And the gathering-place of all desires is the Presence of Absolute True Beauty, for no passion attaches itself except to a branch of its radiance. And things by their own essences have no existence, and their existence is merely rays from the radiance of True, Real Existence, which is transcendent and innocent of the impurities of non-existence; for to us belongs the attribute of possibility (al-imkan), and to Him, the Exalted, belongs the attribute of necessity (al-wujub).

If the lovers describe the meaning of your beauty

Then stripping it of every description is my description.

And if they express it with subtlety, then verily I

Say, reiterating subtlety: It transcends subtlety.

And if they define it by names, it is merely

Through Him for names and kunyas, then to me belongs my knowledge.

And intoxication (al-Sukr) expresses the dominance of love and the total engrossment of the lover in the seas of the spiritual state due to the intensity of his infatuation with the majesty of Beauty, until he becomes absent from his awareness, and there sometimes issues from him—due to the dominance of intoxication—a manifestation of the obscurities of the secret.