“The shaikh said, ‘The Caliph has forbidden the Sema.’ This prohibition turned into a knot within a certain dervish. He fell ill and they took him to a specialist. He examined his pulse and looked for the cause of illness. It was like nothing he had ever learned about. He couldn’t find anything wrong…”— Shams Tabrizi, sufism.org
“On the leader of ISIS: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi revels in his position ‘as the world’s top terrorist, who sees himself as a successor to Osama bin Laden. Once you remove the mystique and grandeur, the ‘caliph’ turns out to be a rather ordinary man who saw his opportunity and took it. He is no different…”— Sajad Jiyad, newsweek.com