“Detachment from worldly things is the most essential qualification required for a true dervish. His separation from everything, including his own self is the only way for the realization of kingship with God.”

— Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 263

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Indian Sufi 1173–1235

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