Gleanings22/GPT5 10

If it is considered correctly, in this very station they have beheld the utmost nonexistence and annihilation within themselves in the face of absolute Being and pure subsistence, as though they had regarded themselves as sheer nothingness and deemed the mention of themselves in that presence to be polytheism; for any mention in this مقام is, in itself, a proof of being and existence, and this, in the view of those who have attained union, is a grave error—how much more so the mention of anything other than Him, and that the heart and tongue and mind and soul should be occupied with anything but the remembrance of the Beloved, or that the eye should behold anything but His beauty.