Satrangi

As usual, another blog inspired me to write on this. Makes me wonder if I really have even an inkling of a brain left in there. A big black hole where my mind used to be... help...

So according to this blog I visited recently in my search-for-better-bloggers... I came across a piece that shed light on the meaning of 'Satrangi' in Arabic Literature. Turns out that satrangi is actually the way the phenomenon of love is classified into 7 different categories (as opposed to our own theory of satrangi meaning the 7 colors of something or the other).

Hub - Attraction
Uns - Infatuation
Ishq - Love
Aqeedat - Reverence (respect)
Ibaadat - Worship
Junoon - Obsession
Maut - Death

And so, one begins to ponder over how easily the Arabs have put attraction, infatuation, reverence, worship, obsession and death all into one word that classifies the different stages of love right? After I entered my teens... reached the age where I became aware of that word, the phenomena and everything else that goes with it... I was forced to believe (either by myself, or by someone else) that attraction, infatuation, worship, obsession... and all that, are different... possibly lower forms of emotion and feeling than the supreme love. Always.. and I do mean always, I fought that internal battle inside me whenever I felt one of the above... thinking no, that can't be right... everything starts with attraction... everything leads to infatuation... its whether it gets past that stage that determines whether you're really in love or not.

This philosophy is new, and beautiful to me. It makes me feel less like a sinner... and more like a human being to know this. It's not hard to guess why..