as what used to appear upon Mūsá of the covering (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhim wa-sallam ajmaʿīn). As for the third type of what may be called annihilation: it is to witness that there is no existent except Allāh and that the existence of the Creator is the existence of the created, so there is no distinction between the Lord and the servant. This is the annihilation of the people of misguidance and atheism who fall into incarnation and union, and the shaykhs disavow this. When one of them says: "I see nothing but Allāh" or "I do not look at anything other than Allāh" and the like, their intention is that I see no Lord other than Him, no Creator, no Manager other than Him, and no deity for me other than Him, and I do not look at anything other than Him out of love for Him, or fear of Him, or hope in Him. For the eye looks at what the heart is attached to, so whoever loves something or hopes for it or fears it, turns towards it. And if there is no love for it in the heart, nor hope in it, nor fear of it, nor hatred for it, nor any other attachment of the heart to it, the heart does not intend to turn towards it, nor to look at it, nor to see it. And if he sees it by coincidence, a mere sight, it is like someone who sees a wall or the like, with no attachment in his heart to it. The righteous shaykhs ﵃ mention something of the purification of tawḥīd and the realization of the sincerity of the religion entirely, such that the servant is not turning towards anything other than Allāh, nor looking at anything besides Him, neither out of love for it, nor fear of it, nor hope in it. Rather, the heart is empty of the created things, free from them, not looking at them except with the light of Allāh, so by the truth he hears and by the truth