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6.2.5 - Feeling the Unknown Love!

Although we do not know the exact date accurately, Shaykh Muhyiddin says that the when he entered Damascus he found in himself an unknown love that he does not know its cause or relation, because the souls have a sense of the unseen, so they may love something or a person that they have never seen in reality and then when they see them after a time they know that they loved before!

Shaykh Muhyiddin says that this is one of the nicest that he found in love, which is when one finds some excessive love and passion and longing and worrying and desire and thinness and refraining from sleep and food and yet do not know for whom all that is and who is the beloved person! Then it happens that either one may see the beloved or be revealed to him in the disclosure, thus this unknown love will be connected. Shaykh Muhyiddin adds that this is something from the concealed mysteries of the foresight of things from behind the veil of the unseen. Then he adds that this is the reason for the unknown sorrow or happiness that some people often feel, while they do not know the reason, then something may occur to the that cause some grieve and thus they know that the sorrow was for this matter, or something may occur that they know that was the reason for their unknown happiness.

Therefore, when Shaykh Muhyiddin entered Damascus, he felt deeply in love with the Levant, where he says that he found a long-term inclination of an imagined divine reality personified in a physical form:

I say while I have of your passion, the statement of that who was asked by his beloved to speak:

When I entered the Levant my mind was perplexed. I did not see any lover like that before me.

I loved while I do not know that whom I loved: is my beloved the Creator or is he or is he of my form?

My ears have never heard of his name, has this been said by any lover before me!

I went through the land of God, east and west, to see someone who could agree with me.

[Meccan Revelations: II.324]

Then in the rest of the poem Shaykh Muhyiddin mystified the name of his beloved and did not declare him because he said that this is from kind of knowledge which is attributed to stinginess, which is not permissible. Yet he gave some codes that depend on the secrets of the letters mentioned in the second chapter of the Meccan Revelations in some detail as well as in other books he referred to therein, such as the “Principles and Objectives in the what the Letters Include of Wonders and Verses.” [OY: II, p. 347]