The Mystic Tradition of Sufism

The roots of sufism are this kind of anarchic anti-you know institutional sense of the true reality is not these social conventions it's not pleasing other people in your community by your orthodox and pious observance. Sufis would make their peace with the orthodoxy by saying yeah okay it's important that we follow these practices they're part of the disciplining of the self but within them the true point is not to get wrapped up in those forms and externalities, he says. He also had you know Islamic philosophy who posited that basic religion was necessary for social order but it wasn't the true philosophical truth.