| Excerpts From Kashf al Mahjub |
| Love � Mahabbat is used by theologians in three significations: |
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| (pages 304-313) |
| LOVE |
| There are two kinds:
The love of like towards like, which is a desire instigated by lower soul and which seeks the essence of the beloved object through sex. Love which is unlike the object of its love, seeks to become intimately attached to an attribute of that object, e.g. hearing without speech or seeing without an eye. |
| Use of term � LOVE � in spiritual context |
| It is reflected in His good will towards him and His having mercy on him. Love is one of the names of His will (iradat) like �satisfaction�, �anger�, �mercy� etc. His will is an eternal attribute whereby He wills His actions. |
| It is a quality, which manifests itself in the heart of a pious believer, in the form of a veneration and magnification, so that he seeks to satisfy his Beloved and becomes impatient and restless in his desire for vision of Him, and cannot rest with anyone except Him, and grows familiar with the remembrance (dhikr) of Him. And abjures the remembrance of everything besides. The lovers of God are those people who devote themselves to death in nearness to him, not those who seek His nature (kayfiyyat). |
| They are also of two kinds:
Who regard the favor and benevolence of God towards them, and are led by that regard to Love the benefactor; Who are so enraptured by Love that they reckon all favors as veil (between themselves and God) and by regarding the Benefactor are led to (consciousness of) His favors. The latter way is the most exalted of the two. |
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| Restless desire for the object of Love, and inclination and passion mainly in reference to created beings and their mutual affectation towards one another, but cannot be applied to God.
God�s beneficence and His conferment of special privileges on those whom He chooses and causes to attain the perfection of sainthood and peculiarly distinguishes by diverse kinds of His miraculous grace. Praise, which God bestows on a man for a good action. |
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