...be the chief representative of the second and Bayazid of the first. Junaid defines sahw as follows : He is himself, after he has not been truly himself....ghalaba (victory), and comes to the clarity of sobriety, and contemplation is once more restored to him so that he can put everything in its right place and...

...is not and he is not where he is. Then after he has not been, he is where he is (before creation). He is himself, after he has not been truly himself. He is existent in himself and existent in God after having been existent in God and non-existent in himself....

...epistles are marked by a preoccupation with this whole problem, explains baqa' as follows: "[The mystic] is present in himself and in God after having been...and absent in himself. This is because he has left intoxication with God's omnipotence [ghalaba] and comes to the clarity of sobriety."38 Junayd goes...