The World Would Be Frozen!
Love is an (infinite) ocean, on which the heavens are (but) a flake of foam: (they are distraught) like
Zalíkhá in desire for a Joseph.
Know that the wheeling heavens are turned by waves of Love: were it not for Love, the world would be frozen (inanimate).
How would an inorganic thing disappear (by change) into a plant? How would vegetive things sacrifice themselves to become (endowed with) spirit? How would the spirit sacrifice itself for the sake of that Breath by the waft whereof a Mary was made pregnant?
Each one (of them) would be (as) stiff and immovable as ice: how should they be flying and seeking like locusts?
Every mote is in love with that Perfection and hastening upward like a sapling. Their haste is (saying implicitly) “Glory to God!” They are purifying the body for the sake of the spirit.
The Masnawi - Volume 5: 3855
Artwork by Aivazovsky
Know that the wheeling heavens are turned by waves of Love: were it not for Love, the world would be frozen (inanimate).
How would an inorganic thing disappear (by change) into a plant? How would vegetive things sacrifice themselves to become (endowed with) spirit? How would the spirit sacrifice itself for the sake of that Breath by the waft whereof a Mary was made pregnant?
Each one (of them) would be (as) stiff and immovable as ice: how should they be flying and seeking like locusts?
Every mote is in love with that Perfection and hastening upward like a sapling. Their haste is (saying implicitly) “Glory to God!” They are purifying the body for the sake of the spirit.
The Masnawi - Volume 5: 3855
Artwork by Aivazovsky
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