Love is love... but is the same love always interperted?

To a middle school student, at first glance, this poem is a story of a man in a romantic situation.  But upon further investigation of Rumi, the author, I learned Rumi was an Islam monk, so, romantic relationships probably were not the intention of this poem.  Under the para dime of an Islam monk, it is safe to guess that he would write about God, faith, and belief.  







Love- The word love is mentioned a multitude of times in this short poem, but the word love is actually referring to God.  "Love is for vanishing into the sky".  Vanishing, meaning to cease to exist, refers to dying.  Going into the sky means ascending to Jannah (paradise), the Muslim term for Heaven.

 

Eye- The eye and sight come up a few times.  The eye is both a tool of perception, and a symbol of God.  And Rumi mentions that the eye, or in more detail, your perspective, goes blind when only trying to solve the mysteries.

 If your eye goes blind, it means you've lost your perspective.  In the sense of this poem, it could mean you've lost your soul, your faith, or your purpose.  "Mysteries are not to be solved: the eye goes blind when it only wants to see why".  This could also mean you aren't meant to try to find the science behind God, because, if God does exist, God is a force impossible to explain with science, it is only a matter of faith.

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