist and Vedantic sources. |
| Sufism enables one to cognize his reality by removing the veil of ignorance through purification. |
| Every individual should try through the spiritual exercise of practising Sufism to reach God and to find God. |
| Much of Sufism seems to be focused on trying to raise up that higher self, the ecstatic experience in which you are in union with God. |
| Though early Sufism had concentrated upon the relation between God and the soul, from 900 onward a strong Muhammad-mysticism developed. |
| He inherited from his father a composite culture which included elements of Sufism and Hinduism. |
