If it were not so, He would not grant human beings the power to perceive love. Islamic mystics use poetry in a symbolic way to express their mystical concepts of love. People of the superficial life understand it as its form and those of inner life understand its deep meaning. Love is the source of creating the human being and the first element created by God the Glorious. Love is a factor in giving up selfishness and refraining from selfishness is the basic principle of ethics.
Love is the factor in refraining from hostilities and bringing about peace and friendship.
According to Hafiz, love distinguishes the human being from other beings. He considers love as an alchemy that can change the copper of human existence into gold. Also he considers love as an art and believes that a person without love is a person without art. The relationship between intellect and love One of the issues sometimes discussed among philosophers and mystics is the relationship between intellect and love. That is, the intellect has the mission to 'preserve' the human being.