10.) The
Sufi path doesn’t seem very practical in today’s world, so why should one pursue
it?
Practicality
is a relative concept. If one is committed to greed, selfishness, hatred,
jealousy, dishonesty, injustice, and so on, then, yes, charitableness, humility, love,
compassion, honesty, and justice will be very impractical principles to incorporate into
one’s life.
On the
other hand, if one is seeking a means of coping with the tendencies of the modern world
to: destroy our peace of mind and heart, or to alienate us from our relationship with God,
or to estrange us from our true selves, or to distance ourselves from one another,
then the Sufi path is imminently practical. In short, when we value peace, harmony,
identity, and love of God, then the world cannot supply us with what we need in order to
be able to secure that which we value, and, consequently, the ways of the world do not
offer very practical solutions to our spiritual difficulties.
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