Balçıktan yaratılmış bir sevgilisi olan, bir gün ona kavuşur, sükûn bulur, rahatlar. O kimse ne acâyip, ne şaşılacak nâdir bir kimsedir ki, şu balçık bedeninden dışarı çıkar, kendi kirli maddî varlığından kurtulur da, senin gibi eşsiz bir sevgilinin muhabbetine düşer, nâdir bir sultanın sevgisini kazanır.
[Hz.Rumi (k.s), Divan-ı Kebir’den Seçmeler, Şefik Can Efendi, Söz 381. Cilt IV.]
(When) The one who, has a beloved that is created from clay, reunites with her, (then) finds tranquillity (sukun) and relaxes. That person is such a strange and amazingly rare person that he gets out of his clay body, gets trid of his own dirty material existence and then he falls in to the “muhabbat (love) [*]” of a unique Beloved one like you, and gains the love of a rare Sultan (like you).[/color]
[Jalaladdin-i Rumi (k.s), Selections from the Divan-i Kebir by Şefik Can, Word 381,Volume IV]
GLOSSARY
[*] Muhabbat: It comes from the word الحب in Arabic pronounced as „Al-Habb“ meaning „Love“. The Truth of Muhabbat in Tasawwuf is to give your everything to the Beloved and not to leave anything within you for yourself.
People of Muhabbat fall in three groups:
1-Muhabbat of Amme:
This is a love because Allah bestows upon them. Rasulullah PBUH says : “Hearts have characteristic of loving the ONE bestowing upon them.”
2-State of Sifati-Ashk(Love): This is due to heart looking at ALLAH’s glory(jalal), magnificience (azamat), power(qudrat) and knowledge(ilm). This sort of Muhabbat is experienced by the elite(Hawas), loyal(sadiq) and Men of Divine Knowledge(ahl-i tahqiq). Husain an-Nuri says that: “Muhabbat is the revelation of the secrets when the veils are torn.”
3-The State of Dhati Muhabbat. This is to love ALLAH without any reason. This is born from understanding and knowing that loving ALLAH is causeless and beginingless.This sort of love is the love of loyals(siddiq) and Arifs.
Muhabbat also includes another root term “HABBA” . Habba means “seed” in Arabic and this is the seed of Love. When you put a seed in the soil , one day this will grow to tree and it will blossom flowers and give the fruit. The aim of this seed is to have this fruit. [/color]
English Translation by garibAN
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