A Love Story: Zalikha and Joseph

"Zalikha had applied to Joseph the name of everything...
If she praised, it was Joseph's caresses that she meant, and if she blamed, it was separation from him that she was referring to.
If she piled up a hundred names, her meaning and her intention was always Joseph.
Were she hungry, as soon as she spoke his name, she would be filled with spiritual food, and intoxicated by his cup.
Her thirst would be satisfied by his name: the name of Joseph was a sherbet to her soul.
And if she was in pain, her pain would immediately be turned into profit by that exalted name.
In cold weather it was a fur to her. This, this is what the Beloved's name can do, when one is in love."

Rumi (Vol.6, 4021-4037)

Commentary: One day, God will be our comfort, our sherbet, our food and our drink.