‘…Take me [in death] in a state of submission [to You], and join me to the virtuous.’ Sahl said:This entails three things: asking for what is necessary, manifesting one’s poverty, and choosing what is obligatory. What is meant is: ‘Let me die as one who has committed his affairs over to You and handed over his concerns to You, so that I have no recourse to my lower self under any condition, and do not resort to managing things [for myself] (tadbīr) by means of any secondary cause (sabab) whatsoever.His words, Exalted is He: