[2:110] And perform the prayer, and pay the alms; whatever good you shall offer for your own souls, you shall find it with God; assuredly God sees what you do.
The obligation for the aspirant is to perform the acts of intimate communication (muwāṣalāt) and to continually seek to gain access with different kinds of acts of drawing near (qurubāt), trusting that what he offers in sincere difficult efforts (mujāhadāt) will bear fruit in the final states (hālāt).