“Sufism is Islam and Islam is Sufism. All the rites of Islam, all of its goals, everything that it is calling to has no meaning without Sufism and the principles it embodies of love, and beauty, and mercy, and humility, and compassion for creation. There is no meaning without Sufism.”
Shaykh Ali Jumu’a is the Mufti of Egypt; this was extracted from his interview in Islamica Magazine.