Standing In This World Bowing In Other World

Everyone begins this path from their own place. The Koran is a double-sided brocade. Some enjoy one side, and some the other. Both are true, since God desires that everyone should gain benefit from it. 

In the same way, a woman has a husband and a child. Each enjoys her in a different way. The child’s pleasure is in her breast and her milk. The husband’s pleasure is in intercourse with her. Some people are infants of the Way— they take pleasure in the literal meaning of the Koran, and drink that milk. But those who have reached years of full discretion have another enjoyment and a different understanding of the inner meanings of the Koran.
Abraham’s station and place of prayer is a certain spot in the Kaaba where the literalists say two inclinations of prayer must be performed. This is excellent indeed, by God. But according to the Sufis, Abraham’s station is that inward state where you should cast yourself into the fire for God’s sake, reaching this place through work and effort in God’s name. There, people can sacrifice themselves for the sake of God, their own selves having no place in their sight, and they cease to tremble for themselves. To perform two inclinations of prayer at Abraham’s station is excellent, but let the standing be performed in this world, and the bowing be in the other world.

The true Kaaba is the heart of the prophets and the saints, the locus of God’s revelation. The physical Kaaba is a branch of that. 
If it were not for the heart, of what use would the Kaaba be? The prophets and the saints forsake their own desire and follow the desire of God. Whatever God commands, they do. Whoever God denies grace, to them the saints are indifferent—indeed in their eyes such a one is an enemy.
Into Your hands we give the reins of our heart. Whatever you declare cooked, we declare it burnt!
Fihi Ma Fihi - Discourse 44