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Regarding worship practices that with whichever He looks at
and its relationship to him. Weeping must be in
humiliation, Ibn Arabi assures humiliation to seek His nearness
that standing at Arafah must be and proximity. (Abu Nasr as-Sarraj,
with humiliation, submission, 2016: 299)
and supplication by putting on Mystics defines the radix of
a unsewn clothes. (Ibn Arabi, humiliation, that is their being.
1994, Vol. 1: 359) In other words, everyone is
Ibn Arabi points out in the under the humiliation of “Be”,
Foutuhat that staying up at (Abu Nasr as-Sarraj, 2016:
night worshiping God with 363; Ruzbihan Baqli, 2005: 21)
submission, causes the Divine which is Allah’s Command to
Manifestation to the holy bring something into existence.
travelers. (Ibn Arabi, 1994, Finally, it must be noted that
Vol. 1: 199) veil (hijab) has its humiliation.
In Mysticism, humiliation It is recognized that hijab in
towards God must be in every Sufism and Mysticism is not a
movement and stillness. For physical being like heaven and
instance, crying must be from earth, it is a divine veil that is
God, to God. So, the traveler standing between the salik and
cries from the longing torture God and salik (traveller) must
to Allah, fear of being take the hijabs out to reach God
separated from Him, standing and see His Manifestation
in Allah’s hands, fear that the (Tajlli) and feel His nearness.
road would be cut off and not Hijabs differ from salik to
reaching Him, fear that he was another and every veil is
not fit to meet him, shyness according to the traveler’s
