And a lover does not attain arrival to the station of the masters of infatuation until despair and covetousness vanish from him, and he becomes abstract from the intellect and the soul—meaning the heavenly and earthly kingdoms—and in their nomenclature, innocent of his own transformation and power, turning to the transformation of Allah and His power, desiring not and choosing not anything over Allah.
And extinction (al-Fana') according to the masters of witnessing is the lack of sensing the world of the earthly and heavenly kingdoms, and it is total engrossment in the majesty of the Creator and the witnessing of the Truth; meaning: whoever does not fade an absolute extinction into the Truth by his stripping away from creation—which is what is other than Allah—shall never remain, because extinction in Allah is the everlasting permanence, and what is besides it is pure extinction. He, the Exalted, said: {Everything is fleeting except His Face} 1 .
And Labid said: "Lo, everything apart from Allah is vanity," meaning a transient non-existence, and verily the secret of love is flowing through all the existential originations,