It is here that man understands that in fact he is cut off...

It is here that man understands that in fact he is cut off from all places and things and other than he himself and his God there is no one else. Even if such a person is in the midst of a hundred thousand people he is alone, and if others see him in the midst of a crowd, he sees himself in a spiritual retreat far away from everyone else, no one being with him but God.

It is then that he looks at himself and sees all things within himself, and he understands that he himself is also only a mirror in which the unique Beauty of God is manifested and that he has nothing but God. When he has remembered Allah in this fashion and has cleansed his heart and emptied it of vanity and frivolity, the remembrance of God becomes firmly fixed…