In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate

Islam possesses all the means necessary for spiritual realization in the highest sense; Sufism is the chosen vehicle of these means. Now because Sufism is the esoteric and inner dimension of Islam it cannot be practised apart from Islam; only Islam can lead those who have the necessary aptitude to this inner court of joy and peace that is Sufism and which is the foretaste of the 'gardens of paradise'. Sufism is not based on outer withdrawal from the world but on inner detachment. Islam bears a message from the eternal directed to that which is immutable and permanent in man. As such it knows no temporality. As long as there is any element of reality attaching to the world, or to such and such a world, Islam will continue to possess a valid message for that world, a message which is real just because it comes from the Truth for, as the Islamic metaphysical doctrines teach us, Truth and Reality are ultimately one.