PASSION

The definition as in webster's dictionary:

any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate.

2.

strong amorous feeling or desire; love; ardor.

3.

strong sexual desire; lust.

4.

an instance or experience of strong love or sexual desire.

5.

a person toward whom one feels strong love or sexual desire.

6.

a strong or extravagant fondness, enthusiasm, or desire for anything: a passion for music.

7.

the object of such a fondness or desire: Accuracy became a passion with him.

8.

an outburst of strong emotion or feeling: He suddenly broke into a passion of bitter words.

9.

violent anger.

10.

the state of being acted upon or affected by something external, esp. something alien to one's nature or one's customary behavior ( contrasted with action).

11.

( often initial capital letter ) Theology .

a.

the sufferings of Christ on the cross or His sufferings subsequent to the Last Supper.

b.

the narrative of Christ's sufferings as recorded in the Gospels.

12.

Archaic . the sufferings of a martyr.

So what is the Islamic perspective on passion? Arabic; Mufasa
شغف spelled ( shaghaf)

Robust sexuality, profound spirituality and elaborate legalism are, at first glance, strange bedfellows. The conventional Western wisdom has long conceived of these several modes as comprising an antagonistic trichotomy, in which each component is opposed to the others. Classical Islam, on the other hand, envisioned a unique system of cooperation between the sensual, the ethereal and the forensic. This study employs the vast and hitherto neglected literature of Islamic purity law as a looking glass through which to examine early Muslim attitudes to the romantic and erotic. Probing Qur'ān, Ḥadīth, Tafsīr and Fiqh, it opens a window on a world of unexpectedly explicit and unrestrainedly joyful sexual expression -- a world located squarely within the confines of God's sacred law and its elucidation. Virtues of the Flesh; http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=18019 وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ أَنْ خَلَقَ لَكُم مِّنْ أَنفُسِكُمْ أَزْوَاجًا لِّتَسْكُنُوا إِلَيْهَا وَجَعَلَ بَيْنَكُم مَّوَدَّةً وَرَحْمَةً ۚإِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَاتٍ لِّقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ And among His Signs is this, that He created for you wives from among yourselves, that you may find repose in them, and He has put between you affection and mercy. Verily, in that are indeed signs for a people who reflect. [Quran ar-Rum 30:21]