It’s a sin to even be in the West, let alone adopt the West’s polytheistic beliefs and ways, as one mystic and saint told me. To adopt their polytheistic beliefs and ways would bring on the anger and wrath of God and would break from and disavow oneself of what Arendt called the “voluntary separatism” based on the strict monotheism of Judaism and Islam. But the beloved’s beautiful hair overrides and supersedes all of those doctrinal and theological matters. It’s about love in the end. Love is greater than all of those doctrinal and theological matters which divide and polarize people and cause the kind of petty culture wars and wars of annihilation we are experiencing now:
گر چه دانم که به جایی نبرد راه غریب
من به بوی سر آن زلف پریشان بروم
Adam A. Azim 