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Bowl of Saki for July 29, 2007
TO LOVE IS ONE THING; TO UNDERSTAND IS ANOTHER. ONE WHO LOVES IS A DEVOTEE, BUT ONE WHO UNDERSTANDS IS A FRIEND.--Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
This is the difference between Ishk and Ilm, that the devotee is intoxicated by the love and light of God, that one longs for nothing else, that one is bathed in the Universal Spirit; one is a devotee, sometimes a saint. But there is another stage: to be bathed in this ocean, to drink of the cosmic wine and not be drunk. This is
sobriety, the fruit of which is Ilm -- the supreme knowledge or universal intelligence, possession of which makes one a sage.
The devotee, possessing Ishk, becomes nothing in the sight of God --he is non-existing in the Existent. But the sage, possessing Ilm, is as God in the sight of nothing -- he is Existent in the non-existent. *Fana* describes the devotee in Ishk, *Baka* the sage with Ilm.
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Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
This is the difference between Ishk and Ilm, that the devotee is intoxicated by the love and light of God, that one longs for nothing else, that one is bathed in the Universal Spirit; one is a devotee, sometimes a saint. But there is another stage: to be bathed in this ocean, to drink of the cosmic wine and not be drunk. This is
sobriety, the fruit of which is Ilm -- the supreme knowledge or universal intelligence, possession of which makes one a sage.
The devotee, possessing Ishk, becomes nothing in the sight of God --he is non-existing in the Existent. But the sage, possessing Ilm, is as God in the sight of nothing -- he is Existent in the non-existent. *Fana* describes the devotee in Ishk, *Baka* the sage with Ilm.
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