After these many years of traveling and cruising the desert and climbing the hills, the Greatest Shaykh is now looking for a place to rest. He chose the city of Damascus, to which all hopes aspire. Just as his repentance in the beginning was at the hands of Jesus, peace be upon him, he wanted to conclude in the place where he shall descend before the resurrection day [Kanz: 38846, 39718, 38839].