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November 3, 2008
to him all things shall be referred
The mystics say that hope and fear, longing and intimacy, expansion, trust, resignation, and submission are all essential elements of love, for love at the aspect of the Beloved's compassion inspires hope, fear at the aspect of His awe, longing at non-attainment, intimacy with the achievement of realization, expansion with exceeding intimacy, and trust with confidence in His care, resignation with relishing everything that He makes to occur, and submission at the aspect of one's inadequacy and inability and His perfection and omnipotence.
Real love is coextensive with submission when the wayfarer knows the Beloved to be the absolute sovereign and himself as the absolute subject of His sovereignty. Real love is coextensive with fana' when he sees the Beloved as everything and himself as nothing. For those who possess this station, everything other than God is a veil, and the ultimate goal of the journey is to turn away from all to attend to Him: To Him all things shall be referred (11:123).
Nasir al-Din Tusi - Awsaf al-Ashraf
Posted by amin at November 3, 2008 1:45 PM