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2625-2634

  • If love were (only spiritual) thought and reality, the form of your fasting and prayer would be non-existent. 2625
  • The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect of love, naught but forms;
  • (But the purpose is) that the gifts may have borne testimony to feelings of love which are concealed in secrecy,
  • Because outward acts of kindness bear witness to feelings of love in the heart, O dear friend.
  • Your witness is sometimes true, sometimes false, sometimes drunken with wine, sometimes with sour curds.
  • He that has drunk sour curds makes a show of intoxication, shouts ecstatically, and behaves like one whose head is heavy (with the fumes of wine); 2630
  • That hypocrite is (assiduous) in fasting and praying, in order that it may be supposed that he is drunken with devotion (to God).
  • In short, external acts are different (from internal feelings), (and their purpose is) to indicate that which is hidden.
  • O Lord, grant us according to our desire such discernment that we may know the false indication from the true.
  • Do you know how the sense-perception becomes discerning? In this way, that the sense-perception should be seeing by the light of God.