But when he spends his life in ease and prosperity, his soul becomes blinded by apparent causes and he treats them as partners to his Lord; thus he becomes confused and thinks that he does not ask his Lord for anything and does not beseech Him, while the fact is that he does not beseech anyone other than Allah, because this prayer (to Allah) is ingrained into his nature, and there is no change in the creation of Allah. Later comes the hardship and the apparent causes become divorced from the expected effects, and those whom he treated as partners of Allah or inter cessors before Him disappear completely; then he realizes that there is no one to fulfill his needs and to answer his prayers except Allah. Thus, he returns to his natural monotheism and forgets every other cause and turns his face towards the Beneficent Lord; and the Lord clears away his hardship and fulfills his wants and places him under the shade of opulence.
Na ni haki ya sala kuwa ni lazima utambue kuwa ni baraza la Mwenyezi Mungu, na kuwa wakati wa sala unasimama mbele ya Mwenyezi Mungu. Utakapotambua hivyo, kusimama kwako kutakuwa kule kwa mja wa Mwenyezi Mungu aliye mnyenyekevu, ukiwa una hamu kubwa (ya rehema za Mwenyezi Mungu), akiogopa (adhabu Yake, Mwenyezi Mungu), akihofia ghadhabu Yake (Mwenyezi Mungu),ukitegemea (kupata rehema Zake), ukiwa mkata, ukiomba (Huruma Zake), ukimheshimu yule ambaye uko mbele yake kwa utulivu na ukimya, ukionyesha heshima katika viungo, ukitoa roho yako kwake (yeye Mwenyezi Mungu), ukimwambia siri za moyoni mwako, kwa njia nzuri, ukimwomba akuache huru kutokana na dhambi zilizokufanya mtumwa na makosa yaliyo kuangamiza.