Abraham managed to have his access to God by means of ponderous deliberations. It has been reported in the holy books that he saw a star when the night fell over him and seeing the brightness of the star he considered it be his Lord God. But, when the star sat down, he concluded that one that sets down and disappears couldn't be my Lord. And, when he saw the moon at its full bloom, which also sat down. Then he saw the sun, which was the brightest of all the things that he had seen so far. When the sun also disappeared and sat down he eventually concluded that anything that sets down couldn't be my Lord God and he turned towards Him who is the Creator of the earth and the heavens.

Besides providing guidance about the thinking approach of the prophets, it has also been highlighted in this story of Abraham that any variant and changeable thing cannot be worthy of worship.

Experiences of life are evident upon the fact that life is ever renewing at every moment and it does not stop.

God has stated, "Glory to Him who created everything in pairs of twos." For having a proper understanding of these pairs, we have to develop our understanding about the Conscious and the Unconscious senses. When we take the conscious things into consideration we have to face a non-lord at every step of our life and for spending our life, we associate ourselves with so many things other than our Lord God. Whereas, on the other hand, we are constrained to have an association with the One who is the Provider of the life, whether we want it or not. These very unconscious senses help in negating the non-lords and provide a basis for the maintenance of life and are the chief constituents of life.

Overall half of the life is spent under the Conscious and the rest of it is spent in the Unconscious. After one's birth, most of the time is lived in the Unconscious because up to the twelfth year of one's life one does not have the understanding or comprehension of things. If the period spent in sleeping in that age is also added to that, it comes to more than the time of awakening. In the rest of man's life one third of his life is also spent in Unconscious. The Unconscious part of life negates the non-lords and man has the power to use his right of negating the non-lords. If a person could spend his life in the unconscious more than that he spends in the conscious life, the control over the unconscious life is obtained.

" O' thou wrapped in clothes! Stand to prayer by night, but not all night, half of it – or a little less or a little more; and recite the Quran in slow measured rhythmic tone. Truly the rising by night is most potent for governing the soul and most suitable for framing the words of prayer and praise." (Quran: Surah Muzzammil)

In this verse we have been invited to enter the Unconscious, remaining in our conscious senses and to become attentive towards our Lord God, who is the Lord of the East and the West and no one is worthy of worship except Him.

In one phase of our life we become inactive when we are unconscious and make use of our limbs and body parts when we are awake. In this life we remain dominated by the spatio-temporal restraints, that is, we remain in the clutches of time and space at every step. In the state of Unconscious we are liberated from the ties of time and space whether it is in the form of sleep or otherwise.

The mid-night prayer is suggested for the very reason. It is that time when the confined conscious is liberated. This is the law that has been explained in the Surah Muzzammil.

One advances in the spiritual life when the non-lords are negated consciously just as the unconscious negation constructs the physical life.

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