So her prostration, we have no knowledge, and it is ignorance, the shadows prostrated to watch them who came out of him, and they are the persons. The eye of the king is said to be the throne of the king, if his kingdom is altered over him, the merciful is above the throne, that is, over his kingdom the prostration of the heart if it prostrates, it is never lifted, because its prostration is to the divine names, not to the self, because it is she who made him a heart, she changes it from one condition to the state of this world and the hereafter. The truth is turned, and he sees that it is in the grip of his turn, and it is the divine names that no creature is separated from, so they are in control of the creatures. And whoever prostrates his heart, there is no claim for him, there is no account, no question, no punishment. There is no state more honorable than the state of prostration, because it is the state of access to the knowledge of the fundamentals. There is no attribute more honorable than the attribute of knowledge. Oh, whoever has no knowledge of the oneness of his Creator, his gods are multiplied, and he is absent from his knowledge of himself, so he is ignorant of his Lord.

So the servant of all became Lord *** He is the locus of every sin

Prostration requires permanence, and that is why the Sheikh also said to Sahl bin Abdullah forever, because prostration is submissiveness and prostration perpetuates looking. He was told to prostrate, i.e. to stoop from your imaginary elevation, and to submit to your arrogance by looking at your origin and knowing your truth, for you were not exalted until your origin disappeared from you. His Lord raised his head, for he was created in the image of his Lord, and whoever calls his Lord high, he must raise himself, and after this raising he is said to prostrate, so he prostrates his face, so he prostrates his heart, so he raises his face from prostration, but it does not last, because the kiss to which he prostrated does not last, and the direction to which he prostrated does not last. And the heart prostrated, but it was not raised because it prostrated to its Lord, so its Lord accepted it, and its Lord does not go away, nor does it depart from existence.

(Question two hundred and one) What did he start with?

The answer is the beginning of the prostration that I prostrated to you, the diversity of situations and their changes on you, so this alerted you to look at the necessitating reason for that. And whoever asked for the nurse, then he became poor, then you knew that you were poor, and if you became poor, he broke the vertebrae of your back. He was not able to raise your head. You are always described in prostration. This is the beginning of prostration. The muezzin is of an advanced dimension, and all of this leads to the limit and there is no limit, because it is far and near

[ A'arif of proximity and granting prostration in the presence of the Beloved ]

So know that the identity called the near distance is the one that gave you prostration and started you with it as a gift, but from the fact that it is called the near distance, then I moved you from the epithet of far away to the near epithet, so I moved you from the distance to the closeness. Prostration is the act of worship, then after that you give from the station of closeness what befits those who are close to the angels and the prophets, for these are the knowledges of proximity and closeness. To the Divine Names, and your being a manifestation of the Divine Names, He gave you elevation, and you are not distinguished by elevation. You are commanded to prostrate, so know.

(Question one hundred and three) What is the saying of Azza Azari?

The answer is when the truth bestowed upon His servants when He called them to know Him by descending by multiplication of parables for them so that they might obtain that much that He wanted them to know from him, such as His saying His light is like a niche in which there is a lamp for His saying: God is the light of the heavens and the earth. So He made the light itself because it is the news of His beginning, the light, that is, God s attribute. And where is the light?