Page 101 - Love of Allah

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

As mentioned in the above verse, some
people associate partners with Allah, and
love other creatures with the love that they
should give only to Him (Surely Allah is be-
yond this). The believers, on the other hand,

know that no person or any part of creation
has any innate strength or beauty, for it is
Allah Who created all of them from nothing.
No living creature can design or prepare its
own beauty. The beauty possessed by a per-
son's face or the loveable nature of an animal,
their expected life span and time of death, as

well as everything else about them is created by
Allah, and every beauty is only at His behest. So
the believers will love that beauty as it is reflected
in people, animals, and nature, being aware of this
fact. Subsequently, a believer's love is directly solely
toward Allah, Who provides all of these things and
Who possesses all things.
Our Prophet (saas) also reminded us that the love we

feel among ourselves should be for the sake of Allah:
The best action is to love for the sake of Allah and to hate for the
sake of Allah. (Sunan Abu Dawud)
Whoever loves and hates for the sake of Allah, and whoever seals
a friendship or declares enmity for His sake, will receive, because
of this, Allah's protection. (Sahih Muslim)

Those who associate partners with Allah assume that

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