Master of Arts in Contemporary Islamic Studies

Love comes and goes, it has increase, decrease and perfection, and the lover has states within it. In the beginning he may deny it, then he may submit to it. Then he may be disgraced and again take to the path of denial. These states change according to the moment and the individual; sometimes love increases and the lover denies it, sometimes love decreases and the one who possesses it denies the decrease. For love must open the castle of the lover to have a house for itself within, so that the lover becomes tame and surrenders.

Praise be to God who made the places obscured by the shadows of His magnifi cence, loci in which are disclosed the lights of His beauty, differentiating what is undifferentiated among the inherent properties (aḥkām); who made the forms of His Self-disclosures (tajalliyāt) places in which the suns of realities arise, completing what is universal among the blessings.