The Bowl of Saki Commentary
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It always means that you must sacrifice something very dear to you when God's call comes.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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This includes sacrifice of all things, but as even the most selfish person does not attach value to "all things," one only feels the sacrifice of what one has valued. What is valued might be wealth, but the wealthy may be quite willing to surrender worldly knowledge; it might be worldly knowledge, but the learned may be quite willing to surrender their friends; it might be friendship, yet the philanthropist may be willing to sacrifice everything else. Yet hand, head, and heart—in clinging—prevent one from accepting the Divine Grace freely given to all.