Concepts of Love and Romance According to Sufism and Rumi

One of Jalal ud-Din Muhammad Rumi's important ways about God-Man is "Love." Man can reach God through love and achieve divine qualities. According to Islamic understanding and literature, man has been valued by God's spirit when created, and the soul of God has been given to him. Therefore, the great power that is inhabited is its spirit. With this factor, man can reach the highest order by moving from the lowest point, raising herself, and accessing the divine nature. Rumi has named the relationship between God-Man as love and stated that God can be reached this way. It was seen that Rumi gave a lot of thought and inscription to reason when revealing God's imagination. Rumi, who gives great importance to humanity and states that he is supreme at every opportunity, has adapted to the Islamic tradition in this respect. When necessary, the thinker who benefited from the Qur'an and, if necessary, from philosophy and other sciences of the devolution revealed his particular ideas with his point of view without harming the integrity of man and without injuring him. He deals with people with elements like mind, soul, spirit, and heart. When it comes to the relationship between God and man, Rumi emphasizes that God created everything and that all beings in the universe and the world gain with his existence, and we see that he adopts this view. A spiritual relationship is not just closeness to God. In Rumi's thought, good actions, deeds, and ideas are beyond the concept of romanticism, which is mentioned in the literature. In this research, an attempt is made to clarify the difference between romanticism and love, as Rumi explains. Man's superiority to love is not the result of mental emotions and physical reactions; divine love is the polisher of the human body and soul, which can be found in his words in the spiritual Mathnawi.