ISHQ-E-MAJAAZI
My Sheikh says that that ‘Aashiq’ who is enamoured and beguiled by figurative beauty is, in fact,no Aashiq, rather a faasiq (sinner).

If this beautiful actress or handsome actor has to meet with an accident and suffer third degree burns, that beauty and good looks is replaced with deformity and an ugliness which makes all their lovers ‘disappear’. An infatuation and an obsession that is only skin-deep, skin-toned and skin -textured is then inverted and reduced to rejection, aversion and revulsion. …And yet millions are drowning in the ocean of such insincere love.

The love that is merely as a result of colour and complexion Is not love at all.
It is, in fact, evil and its end result is only shame and disgrace.
For the love of a dying one is not lasting,
Because the dying are not coming to us,
Rather they are leaving us.

…When the beloved passes away and is wrapped in her shroud, then this ‘love’ too is wrapped in the same and buried along  with.

This figurative beauty only lasts for a limited number of days.
It is only for a whisper of time that the conspiracy lasts…

Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم  had said : “Love whomsoever or whatsoever you wish, but one day you are to separate from him/her/it.”

Then again, were we to go, after a few months, and sift the sand of the graves of those beloveds, we will not find even a trace of those beautiful faces and those beautiful eyes and those beautiful locks of hair. The reality of beauty is exposed…that it
was only sand…We were ‘in love’ with sand… Imagine that.

Just reflect over the advice of Sheikh :

Why attach the heart to that… that which will become…
become a decaying …a decaying, rotting corpse ?

ISHQ-E-ILAAHI
The Aashiq of Allah has given his heart to Allah. He has fallen intensely in love with He who is ‘Lateef’: All Gentle and All Beautiful… Have we ever considered the beauty of He who creates and bestows beauty? He is ‘Wadood’ : The Truly Beloved. He has granted the entity of the heart, which is the seat of Love, so that His Love Alone may establish its reign therein.

Remove the remembrance of beauties
From your heart O Majzoob.
The love for idols is not appropriate
In the House of Allah.

Allah Ta’ala is ‘Baaqee’: The Eternal. His Existence was, is and will always be…forever and ever and ever. So too, is His Love never-ending, boundless and unfathomable.

Allah is Everlasting and free from passing away.
His Love is also fresher than a newly formed rosebud.
O Seeker, choose the Love of the Living One,
Who remains forever.