Is supplicating to be among the foremost and the near ones considered transgression in supplication?

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if I ask my Lord in my supplication to be with the foremost and the near ones in Paradise, is this considered transgression in supplication?

Answer:
By Allah, there is a point of consideration here; there is a point of consideration in being among the foremost and the near ones. Supplicate to Allah to grant you success in good, worship, and obedience, but do not specify that He will make you among the foremost and the near ones. This requires effort; it requires that you do what they did in order to be like them. Yes.