Tadhkirah — Page 249
1891 249 overpowered by something else that had absorbed it wholly so that its own being had completely disappeared. At that time, I saw that the spirit of Allah the Almighty had enveloped my soul and, covering my body, hid me completely in itself so that not a particle of me remained. I beheld my physical self as if all my limbs had become His, my eyes had become His eyes, my ears had become His ears and my tongue had become His tongue. My Lord seized me with such great force that I disappeared in Him and I felt that His power and strength was surging in me and His divinity was coursing through me. The camps of the Lord of honour were set up all around my heart and the Lord of power ground down my ego so that there was no more of me nor any desire of mine left. My whole structure was demolished and only the structure of the Lord of the universe remained visible. Divinity overcame me with such force that I was drawn to Him from the hair of my head to the nails of my toes. Then I became all kernel, which had no shell and became an oil which had no dregs. I was separated completely from my ego and I became like something which was not visible; or like a drop, which had become merged in the river so that the river comprehended it in its vastness. I no longer knew what I had been before or what my being was. Divinity coursed through my veins and muscles. I was completely lost to myself and God Almighty employed all my limbs for His purpose and took possession of me with such force that nothing could exceed it. Being so seized by Allah, I became non-existent. I believed that my limbs had become God’s limbs and I imagined that I had discarded my own being and had departed from my own existence and that no associate or claimant had remained as an obstruction. God Almighty entered wholly into my being and my anger and my gentleness, my bitterness and my sweetness and my movement and my inertness all became