History of the quintessence of passionate love disease
Passionate love was considered for that excessive
form of the highest form of love. At the time, love
would be looked to for the highest affection humans
were adorned. So passionate love was considered the
example for the condition that occurs as a result of the
extreme exaggeration in love, which reflected with the
negative effect on the personality of the pretended
lover with body disturbances, for behavioral
disturbances which often push the wounded person to
commit that was perpetrated other than reasonable.
Indeed, I have taken up this subject by the Arab
writers, including poets on their particular manner of
amorous feelings, and regarding the disease many
among them that hoped not recovery.
Al Aassee put the palm of his hand(1) at his waist
He said the desire turning aside with this craft.
And also, the among literature what was the treatment
advice of the conversation happening between
passionate love sought for one’s love feelings was left
off:
Any lover of the multitude would have to learn by
experience from God; if passionate love is the
condition with the boy, what should he do?
Waste his desire, thereafter he covered his secret; and exercised restraint with all matters as was under
control.
And how would he waste, with the desire fighting the
boy; and with every day his heart would cut off
Because he was not patient to suppress his secret; so
even death would not benefit
Hear us, obey us; thereafter we died, then they
attained; peace always for those hindered from
reaching
While the ancient Muslim doctors, upon a manner
contrary to the poets, had looked upon this disease as
a another diseased condition from the neurological or
psychiatric diseases like epilepsy, headaches and
melancholy (2) caused illness with the signs,
symptoms, and treatment ,Vavadoa in his commentary
stated that this disease treatment was considered
different to adjust the patient’s condition and to the
degree of culture, in addition to the nature of the
circumstances surrounding it.
Perhaps the first who spoke about the disease of
passionate love from doctors was the Greek physician,
Hippocrates, by the nickname Father of Medicine.
Whereas he said, describing what it was: “Passionate
love was longed for generated in the heart and met the
material sense. So, whenever it was strong, it
increased its possessor in agitation and insistence,
with severe anxiety and abundance of vigilance. And
when melancholy was burning blood with the condition, then from the tyranny of melancholy, with
corruption of dull(3) thoughtand diminished mind.
While pleased what was emitted completed, was led
down to that madness. Then at that time perhaps the
lover killed himself. And probably he died sad. Or
probably he reached his lover. So, he died rejoicing
or sorrowful. As you saw the lover, when he heard by
mention who he liked, how his smear was escaped and
changed his appearance. Then for whoever this
condition declined gently from the Lord of the worlds,
was not by management of addictions”.
Galen had described this disease by saying: ‘The
approval of passionate love was entertaining desire
yielded for it to the self, as hidden in the brain, heart,
and liver. While the lover refrained from food and
drink for the functioning of the liver, and for the
functioning of the imaginary of the brain. Then he
mentioned the lover as thinking about them, so all of
the dwellings were occupied therein. Consequently,
when it did not work at the time of separation, it was
not fancied”. (5)
Causes of the passionate love disease:
Avicenna said about the causes mentioned of this
disease: “This disease made evil suggestions similar
for Melancholy (6), mankind had been brought the
same influence of idea for approval some form as had
its character doing evil to help him for that desire or
not to help him(7).
Some have added to this disease the unmarried was
naked and out of the work from the keeping of people.
Ibn Hubal Al Baghdadi spoke about the occurrence of
the disease mechanism, so that he says: “The
passionate love presented from the persistence of the
idea of the approval some form occurring in the
imagination and persistence seen by desirable
movements of the self to produce what was raised,
and supported for movements of the desires. So, it
presents from that thing from dullness and withering
promise to Melancholy(8)”. From the Hadith of Al
Baghdadi, we can explain why the disease of
passionate love followed the disease of melancholy in
ancient Arabic Medical Publications.
Symptoms and signs :
Most of the sentence of the tribe of Mardini in its
Medical Manuscript, named the ‘Dispatched Flame’ in
the Medical Art signs and symptoms of the disease of
passionate love says: ‘The mark of deceived and dried
eyes, except when crying, with thickened eyelids from the abundance of spending the night awake and the
best perfume arising for that. Then his lover offered
by putting the hand on his throbbing and he mentioned
the highest and extended, if the throbbing he
acknowledged was alternated
Indeed, most of the whole Muslim Arab doctors who
talked about the passionate love disease had the
disturbance of the throbbing from the important signs
for diagnosis of the passionate love disease to recover,
as down to the knowledge of the desired lover. The
persistence for this is due to the story told from
Avicenna, who compiled a treatise about passionate
love written by Ibn Abdullah Al Faqih
The summary of the story, it was an incurable disease
that had befallen one of the youths from the sons of
the Prince of Persia, and the doctors were frustrated at
that time about the knowledge of this disease and with
following its symptoms. For the youth was losing
weight and strenght day after day, and had refrained
from food. For he had lacked the appetite, even joked
he stuck close to the bed. And since the doctors were
frustrated about finding the panacea for this disease of
the youth, the family resorted to Avicenna to beg him
to visit the patient with the consideration in his case
after that was completely difficult from his cure.
Avicenna came immediately to reach the home of the
patient, asked him about the symptoms of his illness
and which people with the situation. Thereafter, he
entered to the youth and examined him by
observation. Then he sat beside his bed and put his
finger on the pulse. Then he asked one of the
attendants to count all of the neighborhoods of this
city. And when the attendant arrived to mention as
much as the neighborhoods, Avicenna had the good
fortune for the pulse of the youth had hastened. With
that he asked from the attendant to mention names of
the families that were inhabitants the neighborhood.
Then when that attendant mentioned about the source
of these names, he had perceived much more by that
pulse of the youth. And here Avicenna asked if this
family was part of girls. As they answered yes, then
the daughter appeared to the family of the youth. It
was said to them that indeed the cause to remove the
wonder, if your son was a lover of one daughter of
these families. And this is the disease and its
treatment with the giving in marriage of that girl.
This uncommon story is an explanation for why the
multitude of Arab Muslim doctors who spoke about
this passionate love disease had considered the
presence of the disturbance of the pulse mentioned of the lover was from the diagnostic signs of this disease.
Avicenna said about the signs of this disease: “Its
signs of the eyes of deceit as they fell with lack of
tears, except when crying. Also, movement connected
to eyelid laughing as looking to something delicious,
or heard good news, or made fun. And he shall have
many interruptions, while recovery is more the sigh.
And his condition changes to joy and laughter or grief
and crying when you hear the flirting, especially
abandonment with distance. And all of his organs will
be wilted except the eyes, so that it will be with its
deceived big eyes of its awakened eyelids thickness.
And his pulse had been a different pulse of the owner
the system tested definitely as the significant pulse.
Then his pulse changed with his condition when the
special lover was mentioned and when meeting them
suddenly. It can be concluded from that for the lover,
if he did not recognize it, because the knowledge of
the lover is one of the means of his treatment. The
craft with that was to mention the names of the
restoration many times with the hand on his pulse, and
if different by that it means a great difference, while it
became to resemble the devoted. Thereafter returning
to rehearse that time known among them the name of
the lover. Afterwards by mention in the same manner
the dwelling, the neighbor, the occupation, the
villages, and add all of them to the names of the lovers
and saved the pulse, even if something collected
mentioned changed one time from whose name of his
lover that attribute.” (11) By the profession that you
knew. then if we tested this, we brought forth with it
what stood for the benefit(11) .
The signs and symptoms can be summarized, as the
ancient Muslim doctors mentioned them: the wasting
away – little appetite, deceiving eyes with thickened
eyelids – the isolation of love with the recovery as a
big sigh – the pulse disturbed and its peculiar
hastening was the mention of the presence of the lover
or anything related with them.
Treatment:
Indeed, the Arab Muslim doctors, who spoke about
passionate love disease, agreed that the preferred and
most useful treatment for this disease was the bringing
together of the lover and the sweetheart as that
according to permission the law.
The tribe of Mardini said about that: The treatment
will have those who express regret as reached the
desired way of law. Then they were disgraced with
the ugliness of doing it, but kept occupied by some
mental information by the credited administrative council. Thereafter some melancholy was emptied, as
it often happened from water poured on their head.
Also, watermelon, cucumbers, and herbs were fed;
and the alarming sour was given to drink, as ordered
to sleep under the dew. And they remembered to look
to the moon, when it was full prevented this disease.
Also, abundant washing in cold water was advised.
But not to eat hot things from medicines, food, and
desires (12).
From what preceded, it can be mentioned the
components of treatment passionate love disease
according the following:
First – try to bring together the lover and sweetheart to
marry, if possible; in that Ibn Hubal Al Baghdadi said:
“Nothing is more beneficial treatment of bringing
together lover and sweetheart according to the desired
way the law allowed, if it was right and cleared from
blame. And if it was not, then he looked from afar.
Then only, the procrastination And Avicenna explained this fact by saying: “Then
you can only find as treatment management before
them bringing together according to the religion
allowed and done by law. And we have seen from its
recurring safety, strength, as it restored their holding
firmly. But they had been near to becoming dull and
passed it, with the difficulty of harsh chronic diseases,
by the long passion due to the weak power of intense
passionate love. And when he perceived by reaching
from his lover after the recurrence delayed with the
shortest period spent by the wonder, then we
concluded to obey nature’s illusions of self
Secondly – the lover was advised and chastised for
actions, if he was wise. Avicenna also said: “Then
advise and warn them, and be remiss having them
ridiculed for and chastised with the illustration it
presented for what only was whispered and set forth
from the obsession, which its benefit did good,
speaking effectively in such as that divided into
sections (15) “.
Thirdly – the lover’s occupation with some mental
science and credited administrative council or
occupied with some other worldly affairs that you
spent thinking the about abundance of passionate love
with his sweetheart. The Arab doctors had versatility
in this area by innovative means that would
accomplish this purpose. So, these are the things they
mentioned:
1 – the patient works with some Mental Science by
the credited community of the governing body, and therefore if he was among those with its preparation.
Then if he was from the religious people, he could
console the ascetics, worshippers, and poor with news
2 – if the worker was an expert, whether worked, or
kept busy with his work, or his work not harmed from
bravery and gaps.
3 – length of travel from the established abode of the
sweetheart, whereas that which generated the
forgotten with the passage of time.
4 – some doctors mentioned – as Avicenna – it is from
the people who forgot the delight and listen, and some
of them get that of the increased from their anguish, as
that can be recognized
5 – also these from which does good were
administrative councils of pleasure, play, and joy, and
walking with an abundance of looking at the moon.
These are all the things considered from matter that
change the lover’s thinking about his lover.
Fourth – time of melancholy was emptied from the
body and brought to an end against the negative
factors in the flesh, as that with dehydration and
cooling. Therefore, Al Razi advised by an abundance
of washing with cold water, and to be cautious of hot
things from food and drugs. In the same manner, he
advised for sleep in cold places.
Fifth – the tendency to eat some foods that had the
cooling quality, such as the alarming sour,
watermelon, cucumbers, herbs, and other foods that
had helped for the evacuation of melancholy time, and
with the utmost cooling degree achieved follows.
Sixth – finally some doctors had advised to treat this
disease that swayed some advanced in years for the
lover in the place where they endeavored in the
passage of the lover’s desire to the other gradually that
was the lovers. Thereafter, their action was cut off
before he could desire the second.
Passionate Love Disease and Modern Medicine:
At the end of this research, I have to point to the
modern medical purpose of passionate love disease.
Some may ask why not search modern medical
publications, especially Psychiatry Books which was
called ancient passionate love disease?
For the answer to that, we must know that passionate
love disease can be expressed in a form of emotional
stress that the patient was subject to. As this
emotional distress according to degree may result for
them different having psychological diseases. And
that depends on the personal and social background of
the patient, with the circumstances surrounding it, as
preferred for the personal readiness. Some of those
who are subjected to emotional distress may be
afflicted with Anxiety Neurosis, including some
afflicted with the condition of Reactive Depression.
Just as some of the patients, who had been afflicted
with at first as split personality, with cases of
Schizophrenia manifestations, like the condition with
Schizophrenia with the youth or what is called by
Schizophrenia of Adolescence.
From this we conclude that what is known for
passionate love disease is explained as a form of
emotional distress that may lead to the occurrence of
serious mental disorders, which can lead sometimes
for the risk of the occurrence of suicide, especially
those who have been afflicted with the reactive
condition of inertia .
Notes and Comments:
(1) Aasee is a doctor
(2) Meoncholy: passivity disease or depression
(3) Lack of understanding
(4) Eye news in layers doctors, pp.51
(5) News in the eyes layers doctors, p 131
(6) Melancholy is the tendency of sadness or
depression
(7) The Canon of Medicine, c 2, pp. 71
(8) Anthology of Medicine, c 3, p 49
(9) Meteor manuscript letter in the medical industry,
the tribe Mardini, Paper 45
(10) Eyes the news in layers doctors, pp. 458
(11) The Canon of Medicine, c 2, p 72
(12) Meteor manuscript letter in the medical industry,
paper 54
(13) Anthology of Medicine, c 3, p 50
(14) The Canon of Medicine, c 2, p 72
(15) The Canon of Medicine, c 2, p72
