Through Love

Through Love - form Summary

Refrain Builds Ecstatic Accumulation

This poem is an example of a ghazal from Rumi's Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi. It uses a fixed repeating phrase — here translated as Through Love — as a unifying refrain. Each line behaves like an autonomous couplet making a short, declarative claim; the repetition accumulates into an intense, aphoristic list of spiritual transformations. The form’s compact, repetitive structure suits Sufi paradox and ecstatic persuasion: it presents love as an alchemical force that reverses status, heals, and revives. Read as ritual speech more than narrative.