Where is Saghi? We are depressed
There is wine left from the night before, where is the rest?
I smelled something from the bar
The mad one heard something (from God)
Oh God! Please for the people's sake in the tavern
Release me from the accusation of my existence
Let me in unity
Give me a live heart and an aware soul
Oh God! If you are aware of the bar
Show the poor drunken man a way
As I have got tired of frequency of the creatures
Everywhere I went, I turned depressed
Come Saki and offer some wine
As I am bothered about the turning over and the happenings of
the day
Serve us with wine, if you pour it in the jar
The jar will sing the God's song from the heart
Come and join the group of wine worshipers
As you would see nothing but God
Oh wine, set me free
From this, that, us and myself
If the glass drink some from that wine
The lips of the glass may have fever blister
Come to the bar and enjoy the tranquility
Take a look at yourself and see God
There is no sign of any special Gnostic or Sufism's school of
thought in here so far. I don't have what it takes to write
against or in favor of any special schools of thought. Everyone
tries to step in God's way; therefore we take the balanced line
and talk about general Gnostics, theoretical and experimental
Sufism.
Interested readers are referred to introduced sources which are
the oceans of love pearl. I have tried to be brief and simple
and the paper has been unaware of religions' books. Actually, I
felt no necessity. Delicate Persian literature, traditional
Iranian music full of LOVE and GNOSTICS along with knocking at
the door of home of God, heart; all together are sufficient. You
get what you need to get familiar with
love and Gnostics.
The introduced references are love creating ones and love is the
basis for theism; for a self-known Gnostic human,
one love and one beloved are
the basis for a gorgeous motion. All humans know about this fact
from the very first beginning of our births and even before.
Ahmad Ghazzali, a great Gnostic one, says:
Our steed with love started to move from nothingness
To be on the whole night by the God-connecting wine
From that wine which is not illegal in our religion
Show it as you may not see our thirstiness from nothingness
Love, its joy and fantasy, being loved and searching of love
are all a river flown in humans' innate. Unitarianism is the
soul of love; this is the exact and true theism.
A pair of hand, foot and eye is all normal
But a pair of heart and the beloved one is a fault
There is no beloved one but God, the rest is an excuse
Everyone who took two is a Jew or Christian
Mowlavi
I haven't ever written anything about describing the concept of
love as Gnostic and Sufic ones know. Here is a good point to
describe Love in a bit as we have learned enough so far. It is
going to be the case while a correct definition and a complete
book on Love haven't been penned.
One love for one heart and everyone has got one heart;
therefore, equal to the number of people, there are different
loves which depend on soul and heart state. Your description of
love may differ from someone else's
For instance, Hafez says:
Love is the eye’s apple and I am the diver in the bar as sea
I have dived there and I don't know where to come up
Or Araghi:
Love is the Roc but not a trap
There is no sign or name of it in both worlds
Or Attar:
Love was the fire; I made my heart a brazier for joss stick
The fire was really burning, both the joss stick and the brazier
burnt
Or Mowlavi
The kings may be jealous in love case
As the love is the candle of the hearts
Or the lover martyr Hallaj:
Love is the king in the area of soul
We are all obedient to its soul
Therefore, kindness and merci have been gifted by God into our
soul; there is no definition for its sign named love. If there
exits some, they are not equivalent. This leads in incapability
of human's language in expressing the real love. Anyway, all the
loving schools of thoughts agree on two kinds of love. They both
believe in common love division.
Virtual love Real
love
Any of these divisions are again divided into different and
smaller details and definitions. You could find these very in
the references as we avoid considering them in here.
Virtual
love
One can find about the definition of virtual love in many books
and references such as: sudden love, appearance love, human
love, non-heavenly love and … these are the examples of sexual
love which come from concupiscence and exits among us for each
other. This is not the matter of discussion for Gnostic ones and
is away from loving God.
Virtual love results in a horizontal movement which has no ideal
rise in spite of all the efforts put for another one of the same
innate. The case is that the ideal love is a vertical movement
as the lover of the virtual love changes the beloved one.
Practically, the lover heads straight for the material beloved
one and has a tendency to have a needy the same as oneself in
virtual love. This is a short life love and is anchored to the
material fluctuation wind and has no ideal.
Let's take Jami's complaints into consideration:
Where are these going and where does love making come from?
Where is Hindi from and also Arabic language?
As the men of truth talk about love
Where would all these virtual groups go wasted?
or
Wasn't love the ideal of human generation?
When was the song of love in the world?
If you had love instead of concupiscence like cow and donkey
You could be in the notebook of the world great lovers
There have been many poems and lovely written songs and all the
Gnostic and Sufic ones haven't considered the virtual love on
the basis of love. This is proving the virtual love's
instability and being very common. This is a matter of concern
for generation survival but not the critical case for ideal way
to the Almighty. Virtual love is short life long and has the
property of being impermanent. This runs contrary to the love to
God for the wayfarers as their love grows more and more to reach
him.
Attar has many beautiful poems in this matter. Nightingale's
drunkenness in love with the flower's visage is an excuse for
Attar and defined the virtual love. Here is what happened to the
distraught nightingale:
I am so much drown in the flower's love
In a way that I don't feel my existence absolutely
Madness in my head because of the flower's love is enough
As I'm in love so lissome love is enough
Nightingale can't bear the Roc
Being fallen in love with the flower is enough for the
nightingale
The lapwing said that you, the one who is stuck in the beauty of
appearance
That's enough of having lissome love
Falling in love with the flower's appearance made you down
It made you feel bad and got you to the end
Flower's nicety, in spite of having a great appearance,
May get out of shape in a week or so
A kind of impermanent love with something
Leads in depression
Although the flower's smile captures your attention and you may
enjoy,
Through nights and days you may feel sorry
Leave the flower behind as every fresh flower
Smiles at you meaningfully, so pull yourself together
Real
love
Being perplexed last night I asked Moghan couch
To tell me a secret about wine
He said it is a moral truth
How can you understand it when you are not going to taste it?
Being in love with God is this very real love. Real love is the
one leading in the Almighty and nothing else.
No other concept exits for the real love due to the fist sight
of cognition. God, totally and purely, is in possession of the
real love and no place for others. Any single, even small,
attention to one except God leads in impure love and the
annulment of real love.
Real love belongs to the Almighty and the Gnostic ones think of
nothing else but this. Non-God love has a virtual basis; there
are divisions for the virtual love but of no validity for any of
them the same as the real love.
Every love except loving God is
A death rattle in some ways although being sweet like sugar
Mowlavi
If one takes a look at the life history of the Gnostic ones may
find that some groups were in love with God whole life and
abandoned the common way of livelihood and withdrew into
self-building and austere life; all for understanding and
visiting the friend's visage.
There was a light from the bar
Then he saw the bar by that light
Happy is the one who smelled the bar
Followed the smell and got there
There are so many other ways except invocation or capering (Sama')
for concentration and wayfaring. Different kinds of it depend on
the group or fraction's program and students nurture. All these
nurtures are for paving the way for reaching God for the lover.
There are so many sources for more information. Today's media
create easy access to the detailed information everywhere.
Nothing from this world; this is their school of thought to have
a direct way to their creator in a ideal progression. They are
all full of delightfulness of real love
We are like harp and you use a pick
We cry but you don't cry
We are like reed and you play song through us
We are like chess both in checkmating and being checkmated
Checkmating and being checkmated are both from you
We are nothing; you are our soul of soul
How long should we with you among us
We are from nothingness and also our existence
You are the absolute existence
We are all lions but in appearance
We are empty of bravery and our attack is the same as wind
The wind and our existence is from you
Our existence is all from yours
The joy of entity made something out of nothingness
You made the nothingness your lover
Mowlavi
The Gnostic ones and the wayfarers, who are the true lovers, see
everything as the God's creating. Everything around is him and
any power that we have is from him. Even the existence of this
real love in their soul is from the beloved one's wanting. This
matter causes a greater hope, delightfulness and triumph for
heading the God's home.
If there is not attraction from the beloved one
The cry of the lover may get nowhere
The true and real love deals with the Creator an d is a divine
one which is the absolute ideal: all humans are in search of
ideal and divine progress. That’s why this kind of love has been
gifted to us. The only thing is the way, the correct oe, then
stepping on to enjoy the true love a the result.
It's good to be mentioned that being away from the beloved one
and the passion for taking a look at his visage cause some
problems and troubles such as worry, sadness and so on. These
sufferings lead in disconnecting the wayfarer from the way.
That's why; love has different names and even used to be called
insanity.
The God's wayfarer is always on the way to God and is enjoying
every moment of approaching God. He is in effort to approach God
and get the ideal and from other side the material world is
limiting him.
Hafez says:
Oh God, please convoy this caravan
From that anger was trapped and the beloved one enjoyed
There is no end to the story of me and the beloved one
There would be no end to thing that has no beginning
Certainly, Hafez complains about the existence of this love from
the beginning of world existence up to the end of this material
life and knows that approaching the beloved one in this material
world is not done. This is true while the joy of love for the
beloved one doubles the power on the way to God. This is a
triumph for today and the other day if is achieved now.
Now, how can one get this real love? What is the way recommended
by the wayfarers? How have they guided their disciples? These
are of high importance.
There have been eight chapters as an introduction of explaining
the method with which the Gnostic and the Sufic ones have
opinions in common with. We continue this very important issue
to the next chapter. I hope that God gives you the real love. I
hoped that but expressing love is just done through the love
itself. At least, we have tried knowing different divisions of
that.
Oh friend! come as we are with you
Don't leave us as we are familier
Show your visage to see you
Open the door to enter
We are not qualified
But what should we do? We have got symptoms
We are not alive without you
Why are we away from you?
As I haven't seen your visage
Why are we interested in you?