The Divine response to a creature putting a distance between the creaturely self and the Divine Self is that Allah makes the creature become oblivious of his/her own genuine selfhood. The fact that Allah makes the human being become oblivious of the human self when the human being becomes oblivious of the Divine Self, evidences that there is an intimate relation between the human self and the Divine Self. The character of this relation can be gleaned by looking at a
hadith qudsi that speaks of Allah's relationship with a particular type of human being. The Prophet (as) said that Allah said:
The heavens and the earth are not expansive enough to contain Me, but the heart of my loving slave contains Me.
And in another hadith qudsi:
I am as my loving slave thinks I am. I am with him when he makes mention of Me. If he makes mention of Me to himself, I make mention of Him to Myself; and if he makes mention of Me in an assembly, I make mention of him in an assembly better than it. And if he draws near to Me a hand's span, I draw near to him an arm's length; and if he draws near to Me an arm's length, I draw near to him a fathom's length. And if he comes to me walking, I go to him running.
The fact that the heart of the loving slave is the abode of Allah, and that Allah is as His loving slave imagines Him to be, illustrate the intimacy of Divine Life and the created world.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journa...03-02-r12.html
I don't know if that is the answer you were looking for, but I think those two hadith qudsi are very significant of our worth and makes us directly in charge of that relationship..
and Allah swt knows best
:wa: