The all-inclusive recitation of God’s names, as is used when asking God for forgiveness, or as it is used during invocations which send greetings to Prophet Muhammad and his household, does not require the permission of a master unless the number of invocations or requests for God’s forgiveness is great or if it is necessary to spend a forty-day period of seclusion to complete the recitation. The specific recitation of God’s names, that some are names of majesty and some others beauty, and causing cold or warm effects in soul of man, and have occulted appointed ones including angels, jinns and spirits, and recitations of God’s names which cause to happen a disclosure that a mystical traveler doesn’t know how to deal them, regarding both quantitative and qualitative have to completely under master’s volition and sovereignty and his cognizance and permission.
Not to mention, to be annihilation in master’s soul causes to benefit from the effusion of blessings and light from the master. The reason is the master considers his spiritual pupil ready for these effusions of blessings in his inner aspect and volition.
Ayatollah Mohammad Saleh Komeily (God graciously preserves him.)
Al-matalib al-solokieh
