If you do not know the blessings you have when you have them, then Allah will teach you about them by taking them away from you

One of the signs of relying on deeds is loss of hope when a misstep occurs.

. . . persist in that invocation until the unity of the world is subsumed for you in a single sphere, so that with the eye of your heart you will see naught in the two worlds save the One.

If a tablet is not wiped clean of it's figures, nothing can be written upon it. A single heart cannot serve as the place for two things, let alone for several things. If the heart is filled with the forms of sensory perceptions, it is rare that it would perceive the meaning of Allah, even if one were to say Allah a thousand times. When the heart is empty of all that is other-than-God, if one uttered Allah only once, one would find such bliss that the tongue could not describe.

If you do not know the blessings you have when you have them, then Allah will teach you about them by taking them away from you

It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself.

Invoking brings the heart closer to the hereafter and keeps the world away from the heart, even though the world is around it. Invoking warns the heedless heart to abandon its pleasures and deceptions.