Words of one Ashik.
Ashik: Ashik,in Turkish (Turkçe) aşık, derives from Arabic word Asheq (عاشق), and means the "one who is in love". The love is the core part of spiritual values.
Is the highest and most exalted passion of which the human brain is capable. The sight of a beautiful lady (Sina) awakens astonishment in the lover, and opens the door of her heart to the delight which the contemplation of this loveliness affords. Love takes possession of him so completely that all his thought and feeling goes out in it. If he finds himself in the presence of the beloved, he rests absorbed in gazing on her. Absent, he thinks of nought but her. If the loved unexpectedly appears, he falls into confusion, changes color, turns alternately pale and red. His heart beats faster and impedes his breathing. He has ears and eyes only for her love. He shuns touching her with the hand, kisses her only on the forehead, sings his praise in verse.
"You'll find no bird that sings,
They all just sit and cry.
The poor lover, how strongly he endures,
[For] they separate him from his mistress".
"The sun, when it rises in the morning,
Is like you, lover, when you are near me.
When your dark eye turns upon me,
It drives my reason from my head".
Minu for Sina is an "unbreakable love".
Tags: Emotions
