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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Adab as-Salat: The Disciplines of the Prayer Second Revised Edition Objective Three: On the Cordial Disciplines Concerning the Place of the Musallī Discussed in Two Chapters Chapter 1: About Knowing The Place Know that the wayfarer to Allah has, according to his existential growths [ nasha'āt - i wujūdiyyah ], certain places, each of which has its particular disciplines. The sālik have to know them before attaining the Salat of the people of knowledge.

The first is the natural growth and the apparent mundane stage, and its place is the earth of nature.

The Messenger of Allah ( s ) said: “The earth is made for me a place for prostration and a purifier.”[^1] The sālik 's discipline [ adab ] at this stage is to make his heart understand that his descending from the invisible growth [ nash'ah ] and the coming down of the soul from its high and lofty place to the lowest earth of nature and his being reduced from “the best stature” [ ahsan-i taqwīm ] to the lowest of the low are for the voluntary journey to Allah and the ascension to the mi'rāj of Proximity and reaching the Court of Allah and the Threshold of His Lordship, which is the objective of creation and the final end of the people of Allah.

“May Allah have mercy upon one who knows where he has come from, where he is and where he is going.”[^2] The sālik must realize that he has come from the house of Allah's munificence [ karāmat ], and is now in the house of worshipping Allah, and will go to the house of Allah's recompense.

The gnositc says: “From Allah, in Allah and to Allah.” So, the sālik must tell himself, and his spirit, that the house of nature is a mosque for worshipping Allah, and that he has been brought to this world for this purpose, as Allah, the Almighty and Glorified, says: “ And I have not created the jīnn and the ins [mankind] except that they should worship Me.” [^3] After realizing that the house of nature is the mosque for worship, and finding himself in seclusion [ mu'takif ] in it, he is to observe the relevant disciplines and abstain from remembering other than Allah.

He is not to leave the mosque of worship, unless there is a need, such as for relieving himself, and then to return, and not to be familiar except with Allah, nor to have any affiliation with others, as these are contrary to the disciplines of cleaving to the door of Allah.