Gleanings93/GPT5 2

His sovereignty and dominion are the creational and cosmic signs, which are manifestations of His names and attributes, exalted is His station, and in one sacred مقام they are without nearness or remoteness—how much more so His very Essence, exalted is He... But what the poet means by this verse—“The friend is nearer to me than I am to myself, and more wondrous still, that I am far from Him”—is that the Truth has said: “I am nearer to man than his jugular vein.” Therefore he says, despite the manifestation of the Presence of the Beloved.