The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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He used to shout, “Laila, Laila” in everything he spoke, for he was imagining that he was lost to her, but he was not. Rather, the imaginary image was too close to her, and he did not see her. He was asking for her as if she had been lost. If she did not see her when she came to him from outside, her apparent image did not match the imaginary internal image that he had caught in her. His imagination of her saw her as if she were competing with that image, so he feared losing her. He said to her, “Stay away from me, for your love has distracted me from you.” He wanted that image to be the essence of love, so he kept asking for it, Laila. Laila. If that image became strong in the lover’s imagination, it affected the beloved. The effect of imagination on the senses is like the one who imagines falling and falls or imagines something. What is frightening is that the mood changes for him and the image of his senses changes. Likewise, this image, when strengthened, affects the beloved,


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