One intoxicated with divine love would not even bother to spit upon wine (the daughter of the vine); the person who swoons over that courtesan is a completely different kind of wanton.
The poet draws a striking contrast between divine ecstasy and crude, worldly intoxication. The 'Mast-e-Alast' is one whose soul is thoroughly intoxicated by eternal, divine love; to such a mystic, ordinary wine ('daughter of the vine') is so trivial that it doesn't even warrant contempt. Those who lose their senses over base worldly pleasures belong to an entirely different, shallower world of indulgence.
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