love of Allah, Allah's messengers and prophets and for all Muslims
who seek Allah's approval. This bond of love and friendship between
believers is revealed as follows in the Qur'an:
" Your friend is only Allah and His Messenger and those who have
iman: those who establish prayer and pay alms, and bow." (Surat
al-Ma'ida, 55)
Muslims Love for One Another Is a Manifestation of the Profound
Love and Passion for Allah
The true source of Muslims' love for one another is their profound
love of Allah. Believers whose aim in the life of this world is to
earn the approval and mercy of Allah and paradise spend their whole
lives for Allah. As revealed in the Qur'an in the verse " Say: 'My
prayer and my rites, my living and my dying, are for Allah alone,
the Lord of all the worlds, " (Surat al-An'am, 162) , they seek to
earn Allah's approval in all they do and in all their behavior. The
love of believers who dedicate all they have to earning Allah's
approval is also for Allah alone.
The love of a believer who knows Allah, who witnesses His might and
greatness at every moment and who feels His love, affection and
mercy throughout his life, is incomparable stronger than any other
love. His love for other believers will similarly be powerful and
profound since it is based on love of Allah. The fact that he knows
that the friendship he enjoys with other believers will last for all
time in the hereafter is another reason for that being very strong
and permanent. Allah cites the moral values of the Prophet John
(pbuh) in the Qur'an as an example of the love of believers:
"[After the child had been born and grown We said], 'John, take
hold of the Book with vigor.' We gave him judgment while still a
child, and tenderness and purity from Us – he had piety –" (Surah
Maryam, 12-13)
Our Prophet (saas) also reveals in the hadiths that believers' love
for one another is for Allah's approval:
Abu Zarr (pbuh) relates: "Rasulullah (saas) said: "The most virtuous
of deeds is to love for Allah's sake and to hate for Allah's sake."
(Kütüb-i Sitte, Vol. 10, p. 140; Abû Dâvud, Sünnet 3, 4599)
"The strongest bonds of faith are friendship for Allah, enmity for
Allah and love for Allah." (Kütüb-i Sitte, Vol. 10, p. 141)
Believers with a great love and fear of Allah and who honestly
strive for His approval of them, are auspicious people who bring
beauty to the world. Because of these superior virtues they also
love Allah's creations, feel affection and compassion for them, and
wish to protect them and do them good.
Allah has revealed that in return for this fine love and their
sincere devotion to our Lord that stem from the faith in believers'
hearts and their fear of Him, they will be rewarded with paradise,
the place of the best love and devotion.
The Qur'an is the Basis of Love
Our Lord does not only command His servants to love in the Qur'an. He
also describes in detail what form the foundation of love will
take. For example, He reveals that at the basis of a person's love
for someone else will lie patience, loyalty, generosity, care,
truthfulness, courage, protectiveness and loving other more than
one loves oneself. Allah refers to this love as follows in the
Qur'an:
" Those who were already settled in the abode, and in faith, before
they came, love those who have made pilrgrimage to them and do not
find in their hearts any need for what they have been given and
prefer them to themselves even if they themselves are needy. It is
the people who are safe-guarded from the avarice of their own
selves who are successful." (Surat al-Hashr, 9)
As revealed in this verse, characteristics such as consideration,
loyalty and fortitude are the most significant indicators of love.
People who are egotistical and selfish, and not patient and
forgiving, are totally devoid of true love. Our Lord, who of course
has a flawless knowledge of the behavior and attitudes of the
servants He creates, their psychology in other words, describes the
features of people who are loveless and do not behave in accordance
with the moral values of the Qur'an in detail in that book, and
thus makes it easier for Muslims to identify those characteristics.
Allah reveals in the Qur'an that hard work and care and attention
are necessary for love. He notes that loves needs to be tended, just
like a flower. Some people who do not know the true love that
Allah describes in the Qur'an imagine that love is dependent on
physical appearance and that people can only be loved if they are
attractive. Yet people's anatomical structures consist of flesh,
fat, bone and blood; therefore, were it not for the skin, the work
of Allah's matchless creation, there would be very little about people
to like. People who turn their love toward matter do not in fact
love that appearance. It is at this point that the basis of the
true love that believers feel for one another emerges. This is
because believers love people, not just for their external
appearance, but for the moral virtues they embody in their souls.
And it is believers who live by the moral values of the Qur'an and
seek the approval of Allah who possesses these moral qualities. For
that reason, MUSLIMS LOVE OTHER MUSLIMS. AND AMONG MUSLIMS, THEY
MOST LOVE THOSE THEY REGARD AS HAVING THE MOST PIETY AND BEING THE
MOST SINCERE BECAUSE ACCORDING TO THE QUR'AN, LOVE IS DEPENDENT ON
PEITY, AND MUSLIMS MOST LOVE THE PERSON THEY REGARD AS HAVING MOST
OF ALLAH'S APPROVAL. This is revealed as follows in a verse :
" Some people set up equals to Allah, loving them as they should
love Allah. But those who have faith have greater love for Allah. If
only you could see those who do wrong at the time when they see the
punishment, and that truly all strength belongs to Allah, and that
Allah is severe in punishment." (Surat al-Baqara, 165)
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