So they said:
{We have not testified except to what we knew, and we were not guardians of the Unseen}.1
Thus, their knowledge was completed by the testimony, because they verified what they testified to in the Three Ranks. So their testimony was upon Reality, not upon Metaphor.
So they said:
"It is He (Hiya Huwa) — in affirmation, origination, vision, truth, and certainty."
And they did not interpret this utterance as loose speech (Tasamuh), due to their arrival at the Reality of the Gnosis of Allah the Almighty.
It is the first of the degrees of Victory, Salvation, and Eternal Happiness. It is the High Divine Rank beyond which there is no rank, and no doubt nor suspicion enters upon its knowers.
And to them, the indication is made:
"They wander in the Kingdom of the Ancient (Malakut al-Qadim), and they have been purified from all sins.