In the continuity of meditation lies the secret of its benefit. The exercises which are given to mureeds, they are to make the habit of practising a concentration, a meditation. But to get the full benefit out of these exercises is to continue these exercises in one’s everyday life, in one’s work. For instance, continuing fikar while walking, hearing zikar in the churchbells, repeating wazifa with every action one does. Contemplating at the time when one retires to bed, the time when one wakes up at night, when in the morning one has been awakened. From the moment that one has recovered the sense of the objective world, after sleep, one must begin to become conscious of one’s meditation, so that meditation does not become a part of one’s every day life, but a continual work. In this way one quickly profits by it and the result that might be achieved in ten years’ time is achieved in one year.

One must not divide one’s everyday action and one’s meditation, for that is a very slow progress for arriving at a fruitful result. There are Sufis who, with every mouthful that they eat, repeat their prayer; every step that they take in the house or outside of the house, they continue their fikar; with every breath during the day and night their meditation is continued. The results that one can achieve by this are beyond words. Our everyday life is full of influences that distract us from our meditation. From our object in the spiritual path, every right and wrong thing, every good and bad thing, both, in some way or the other distract us from our real goal. And the most important thing in our life is to keep on the track, that nothing else might pull us from it, may push us astray. And that we can only do by one thing, and that is a continual meditative thought from morning till night, in everything we do.

By doing so, in a few years’ time what happens is that meditation becomes our second nature, and without knowing, we continue to do our meditation, and that is the right process. Then meditation goes on as a natural course; then the mechanism is started from which to expect our life’s purpose to be accomplished.