Migrants and Militants: Fun and Urban Violence in Pakistan - pg. 43

Things, however, become more complicated with the introduction of the opposites hot and cool. These are moods and qualities, poles on a scale on which potentially all phenomena can be ranked. All food, for instance, can be characterized by its hot or cool properties. Almonds are hot, like most meat, mangoes, alcohol, clarified butter, ice cream, etc. By eating them you become inflicted by their hotness. Again, hotness is associated with life, virility, physicality, creating, and destruction. But it does not completely overlap with nafs, because the spiritual world can also be hot. God Himself has a hot (jalal) as well as a cool (rahman) quality. There are hot, intoxicated forms of love and passion (mast) as well as cool and serene forms ('ishq). Colors can also be classified as hot or cool. Red and black are the hot colors of anger and martyrdom, while white and green are the cool colors of death and mercy.