“The third would be ‘blindness’!” said the great master Head Illuminator Osman, who then fell silent as if this required no explication. “What is it about ‘blindness’?” I said with embarrassment. “Blindness is silence. If you combine what I’ve just now said, the first and the second questions, ‘blindness’ will emerge. It’s the farthest one can go in illustrating; it is seeing what appears out of Allah’s own blackness.” I said no more.
