The Secret Of The Golden Chain.' The Rashahat mentions that Khwaja Bahauddin Naqshband considered numerical awareness the first stage of esoteric knowlege. Heart pause. Forming a mental picture of one's heart with the name of Allah engraved thereon, to emphasize that the heart has no consciousness or goal other than God. This is the meaning of the word "Naqshband". "In the beginning of my travel on the Way, I used to wander at night from one place to another in the suburbs of Bukhara. By myself in the darkness of the night, especially in the wintertime, I visited the cemeteries to take a lesson from the dead. He was asked one time, "What is meant by Traveling the Path?"
He said, "The details in spiritual knowledge." They asked him, "What are the 'details in spiritual knowledge?' He said, "The one who knows and accepts what he knows will be raised from the state of evidence and proof to the state of vision." "Everyone desires the good, But no one has attained the Ascension, Except by loving The One who created the good."