The Bowl of Saki Commentary

In Sufic terms, there is no difference between Tasawwuf and Ilm. That is to say, metaphysics, knowledge, mysticism, science, and religion are all one and the same thing to the inner person. The mind may give different names to its different processes, but in the sphere of the heart there is an eternal grasping which can be called love, will, or intuition. These are but names of the same process according to the method by which it influences mind.

When one considers that all love springs from God, all knowledge springs from God, all being is God, how can there be any difference between science, religion, and mysticism? In the realm of duality, in the region of universal becoming, there seems to be differences, but in the sphere of principle, there is not. Real science is comprehension, which is only possible when the heart is awake. Real religion is knowledge of God. Mysticism is the philosophy that God can be known, discovered in the heart of the human being.