*Like other religions, Islam has divided based on political lines, but this is not its main schism. The divide between the mystic Sufis and the rest of the Muslim population is much more unique and defining to the religion of Islam.
-Sufis want a direct spiritual connection to God via Love, Heart Knowledge, and Mind Knowledge.
-Sufis believe that loving God is the best way to reach him, however for every profession of love for God, God professes his love tenfold.
-Heart Knowledge is the concept of things one knows from the heart, they can "feel it" to be true. This knowledge claims to know God.
-Mind Knowledge consists of a form of mental focus allowing the Sufi to see through the veil of everything. This veil is said to disguise everything that God is. God is everything but resides beneath a disguise of material objects.
-Sufis sometimes claim to have some sort of exclusive right that other Muslims do not and they have made several claims considered blasphemous (such as "I am God")
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