If the love is relatable to spirit...

If the love is relatable to spirit, it enlightens and enriches the soul; but if it is relatable to body, it would result in its deterioration and degeneration. The effect of spiritual love is just the converse of material love. Material love brings about pessimism, pale face, feeble limbs and defect in digestion and indisposition in muscles. Perhaps the consequences of material love are all destructive but this is not so in the case of spiritual love. Then what should the object of love be?

and how should one benefit from it? Leaving aside its social effects, the effect of spiritual love on individual is perhaps complimentary because it generates vigor, tenderness, unification and determination, and eliminates weakness, impurity, dissension and stupidity.

It removes deviations that are called "intrigue" by the Quran, eradicates fraud and transmutes impostor to virtuous:- The master soul annihilates the body, thereafter reconstructs it, ( 47 ) Virtuous is the soul who for the sake of love and happiness, Gave away his home and hearth, property and wealth, He robbed his house of the precious treasure, and filled it with wealth more, He sucked away the water from the riverbed, Thereafter he inundated it with water and benefited from it, He pierced the skin with the spear, thereafter he spread a new layer, The perfect, who know the secret of quest, Are perplexed, intoxicated and enamored, Not so much perplexed as to turn back on him (beloved), Rather so perplexed as (to be) absorbed and lost in the loved one.