Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
This intense longing for the Beloved, so prevalent in Rabia’s verses, betrays an important aspect of the Sufi conception of love. Above all else, this is a love that must remain unfulfilled, as Majnun discovered in the palm orchard. After all, as Attar’s birds realized on their journey to the Simurgh, one cannot begin the Way expecting to complete
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