The Bowl of Saki Commentary
Commentary for:
Love alone is the fountain from which all virtues fall as drops of sparkling water.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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Virtue is life itself as reflected in the human moral nature. By moral nature is meant that which gives qualities to life, speech, thought, and action. This moral nature is connected with essence of mind, and this essence of mind (Citta) really belongs to heart.
Every virtue is an outpouring of life—that is to say, of Ishk as Ishk touches the surface of life. In the depths it is Ishk; on the surface it becomes the various moral qualities, or as Shakespeare has beautifully put it, "The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven."