One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.