Ibn Hazm Explaining Love

 

Here is my humble Translation of a few lines from his famous book, The Ring of the Dove:

The beginning of love is joking, and the end of it is serious. Its meanings are too majestic and as a result very hard to be described, its truth is only realised through suffering it, and it is not frowned upon in religion, nor is it prohibited in Sharia, because hearts are in the hands of God Almighty.





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