| Author Quoted | Titus Burckhardt |
| Title Quoted | An introduction to Sufi doctrine |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1961/05/13 |
| Imprint | Lahore : Ashraf. [1959] |
| Quotation | But now first of all and before everything else I want to thank you for the remarkable books you sent me. I have been tremendously impressed by Titus Burckhardt on Sufism, which is the book I have read first. It is one of the most stimulating books I have read for a long time, and I realize that there is very much in it for me. In a sense it is one of those books that open up new horizons that I have been waiting for. I am tremendously impressed with the solidity and intellectual sureness of Sufism. There is no question but that here is a living and convincing truth, a deep mystical experience of the mystery of God our Creator Who watches over us at every moment with infinite love and mercy. I am stirred to the depths of my heart by the intensity of Moslem piety toward His Names, and the reverence with which He is invoked as the "Compassionate and the Merciful." May He be praised and adored everywhere forever. |
| Quotation Source | The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns.; Selected and edited by William H. Shannon. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1985, p. 48 |
| Letter to | Abdul Aziz |
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| Link to Merton's Copy |
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