No Freedom (a song by Dido)
"No love without freedom,
No love without freedom,
No love without freedom,
No freedom without love..."
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Talented is Dido. When I heard this song, the chorus struck a chord in the piano of my soul. I thought of what she sang... "...no love without freedom..." She always had a way with lyrics, this Dido. Below is her music video.
But When You Fall in Love, You Lose Your Freedom - I think this to be true. And if at any point in our relationship, we appear to have a semblance of choice, a veneer of options? Why, the unpalatable truth is that we have not properly fallen in love.
Divine Love. And that is why in the School of Love that is this world, and in relation to the object of devotion and affection that is our Lord God, I am still in kindergarten. Trying with some difficulty to grasp and to hold unto that which the mystics of Islam and the world call Divine Love. Because I still think I have choices, you see... Therein lies my weakness.
But I am not too worried, sunshine. Because I also believe that our path, our journey in this life is through that weakness...
Onwards, through the realisation of our utter helplessness, towards true servanthood of Love.
ya Allah, ya Rasulullah... how blessed are we, sunshine.
Have a truly beautiful Sabbath.
wa min Allah at-taufiq
Hate has no place in Islam
Love will show the Way
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