And from that alienation, it is excluded from Chapter 237. Alienation is the key to distress, and if it were not for it, there would be no closeness. The relative is the stranger and he is the beloved, and it is not said of the beloved that he is a stranger. He is the lover’s own self, his essence, his names and attributes, and he does not look at him, for he is not something superfluous to him, what is from him apart from him and what is his. In the same place, it was said to Qais, “Laila, who are you?” He said, “Laila.” It was said to him, “Who are Laila?” He said, “Laila.” But no eye appeared to him in this distance. What remained was estrangement, for he was in a state of ruin. He lost his eye and ceased to be. How does his tongue rebuke him? Where do you go? Then where does he find it with his eyes ?