http://www.amaana.org/sultweb/msmhafiz.htm
(a poem by Hafiz, 1320 c.e to 1389)
I have learned so much from God
That I can no longer call myself
a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.
The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me
That I can no longer call myself
a man, a woman, an angel, or even a pure soul.
Love has befriended Hafiz.
It has turned to ash and freed me
Of every concept and image my mind has ever known.
Hafiz RULZ!
If the ultimate end or goal of religion is to transcend religion, in the sense that one transcends sectarian differences, then what does this say to fundamentalists?
"He who understands me," says Wittgenstein on the final page of the Tractatus, "finally recognizes [my propositions] as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it) . . . . then he sees the world rightly" (T #6.54). But no sooner is the world seen "rightly" than new obstacles appear which require new ladders.
I sense a Sufi spirit in Wittgenstein's statement.ÂÂ