Do mystical methods of chanting, fasting, meditation, contemplation and seclusion bring about or cause mystical states and stations?
The chants, mediation and other practices may be the occasion for the onset of a given mystical state or station, but they are not the cause of these conditions. The Will of God, which is entirely transcendent to, and independent of, the Created realm, is the sole cause of spiritual transformations. Spiritual practices are akin to the clearing of a space that permits, if God wishes, something of a spiritual nature to become established. As such, one might liken these techniques and methodological activities to an advanced form of wuzu or ritual ablution. A Muslim performs ritual ablution in order to be in a state of purified readiness to receive whatever blessings that Allah may wish to confer on us for activities — whether obligatory or otherwise — which take place while in this condition. Similarly, the aforementioned spiritual practices help one assume a state of purified readiness for being open to whatever barakah or blessings which God wishes to confer on one while one is under
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