I am the one I love, and the one I love is I; we are two spirits dwelling in one body.
أنا من أهوى ومن أهوى أنا / نحن روحان حللنا بدنا
Ene men ehvâ ve men ehvâ ene / Nahnü rûhâni halelnâ bedenâ
Mansur al-Hallaj, Dîwân, Muq. 57, ed. Louis Massignon, Journal Asiatique, CCXVIII, 1931.
Love seems not to unite; first it separates.
It takes a person from himself.
Then it leads to a deeper selfhood.
The line between lover and beloved grows thin.
Past a certain point, who loves and who is loved can no longer be told.
This is exactly what makes these words dangerous:
At the end of love, two do not remain.