Does Muslim Sufism comply with the Islamic creed of Tawhid?
Sufism, Islams inner dimension, is the best way to achieve tawhid. The Islamic creedal statement shows that all Muslims believe in absolute Divine Unity: La illaha illa Allah (there is no deity but God). Sufism seeks to free people from the prison of multiplicity, to remove any mental processes or physical actions that divert their ego-centers toward temporal and sensual desires, and to eradicate hypocrisy. In short, it seeks to make people whole, for only such people can become holy. People profess faith in God but live and act as if there were many deities, and so are guilty of polytheism and hypocrisy. As Sufism seeks to bring such a condition into the open and cure the afflicted person, its goal is to integrate each person at every level of his or her existence. Such an integration is brought about by harmonizing all bodily, mental, and spiritual faculties, not by negating the intelligence, which so often occurs with modern religious movements. Sufism bases its methods upon observi
