The Bowl of Saki Commentary
Commentary for:
It is God, who by human hands, designs and carries out God's intended plans in nature.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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There are the three aspects in life: first, that spiritual life which is God in Divine Fullness, uncontaminated by darkness of any sort; second, the Nature which was born from the movement of contraction, which appears as a world of relative darkness and which is the nexus of material life. To draw matter back into spirit, humanity was created who becomes the play between these other two forces or aspects. Actually these two are not in opposition, but they appear so to humanity who is attracted by one or the other.
Out of humanity comes the third aspect, manasic or mental life, which is between the two others, and consists of an apparent mixture of light and darkness in which the former always predominates but does not entirely dissipate the darkness until the flood of the spiritual intelligence makes that possible. By such means God enters into the created worlds and reclaims that which was voluntarily renounced in love and self-sacrifice.
Actually this is not so. It is all a dream, but it is the only explanation intelligible to humanity.