Kharraz describes in a book about the etiquette of ritual prayer, makes us sense even more intensely the mystic's attitude as required in his salat.
When entering on prayer you should come into the Presence of God as you would on the Day of Resurrection, when you will stand before Him with no mediator between, for He welcomes you and you are in confidential talk with Him and you know in whose Presence you are standing, for He is the King of kings. When you have lifted your hands and said "God is most great" then let nothing remain in your heart save glorification, and let nothing be in your mind in the time of glorification, than the glory of God Most High, so that you forget this world and the next while glorifying Him.
When a man bows in prayer, then it is fitting that he should afterwards raise himself, then bow again to make intercession, until every joint in his body is directed towards the throne of God, and this means that he glorifies God Most High until there is nothing in his heart greater than God Most Glorious and he thinks so little of himself that he feels himself to be less than a mote of dust. ***
Annemarie Schimmel. Mystical Dimensions of Islam. p.150
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