Know that this house has delegation, and among those who verified it was Abu Yazid al-Bistami, and it is the self-association, and it does not happen to the one who knows God except through witnesses verified from behind a veil of good news. And know that the people have agreed upon bright words that they have decided upon in their souls, with which they address each other, as every sect did. With regard to the sciences that they impersonate, such as grammarians, numerical scientists, engineers, doctors, theologians, jurists, and others, what this sect has termed is identity, selfhood, and selfishness for purposes in their souls. This stage of that is the stage of selfishness, for selfhood is an expression of truth in terms of singularity, and selfishness, which here is an expression of the singular truth, which is the essence of the plural, this is a position. Of the stages of the unseen, it does not appear in the testimony, but the stages that are in the unseen are of two types,