Ishq

The word is derived from ‘ashiqah , a vine : the common belief is that when love takes its root in the heart of a lover, everything other than God is effaced. In Islam's Sufi and mystic doctrine it is a concept which refers to "divine love" or "a creature's love for its creator"; i.e. man 's love for God . Heydari-Malayeri On the origin of the word ešq Din al-Muhabbat

The modern Persian word ešq or eshgh عشق ( ; in Somali : caashaq or ( cishqi ); in ishq ; in Dari : eshq ; in Pashto : eshq ; in Turkish : aşk and in Azerbaijani : eşq ), meaning "love", classical Persian išq, is of utmost importance in the Persian literature and gnosis (erfān عرفان). The section of Etymology of the word puts forward the idea that ešq, used in Persian and Arabic ('išq), may have an Indo-European origin. Ishq does not appear in the Koran, which instead uses the aforementioned verb habba (حَبَّ) and its derivatives, for example the noun hubb (حُبّ). Moreover, in Modern Arabic the relevant terms dominantly used are: habba and its derived forms hubb, habib, mahbub, etc. The word is derived from ‘ashiqah , a vine : the common belief is that when love takes its root in the heart of a lover, everything other than God is effaced. In Islam's Sufi and mystic doctrine it is a concept which refers to "divine love" or "a creature's love for its creator"; i.e. man 's love for God . Heydari-Malayeri On the origin of the word ešq Din al-Muhabbat

Ishq ( , ‘išq ) is an Arabic word meaning "love" or "passion", also widely used in other languages of the Muslim world and the Indian subcontinent . The word ishq does not appear in the Quran, which instead uses derivatives of the verbal root habba ( حَبَّ ), such as the noun hubb ( حُبّ ). The word is traditionally derived from the verbal root ʿašaq "to stick, to cleave to" and connected to the noun ʿašaqah , which denotes a kind of ivy. In its most common classical interpretation, ishq refers to the irresistible desire to obtain possession of the beloved ( ma‘shuq ), expressing a deficiency that the lover ( ‘āshiq ) must remedy in order to reach perfection ( kamāl ). Like the perfections of the soul and the body, love thus admits of hierarchical degrees, but its underlying reality is the aspiration to the beauty ( al-husn ) which God manifested in the world when he created Adam in his own image. Islamic conception of love acquired further dimensions from the Greek-influenced view that the notions of Beauty, Good, and Truth ( al-haqq ) "go back to one indissoluble Unity ( wahda )". Among classical Muslim authors, the notion of love was developed along three conceptual lines, oftentimes conceived in an ascending hierarchical order: natural love, intellectual love and divine love. The growth of affection ( mawadda ) into passionate love ( ishq ) received its most probing and realistic analysis in The Ring of the Dove by the Andalusian scholar Ibn Hazm . The term ishq is used extensively in Sufi poetry and literature to describe their selfless and 'burning love for Allah'. It is the core concept in the doctrine of Islamic mysticism as it is the key to the connection between man and God. Ishq itself is sometimes held to have been the basis of 'creation'.

Arabic word meaning "love" or "passion" This article is about the word Ishq. Ishq ( , ‘išq ) is an Arabic word meaning "love" or "passion", also widely used in other languages of the Muslim world and the Indian subcontinent . The word ishq does not appear in the Quran, which instead uses derivatives of the verbal root habba ( حَبَّ ), such as the noun hubb ( حُبّ ). The word is traditionally derived from the verbal root ʿašaq "to stick, to cleave to" and connected to the noun ʿašaqah , which denotes a kind of ivy. In its most common classical interpretation, ishq refers to the irresistible desire to obtain possession of the beloved ( ma‘shuq ), expressing a deficiency that the lover ( ‘āshiq ) must remedy in order to reach perfection ( kamāl ). Like the perfections of the soul and the body, love thus admits of hierarchical degrees, but its underlying reality is the aspiration to the beauty ( al-husn ) which God manifested in the world when he created Adam in his own image. The Islamic conception of love acquired further dimensions from the Greek-influenced view that the notions of Beauty, Good, and Truth ( al-haqq ) "go back to one indissoluble Unity ( wahda )". Among classical Muslim authors, the notion of love was developed along three conceptual lines, oftentimes conceived in an ascending hierarchical order: natural love, intellectual love and divine love. The growth of affection ( mawadda ) into passionate love ( ishq ) received its most probing and realistic analysis in The Ring of the Dove by the Andalusian scholar Ibn Hazm . The term ishq is used extensively in Sufi poetry and literature to describe a "selfless and burning love" for Allah. It is the core concept in the doctrine of Islamic mysticism as is key to the connection between man and God. Ishq itself is sometimes held to have been the basis of "creation". The term ishq is widely used in the sacred text of Sikhism .