Someone visited a shaykh and found him crying. “What makes you weep?”
The shaykh replied, “I am hungry.”
“And someone like you cries out of hunger?!”
“Be silent! Don’t you know that what He wants from my hunger is that I cry?”

- Al-Qushayri’s Risala, the chapter on Hunger and the Abandonment of Lust

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The shaykh was not crying out of hunger. Rather, it is because of his hunger that he was able to cry.