Footnotes

1. 1.Shaikh here denotes a religious leader.
2. 2.Footnoted explanations to some of the lines are also given by Baba.
3. 3.The four chief elements — earth, air, water and fire — all have in them the light of the Creator, hidden in a mysterious way.
4. 4.Just see the wonderful effect of love: While the candle sacrifices itself over the Almighty, the moth becomes mad after the candle, and surrenders its dear life to the flames.
5. 5.Science has proved to the world that each particle or atom in this universe is enveloped by a sort of electricity around it, which repels or attracts other particles as the case may be. It has also been demonstrated that similar particles repel each other and dissimilar particles attract each other. This magnetism or power of attraction between two dissimilar particles is what we call love. Thus we see that there is love in anything and everything, even the smallest particle or atom in the universe. The existence of love presupposes the idea of the lover and the beloved; separation & union. For instance, male & female in the state of separation are continually attracting each other, and the fruit of their union is the child, which has also love in it. In the state of separation the disciple and Master are two different items. The result of the internal union between the two is God, which is love Universal. Taking the example of water, earth, brick, chunam [lime], wall, wood, iron and door, we shall see that there is love in one and all of them individually and in combination. The union of water with earth is brick; the union of chunam and brick is the wall; and the combination of wood and iron gives rise to a door. The door and the wall in the state of aloofness or separation are of no use at all. The union of the two gives the door the capability of moving to and from, as is evident from the Persian words Dar-o-Divar. i.e., opening and shutting. Thus we see that the beginning and end of everything in the universe is love, as sung in the couplet.