"Countless, countless moments of awakening led me ultimately to the path of Islam, and within that, to the practice of Sufism, or Tasawuf,which for me is intricately united with Islam."

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Islam, he told me, was his inspiration.

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When I left Islam, my mother, who's eighty-eight now, I called her a few years ago and I told her yes, she asked me, did you leave Islam?

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How to reconcile this with some of the traditional values and norms of Islam, that's not for me to dictate, but certainly I think it's something that can be accomplished, and I want to encourage that.

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