Love is very mysterious and extremely beautiful. But for this mysterious and wonderful love, poets from different eras and different nationalities have different emotional experiences. As another famous Afghan poet after Khushhar Khattak, when Abdul Rahman wrote this lyrical poem titled "Love", his experience of love may be more profound than others. The poet is more real and unique. Because when he lived, Afghanistan was under the rule of the Mughal Empire. His love-themed poems conveyed not only the love between men and women, but also the love for the motherland in a specific context. love and hatred for the occupiers, overflowing with patriotic passion.
Love has joy as well as sadness. Although we know that the pain of love is "the hardest to taste," people are scrambling to appreciate this pain and feel this sadness. Some "infatuated teenagers" even let their sad tears flow continuously for the sake of love, "merging into a small river", and some lovers "died" because of the sadness of separation. They would rather feel the misery and "die in disgrace" than "live alone". For this kind of undying love and this kind of "infatuation", the poet Abdul Rahman has a very appreciative attitude. In his opinion, being infatuated once in this life, even if he is really tortured by the fire of purgatory after his death, is a "smart" behavior that he will not hesitate to do. It can be seen that Abdul Rahman's view of love has a strong realism spirit.
This spirit of realism is also reflected in the exploration of the causes of "love trauma". Who caused the separation or even loss of lovers? Maybe it's the feudal concept of hierarchy, maybe it's the cruel alien invasion. Whatever the reason, the poet denounced it as "infatuation." In the poet's view, this "infatuation" is actually "wisdom." Therefore, from the word "wisdom", we can feel the powerful and mysterious power of love in opposing caste prejudice or resisting alien invasion.
Although Afghan poet Abdul Rahman’s poems have a melancholy and pathos tone, in this poem titled “Love”, he uses figurative language and slight exaggeration. The style of writing and a series of appropriate metaphors give a new and vivid interpretation of the paradox of love, "the sweetness of pain".