131 manifest the immaterial Divinity through his material being). The manifestation of Allah through His perfect lover makes Him extremely attractive. It is also a fact that lordship is impossible without slavehood (i.e. the lord cannot manifest his lordship unless there is a slave).
Meaning: The secret of lordship lies in slavehood, if that secret is disclosed the lordship is annulled. Hence, to express lordship, slavehood is must. The reality of lordship can manifest only through a slave. It is a strange fact that the absolute Divinity can never be revealed without a metaphorical manifestation in the form of the lover of Allah who is perfectly united with Him. Without recognizing this real and perfect manifestation of Divinity in the form of His true slave, one can be trapped by the Satan and wrongly relate Divinity to it (May Allah save us). No one has ever beheld and recognized Allah without His metaphorical manifestation because cognition of Allah is impossible. When the Lord and the slave become Beloved and lover and their relation is strengthened with each other due to the bond of love, then they are attracted towards each other more and more. They love to remain in each other’s company forever. The lover is ever beholding the Beloved and the Beloved is always observing the lover. The human element of the lover becomes subtle due to eternal company of the Divine Essence and he starts acquiring Divine Attributes as well as the Divine Beauty. His spiritual level keeps on elevating every moment and the Divine Essence concealed in his core appears. The effects of ultimate union of Divinity liberates him from the limitations of human element and the Divinity becomes applicable upon him. When the lover reaches this level he is transformed into the Beloved or it can be said that they become the same, so the Divine Beloved beholds and recognizes Himself in Himself as there remains no one else in the being of the lover.