The Arabic word 'love' / المحبة is derived from the triliteral root ح ب ب, which can mean seed. Ali Al-Hujwiri (d. 465 A.H.) writes: "Love is equated with a seed, because love is the basis of life, just as seeds are the basis of plants."¹
¹ Ali Al-Hujwiri. (2007). Kashf Al-Mahjūb. Cairo: Maktaba Al-Thaqāfa Al-Dīnīyya, pp. 336-337.
Guess who taught himself how to open the rice cooker and woke me up by screaming in between mouthfuls of hot rice
The rose that grows in many different forms in gardens all over the world today is an evolution of rose-like plants that lived in the northern hemisphere between 33 million and 23 million years ago. Traces of them have been found in the fossil record of the Oligocene epoch in Europe, Asia, and western North America.
