Jaihoon’s lyric explores the paradoxical nature of love, using biblical allusions to depict the tension between longing and reverence.
Flee not so far,
Lest I lose my sight,
Like Jacob of Canaan.
Hey, my love-cheeked Beloved.
Approach not so close,
Lest I faint,
Like Moses of Egypt.
July 22 2019. Edit 2024
Love has only one adamant clause: loyalty to the ultimate Beloved, even if it requires the betrayal of human intellect,
Masking their soul-shine behind ordinary forms, God’s lovers wait for the dust to settle to rejoice alone—writes Mujeeb Jaihoon
True faith demands sacrificing intellectual pride and forfeiting logic.
By weighing the count of forgetting against remembering, this poem proves that math always fails once the self dissolves in
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Masha Allah you are blessed with the gift of thoughts and words
Well written