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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?

 

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