The Meccan Revelations: Page 361 from Volume Two

He described the lover as being a hard worker who does not say to his beloved, “Why did I do this and why did I say that?”

Anas bin Malik, may God be pleased with him, said: I served the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, for ten years, and he did not tell me about anything I did, “Why did I do it,” or anything? I did not do it, why you did not do it, because he saw the behavior of his beloved in him, and the behavior of the beloved in the lover does not explain, rather he submits, rather he takes pleasure, because the lover is burned by a fire that burns everything you find in his heart. Nothing but his beloved is jealousy. He makes an effort and does not see that he is loyal, and it does not occur to him that he has moved. In what pleases his God-loving beloved, in this place, not an atom moves except with His permission. So how can he say “why” and “what he did” except he. He says the truth to his beloved, “I am your hand.” Every beloved has a necessar