Sufism

Sufism, the philosophy of the Sufis, Mohammedan mystics (dervishes and fakirs) who hold that all existing things are emanations ftom the deity, by whom all human actions are directed so that there is no real distinction between good and evil. They hold that the body is the prison of the soul, and that death is an object of desire, since at death the soul returns to the deity. The system i!3 based on an allegorical interpretation of the poems of Hafiz.