The Bowl of Saki Commentary

That is to say, since the ideal is the highest of concepts, the whole of the vital force for which one has capacity cannot be expressed or felt unless act, speech, and thought are in harmony with it. The practice of tasawwuri Murshid, practicing oneness with your teacher, as well as the practice of Darood by Sufis make it possible to retain some relationship, even identity, with the ideal at all times. Average people, not knowing these principles, often have no means by which they can maintain their state, so they rise and fall and are subject to both joy and sorrow.

Actually life is expressed through the ideal, the ideal in this event being higher than the idea. Idea is a thought which is connected with nufs; ideal, while not always free from nufs, is in the direction of independence from nufs. To attain to any ideal, no matter what its characteristics, one must remove the nufs from one's path. Therefore, selfishness is a bar even to passion, crime, and aggrandizement. Fortunately the wicked people do not generally know this so they are caught by their own misdeeds.