If you want to meet the Beloved, develop the habits of thieves. They consider it a pleasure to keep awake. They have no rest during the entire night. When they return with full knowledge of their exploits, they keep mum. Even if they are tortured and led to gallows, they divulge nothing. No matter if they are tortured and put on gallows, they do not give out the factual story.
(1) It is said that Hazrat Junaid Baghdadi once saw a thief hanging from gallows. He went up to him and kissed his feet. On enquiry he said that the thief deserved thousands of credits for his manliness and successful technique, that despite the fact that he mounted the gallows and was hanged, he never broke down and betrayed his crime. (Safinatul Anbiya by Dara Shikoh)
آں راز کہ درسینہ نھان است نہ وعظ است
بر دار تواں گفت و بہ منبر نتواں گفت

The secret which lies buried in my heart, is not a piece of sermon to be delivered from the pulpit. It may, at last, be given out on the scaffold.
“False face must hide what the false heart knows”. (Shakespeare).

If you seek Divine Love's union, learn from thieves,
Who, whole night rejoice and vigil keep,
And utter not a word when exposed,
Bound together and tortured inflict, to disclose secrets
they refrain.

If you seek beloved's union, learn the ways of thieves,
They revel being awake, passing night without rest,
Whatever they observe and discover, they never disclose,
Even as they are led to gallows, the confess not,
Nor do they admit anything when their heads are under chopper.