And know that among those who are awake are those who are awake to their Lord, and among them are those who are awakened by themselves, and the one who is awake to his Lord does not address anyone except his Lord during his awakening, and hears only from Him, so no eye falls except on his Lord in all that exists, and he is on one of two stations. Either he sees the truth from behind the veil of things in a way. Encompassing is like his saying, “And God has an ocean behind them.” Or he sees the truth in the essence of things. Here, the men of God are divided into two parts: a group that sees the truth in the essence of things in rulings and forms, and a group that sees the truth in the essence of things in terms of what is capable of being ruled by forms and their rulings, not in terms of the essence of forms, for the forms are among a number of rulings. Fixed objects, so the conditions of the men of God differ in their awakening to God, but as for the one who awakens himself, he o