There is no good in love controlled by the mind.

Abu Abbas Al-Muqrani said: “Love has more power over souls than minds.” But they said that because the mind restricts its possessor, and one of its descriptions of love is misguidance and confusion, and confusion is incompatible with reason. Reason brings you together, but confusion separates you. Joseph’s brothers said to Jacob, “You are in your old misguidance.” They want his confusion about Joseph’s love, and confusion divides and does not unite. This is why love was described as scattering, and it scatters the concerns of the lover in many faces. God Almighty said, “And scatters from them many men and women.” Likewise, His saying is “scattered in vain,” and the lover is in the same position as his beloved, so there is no control over him. In himself, he only governs what he gives him and commands him to do with the power of love ruling over his heart, and from his misguidance in his love, he imagines i