Quote by Fuzuli: “My tears are proof of my love; without love, what need is there for tears?”

Grief and longing are not signs of weakness — they are evidence of something precious. You only weep over what truly matters to you. Without love, there is nothing important enough to cry for. The tears are the measure of the love.

Fuzuli lived in Karbala during the period of Ottoman-Safavid conflict over Mesopotamia, a city sacred to Shia Islam. His poetry was shaped by this environment of religious devotion and the constant presence of grief, which fed directly into his Sufi exploration of love as spiritual suffering.

Azerbaijani Sufi poet born around 1494 in Karbala, who wrote in Azerbaijani Turkish, Persian, and Arabic, and is considered one of the greatest poets in the Turkish literary tradition. His Leyli and Majnun is widely regarded as one of the finest reworkings of the classic love story in any language.