Identification with spiritual master (Sufism)

Since identification may be a mechanism for assimilating respected qualities and idealized values, the seeker may (through intense desire and through ideation of certain images) break from previous attachments and unify with the spiritual guide who is the object of desire and the personification of God. This is a true spiritual step, with the passing away, [fana]

, from past experience and being reborn in the experience of the master who is eventually seen in everything with which the disciple has contact. This is the result of striving and waiting patiently for illumination leading to the state of the master, giving insight into created things.

The first category of experience related to the three types of object of desire.