"The goal of the mystic quest is union with the Divine. The mystic renounces this world and its attractions, and proceeds along the various stages and states of mystical experience. Some of these stages and states are attained by self-discipline and some are the gift of God. The final stage and state of mystical attainment is the experience of divine knowledge and vision in which the mystic becomes one with the Beloved, and abides in the Beloved forever. In such a relationship between the mystic and the Beloved there is no room for the distinction of sex."
-Emine Gursoy-Naskali, Women Mystics in Islam