From dew of love, the man’s soil (first constitution) became mud
A passion arose, a sedition yielded
The soul vein was struck by love lancet tip
A drop of blood trickled and named heart

Abu Sa’eed

As I mentioned in the previous two chapters, the creature’s subsistence, capering around, continues its own being and the human being who is of its insignificant particle, unconsciously and as for some consciously, caper co-directionally and in each other’s subsistence direction. In the meanwhile, it consists of two components of the body and the heart.

The heart would take the sweetheart’s smell in singing time
It would take us to the veil of secrecy
This mount’s whispering may take your soul and prosperously to your inseparable friend’s world
(the creator)

Abu Sa’eed

In valuable, mellifluous Persian literature, many rich collections on the unity of love, lover and the beloved one exist. These magnificent treasures have always been speaking of affection, kindness, deep and granted relationship between lover and the beloved one. Certainly, you all have heard something about Leyli and Majnoon, Shirin and Frahad, Vamegh and Ozra to some extent.
Our gnostic literati have composed so many odes and satirical poems on the relationship of the creator and the creature and also on human being’s loving relationship with his creator. Love and worship have always been two linked terms; unfortunately we heard of these pearls a little during school time as, of course, this lack originates in our living environment religious perspicacity. At the right time, we will have a brief historical exegesis about the mentioned matter. In our daily life, we also haven’t learned anything much about loving the creator but execution of fruitless commandments. For this reason, we have been living deafly and blindly and we haven’t practically heard anything about the entity principles of subsistence.

Entity secrets will remain immature and vague
That tremendously honorable pearl will remain virgin
Everyone has alleged by wisdom motive
That principal point will remain unuttered

The lover’s inclination and efforts for uniting with the beloved one cannot be stopped and leads in his mortality. Nature’s capering and singing is an innate movement and principle. Therefore, it cannot be stopped. For instance, if the orbit of the particles around the nuclei or the movement of earth around sun or even the growth of a seed in soil is blocked, it will be ruined, decayed and won’t be remained. These principles have been proven scientifically. In this universe, everything has its special responsibility. Philosophy and expediency are necessary for any movements. Sheikh Shabestar says:

If the sun had just one state
Its beam of light would be in the same manner
If you consider no one (means God) as the source of light
There will be no difference between your brain and skin

It is simply noticed that in the loving relationship between two people, both sides have deep interpersonal attraction in regard to each other. They have innate tendency to each other and separating them leads in their efforts for being with each other again. All lovers own this kind of effort and attraction toward their beloved ones, even they do their best for staying in love and together after joining.

Do you ever see any lover to be fed up with this passion?
Do you ever see any fish to be fed up with this sea?
Do you ever see any painting to flee the painter?
Do you ever see any Vamegh to offer an excuse for Ozra?
The lover was unencumbered of such a name without any meaning
But meaning like the lover is free from names
You are the sea, I am the fish, make me in a way that you would like to
Show your mercy and magnanimity, I have been kept separate from you.

Moulavi

The just lover sees his existence and knows his subsistence in the beloved one’s. Without the beloved one existence, the lover’s existence is absurd. Therefore, the love unity of the lover and the beloved one is an innate, direct relationship. It is exactly the same as the being “I” that has been formed from the unity of body and the soul of subsistence.

Your beauty exposed so we understood our being
Your augustness exposed so we understood our insignificancy
Oh my beloved, you are the one who he pacifies the hearts
You are the reason for our being
Love drink made your face lush
Like narcissus, you made us merry

Sanaei

In poems of love based on gnosticism, in which most of our gnostic literati directed their attentions to the creator, there exist some metaphors which have to be studied referring to their own gnostic sources. Simple and literal interpretation is not permissible as may lead in misunderstanding of the meanings. For such cases, there are rich Persian sources.

The sottish eye of friend became drunk and we are stunned
(metaphor for deep love state)
No more tumult of passions from the drink but we have it
(metaphor for deep love state)

Sa-eb Tabrizi

Deep, beautiful gnostic view of our gnostic literati toward subsistence has been said by Persian prose which is a demanding one. This affair has always been considered as an extraordinary capability of literature in non-Iranian researchers’ interpretations. In gnostic literati’s views, the subsistence’s capering is nothing but the creatures’ efforts achieving ideal and the beloved one. A grateful gnostic one sees one’s ideal in achieving the beloved one and joining the holy soul who has been the origin of the gnostic one himself. The result is extirpation of that gnostic one’s “I”. Any gnostic one is trying to appreciate the beloved one in a way, which causes him to be approached the threshold of his beloved one momentarily. The gnostic one doesn’t think through his own mind and he even knows wisdom and logic as a barrier on the way to the beloved one. His entity is love all over; and there is no explanation for love except love.
On the way of joining you the same as loving you, I’m in roaring fire oh, flower
He doesn’t fall in love to understand my sufferings

With wisdom stream, love doesn’t flow
Poor me who is made up of fire and water
Last night, I had my head on the delicate pillow of attainment and again
It is morning and the tears flood has washed my pillow with blood
No butterfly’s complaint of candle’s cruelty
I’ve got this burning desire for you all my life but still a pleasure

Shahriar

The rich Persian culture with its historical precedence has always been capable of informing of gnostic worlds. Some gnostic ones’ poems, which consist of dialectic treasures on entity and step by step movement of subsistence discussions, have been translated into other languages. In some cases, it is recommended to learn Persian language well in order to understand the concept as word beauty along with rhythm is in a way that non-Persian languages are not capable of bringing the same equivalence. It could be said that, for better understanding, even Persian spoken people have simpler interpretations, which will be mentioned later, on many poems. Existence of non-Persian words in Persian language along with sinking into oblivion of many words with deep meaning has made the understanding of ancient context completely difficult.

He who is awake is into deeper sleep
His wakefulness is worse than his sleep
As our soul is not awake (enlightened) rightfully
Wakefulness is under fetters of us

Moulavi

In any school, the relationship between the lover and the beloved one is direct and there is no factor between them. This is the greatly important principle in gnostics. The lover is in direct relationship with his beloved one. This is exactly the same as the unity of the creator and the creature, in which exists no stranger.

Between the lover and the beloved one, there is no opaque
You yourself are your own veil (opaque to truth);
Hafez, rise like a phoenix from the ashes

Hafez

Anything or anyone in the middle of this kind of relationship ends in abolition of these three principles (love, the lover and the beloved one). Therefore, in this affair, commands and opportunists of schools and ideas have no respectful position. Every single things here in this relationship may lead in the abolition of these three principles (love, the lover and the beloved one). So many tribes have been misled into depravity and burned in the hell of disinterestedness according to historical stories of historians.
Of course, trainers are needed for any infants to be taught. After that, this is up to him to go where and certainly he would have necessary consultations. There will be only consultations but no duty and religious authority. I don’t like to mention the religious crimes which misled humans over their God, which all have been done to achieve any power positions or to have some roles for themselves in the lover and the beloved one’s relationship. But all have been condemned to destruction and will be. As historical instances, we could say, middle ages in Europe and the crimes against science and mankind and also misleading of so many people over loving the creator from many ignoramus Asian governments. Therefore, between the lover who is the creature and the beloved one who is the creator, there is no space for any other one to find.

Our mortification lead was your love oh, thou
May forbearance you got, no endurance we got
You may conceal the fact the same as me having one thousand companions
I’ve got no one except you in secrecy and evidence

Ohadi

What is the lover called?

Anyone who asked for anything, anyone with his own situations, any creature that may reposes with any sound, any bird and anyone who says only him, and …
Utter the words which may give you the joy of approaching your beloved one. By studying and researching our neighboring creatures, we understand that any terpsichorean capers in some ways and any musical notes have its own especial effect on the lover’s heart approaching the beloved one. Sa’di alleged:

Nothing can stop losing your heart for the friend
Bearing and bowing down in worship are its cure
You may leave the ruby flower
Or you may get along with the pain of the thorn

or Nezami alleged:

Or:

Oh,love come that I can’t tolerate any more
No more patience and waiting I can have
I am the love maniac who is in blight of love
Heart will not foretell and on no more logic my wisdom works
If my aspiration is calling you and if your hope is out-driving me
Do it on your own way as I have no power
Having the pain of love is enough of us
Hugging and kissing are not our aim of joining you
Oh heart, always be enamored and be unconscious
He who is not unconscious of love is not conscious
Accompany love and turn away the face from wisdom
As knowledgeable ones put no confidence to it
Any one has his own way, path and kiblah
In Obeid’s presence, there is no Kiblah but friend’s lane

Obeide zakani