Likewise is the purification that He, Glory be to Him, commanded in His saying, “And purify your clothes,” so the knowledgeable person says in his prayer between the opening takbeer and the recitation of the Fatihah of the Book in compliance with this command, O God, distance me from my sins, which are the impurities related to his clothing, just as you distanced between the East and the West. The reason for this is that the knowledgeable servant, if the truth calls him to His monologue has designated him as a place of closeness to Him, so if his sins make him witness in a place of nearness, while they are in themselves quite far from that position, then the servant is in a place of distance from what the truth asked of him in terms of closeness, so he prayed to God before commencing the monologue to prevent him from witnessing his sins by making them appear to him in his heart in This is the homeland that is the homeland of closeness, and for this reason some of them said regardi