Longing is calmed by meeting, for it is the rushing of the heart toward an absent person. If it is calmed, longing is a movement that the lover finds when he meets his beloved, rejoicing in him. He is unable to reach the goal he found in him. If it reaches it, it is calmed because he is not satisfied with it, for the senses do not satisfy what is established in the soul of its attachment to the beloved, so he is like a drinker of water. The more the sea drank, the thirstier it became.

He, peace be upon him, said, “Two are insatiable, the seeker of knowledge and the seeker of this world.

In terms of what each one of them desires to attain, and knowledge does not have an end to which it ends, so for this reason it cannot be satisfied, and so is the world.” For it is what souls desire, and lust seeks for it. That desire was manifested in a close form called this world, so desire became attached to it. Then it moves to the afterlife in Paradise, and desire follows it a