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 tillstod att Shah hade gjort en slags insats med att popularisera en humanistisk Sufism och hade "medfört energi och resurser till sitt självförhärligande", men slutade med den fördömande slutsatsen att Shahs Sufism var "en 'Sufism' utan självuppoffring, utan själv-transcendens, utan gnosis-aspiration, utan tradition, utan Profeten, utan Koranen, utan Islam och utan Gud.