27. Salvation is a ladder reaching from the heart of men to the heart of Allah.
28. It has three steps: Belief is first, and this is what man thinks, perhaps, is truth.
29. And faith is next, and this is what man knows is truth.
30. Fruition is the last, and this is man himself, the truth.
31. Belief is lost in faith; and in fruition faith is lost; and man is saved when he has reached deific life; when he and Allah are one.
--from The Holy Koran, Circle Seven chapter VII
In the Name of Allah and of Pir Hasan II (pbuh).