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stage of the Sufiistic journey. Only those who have conversed with Súfís on this mystical love can well realize how impossible it is for the Christian to reconcile that practical love of God, which "gave His only begotten Son," and that practical love to God, which is shown by keeping His commandments, with that mystical love, or ʾIshaq, which is the subject of Súfí divinity.