According to ancient Arabic literature, love is classified into seven stages.
HUB - Their eyes meet, it,s like a touch, a spark... Attraction.
UNS - The touch of the eyes was as if, it was Infatuation.
ISHQ - The flame of her body is felt, his breath starts igniting... Love.
AQIDAT - She touches him like a whisper, as if silence is mixed in her eyes... Reverence. He prays, knelt down on the floor, a little consciously and a little unconsciously.
IBADAAT - He is entangled on her path, entangled in her arms... Love turns to Worship.
JUNOON - His living is an Obsession, his dying is an obsession... Apart from this there is no peace.
MAUT - Let him rest in the lap of Death. Let him drown his body in her soul.
Philosophical, yet so eerily true !
