It is not necessary that the Sufi seek the wilderness for meditation; the Sufi can perform his or her work in the midst of the worldly life. The Sufi need not prove him or herself a Sufi by extraordinary power, by wonderworking, or by exceptional spiritual show or claim. A Sufi can prove oneself a Sufi to one's own conscience by watching one's life amidst the strife of this worldly life.