Second Note to “Barayam Gerya Kon Imshab”

Without getting a taste (zawq) of the essence and the embodiment of it, you might as well die. As the Prophet Muhammad said: “He is ill-natured who takes no pleasure being with lovers of God: the poems of the wise which they chant, the season of spring, the color and perfume of its flowers and the lute and its song.”

And as the ‘Seal of the Saints’ Abdul Qadir Jilani said: “The heedless for whom the seeking of spiritual ecstasy is a heresy, and the ill-natured ones who take no pleasure in beauty, are sick and there is no remedy for that sickness. They are lower than the birds and the beasts, lower than even the ass, because even the animal takes pleasure in a tune.”