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And when he says: 'Master of the Day of Judgment,' Allah says: 'My servant glorified Me.' [In another version: 'My servant has entrusted himself to Me'].

And when he says: 'you do we worship and You do we seek help from,' Allah says: 'This is between Me and My servant.' And when he says: 'Guide us to the straight path,' Allah says: 'My servant has this right, and it is granted to him.”[^1] Now as the salāt , according to this noble hadīth , is divided between Allah and the servant, the servant has to completely pay what is due to Him, according to the discipline of servitude stated in this noble hadīth , so that Allah, the Exalted, may treat him as is becoming of His Lordly graces, since He says: “ And fulfill my covenant; I shall fulfill your covenant.” [^2] Allah, the Exalted, confined the disciplines of servitude in recitation to four pillars: The first one is “remembrance” [ tadhakkur ] which is to happen by “In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful,” and the sālik servant should look at the entire “House of Realization” [ dār-i tahaqquq ] as a name perished in the Named [ musammā ].

He should teach his heart to be seeking the Haqq and wanting the Haqq in every particle of “the possibles” [ mumkināt ], and bring the natural disposition of learning the names which is fixed in the nature of his essence according to the requirement of the universality of the growth [ nash'ah ] and its being the manifestation of the Great Name of Allah, to which Allah refers by saying: “ And He taught Adam all the names,” [^3] to the state of actuality and manifestation.

Such a state is the result of having privacy with Allah and of deep remembrance and contemplating the divine affairs [ shu'ūn ], to the extent that the heart becomes a complete divine servant such that there can be found in every nook of it no name except that of Allah, the Exalted.

This is a stage of perishing in divinity that (even) the relapsed and hard hearts of the deniers cannot deny what we have just said, unless their denial be satanic, for such hearts feel repulsion, by nature, on hearing Allah's name or His remembrance, may God save us from that! If a word of divine knowledge or one of Allah's Names was mentioned, they would feel distressed. They would not open the eyes of their hearts except at the desires of the appetites of the stomach and sex.