How Do I Love Thee… Let Me Count the Ways…

Assalaamu alaikumwa rahmatullaah

To count them in Arabic would take far longer, and have much more meaning…
the degrees of love in Arabic: [Summarized from Lane’s Lexicon]

حُبٌّ Hubb Love; affection; inclination of the nature or natural disposition, towards a thing that pleases or delights;

The degrees of حُبّ are as follows: first هَوىً hawaa, the “inclining of the soul, or mind;” also applied to the “object of love itself:”

then عَِلاقَةٌ ‘alaaqah or ‘ilaaqah, “love cleaving to the heart;” so termed because of the heart’s cleaving to the object of love:

then كَلَفٌ kalaf, “violent, or intense, love;” from كُلْفَةٌ Kulfah signifying “difficulty, or distress, or affliction:”

then عِشْقٌ ‘ishq [“amorous desire:” or “passionate love;”] in the Sihaah “excess of love;” and in the language of the physicians, “a kind of melancholy:”

then شَغَفٌ shaghaf, “ardour of love, accompanied by a sensation of pleasure;” like لَوْعَةٌ law3ah
and لاعِجٌ laa3ij; the former of which is “ardour of love;” and the latter, “ardent love:”

then جَوىً jawaa, “inward love;” and “violence of amorous desire,” or “of grief, or sorrow:”

then تَتَيُّمٌ tatayyum, “a state of enslavement by love:”

then تَبْلٌ tabl, “lovesickness;”

then وَلَهٌ walah, “distraction, or loss of reason, in love:”

and then هُيَامٌ huyaam, “a state of wandering about at random in consequence of overpowering love.”

Taken from Hidayahonline forums