Gathering in Allah

The meaning of our gathering in Allah is the fact that all of us call each other to Allah the Blessed and Exalted. Each of us calls the other to being busy with Allah, and the reality of busying yourself with Allah is to busy your outward with the outward sacred law (shariyah) and your inward with the inward reality of the Haqq (Allah), and to fulfil the rights of everyone and everything that has a right over you, in order to differentiate between the different stations (maqamaat) and to differentiate between the divine presences (hadaraat) and to differentiate between the spheres (dawa'ir), these are in addition to the divine realities (haqa'iq) and relations (nisaab) and manifestations (tajalliyat) and within that you will be able to give everything its due right, and this is our responisibilty that has been made an obligation for all of us. And as for our seperation, our separation (farq) does not overpower our union (jam') neither does our union overpower our separation, and everyone of us withdraws ourselves towards Allah and maintains awareness of his presence (muraqaba) and witnesses his presence (mushahadah) and is absorbed and drowned in his presence with a real absorption and drowning (istighraaq), which then causes him to fear Allah outwardly and inwardly and engage with Him and approach Him with our bodies and with our hearts.

- Shaykh Ould Khayri