The Bowl of Saki Commentary
Commentary for:
Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by a lack of it.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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As the Sufi Thoughts teach, there is one moral, there is one virtue, which is Love. Particular virtues arise from the qualities displayed by Love in everyday affairs. Thus arise courage, mercy, kindliness, compassion, adoration, friendship, fidelity, charity, kinship, and many other virtues. Yet all are aspects of Love.
As soon as the heart ceases to be active, so soon the mind gains control over will, and the Love-Life energy from the higher spheres no longer touches the personality. This brings about the reign of sin over one. This is the fall of humankind, true of Adam and true of all his descendants.