Light, then, is never seen. Although darkness veils, it is visible because of the correspondence between it and the seer, for there is no existent darkness except the darkness of created beings.
(Asking for Light and the Servant's Identity)
He, God's blessings and peace be upon him, would ask God in his supplication to make him light, knowing that God is the Light. He knew that the lower light is contained within the higher light. He knew that the Real is everything through which the servant is a servant in every respect, and that in respect of his identity he has neither description nor attribute.
He knew that the attribution of description and attribute to him is nothing other than the Real, not in respect of the Real's attribute, but from His identity. The servant is not mentioned through his identity, but through the attributes subsisting within him, which are only the Real's identity.
His saying, “Make me light,” is the very saying, “Make me You,” while You do not come to be through making.
He thus said to Him: Establish me in the knowledge of witnessing that I am You, so that I may be distinguished from other identities within the world. I shall know them and know who I am, while they do not know. If the affair is thus, no light is contained within another light: there is only one light within the entity of a created form. Consider how wondrous is this Name!
Creation is darkness and does not stand before light, for light drives it away. Darkness does not see light, and there is no light but the Real Light. Hence he, God's blessings and peace be upon him, said, “Light—how can I see Him?” None of me sees Him except His identity, and my darkness does not perceive Him.
This is a secret hidden from the apprehension of proofs
