Sufism is the mystical Islamic belief and practice in which Muslims seek the truth of divine love and knowledge through direct personal experience of God. Many famous Muslims were Sufis. Sufis have elaborated the image of the Prophet Muhammad—the founder of Islam—and have thus largely influenced Muslim piety by their Muhammad-mysticism. Sufi vocabulary is important in Persian and other literatures related to it, such as Turkish, Urdu, Sindhi, Pashto, and Punjabi.
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