(4) The movement towards such a destination is an internal...

(4) The movement towards such a destination is an internal journey commencing from the depths of man's heart and soul and having no direct relationship with material things. With regard to these preliminaries, we can derive the following as conclusion: First: Human development and attainment of qurbah with Allah (SWT) depends on positive and progressive movements. Divestive and negative directions could not be considered as a step towards perfection.

As a consequence, abandoning the worship of idols and obedience of the tyrants, secluding oneself and giving up sociability could not be by themselves, considered as means towards qurbah with Allah due to their divestive quality. Second: Any form of activity would be along the course of man's development in case it has a positive relationship with his ultimate aim and perfection (i.e. qurbah with Allah and realization of one's existential attachment to and dependence on Almighty Allah).

Third: Such a relationship could be directly sought only among the concerns of the heart and the spiritual and moral states. Consequently the most genuine worship is an activity, freely and consciously, carried out by the heart to find its inherent desire.

Fourth: Other activities of man should be somehow related to this activity of the heart so as to be in the path of development; else they should be either completely abandoned (supposing this could be done, it is contrary to the philosophy of existence of inherent attractions and would require restriction of voluntary development) or they should be considered as means which are excessive and foreign to man's development.

In this case, an important part of activities of life should be placed outside the sphere of development. One should have no hope in their contribution to reaching the objective. And this is not correct either.

Thus the only sound means is to transform into worship the various activities of life in the light of intention and niyyah and to grant them a development form, so that human faculties would not be wasted and the zone of will-power and choice would expand to the extent demanded by and provided for by Allah (SWT).

A group of people have conceived that since man's process of development starts from the heart and moves towards Allah (SWT), one must dispense with all but the necessary activities of life and choose a remote corner for dhikr and heartfelt concern (for Allah) and sever ties with everyone and everything.