Motif
beloved as soul-sustenance amid separation
beloved_as_soul_sustenance_amid_separation
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
sufi
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The Persian Mystics: Jámí THE COMING OF THE BELOVED / THE WAYS OF LOVE / THE BEAUTY OF ZULAIKHA / SELF DIES IN LOVE; lines 1516-1594 confidence: medium
In “Zulaikha Pleads with Yúsuf for His Love,” Zulaikha invokes Yúsuf's beauty and her own tears, sighs, fetters, wounds, dead flowers of the heart, and soul-hunger while asking for pity and relief.
Zulaikha describes longing, tears, fetters, wounds, dead flowers of the heart, and hunger for Yúsuf as food for her soul.
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