THE FORTY-SEVENTH DISCOURSE On closeness to Allah

He (may God be pleased with him) said: I had a dream in which an old man asked me: "What makes a servant of God near to God"? I said: "This process has a beginning and an end; so the beginning of it is piety and Godliness and its end is to be pleased with God and to surrender oneself to His way and to rely on Him entirely."