Secret to True Love: Meaning of True Love in Islam

I once had a friend who grew to be very close to me. Once when we were
sitting at the edge of a swimming pool, she filledthe palm of her hand
with some water and held it before me, and said this: "You see this
water carefully containedon my hand? It symbolizes Love."
This was how I saw it: As long as you keep your hand caringly open and
allow it to remain there, it will always be there. However, if you
attempt to close your fingers round it and try to possesit, it will
spill through thefirst cracks it finds.
This is the greatest mistake that people do when they meet love...
they try to posses it, they demand, they expect... and just like the
water spilling out of your hand,love will retrieve from you. For love
is meant to be free, you cannot change its nature. If there are people
you love, allow them to be free beings.
Give and don't expect. Advise, but don't order. Ask, but never demand.
It might sound simple, but it is a lesson that maytake a lifetime to
truly practice. It is the secret totrue love. To truly practice it,
you must sincerely feel no expectations from those who you love, and
yet an unconditional caring.
A good companion is not like the rain, which comes and goes. It's like
the air, sometimes very quite!
If you love something, setit free; if it comes back it's yours, if it
doesn't, it never was. Richard Bach