LOVE (is not supposed to be controversial)

I have always wanted to write about love. Unfortunately, I'm not poetic enough. I can't write beautiful phrases. It would sound plain. Boring. So, I was really really glad that I found this article by Tariq Ramadhan. Its a really beautiful piece of writing. Here it goes:

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It will be noted that the ancient spiritual traditions of both East and West systematically direct the human consciousness towards Nature. Nature is a school, and an initiation. The elements are there, have surrounded us since childhood, and we are used to them. The awakening of spirituality consists in seeing them differently, in seeing in them signs, celebrations and songs, hymns and prayers to the cosmic order, universal archetypes, the gods or the One.

That conversion in our gaze is a conversion of the heart, and marks the transition from the state of one who observes to that of one who loves.

Our capacity for knowledge [connaissance], recognition [reconnaissance] and wonder comes from the depths of our subjectivity, from the ‘self’, our consciousness or our hearts. It means that we must distance ourselves from the ‘immediate’ gaze, a disposition of the mind and heart, a yearning for proximity, and often for meaning.

The old and the familiar then become new.

We see other things, things we had overlooked, failed to see or notice … or neglected altogether. The elements reveal themselves to us to the precise extent that we are revealed to ourselves, that we see more deeply into things, and that our gaze changes and becomes more intense.

Our hearts becomes more understanding, our spiritual discernment grows, our imaginary horizons expand ... and we feel more LOVE.

Whilst the age of frenetic progress and speed encourages us to escape boredom by constantly offering us something new and an ever-expanding range of ‘new products’ and blind consumerism, spiritualities, religions and philosophies ask us to look more closely at what is old, and to find something that is perpetually new within it because, to paraphrase Heraclitus, we never look at it twice in the same way. It is a question of finding something extraordinary in the most familiar and ordinary things: Nature, the sky, the elements, our environment and the people with whom we are most familiar. It is a matter of changing the way we see.

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Certain people are just not into reading. So, here's a video that could help convey the core message. A video that narrates to us the purity of love.



When we are in love with Him, anything is possible.
This is the first step that we need to take before tackling all other issues.

ps:
the month of love is coming soon. Ramadhan al Mubarak!
I'd suggest we start training ourselves to fast now. Every Monday and Thursday, yeah? InsyaAllah.