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The Chicken Had His Wish, And Was Magically Transformed Into A Fox. Then He Found That He Could Not Digest Grain.

Scholars Of The East And West Have Heroically Consecrated Their Whole Working Lives To Making Available, By Means Of Their Own Disciplines, Sufi Literary And Philosophical Material To The World At Large. In Many Cases They Have Faithfully Recorded The Sufis' Own Reiteration That The Way Of The Sufis Cannot Be Understood By Means Of The Intellect Or By Ordinary Book Learning.

The Way Of The Sufis Cannot Be Understood By Means Of The Intellect Or By Ordinary Book Learning.

From Imperial, Economic And Ideological Causes, Many Cultures Are The Inheritors, And Hence The Prisoners, Of Attitudes Of Scorn And Disdain For Other Faiths – Outlooks Which Are Not Ennobling To Anyone.

The More You Look At 'common Knowledge', The More You Realise That It Is More Likely To Be Common Than It Is To Be Knowledge. No Real Knowledge Is Common.