the lover is the color of his beloved. This belongs only to the heart. The intellect belongs to the world of restriction, and for this reason it is called ʿaql, from ʿiqāl, a binding cord. Sense, as is necessarily known, likewise belongs to the world of restriction, unlike the heart.
Love has many different and opposing rulings, received only by one capable of turning with it among them. This belongs only to the heart. When you ascribe such a thing to the Real, it is His saying, “I answer the caller’s call when he calls upon Me” [al-Baqara 2:186]; “God does not weary until you weary”; and “Whoever remembers Me within himself, I remember him within Myself.” The whole revealed law, or most of it, belongs to this subject.
Its drink is precisely what is present in the cup. We have explained that the cup is the locus of manifestation itself, the drink is what is manifest within it, and drinking is what the recipient of self-disclosure obtains from self-disclosure. Know this in brief.
End of Part Eighty-Nine, followed by Part Ninety: Question One Hundred and Eighteen (at the conclusion of Volume Twelve).
Anmerkungen
Translator’s note TN3754-1: The argument connects ʿaql, “intellect,” with ʿiqāl, a binding cord or hobble, to express restriction, in contrast with the heart’s turning among different and opposing states. The final paragraph identifies cup, drink, and drinking respectively with the locus, what is manifest, and the reception of self-disclosure.
