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Alchemy of Ishq.
1. Rumi once said, 'Every love outside His love is pain.' This stayed with me. I personally believe, to understand this thoroughly, one has to experience both types of love in this world - Ishq-e-majazi and Ishq-e-haqiqi.
1. Rumi once said, 'Every love outside His love is pain.' This stayed with me. I personally believe, to understand this thoroughly, one has to experience both types of love in this world - Ishq-e-majazi and Ishq-e-haqiqi.
2. Love for His creation which either includes platonic type of love or romantic type of love or the love of divine.
Where there's love, there's bound to be a heartache. They both go hand in hand. You can't have one without another one.
Where there's love, there's bound to be a heartache. They both go hand in hand. You can't have one without another one.
3. I believe, it's the ishq-e-majazi which ultimately leads you to ishq-e-haqiqi. Love for any man or woman drives you so mad that you end up making them the kaaba of your heart. You keep circumambulating around them like they do around sacred idols.
4. Ah! Love has the potential to turn you from a believer into an idol-worshipper and vice versa.
But the agony of heartbreaks! It's like a cleanser of the soul. It leaves us empty looking around to see where have we been and where are we in this emptiness.
But the agony of heartbreaks! It's like a cleanser of the soul. It leaves us empty looking around to see where have we been and where are we in this emptiness.
5. Heartbreaks have a realm of their own. There are such dynamic mysteries in both of His worlds that it would blow away your mind if you were to glimpse them.
Rumi says, 'these pains that you're feeling are messengers. Listen to them.' It applies to everything.
Rumi says, 'these pains that you're feeling are messengers. Listen to them.' It applies to everything.
6. The more you long for your beloved of this world, the more he will drift apart. The more you long for your beloved of both of the worlds, the more He will come closer to you.
What you seek is seeking you. Not only thirsty seeks the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.
What you seek is seeking you. Not only thirsty seeks the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.
7. Once, you would learn to decipher the lessons behind your heartbreaks. You'd accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. You would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
8. Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.
9. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. If you will offer your heart to people recklessly, you will always find it in pieces. But if you will offer your heart to Him, you will always find it thriving.
10. Our heart is the sanctuary of Allah. Therefore, do not make other than Allah reside in His sanctuary. It's like a fortress within that should remain untouched by the outside world. No love other than His love is lasting.
