All the knowledge and maʿrifa (experiential knowledge of God) particular to it have been realized in me. In this tawhid (the oneness of God), the intoxication of the moment and the dominance of the ḥāl (spiritual state) reached the final point of waḥdat al-wujūd–waḥdat al-shuhūd (unity of being–unity of witnessing).
I then informed Hazrat Khwaja, that is, Shaykh Bāqī Billāh, of certain obstacles I had encountered, by means of a letter. To the letter, I also added the following verses (which are, in fact, a single couplet) filled with the language of intoxication (sekr):
this path is the path of a blind people
our community is the community of disbelievers and deniers
it is the hair and rose-face of that beautiful peri
whether kufr (disbelief) or iman (faith)
both lead to the same path
This state continued for a long time, for months, even for years. Then, the infinite ināya (divine favor) of the Real (God) came forth from the window of the unseen to the plain of manifestation. Upon the face of the sought one, la...