Prayer is a the way that we can ask to be brought closer to Allah. Salih of qazwin assures us. "Knock and the door will open for you." When the sufi saint Rabia heard this, however, she admonished him. "What are you talking about. Salih, the door has never been shut."
There is nothing dividing us from Allah except our own sense of separation, for in reality Allah is our own deeper identity. Rumi exclaims, "I knocked and the door opened, but I found I'd been knocking from the inside!"
Refference:The Heart of Islam by Timothy Freke
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