This accounts for the variety of types of action. Actions are merely propped-up shapes. Their life-breath is the presence of the secret of sincerity in them. Bury your existence in the earth of obscurity. If something sprouts before it is buried, its fruits will never ripen.
Phenomenal being is utter and total darkness.
It is only the manifestation of the Real in it that gives it light. When you see phenomenal being and do not see Him in it, with it, before it or after it, then you are truly in need of light. You are veiled from the suns of gnoses by the clouds of secondary traces. One way He shows you the existence of His overwhelming power is by veiling you from Him by that which cannot exist alongside Him. Commentary by Ibn 'Ajiba II .