And I witness Him during my absence (Ghaybati) through His presence, Without a veil, within the eyes of my eyes.

He says: 'I witness Him' in the sense of 'I behold Him'. That is: in the state of being absent from one's self through the ecstasy of witnessing. He sees Him by the Essence without a veil. Linguistically, a Veil (Hijab) is a 'partition' or 'curtain', and the Visual Form is nothing other than the Essence.

The eye never beheld a veil [over] Him whose [story], My heart has narrated from You through hearing.

He says: The summary of this is that we heard the description of The Truth—Exalted be He—regarding the reviving of the dead, the returning of the sun, and similar [miracles]. Then, we saw the One who manifested those attributes. Thus, the heart realized that 'This' [the Form] is 'That' [the Essence]; so the heart has realized the Essence.

And that which the eye saw is the Form. The Form is the Veil of the Essence in the sense that the [ordinary] creation is ignorant of the fact that the Essence is contained within a Form. Yet, this Form and this Veil are nothing other than the Essence."

Thus, my [vision] did not transgress its limit, Nor did it overstep (Bagha) through Separation (al-Farq) or Union (al-Jam').

He says: 'Separation and Union': Their meaning is found within the Testimony (al-Shahada) that the Visual Form is the Universal Goal;