Is transcendental love like romance? Ibn Arabi thought so, and Ibn Taymiya disagreed. The founder of Ahmadism declared apostate by legal scholars, went to the extent of comparing orgasm to mystic tears. The transcendental love is very ineffable and female mystic Rabia Basri would have found the romantic comparison contrary to what she felt. The first phase of my life was like Rabia and Ibn Taymiya, and I also underwent a phase like Ibn Arabi, but now I am in an intermediate or indeterminate spiritual state. 🙂 It’s not confusion, rather a stage cautious transition into marital bliss. May Allah bless me with a qanitah partner.
A spiritual Ishmaelite 