In Hujwiri's Kashf al-Mahjub, the spiritual beginning (ibtida) of Bishr ibn al-Harith al-Hafi is traced to a single act of reverence. Returning home intoxicated, he found a discarded scrap of paper bearing the Basmala (the written Name of God), lifted it with honor, perfumed it, and set it in a clean place. That night he saw God in a dream, who told him that because Bishr had made His Name fragrant, God would by His glory make Bishr's own name fragrant in this world and the hereafter. The anecdote encodes the Sufi principle that outward veneration of a sacred symbol, even from an unlikely servant, can become the seed of inner sanctity and the origin of a saint's path.