How did you get attracted to Sufism?
"Because I wanted to learn a little more about Islam. For outsiders Sufism is the most appreciable part of Islam because it's a mystical part. Mysticism is a place where faces converge and the names become unimportant because it's just a dialogue between a person and his sense of the divine. When those of us who are not Islamic read a Sufi poem it touches us deeply because it's akin to what the Christian mystic or Buddhist mystic would do to us. "
Pico Iyer
interview AsiaTimes May 17 2003
