Love is among the attributes of God, who needs nothing;
loving anything other than Him is metaphor.
عشق ز اوصاف خدای بی نیاز
عاشقی بر غیر او باشد مجازAşk zi evsâf-ı Hudâ-yı bî-niyâz
Âşıkî ber gayr-ı û bâşed mecâz
Rumi, Masnavi, Book VI (Ganjoor section 28).
Love is thought to be a state of ours.
It comes, it goes, it ends.
Rumi moves its place.
Love is first His attribute, he says.
A share of it falls to us.
When you love a person
you have not done wrong.
You have only read a word
before its true meaning.
Metaphor is not a lie.
It is a bridge to the real.
No one builds a house on a bridge.