Worldly Love as the Womb of Divine Love
Worldly Love as the Womb of Divine Love Sultan Bahu did not dismiss worldly love as distraction. He saw it as conception . To him, earthly affection was not the opposite of divine love —it was its womb . A womb does not look glorious. It is hidden, dark, vulnerable. But within it, life takes form. In the same way, human love—imperfect, emotional, fragile—is where divine love begins to take shape within the seeker. Why the Divine Begins in the Ordinary We often imagine divine love as something celestial, pure, untouched by human complexity. Bahu gently corrects this fantasy. The Infinite , he says, chooses intimacy through the finite. Why? Because the soul cannot absorb boundless love all at once. It must be carried, formed, and matured gradually—just as a child is formed in hiddenness before birth. Worldly love is that hidden chamber. It teaches: vulnerability before transcendence patience before permanence tenderness before truth Without these, divine love would o...
