Absolute negation of the self is impracticable, absolute negation of Creation impractical. No Man born of a woman can conceive nothingness for himself, unless he is deranged enough not to perceive anything at all. Life is not insignificant. Nor is consciousness. And every one of us knows this.
Life still brings laughter, death still summons tears.
Intellect is still honoured, lack of consciousness is still regarded as insanity. A man thinks and therefore is. But God he cannot be. To him God is the Master whom he loves with all his heart and all his mind and all his soul. The usual result of this shift in the object is that in addition to the spiritual exercises and rituals recommended or prescribed by Islam to enable man to worship and serve God, the Sufi virtually makes many other exercises and rituals obligatory, which often leave him with very little energy and motivation to do God's bidding where it is actually required.