If you were to be united with him
only after the extinction of your vices
and the effacement of your pretensions,
you would never be united with him!
Instead, when he wants to unite you to himself,
he covers your attribute with his attribute
and hides your quality with his quality.
And thus he unites you to himself
by virtue of what comes from him to you,
not by virtue of what goes from you to him. Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah363