Ishq e Haqeeqi or Divine Love is the love for Allah which burns everything except the beloved. Ishq e Haqeeqi is the feeling in which the lover (the seeker) is ready to proffer everything for the Beloved (Allah).
Allah says in the Holy Quran:
وَالَّذِيۡنَ اٰمَنُوۡٓا اَشَدُّ حُبًّا لِّلّٰهِ
Meaning: But those who believe, love Allah the most. (Al-Baqarah 165)
Man loves his relatives and things. For example, he loves Allah and the Holy Prophet, he loves his parents, wife, children, sisters and brothers, friends, home, land, property, city, the tribe, kith and kin, business etc. The love for Allah when becomes so intense and ardent, it dominates all other loves is called Eternal love or Divine love. Moreover in Arabic it is called Ishq عِشق . This love turns all the other loves into ashes and overpowers them. As the Holy Prophet says:
“None of you will have faith till he loves me more than his father, his children and all mankind.” (Bukhari 15)
Love and God
Allah considers the passionate love for Himself. It is an attribute of the true believers and it is innate to the very nature of the human soul.
Allah created everything because of Ishq e Haqeeqi (Divine love)
The Essence of Allah was secret and hidden, an intense passion to be recognized aroused in the Essence. This desire was revealed with such severity that Sufis interpreted it as Ishq e Haqeeqi (true spiritual love). In the very passion of Divine love, Allah created Mohammadan light from His own. Then the souls of entire creation were created from the Mohammadan light. It is a saying of the Holy Prophet, “I am from the light of Allah and the entire creation is from mine.”
Know! When the Divine light of Ahad (the One; it is an attributive name of Allah), coming out of His isolated Oneness, intended to manifest Himself in multiplicity, He graced (all the worlds) with the splendid sight of His pure Divine beauty. Both the realms started burning like a moth on the candle of His blazing beauty. Then the light of Ahad ( احد ) concealed in the veil of M ( م ) of Ahmad ( احمد ; attributive name of Prophet Mohammad) and manifested Himself as Ahmad. (Risala Roohi Sharif)
This statement implies that when Allah adorned His court, first of all He revealed Mohammadan light from His own Essence. Then, He created the souls of the whole creation and this is the reality of Prophet Mohammad. This universe is for Prophet Mohammad’s revelation
Iqbal endorses the fact that everything came into being because of Ishq e Haqeeqi
