1. Moore acknowledged that Shah had made a contribution of sorts in popularising a humanistic Sufism, and had "brought energy and resource to his self-aggrandisement", but ended with the damning conclusion that Shah's was "a 'Sufism' without self-sacrifice, without self-transcendence, without the aspiration of gnosis, without tradition, without the Prophet, without the Qur'an, without Islam, and without God.

Moore reconnut que Shah avait contribué à populariser un soufisme humaniste, et avait « apporté énergie et ressource à son autoglorification », mais finit par l’accablante conclusion que le soufisme de Shah était un Soufisme sans autosacrifice, sans auto-transcendance, sans aspiration à la gnose, sans tradition, sans le Prophète, sans le Coran, sans l’Islam, et sans Dieu.