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 1    1|         the wonder of the Sūfīs' love for their Beloved shines
 2    1|          brightness.~They are in love with The One, and their
 3    1|          with The One, and their love~takes the form of exquisite
 4    1|         my spirit rushed to meet~Love's welcome order, for the
 5    1| stainless mirror for their God."~Love is the Sūfīs' theme, Divine,
 6    1|           theme, Divine, Eternal Love, and into this sea of Love
 7    1|       Love, and into this sea of Love they cast themselves headlong.~
 8    1|    though the~symbols of earthly love and beauty are freely used,
 9    1|         keep secret their mystic love, lest the profane should
10    1|       and KISSES are raptures of love.~SLEEP is contemplation,
11    1|         where the wine of Divine love inebriates the pilgrim.~
12    1|    ecstasy, MIRTH the joy in the love of the Deity.~BEAUTY means
13    1|         see that to the Sūfī the love between man and woman is
14    1|          shadowed picture of the love between the soul and God,
15    1|        contains many impassioned love songs to the Absolute, but
16    1|        abounds in allegories and love romances, the stories of
17    1|        Absolute. Various are the love themes of the Sūfīs; we
18    1|     songs of: the nightingale in love with the rose, the moth
19    1|       itself, when inflamed with love for it, puts off all the
20    1|       the uninitiated the secret love of the mystic for the Unknowable
21    1|      heart, and who realises the love of God in the soul, is able
22    1|        Thee in joy or sorrow~But love for Thee was mingled with
23    1|        grief, or sorrow.~Earthly love seems worthless, insipid,
24    1|            Drink deep of earthly love, that so thy lip~May learn
25    1|         learn the wine of holier love to sip."~Mahmūd's vision
26    1|          and illusion of earthly love, and instead to centre on
27    1|         his garden with roses of Love and Adoration, of Reason
28    1|     glowing with the blossoms of love's devotion; this is the
29    1|         of him who, long ago for love's sake, planted this Rose-tree,
30  III|       Gems of devotion, joy, and love.~Yet though a thousand waves~
31   VI|       intoxication, the fever of love~Are the three states of
32   IX|       heart,~From your stainless love.~Then will you be possessed
33  XIV|              Devotees go mad for love of Him~And become outcasts
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