The Bowl of Saki Commentary
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We should be careful to take away from ourselves any thorns that prick us in the personality of others.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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The heart contains all notes, so consequently it can harmonize with any other heart. When there is disharmony, it is a condition of the head, and no matter how justified that disharmony, still it is related to nufs. God in the Supreme Essence contains all goodness and badness or none; that is to say God is the Perfection of quality, never its extension, no matter how great the extension be. God is not multitudes, or largeness, but infinite, and this infinite qualification escapes comprehension of finite mind.
If the spiritual aspirant keeps the breath in Fikr, if the talib holds the heart in Ishk, it is impossible to be unfavorably affected by others. One is either united with all souls or not so united. This does not mean condescension to others. It means either change yourself to become harmonious to that person, or else-with all the force at your command-to drive the evil spirit out of the other and make them whole. The use of this power is not contrary to Ishk if it heals another.