There also comes a time when everything other than the Divine or the Beloved ceases to be separate or other.
In mystical and romantic Urdu poetry, 'mā-siwā' refers to everything other than the Divine or the Beloved—the worldly realm of duality and separateness. The poet speaks of that sublime threshold in love where all boundaries dissolve and the illusion of 'the other' simply ceases to exist. It is a moment of total unity, where the lover looks out at the world and sees nothing alien, only the reflection of the Beloved looking right back.
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