Jug of Love

Jug and cup have widely been used in mystical poetry as an object symbolizing the desire for being lost. Towering mystical poets like Jalaludeen Rumi, Hafiz and Omar Khayyam have used these symblos. But the love in which Hazrat Imam Khomeini is lost is the love which, in the words of Hamid algar, ‘enabled him to dispense with the illusions, fears and deficiencies that halt many of us in this world’.