The Ibn 'Arabian Insights of Henry Corbin

"Prayer is not a request for something: it is the expression of a mode of being, a means of existing and of causing to exist, that is, a means of causing the God who reveals himself to appear, of 'seeing' Him, not to be sure, in His essence, but in the form which precisely He reveals by revealing Himself by and to that form ... Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination." - Henry Corbin, Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi, 248.