Sultan Bahu’s Alchemy: Turning Longing into Light

 

Sultan Bahu’s mysticism wasn’t about escape — it was about transformation. He didn’t teach us to suppress longing; he taught us how to transmute it — how to turn the ache of incompleteness into the radiance of realization.

To Bahu, longing (shawq) was not weakness; it was the raw material of enlightenment. He saw that every soul carries within it a spark of divine homesickness — a memory of belonging to something infinite. This homesickness fuels our search, our art, our faith, even our mistakes. But Bahu’s alchemy turns this ache into illumination, teaching us: “Do not fight your longing; refine it until it becomes light.”