Allah had not yet implemented the formula of ‘Be and it became’, nor was the Crescent or the Solar system formed, nor was there any information available about virtue and its good requital nor about vice and its seduction (because the ‘pen’ was neither created nor commissioned to write the ‘Loh Mahfuz’. The human beings too were not created and as such the religious canons too were not framed). There pervaded only the Unity of Allah and monotheism par excellence. It was at this juncture, Latif says, that Allah unfolded the riddle - ‘I was a hidden treasure and I desired to be known, so I created the universe for My publicity. It was then that I was imparted the knowledge of the Divine mysteries and the perception to single out my Unique Lord through my eyes and soul, O Beloved! (there shall be no deviation from it.)
Note: In all the preceding verses there is a sort of soliloquy of the Prophet about his earliest contact with Allah and his initiation in the Divine mysteries.

Before "Be"3 was said and it "Became"4, before anything came to exist,
Before there was knowledge of good or temptation to sin,
Only God was there, He alone did exist,
There Mauri solved the secret of secrets, Latif says,
Eyes and heart then recognized Him.

Pronouncement of 'Be and Become' was not there, nor had any moon from,
No awareness of virtue, no seduction of sin,
Only Oneness prevailed, Unity par excellence,
It was the moment, Lateef says, that Marui perceived the secret of secret of secrets,
Of that, o Beloved, my eyes and soul are kneely aware.