until he adds:
“I have never ceased to be her, nor has she ever ceased to be me; there is no distinction at all—my very essence has offered prayer to my own essence.
As a messenger to myself, I was sent from myself, and my essence inferred proof of me through my signs.
If I am invoked, I am the One who answers; and should I be called upon, the one who calls me responds and complies.”
—and other utterances of the same kind.

For that reason, when this author was on his death-bed he kept reciting:
“If the rank you grant me in love is what I have now encountered,
then I have squandered my days.
A wish my soul had once attained for a time—
today I deem it but confused dreams.”

He had imagined that he himself was God; yet when the angels of God came to seize his soul, the falsity of his fancy was laid bare.

Allah the Exalted says:
“Whatever is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Allah; He is the Almighty, the All-Wise.” [Q 57:1]
Thus everything in the heavens and the earth exalts Allah; it is not Allah Himself.
He also says:
“To Him belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth; He gives life and causes death…” [Q 57:2]