Likes Sufism.

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…Is it the framework? Or is it that you personally have a very definite view about each Imam and which ones are appropriate — No, no, no, I couldn’t care less about the Imams at all. I am not Shi’a. I would not refer to myself as Shi’a at all. What appealed to me about Sufism beyond the fact that — as I’d already said before — that it really does think of religion as the starting point. I often say when you study the world’s religions for a living, it becomes very difficult to take any one of those religions all that seriously anymore. It makes it very hard to take their claims to absolute truth seriously anymore, that’s for sure. What I love about Sufism is that it doesn’t take religion or those claims to absolute truth seriously anymore. But one thing that Sufism does do, which is very appealing to me, is that at the heart of Sufism is this notion that God — if God is anything — is all things. That God is all and all is God. That you and me and this desk and this microphone — if a thing exists, it exists only insofar as it shares in the existence of the only thing that exists. There’s this concept of divine unity at the heart of Sufism that I’ve always found very appealing spiritually speaking, and that’s why I was drawn to it. If you had to describe what, for you, is more beautiful in Islam than in other religions, what would it be?…

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