Hell is where you are and Paradise where you are not. - Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr

Through love we're slain, the world's our slaughter house
We've no food nor sleep, the world's our cookhouse.
We've no desire for paradise, because
Our hell's a hundred times loftier than that.

If you don not come to repent your existence,
You'll never approach the circle of gnostics and drunkards
Unless in other's eyes you become an infidel,
In the creed of lovers, you'll never be Muslim.

Freedom from lower qualities is an essential qualification required for spiritual progress.