Love is inexplicable.
It is a beautiful feeling, the most precious one which a man can ever feel. It is sharing your inner self with the loved one—from sharing daily happenings to the traumas, obscure fears, and emotions. It seeks unification of two souls, minds, and hearts. It is an eternal odyssey for two distinct souls to become one, mostly a failed journey.
Plants of love feed on tears, pains, and miseries. No love in this world has been deprived of these persecutions.
Love is a child who dares to question dogmas, socially constructed ideas, and customs. It doesn’t believe in caste, religion, and creed, for children such ideas are not comprehensible; so is the case of love. Civilisation cannot understand love, because it is too risk-averse, and it works on already established customs, ideas, and traditions where rebels of love find no space.
Love seeks eternal unification; Sufism finds such justification in monotheism. As God is perceived as the ultimate worthy of love, therefore Sufis seek unification with God only to prove the already told theory.
Love also seeks sacrifice, yet sacrifice of love remains the hardest of the sacrifices. One often negates oneself to preserve love. At such junction, my paths are diverged. No emotion or idea is worth more than the our individuality, nothing benefits us if it comes at the cost of the Self. If one ceases to exist, how can he pursue love?
One might say, you will remain alive in the mind of your loved one, in his or her symphony of thoughts, but such perception is beyond my existence. Yet, love remains a trial—neither she is guilty nor I am, only offenders.
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This essay was written by Shahraiz Imtiaz Malik. Connect with him on Instagram.