>>514917263
It's a metaphor for descent into the material world and the attainment of a dualistic consciousness. The knowledge of good and evil, self and other, God and individual ego, etc.
>Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
Get it?

>>514816169
>"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight."
The Bible also says to trust God and not your own understanding.
But no, Sufism is about defeating the ego to become one with Allah. It's the same concept as gnosis, enlightenment, xian, etc.
Like I said a lot of the esoteric knowledge that Europe had lost because of the Catholic Church was brought back into Europe by the Moors, who looked like this. Herodotus labeled Mauritania "Atlantes" on his maps, did you know that?