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Sajda, Love and Desire — Islamic Poetry and Sufi Tradition

Rumi on love

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there."
Jalal ad-Din Rumi — 13th century Persian Sufi
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
Rumi

Bulleh Shah on love

بُلّھا کی جاناں میں کون؟
"Bullha, what do I know of who I am?"
Bulleh Shah — 18th century Punjabi Sufi poet
"Tear down the mosque, tear down the temple. But do not break a human heart, for that is where God lives."
Bulleh Shah

Allama Iqbal on love

"Love is the light and learning the lamp; love is the ocean and reason the boat."
Allama Iqbal — Pakistan's national poet

Ibn Arabi on divine love

Ibn Arabi (1165–1240) wrote The Interpreter of Desires — love poetry so intense he had to explain that all the human desire was actually love of the Divine. The Islamic tradition contains it. The tradition has always known that love — all love — is connected to something sacred.

What this means for Zinaaa

The Sufi tradition has always known that desire and the divine are not opposites. They are expressions of the same fundamental human longing for connection, for belonging, for being known. Zinaaa was built by someone who has felt that longing — who has loved and lost — and understands that the infrastructure for human connection is sacred work, however secular its form.

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