And al-Shibli said: And there was something of doubt regarding that in my heart until the matter became clear to me in exactly that manner, and among what bears witness to the truth of this is the saying of He, the Exalted: {So when they saw him, they exalted him and cut their hands} 1.
And it was narrated that there was a youth who used to keep company with al-Junayd, may Allah be pleased with him, and whenever he heard anything of the remembrance, he would swoon. So al-Junayd said to him one day: "If you do that once more, you shall not keep my company." After that, whenever he heard, his state would alter and he would restrain himself until there would drop from every single hair a drop of blood from his body. Then, upon a certain day, he cried out a single cry in which his soul perished.
And some of them said: Sobriety is a return from absence to sensation, and intoxication is caused by a powerful spiritual influx.