The Spiritual Seclusion means not leaving your own living tomb. Abandoning all your physical senses to be completely immersed in a journey to Allâh having for equipment only...
The spiritual seclusion, called khulwa in arabic, is a spiritual retreat made by the disciple to worship Allâh through remembering Him under the guidance of an accomplished master...
If you had Known Him ﷻ, you would have known that nothing is outside of Him, Glorified be He. You would have understood that He is the Act and its consequence, appearing in the world of possibilities.
Yes, this manifestation, this faith, has three degrees: the faith of common people which is the faith by pure imitation, the faith of kalam people which is a combination of reasoning by probation. Its degree is near of the faith of common people, the faith of people of knowledge which is the vision of the certainty light.
After leaving the khalwa, our shaykh, may Allah take him in his mercy, advised us to read only two books: the Hikam of the Imam Ibn Ata Allah Iskandari (qudissa sirruh) and the collection of poems of the Shaykh Ahmad al alawi (radiAllah anhu).
Whoever comes and asks for the Light, we give it to Him, without giving any importance to his past, whether good or bad. Then, know that the Murid can never remain permanently in the vision of the Light because this vision is a presence...