In this short but stirring sohbet at the Royal Ottoman Society’s centre in Ludwigshafen, we heard a poetic reflection on love, the ego and the state of humanity. The speaker observed that “no one is out to win” and that our age has become selfish as never before. Yet even amid this self-absorption, pure hearts still receive forbidden loves – an image of the paradox of longing for both devotion and freedom.
“We will be the tears of love until the Day of Judgment,” the words continued. Invoking Şems and Bediüzzaman, the talk invited us to see our own suffering as a divine offering, a trembling of the soul that brings us closer to the Beloved. In this spirit we are encouraged to hold fast to compassion and let love’s tears cleanse both the self and the world.
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