The Sufi has cleanly washed the parchment of his existence. (He has purged from his heart all material affiliations and ambitions. ln fact he has annihilated himself along with the ego and entity; and for all practical purposes he does not exist.) In that state he is qualified to have the Beloved’s manifestation during his life.
صوفی ابن الوقت آمد در مثال
لیک صوفی فارغ است از وقت وصال
(Roomi)
The sufi is subservient to the trance. But the sufi (who has reached the final stage of حق اليقين is independent of it. He has passed the stage of حال or trance.
چوں مرآۃ دل را دہی تو صفا
شودی صاف صوفی ببینی خدا

When you cleanse the mirror of your heart, you will be an unsullied Sufi and you will then see Allah

When sufi purged his inner self,
Only then, while alive, God's vision he beheld.

You want to be called a sufi! that behoves you not,
Tear that tall cap, consume it fire's wrath.

Sufi washed the parchment of my being,
It was only then that beloved's vision was seen in life.