This is a comprehensive instruction telling how the sālik 's...

This is a comprehensive instruction telling how the sālik 's behavior with the creatures should be, which is also an implication of the reality of privacy [ khalwat ]; that is, the traveler to Allah, while treating each group of the people with kindness, giving them their natural dues, and dealing with anyone of them according to his disposition, is to strictly observe the divine rights, and never to lose his own meaning, which is servitude and attending to Allah.

At the same time of being in multiplicity [ kathrat ], he is to be in privacy [ khalwat ], and his heart which is the lodging of the Beloved is to be free from others and empty of all designs and paintings. Then the hadīth refers to the third instruction, which concerns the sālik 's connection with Allah, the Exalted. It says: “Let your clearness with Allah, the Most High,