It is being reproached. (Lumaʿ, 426)
The reality (ḥaqīqa) of muḥādatha (spiritual conversation) and musāmera (nightly spiritual discourse) is the continuation of expansiveness through the preservation of secrets. Its clear meaning is that musāmera is the moment when the servant is together with the Real (al-Ḥaqq) at night. Muḥādatha, on the other hand, is the moment when the servant is together with the Real during the day. Since question and answer can be both open and hidden, they have called the nightly intimate supplication musāmera, and the daytime intimate supplication muḥādatha. The daytime duʿāʾ (supplication)...