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The beloved in Sufi poetry

In Sufi poetry, the Beloved is God disguised as a person, and the longing expressed is both erotic and divine—the lover burned by desire until only the Beloved remains. These poems understand that the most intense human love contains something sacred, and that dissolution into another can be a path toward the sacred itself.

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