Which case, and why?

Praise be to God, and peace upon those of His servants whom He has chosen: Muhammad and his pure family. To proceed: when I read the Tale of Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān, I found that, for all its marvels of spiritual discourse and profound allusions, it lacked any intimations pointing to the supreme stage. That stage is 'the Greatest Overwhelming' (al-ṭāmma al-kubrā). It is stored up in the divine scriptures, deposited in the symbols, and hidden in the tale of Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān. It is upon this stage that the stations of the Sufis and of the people of unveilings are built. Yet it is alluded to in the Epistle of Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān only at the very end of the work, where he says, 'And certain solitary individuals among men have emigrated to Him', and so on to the end of the book. I therefore wished to set forth something of that stage in a tale which I myself have named the Tale of the Occidental Exile, for certain of our noble brethren. In Him do I put my trust, and from Him do I seek help.