The purpose of Man is to reach higher and higher stations. The ego’s desires weigh man down. Wanting himself seen, man falls. Unless he sacrifices himself, he cannot rise, he cannot reach Oneness. To be known in one’s real being belongs to Man’s spiritual aspect. Mawlānā explains that the qur’ānic āyah “wa-kuntu nasyam mansiyyā” is just such a call from Sayyidatunā Maryam to her Lord ﷻ, yearning to be unknown, to be nothing.