The mystic desires what Omar Khayyam calls wine; the wine of Christ, after drinking which, no one will ever thirst.
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
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There are many ideas which intoxicate humanity, many feelings there are which act upon the soul as wine, but there is no stronger wine than the wine of Selflessness. It is a might and it is a pride that no worldly rank can give. To become something is a limitation, whatever one may become. Even if one were to be called the ruler of the world, one would still not be ruler of the universe. If one were the ruler of earth, one would still be the servant of Heaven. It is the person who is no one, who is no one and yet all. The Sufi, therefore, takes the path of being nothing instead of being something. It is this feeling of nothingness which turns the human heart into an empty cup into which the Wine of Immortality is poured. It is this state of Bliss which every truth-seeking soul yearns to attain.
Wine is symbolical of the soul’s evolution. Wine comes from the annihilation of grapes, immortality comes from the annihilation of self.
I drink the wine of Thy Divine Presence and lose myself in its intoxication.
( from Sayings of Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan: Vadan – Alankaras (Fanciful expressions of ideas) )
When the soul is illuminated, it will desire to find some other soul illuminated in like manner, and will find great joy and bliss in its society. Such a one will surely find others who are on the verge of illumination. Even a drunkard will find others to drink with. And so it is mystically. A very little light can be turned into a flame, and that flame into a very big flame. Why is it better to become a mystic than to remain a drunkard? As a matter of fact a drunkard will never be satisfied. Mystics will look for what Omar Khayyam calls wine: the wine of the Christ, after drinking which no one will ever thirst. They will always seek the wine whose intoxication never wears off. It is the only wine: the intoxication of the Divine Love.
( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume VII – In an Eastern Rose Garden: Spirits and Spiritism )
There is a wine which the mystics drink, and that wine is ecstasy. A wine so powerful that the presence of the mystic becomes as wine for everyone who comes into their presence. … That intoxication is the Love which manifests in the human heart. What does it matter, once the mystics have drunk that wine, whether they are sitting amongst the rocks in the wilderness, or in a palace? It is all the same. The palace does not deprive them of the mystic’s pleasures, and neither does the rock take them away. They have found the realm of God on earth, about which Jesus Christ said, ‘Seek ye first the realm of God, and all these things shall be added unto you.’
I am the Wine of the Holy Sacrament; my very being is intoxication; those who drink of my cup and yet keep sober will certainly be illuminated; but those who do not assimilate it, will be beside themselves and exposed to the ridicule of the world.
Commentary by Murshid S.A.M. (Sufi Ahmed Murad)
Samuel L. Lewis
This is the love of God which appears as manifestation in Djabrut, that is to say, the sphere of heart. Even on the earth plane it flows with every heart-pulsation. It is that which keeps us alive here and which keeps us alive hereafter, and which impelled us heretofore on our way to manifestation. It is that which everyone desires, which is all joy and happiness. It is that which constitutes all delight of Paradise. And what is that? It is nothing but Allah in the manner in which Allah presents Self to Allah’s creatures. Practice of Zikr brings it to us here and now. Every intoxication of soul is nothing but this wine, and it cannot be compared to any human delight.