Existence & Love

Existence is like love. Where in life we suffer, enduring pain and misery, we do the same in love. Love is heartache and perfect thirst, but we would never trade a moment of it for anything in this world. Why? Because even if we do not obtain the object of our love, there is something hidden within the treasure of love that we do not understand but only feel; it out-smarts the intellect but not the heart. It is the pursuit of the beloved that entangles us, it is hope that our beloved gives us a glance. It is a new life and adventure each day in search for our beloved. It is the submission to the beloved that we enjoy serving her in every way. So too is the treasure of life, for although it entails grief and hardships, it is much better than not having existed at all. This is so because we fall in love with what life has to offer. But how much better is it to love the Everlasting, and not the fleeting? Afterall, everything lovable in life is only a mere shadow of God. Therefore, in life we must submit to our Beloved (swt), otherwise life has no love, and love has no life. Who does not love what his beloved loves? How else did Qays become Majnun? By loving God, you will love what He loves, and who loves more than God? It is better to have met the beloved and fallen in love with all the sickness of longing, than never having met her at all. And so they say, "it is better to have loved than to have never loved at all," and I say it is better to have existed than never having existed at all. It is better to have seen God than never having seen Him at all. Because life IS love, and out of love He created life.

May 17th, 2004