Rational Islam

﷽  Love, Intimacy and Islam "We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." - H.P Lovecraft ( Call of Cthulhu - 1926)   Love. It's quite personal, isn't it? Deep down, we all desire it. We all crave it. It's a sort of warmth that keeps you alive and going. The Greek philosopher Aristotle identified motion with life - if it moves, it lives - and so Love is to your heart what energy is to your body. Without it, it's just a motionless corpse. But Love is strange. We just can't put our finger on what it is exactly. There are so many situations, so many types, so many emotions. We know it when we feel it, and it's a sublime feeling that simply cannot be put into words.  It's a universal phenomenon that man cannot escape. It seeps into all our thoughts and aspirations, and even the cold personality - drained of emotional vitality - is simply just a reaction to, or even a...