Love

To think of something as good and useful, to intend it, to want it, is love. Love means closeness, acquaintance, friendship, help, pampering, intimacy and affection.

The word love also has many meanings in the Urdu dictionary. There can be many types of love. This love can be for a common thing and it can be for a particular personality, person or relationship. There can be general love and there can be intense love. In the love of a severe condition, life can be given and life can be taken. Intense kind of attachment is called love and this love becomes Ishq as it grows.

Ishq is the extreme type of love that encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection and to the simplest pleasure.

Ishq is a disease that pushes the lover into a valley of thoughts. Ishq is the name of crossing the boundaries of love. Ishq is the growing love that threatens the death of the lover.

Love is a ray of light that contains many beautiful colors. Love is the most powerful emotion in life, from which many emotions grow. People in love begin to feel very happy and joyful. Love makes a person unaware of his surroundings. Lovers fail to fulfill their official responsibilities. The image of the beloved in love or the presence of the beloved reduces the illness and physical pain of a person.  Love only asks for love. When two true lovers are face to face or in contact with each other, their heart beats the same. While the heartbeat of two strangers is not like that.

People with the same characteristics and the same face are more likely to fall in love. For mutual love, action is more harmonious than words. Like offering one's favorite tea or coffee to someone, or reciting a good poem to someone who is fond of literature, and describing those who love Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) as superior services and attributes of Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) off-springs, or developing one's new business. Support him in giving helping hand and give him moral help.

The feeling of admiration enlightens a person from within and increases mental activity. The spirit of love not only strengthens a person mentally but also makes him physically brave. Men walk faster than women, but when two lovers are walking together, the man inevitably slows down, and if the same man is walking with a strange woman, it becomes difficult for him to keep pace. Men are attracted to beautiful women for love, while women are attracted to men from higher social classes for their spouses. Success in love increases a person's physical weight, and failure leads to weight loss.

There are many types of love. For example, religious attachment and love, love for a particular relationship, patriotism, love for a human being, etc. Love is the right of every human being. Because human life is incomplete without love. Love is a passion that emanates from the depths of the heart for an object or another human being.

True love is always selfless. Love grows through constant interaction. This connection becomes the weakness of man. Due to this contact, intimacy increases and more and more it spreads to the body, soul and spirit of a person. Certainly, if the connection is cut off and there is no meeting, then the madness of love gradually disappears and becomes a dream and a faint mark remains in some corner of the mind.

If there is any demand in love or if there is any personal interest, then that love is not pure. Such desire is not called love but showy love, false love, pretending to love, playing with pride, playing with an idea and making love for fun. This kind of love is temporary and is done to pass the time. And to satisfy your ego.

Today everyone is suffering from the disease of love. Where one sees a beautiful face, or a fat hen, the disease begins to rise. Such behavior cannot be taken in the name of love. If emotions are expressed in terms of appearance, then it cannot fall into the category of love. Because love is a passion that comes from the heart, not from beauty and body. It has nothing to do with beauty or ugliness. Some people desire the attainment of the body or material benefits and call the fulfillment of this desire love. This view is completely wrong. Such people defame this love relationship.

There are many other forms of love and each one is more beautiful and charming than the other. Love is in the love of child and mother, love is in paternal affection, love is in the relationship of sister and brother, love is also in friendship, love is in the bond of marriage of husband and wife and the highest love is the love of Allah Almighty for His servants which is more than the love of seventy mothers.

Very few people know the meaning of true love. True love is beyond greed, not for the sake of gaining someone. True love is the name of access to the soul and the desire to have a body is just a lust. Love is like faith and is food for the soul while lust is food for the self.

If one wants to differentiate between love and lust, one should try to distance oneself from this person for a while. If you feel any lack in your daily life, or make a difference, understand that this is love.

True love is not a name but a sacrifice. Love is not for oneself but love is for keeping the beloved happy. Lovers are proud to spend all their savings for a glimpse and a smile of their beloved. True lovers never feel lonely even at the loss of their beloved or at the sorrowful demise of their loved one, but the memory of the beloved and the image of the beloved is the reason for their living.

When true love reaches its peak, then it flourish to the Ishq. In which the soul and body of man bathe in maturity and purity and turn to Allah Almighty with more commitment. Worship begins to permeate the thoughts and the feelings of love for human beings without distinction are revealed and the service of the people takes precedence over personal desires and the duration of humble prayers from Allah Almighty becomes longer, then true love begins to awaken.

This is the place where self-denial and obedience to the Lord of the Universe, worship and following the divine commands with all one's heart becomes the way of man and makes him free from the lust and greed of the world.

Note: My articles are based on my personal experience, observation

         and knowledge and no one needs to agree with my views.

Abdul Qayum Khan Ghouri - Lahore Pakistan