leyle-i kadr ) Laylat al-Qadr (the Night of Power) is the night in which the sālik (spiritual wayfarer) experiences a manifestation through which he can comprehend his own worth and his rank in the sight of his Beloved (Allah). It is also the moment when the sālik begins to attain the station of those who have reached union (jamʿ) and maʿrifa (experiential knowledge of God). (Kāshānī, 74; Jāmiʿ, 94)
leyse ) Junayd (may Allah have mercy on him) explained Abū Yazīd al-Bistāmī's saying, "Leyse leysededir (non-existence is in non-existence)" as follows: It is for everything to pass away from itself, and then to pass away from its passing away. This is the meaning of the phrase "leyse leyse iledir (non-existence is with non-existence)." That is, what is present becomes absent, things are effaced, nothing remains, and nothing is perceived. This is what some Sufis refer to as fanāʾ (annihilation in God), fanāʾ from fanāʾ, and faqd al-faqd fī al-faqd (losing loss in non-existence). This is passing away from passing away. Nafs (the lower self), at the moment of burning with divine love, finds relief in the qalb (the heart). One of the shaykhs said: Nafs is the wind of Allah that is set upon the fire of Allah the Exalted. Respiration (tanaffus) is just like nafs. (Lumʿa, 423)
I looked at the field of Leysiyyet (non-existence), I flew for ten years, and in the end, through leyseden leysede leyse (non-existence within non-existence from non-existence), I became. Then, tawhid (the oneness of God)...