HEART AND SOUL

Amr ibn 'Uthman stated the following in his Book of Love.
Almighty God created the hearts seven thousand
years before the souls, and He kept them in the Garden
of Intimacy. He created the Secrets seven thousandyears
before the hearts, and kept them in the Degree of Union.
Every day God caused the souls to receive three hundred
and sixty glances of Grace and to hear three hundred
and sixty words of Love. Every day He manifested
to the hearts three hundred and sixty delights of
Intimacy. Every day He revealed Beauty three hundred
and sixty times to the Secrets.
So they beheld every thing in the world of being, and
saw none more precious than themselves.
A vain glory and conceit manifested amongst them.
God therefore put them to the trial.
He imprisoned the Secret in the soul.
He confined the soul in the heart.
He detained the heart in the body.
Then He compounded in them reason.
God sent the Prophets with commandments.
Then every one of them set about searching for his proper station.
God commanded them to pray.
So the body went into prayer;
the heart attained Love;
the soul achieved Propinquity;
the Secret was at rest in Union.