The Meaning of Contentment, Submissions & Love

The happiest and most satisfied person in this life is the one in that finds a level of contentment. This person sees their situation as the most suitable for them because their Lord put them in that situation. If it is good for me, then God will have put me in that situation. When you are in this station of contentment, you are far from anger because anger is a result of thinking that you can have everything, the way you want it to be. 

A meaning of 'pain' is that of 'separation from the Beloved', where the one in pain is a person who, in separation, seeks Union and cure. 

One person is content with pain, another with the cure;

One is content with Union, another with separation.

I am content with whatever the Beloved desires.

Be it cure, pain. Union or separation.

The true lover prefers the Beloved's desires to his own, and is content with whatever the Beloved desires — be it pain or cure, separation or Union.

Another meaning of 'pain' which is closest to its common usage, is a state which causes sadness and suffering. This kind of 'pain' is not present in a true beholder, for they have no desires and are content with God's contentment. Thus, the Beholder is always joyful, for he who considers himself a lover has no reason to be sad. 

Anyone who is sad and behaves as if he is suffering has not comprehended the true meaning of Love, which is surrender to God.

If there is profit in this market place, it is with the contented Lover,O Lord, grant me the blessing of Love and contentment!

'Pain' has also been employed in another context, that of the 'pain without cure', the expression which certain Sufis have taken to mean 'love'. As Rumi says:

O love, you're known to everyone under a different name;Last night I gave it another name, that of the 'pain without cure'.

In our view, 'love' cannot be said to mean 'pain without cure', for the love-crazed heart becomes linked to the spirit of Unity by the grace of love, which is the commander of the forces of the realm of Unity. Hence, insofar as love distances the Lover from multiplicity and created being, it constitutes pain for him, while at the same time conveying the lover to Unity and God, it becomes a cure. Thus, love is both 'pain' and 'cure'.


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