Layla and Majnun
How does an unreachable, absolute love drive a human soul to madness and yet save it?
📝ONGO's Reflection
When I first came to this classic Persian epic, the anguish of Majnun, driven mad by love and wandering the desert, felt unreal to me. But the moment I looked deeply into Nizami's insight, I realized that this love, beyond the mere affection between a man and a woman, symbolizes humanity's ultimate longing for the divine. His madness, forsaking everything of the world to burn for one being alone, calls forth a strange awe. This sorrowful tale of Majnun and Layla makes us ask the weight of a passion that gives itself wholly to something.
"I am Layla, and Layla is me. We are two spirits in one body."Nizami Ganjavi, Layla and Majnun
"사랑이 나를 태우고, 나는 사랑 속에서 재가 되었다."
🌱Apply It Today
Check your own passion: is there something you love or devote yourself to so fully that you'd give it your whole soul without regret?
