It is to attain kamāl (perfection) and its reality. The ultimate end of zakat is to spend everything other than Allah with the sincerity of love for the Real (al-Ḥaqq). The ultimate end of fasting is to preserve the form of creation and that which strengthens it through fanāʾ (annihilation in God) in Allah. For this reason, in a sacred hadith it is stated: "Fasting is for Me, and I (alone) give its reward." (Bukhari, Sawm, 2; Tawhid, 35; Muslim, Siyām, 161) The ultimate end of hajj is to attain maʿrifa (gnosis, experiential knowledge of God) and to realize baqāʾ (subsistence in God) after fanāʾ. For all acts of worship have been set forth in relation to the stages of the sāliks (spiritual wayfarers) up to the ultimate end, and in relation to the maqām (spiritual station) of jamʿ (union) and farq (separation) before the ahadiyya (the station of divine oneness). (Kāshānī, 76; Jāmiʿ, 95)
(See also: fanāʾ–baqāʾ; sharia–ḥaqīqa)