Loving the Sufi way is foregoing your old life to be reborn into a new dimension. It means to have a relationship where the more you love someone, the more and more “You” are extinguished. Which means, you will have experienced the limitations of egoistic living and tasted the ecstasy of surrender.
To love so that nothing of you remains, is the way to enlightenment. Non-being is the way to being, and love is the most adequate method to disappear. Just as Nature, the Supreme also abhors a vacuum. When you become a vacuum, love of Supreme is imbibed within your soul.
For Rumi, passionate love, ishq, has two expressions. The first is love in the material world, ‘like love between male and female,’ and the second is the ‘real love,’ which is ‘love towards God.’
Unconditional love in relationships has honesty attached to it. Each of us wants to be loved as we are, without conditions, and to see ourselves as capable of bestowing unconditional love on our loved ones. However, this type of love, in its narrowest definition, is difficult, if not impossible.
When we take the Sufi way of love, we reach the divine and that is the ultimate purpose of our life. Therefore, Sufism is called the way of the heart, designed to bring the human being to its ultimate objective of loving intimacy with the divine.
As the heart becomes pure; as in unconditionally in love, the inner spiritual senses come alive to balance the outer senses. The mature Sufi’s heart becomes identified with the spiritual heart, which is in constant rapport with the essence of the divine. It is aligned with the Divine and the entire universe, in a sense, become the Universe.
Wonderful