It arises as a reward for them. For although there is no request from the person in whom a karāma (a saintly wonder) is manifested, the relationship necessitates it. Karāma is divided into two: sensory (material) and spiritual. Generally, the public can recognize material karāma such as stating what is on someone else's mind, informing about things that have happened, are happening, or will happen in the future, obtaining things through extraordinary means, walking on water, flying in the air, covering long distances in a short time, becoming hidden from sight, and the immediate acceptance of one's dua (supplication).
Spiritual karāma (karāmat-i mānawiyya), however, is known only by Allah's select servants (khawāṣṣ). The common people cannot know this. Spiritual karāma includes the following: adhering to the etiquette of the sharia (the sacred law), conforming to good akhlāq (character), avoiding bad character, being diligent in performing obligatory acts of worship at their proper times, striving to do good, removing from one's qalb (the heart) all rancor, hatred, envy, and suspicion towards others, purifying the qalb from all negative traits, adorning the qalb by engaging in murāqaba (spiritual vigilance) with every breath, observing Allah's rights in oneself and in things, discerning the traces of Allah in one's qalb, and maintaining a state of presence in every breath taken and given.