Commentary
And when those in the heat are in most need of that which cools their insides, he said, building [upon the consensus] for the action, following the reading of Abu Amr in what preceded: ﴿They will be given to drink﴾ (p-5). This means that everyone whom the king permits in that will be given to drink in the easiest and simplest manner ﴿from a boiling spring﴾. This means that it has reached its limit in the heat and has ripened to the utmost degree, so that when they bring it close to them, the flesh of their faces falls off. And when they drink, it cuts their intestines from what they drank in the world from the cups of desire, which they cut off by their enjoyment of it, the hearts of the saints.
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