Indication

If you say: Union, unification, and metempsychosis are apparent in what some of the Sufis have said. One might surmise from this a connection with the unity of existence (vahdetü'l-vücûd), which is the way of some of the materialists.

The Answer: With their ecstatic, symbolic utterances, the Sufi verifiers of reality became immersed in beholding the Most Holy Existent and, withdrawing from contingent beings, saw the result in the evidence. That is to say, on the way they followed in beholding the Maker from the world, they gazed on the flowing manifestations in the streams of the world and the swirling effusions in the inner face of things and the manifestation of the divine names in the mirrors of beings, and used due the lack of words such terms as, 'suffusing divinity' (ulûhiyet-i sâriye) and 'suffusing life' (hayat-ı sâriye), but others did not understand the truths these expressed. Due to the misunderstanding, they applied the words and utterances of the Sufi mystics to the garbled nonsense that emerged from their own stunted abilities. Pooh to their intelligences! The abstract ideas of the Sufi verifiers of reality, at the heights of the Pleiades, are infinitely distant from the lowly thoughts of the materialists' imitators in the pits of the earth. Any attempt to correlate these two sets of ideas shows that the human mind has suffered an arrest at this time of progress and has fallen into the abyss of death! Observing this with regret, humankind is compelled to declare with the tongue of its investigative and progressive abilities:

"Absolutely not, by God! Is there any comparison between the Pleiades and the earth? Can an analogy be drawn between the shining light and pitch darkness?"

Indication

These are the followers of the unity of witnessing (ehl-i vahdetü'ş-şuhûd), but metaphorically (mecâzen) they can be called the followers of the unity of existence. However, in reality, the unity of existence is the fallacious way of some ancient philosophers.