The Sufi Path: A Radical Overturning of Values

The Sufi path is an arduous one of self-transformation and self-realization. All the things we value in the created realm are veils that must be torn asunder, he writes. Rumi's insistence on abolishing the self has both a metaphysical and ethical aspect. Our creaturely limitations make each of us what we are, but in mystical union such limitations are removed.