The Bowl of Saki Commentary
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Do not limit God to your virtue. God is beyond your virtues, O pious ones!
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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Virtues can only be of two natures-those conceived by God and those conceived by human beings. Virtue as conceived by God is nothing but Love, although it may be said to have the seed of all virtues. Passing through the mind-mesh it appears under all guises and activities and these are given names by human beings. Especially those we like to call virtues, but all really, arise from one activity and one essence. Until God is perceived as All-Embracing and as All-Qualities, the virtue we ascribe to God is nothing but the virtue we ourselves admire, raised to an ideal. Such an ideal, even in its highest aspect, is not God so long as it is attached to name.