Among the saints are also the prostrating men and women, may God be pleased with them. God has entrusted them with the prostration of the hearts, so they do not raise their heads, neither in this world nor in the hereafter, and it is a state of closeness and an attribute of those who are close, and prostration does not occur except with glory and witnesses. That is why He said to him, “And prostrate and draw near,” meaning approaching with dignity, righteousness, and honor, as The king says to the man, when he enters upon him, greet him by prostrating to him in front of him. Then the king says to him, “Come closer, bring him closer, until he finishes with him where he wants from the closeness.” This is the meaning of his saying, “And draw near” while prostrating, indicating that he has seen the one who prostrated to him and that he is in his hands, and he says to him, “Come closer, so that the closeness may be doubled for him. ” p>

He said, “Whoever draws near to Me by a span,