due to the intensity of His manifestation and the excessive brilliance of His light. Indeed, the veiled ones are only those who are cut off from Him by their sins which have cast a rust upon their hearts.

[117] And it was said: "If you see a gnostic bowing his head and bending his back before the holder of a religious or worldly position, he only does so due to witnessing the majesty of a divine Omnipotence [Jabarut] to which humility is owed. For they do not see in existence anything except Allah—the Most High—His actions, and His attributes, in accordance with His saying: 'Through Me he hears, and through Me he sees'; thus, he sees none other than Him."

And the Sheikh Sulayman al-Ahmad said in the "Commentary on the Diwan":

"There is no survival for human qualities before the sovereign authority of Reality [Sultan al-Haqiqah], since existence belongs to the Truth absolutely, and everything else is pure non-existence. Indeed, the Truth—Mighty is His Majesty—is Light, and it is impossible for light to be hidden; through it, every concealed thing is made manifest.