The Bowl of Saki Commentary
Commentary for:
"God is Love"-three words which open up an unending realm for the thinker who desires to probe the depths of the secret of life.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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In this we have three ideas, two of which the mind can partially grasp, the other of which—although the mind names it-it grasps not at all. This is "God," who in the form called by the Sufis Zat, is beyond all predication, but in the aspects of Life and Love, there is predication about God.
Thus when one says, "is," that means that God and Life are identical. Allah is essence, Allah is Eternal Being, and thus "God is." God is and no one else is; God is and nothing else is. Only God is and there is naught else. But what is God? What is the nature of Life? It is Love. If it were not Love, nothing would hold on to anything else-neither cell to cell in the physical, nor thought to thought in the mental, nor heart to heart in the spiritual. Without love nothing would adhere to anything else, there would be nothing to know. All would be chaos. And upon this much meditation is needed.