He says: Some of them said: The Sublime Essence is the Supreme Reality and the Self-Subsisting Source (al-'Ayn al-Qayyumiyya) that necessitates every holiness and sanctity in all Majesty and Beauty—a necessity that absolutely admits no separation. I say: It is the Sublime Source manifested to all of creation through the Visual Form.

The Meaning of the Ancient is witnessed through the New,

By my eye; [yet] it remains hidden from [discursive] thought.

He says: 'The Meaning of the Ancient is witnessed through the New': Meaning, the attributes of the Ancient Meaning—with which He is described in pre-eternity—He made them witnessed by my eye during His manifestation through the Visual Form."

For I have covered [concealed] my deeds,

so I approached a Mirage (Sarab) where God appeared.

He says: He intended by 'The Mirage' here the Form, and by the 'Presence of God'—Majestic is His affair—the Essence.

My certainty (Yaqini) has proven my adversary

[wrong] through His knowledge, His Essence

and His Truth, as it persisted.