There are two categories of love:

1. Unary Love: A loves A

2. Binary Love: A loves B

Within the language of Sufis the Unary Love is called Ishq (Unrestrained Unary Love) and Binary Love is called Hubb.

Insan Kamil

Azizeddin Nasafi

“O Darwish! senses (e.g. touch) have no way to access the realm of Jabarut (Seed universe for all universes), and Aql (Intellect) bewildered with it and these senses only allow you to access the Mulk (Corporeal Realm) and Aql (Intellect) lets you access the Malakut (Spiritual Realm), while Ishq (Unary Unrestrained Love) lets you access the realm of Jabarut (Seed universe for all universes) since Jabarut is the real of Ishq and all the dwellers of Jabarut are in love with their own self. Thus they need a mirror to see their own beauty and to observe their own attributes. ”

Abhar Al-‘Ashiqin (The Lovers’ Daffodil), chapter 32, Roozbehan Baqli Shirazi

“Know O brother—may Allah provide for you and give you the benevolence of the Nation of Kamāl’s (Those reached the Perfection) ‘Ishq (Unrestrained Love)—That Allah’s Dhāt (Innate Essence), sempiternally and eternally, is characterized with the Sifāt (Divine Attributes) which are Qadim: from time immemorial i.e. infinitely ancient. And from amongst of these Attributes, ‘Ishq (Unrestrained Love) is one. Hu’s Nafs (Divine Self) loved ITself. Therefore, the lover the love and the beloved are but One! And a dye originated from that ‘Ishq (Unrestrained Love) that remains to be Hu’s Divine Attribute, free and cleansed from the variance of the temporal transience. ‘Ishq is the Kamāl (Perfection) of the Mahab-bat (Divine Love) and the latter is one of the Divine Attributes. Don’t be fooled by the names, that Love and ‘Ishq are the same. It is ITs Divine Attribute subsisting upon ITs own Dhāt (Innate Essence). There is no variance within this, not that Hu is the lover(Muhibb) for the Hu, but Hu has ‘Ishq (Unrestrained Love) for Hu! ( Love is binary relationship and yet ‘Ishq is unary)

Nur Muhammadi was lit in Jabarut, Jabarut being the singleton seed of all multiverse.

Nur Muhammadi loves itself but it could not SEE itself, it could not see to adore its own beauty!

As in the case of all else, we cannot see our own self and we need an external object to form an image of us, outside our own selves, namely a mirror.

Therefore Allah created a Mirror for Nur Muhammadi to see itself in that mirror to see its own beauty.

And when Nur Muhammadi viewed its own beauty in the said mirror, it lost its focus on the Divine Beauty of Allah, and for that reason felt shame and felt shy and timid and prostrated to Allah: You are the ONLY beautiful ONE!

And this primordial mirror serve yet another purpose: It helps different universes in the Multiverse to reflect images into each other, and this is the only way they know about each other, since they are absolutely disjoint entities:

Insan Kamil

Azizeddin Nasafi

“O Darwish! The relatedness of these universes are brimful with Ishq (Unary Unrestrained Love), every relatedness (say A in one universe is related to B in another universe) serves as mirror (reflects an image of A into B) while the antecedent and precedent (A and B) are actually in love with each other, and both in love with the mirror as well. Consequently these forms of existence are brimful with such unrestrained love, and when Salik (Voyager) reaches the rank of Ishq (Unary Unrestrained Love), ablaze with the flame of Ishq, purified from all impurities i.e. infinitely simplified free of any designs or shapes, finds affinity with the dwellers of the Jabarut since they are all infinitely simple free of any designs or shapes as well.

And when the mirror of the Salik’s (Voyager’s) heart has affinity with the dwellers of Jabarut, due to this close association, he knows what is leaving the realm of Jabarut (Seed universe for all universes) (into another universe to become existent) therefore he is aware of such transference (prior to actualization in target universe) and while this might be seen in dreams by some, he sees them while awake!”