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Love of Allah

TRUE LOVE IS A BLESSING ALLAH

BESTOWS ON BELIEVERS ALONE

ADNAN OKTAR: Allah knows the truth, of
course. But if a person's heart is muddy and dirtied in
this world, then he becomes unable to take pleasure in
anything. The beauty of a flower, of a piece of fruit or a
woman, all become technical beauty for him, meaning

that his soul loses the profundity of passion. And this is
a terrible affliction. There is a huge difference between
love and real love. I mean, one person says he is in love
with another, but the next day they break up in a great
scuffle. These loves are all imitations. None is real love.
They are all based on self-interest, on tactics, on imita-
tion, on a copy of romanticism. Whereas in real love

there is depth, passion and love of Allah. And since a
person sees that as a manifestation of Allah, he expe-
riences an ineffably intense desire. This can some-
times become quite unbearable, in proportion to a
person's strength, faith and intelligence. In other

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