Transition to Reality: Believers' Listening to the Messenger and Entry into High Stations Through Prayer

The First Group: These are the felicitous and the good, who listened to the Master, the Possessor of Two Wings. He is both the worshipping servant of Allah; in regard to worship he describes his Sustainer so that he is like the envoy of his community at the court of Almighty Allah. He is also Allah's Messenger; with regard to messengership he conveys his Sustainer's decrees to men and the jinn by means of the Qur'an.

This happy community heeded the Messenger and listened to the Qur'an. They saw themselves invested with the prescribed prayers, which are the index of all the varieties of worship, and numerous subtle duties within elevated stations. Indeed, they saw in detail the duties and stations which the prayers point to with their various formulas and actions. It was like this: