The Ma'shuq (معشوق) — the Beloved — is the central figure of Sufi ishq (passionate love) poetry, in which the soul's relationship to al-Haqq is expressed through the vocabulary of human erotic love. This is not allegory but tahqiq (realization): Rumi in the Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi and Ibn al-Farid in the Khamriyyah demonstrate that ishq at its most intense is already a tajalli of divine love. Rabia al-Adawiyya established the theological foundation by declaring her love for God was of two kinds: a selfish love (because He is her joy) and a love worthy of Him (because He is worthy of love regardless of the lover's state). The Beloved is not a metaphor for God — rather, every human beloved is an unwitting mirror of the one Ma'shuq whose face (wajh) is disclosed in all beautiful forms.