Which case, and why?

Know that the gifts and bestowals that are manifest in [engendered] being, at the hands of [God's] servants and not at their hands, are of two kinds. Among them are those that are gifts of the Essence and gifts of the Names, and these are distinguished [from one another] by the folk of tastings; just as among them are those that come from an asking for something specified and from an asking for nothing specified; and among them are those that do not come from any asking, whether the gift be of the Essence or of the Names. The specified [asking] is like one who says, 'My Lord, give me such-and-such,' and so specifies some particular matter, nothing other than which occurs to him. The unspecified [asking] is like one who says, 'My Lord, give me that in which You know there is my welfare,' without specifying [anything], for every part of my self, subtle and dense.