Page 73 - Love of Allah

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

sake of Allah's approval you take care of your beloved, take pains about
what he eats and drinks and about the exercises that person should do.
This is all a manifestation of one's love for Allah. But the person who does
not fear Allah becomes self-centered and selfish thinking only of himself;
he becomes unforgiving and reacts harshly when his own interests are at
stake. For instance such person would be skeptical, unaltruistic; he would
not be generous and would not be able to put his life for Allah when he
should. That is to say, lots of negative attitudes piles up on him. But in the
case of fear of Allah, every sort of goodness comes upon him; that is to
say every sort of goodness that ensure love and beauty fit perfectly on
fear of Allah. (Ekin TV, March 2, 2009)
Adnan Oktar: All the beautiful aspects and details of the love for
Allah come from fear of Allah. For example, patience comes from the
fear of Allah and the roots of self-sacrifice, courage, compassion and all
favorable attributes come from fear of Allah. Also fear of Allah is at the
root of wisdom. That is to say, the minds of people are opened because of
their fear of Allah; otherwise they remain closed and become atrophied.
The fear of Allah opens the mind, ignites love for Allah and raises it to the
heavens insha'Allah, it opens the love of Allah toward eternity. It is a
great blessing and creates a passionate love for Paradise and for Allah. In
other words, the more one fears Allah, the more intensively he
loves Allah and the more of a spirit of a lover fills his soul.
When one does not fear Allah, he loses his foresight, his per-
ception, his benevolence, stability. All of his (positive) attrib-
utes begin to corrupt, or, Allah forbid, they corrupt entirely.
(Kackar TV, March 12, 2009)

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