And Muhammad ibn Ali al-Murshidi said to his brother Nasr ibn al-Amid [in verse]:

I roll my eyelids across creation, yet I do not behold

Within the faces of created beings anyone other than Allah,my Master.

Thus my absence, wherever it occurs, is my eternal Presence

And that very station is my ultimate return, just as it was my origin.

My death is my true life, my sleep is my awakening, and likewise:

The whole of me, and the lowest part of my whole, is the entirety of my highest.

And the Master Ibrahim Mustafa said in his treatise "The Pure Essence" [Al-Khulasah al-Safiyah]: Al-Junayd was asked concerning the attributes of Allah in eternity, and he said: "Indeed, Allah—Glory be to Him—is Knowing without a taught knowledge, Powerful not by an external power, Willing not by an external will, Speaking not by an external speech, Hearing not by an external hearing, Seeing not by an external sight, Living not by an external life, Permanent not by an external permanence;