because the condition for the permanence of the servant is the extinction of his ego (ananiyyah) in Allah—meaning the reality of his existence to which he refers with the word "I"—so that he sees nothing in existence except the Truth, majestic be His praise, as has passed before.
And for that reason he said:
"There is no 'I', O Truth, except You" 1 —meaning, True Existence is none other than You—because of what you have known, that the word "I" is used by the speaker to refer to his own existence, so the speaker and the address are one.
Labid said: "Lo, everything apart from Allah is vanity," meaning non-existence, and the Messenger of Allah confirmed it by his saying: "The truest word spoken by the Arabs is the statement of Labid."
My existence faded into the existence of passion,
And my essence became synonymous with intense wasting.
And that is fading within the decrees of my judgment
Like the transient accident appearing in the body.