He was saying:

"At Your service, at Your service, O Divinity (Lahut)! At Your service, O Essence of the Kingdom (Malakut)! At Your service, O He who became manifest in what was hidden, and remained hidden in what was manifest; who appeared in concealment and was concealed in appearance; and who called from Himself to Himself by Himself!

For You, O Allah, are the Prince of the Bees (Amir al-Nahl). Shine forth, O Allah, Your Light! Manifested are Your Names, and there is no deity other than You. O Prince of the Bees, grant me security from Your [decree of] metamorphosis (Musukhiyya)—from Transformation (Maskh), Transmigration (Naskh), Dissolution (Faskh), Defilement (Waskh), and Imprinting (Raskh). Indeed, You are Powerful over that, by Your Mercy, O my Master, O Ali, O Great One." (Three times).

I said: "O young man, bring the man to me." He stood before me and took his head out from the cloak, and behold, he was a youth more beautiful than the sun and more radiant than the moon. He said to me: "What is the matter with you, O Dawud?"