The Bowl of Saki Commentary
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A study of life is the greatest of all religions, and there is no greater or more interesting study.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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What is religion? It is that which unites human and God. And what is that? It is Ishk. Is Ishk love? Is Ishk life? Is Ishk light? It is none of them and all of them. Without comprehension of Ishk we cannot understand light, we cannot understand life, we cannot comprehend love.
Knowledge of Ishk is called Ilm by the Sufis. This is the truest and highest knowledge there is, which may be called Love-Knowledge—not knowledge of love or love of knowledge but the absolute Union of the two. This is "the study" and "the religion" in the truest sense of the terms.