Alif

When everything becomes known from the alif, there's no need for anything else. When it doesn't become known for someone, one must explain it to him. Perhaps he doesn't understand ba or ta and so on down the alphabet. Someone else didn't understand, and for him the Koran came as explanation.
The alif is disengaged. It's sitting in the forefront of the Divinity. Ba has love for it in its heart and has thrown its head down at its feet.

Of all the secrets, no more than alif fell out. Everything else they said was to explain the alif. 
And of course the alif was not understood.

O you who died trying to undo knots!
Born in union you died in separation.
You went to sleep in thirsty on the lip of the ocean!
You died in poverty on top of the treasure!

Shams
"Me & Rumi" William C. Chittick