Oh kohl’in al-deen thou does it again new metaphors for the Sufis refrain the sacred the profane either which which is which love for Rabiya al-Adawiyyah of Basra the first to sing that Allah should be loved for him or Mohyuddin ibin’Arabi his wahdat al-wujud or wahdat al-hubb or Maulana Jalaluddin Balkhi that only Allah deserves our love or Khwaja Shamsuddin Muhammad Hafiz the erotic sensual sublime

Oh kohl’in al-deen are thy love songs mystical disguised as profane or profane love songs disguised as mystical To unravel the knot Allah says in a hadith ‘I loved to be known so I created the world’