You made Your lover's hearts the station of Your Will and Providence.

You made Your lover's hearts the station of Your Will and Providence.[^4]" Accurate and fair probing into the Shaykh's spiritual states indicates that, after the enormous leap he made in his youth as a result of rejecting the lustful temptation; and as an outcome of Divine training and the inspirations and assistance granted to him from the Unseen, he achieved such high levels of spiritual virtues.

Perhaps, this was the secret of his great interest in the following poems which he frequently whispered: "In the school of Eternity, it was Your Beauty that guided me; Your Grace aided me to be trapped in your (Divine) Snare." "My vile carnal soul yearned for any falsehood; Your Gracious Emanation liberated me from its grips." Absorbed in Monotheism One of the Shaykh's close disciples who had been associating with him for about thirty years said: 'On the recommendation of the Shaykh I went to visit Ayatollah Kuhistani?[^5] The late Ayatollah Kuhistani once said about the Shaykh: 'Whatever the late Shaykh Rajab Ali Khayyat was granted (spiritually), was due to his fine monotheism; he was absorbed in monotheism.

The Station of Fana (Annihilation) Dr. Hamid Farzam who has enjoyed the reverend Shaykh's sessions, described him as follows: 'His reverence Shaykh Rajab Ali Nikuguyan (May God's Mercy be upon him) was a detached ascetic who had achieved union with God.

He had, out of purification of nafs and inward purity, attained the status of fana fi Allah, and baqa bi Allah (subsistence in Allah); and by means of acting according to legal ordinances and spiritual path-faring through stations and states of spiritual discipiine, he joined the origin of Truth, graced with the Blessing from Almighty God.' The Lover of God Another of the Shaykh's disciples had the following description about him: 'The late Shaykh was from among those whose beings are captivated by God.

He was literally unable to see anything except God; whatever he saw was God; whatever he said was about God. His first and last word was God, for he was in love with God. He was in love both with God and (a); whatever he said was about them. Being sacred is apart from being a lover. Shaykh Rajab 'Ali was a lover. His art was the Love of God and work for God.

Those who are Divinely in love; their eyes display that love; his eyes were not like ordinary ones, he seemed to see nothing but God.' The reverend Shaykh considered as sinful taking pleasure in anything except in God.