Archive for May 26th, 2008
Let me not to marriage of true minds admit impediments
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
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In the Name of Allah Most-Compassionate, Most-Merciful
“Love is not love,
which alters when it alteration finds,
nor bends with the remover to remove,
Nay! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken”;
This is an extract from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116, which beautifully encapsulates the purpose of this post; a summary of previous posts in which I have written about love, justice and certainty. This is the theme also of the Sonnet which speaks of love, of true love, as an “ever fixed-mark”. A mark that does not alter nor bend, with time or force, with its removal, or with it fastness, it remains fixed and firm, consistent and constant. So I wanted to bring together certain understandings of how I have seen love and its relationship with justice. Of how:
Love does not exist for itself, it must stand for something
Justice
Love needs the companion of justice,
Justice needs the companion of love,
Love gives justice its meaning,
Justice has a purpose for which it exists,
to love, love, to defend love.
Justice purifies love,
for like true love,
justice must also be fought for.
Passion
A beautiful love is not the same as a love of conviction,
Conviction comes from certainty,
and from certainty comes passion,
and without passion there is no conviction,
and without conviction there is no love.
Blessing
To posses the desire for true love is a blessing in itself,
to search for it is a reward,
to find it is paradise.
Struggle
True love will not be granted without struggle,
because true love is justice and justice,
is a struggle that must be fought for.
Absolute
True love is certainty,
certainty is rooted is what is absolute,
true love and justice are absolute,
for both are the Attributes of God,
Ar-Rahman, and Al-Adl.
Read Surah at-Tauba 9:71.
How can believers, men and women,
be protectors one of another,
if their love doesn’t stand for anything?
