As the documentary points out, there are many tensions that the Sufi mystic must endure from the fundamentalist religious and political Islamic orthodoxy, and many of those tensions arise because of their different ways of expressing faith. Indeed, the radicals see the “Sufi veneration of saints as Idolatrous” (Dalrymple, 00:31:22). For them, God is approached directly through prayer not, like the Sufi believe, through the intermediary of a saint. Furthermore, fundamentalist religious and political Islamic orthodoxy completely forbids music. It brings condemnation as it is leads men astray…