This section conveys a central Sufi teaching: the Divine (Truth) is not a distant object reached by accumulating knowledge or by physical travel, but is already present with the seeker from the very first step. In the anecdote, Dhul-Nun journeys to a sheikh of the Maghrib to pose a question; the sheikh replies that if he came to master the knowledge of the first and the last, such knowledge belongs to the Creator alone, and if he came seeking Him, then He was already present at the point of departure. The accompanying quatrain dramatizes the realization: the seeker once imagined the Beloved as external and far off, but upon finding Him understood that He had been there from the first footstep. The learnable idea is that spiritual seeking is a movement of inward awareness rather than outward distance, so that the goal of the journey coincides with its origin.