Then I came close to him and kissed his hand, and said to him: ‘There remains one thing I need.’ He said: ‘Ask.’ I said: ‘I desire realisation (tahaqquq) in the manner of your witnessing of the self-revelation of the Essence continually and eternally.’ I meant by that the attainment of that which came upon him from the essential self-disclosure, beyond which there is no veil and without which there is no establishment for perfection . He said: ‘Yes …Ibn el Arabi.