Where do we find love and who defines it? An article by Dima-English version-

Where Do We Find Love and Who defines It? - An Article

"It is love, so surrender your heart, for passion is not easy.

Live empty . For love's comfort is hardship, its beginning is sickness, and its end is death."

- Naqshbandi did not define love, but rather warned against surrendering to it. He pointed to its beginning and how it leads to an end that is death. As for the beginning, it is sickness. This is because it is love, in and of itself. "It is love, it is love," so surrender your heart, for it is love.

Yet, despite this, when he said, "Live empty” he described living without love as emptiness and hollowness.

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"I will never repent from loving you!”

- In his song and its resonant oud, Sheikh Imam describes love as a sin from which the believer repents, and at the same time, he rejects repentance in his saying, "How can I repent of loving you?"

"And if the hope of lovers is closeness, my hope in your love is love itself."

 Then he alludes to the lovers' usual hope, the ultimate desire of every lover, that this love will culminate in closeness and permanence. But Imam hopes for this love to be love itself. He quickly returns to remind us of his refusal to repent, his insistence on remaining a sinful lover.

____ - In the realm of divine love, the Ibn Arabi Ensemble performs the poem "I Knew Love" by Sheikha Rabia al-Adawiyya.

In it, she describes God as the source of love, and she becomes so absorbed in remembering Him that she falls in love with Him. In her poem, God is the conduit for her vision of the universe, and she expresses gratitude to His glory for allowing her to see the universe through Him, and for His love that never leaves her eyes, even in dreams. "Remember the One I love, even in my dreams."

In this poem, Sheikha Rabia is not content with just one love for God; she is nourished and quenched by two. "Praise be to You in this and that."

She concludes by praising and thanking Him for both.

Dima,

Cairo.