Page 17 - Love in the Gospel

blessings all become meaningful
and impressive with the profundity and
grace that love sprouts in our hearts. All
these blessings that excite our souls once we
read about and imagine them will turn out to be
mundane and lose their meaning without love.
God revealed in the Qur'an that the only request of
the Prophets and the messengers of God from people
is love:
… Say: "I do not ask you for any recompense
for this [but] only good will through kinship."
(Surat ash-Shura, 23)
The reason for this is because love is the main pur-
pose of God's creation of the universe. God is most
loving, most loved, and is pleased with love. There-
fore, God does not only command us to 'love' in the
Qur'an, but also teaches us the essential foundations
for love. The soul of the Qur'an, God's most wonder-
ful hidden and manifest system, teaches the whole
philosophy, the essence of love, to people. However,
living by true love is not an attribute that everyone can
easily attain: Love is a supremely profound feeling and
the knowledge of love is in the Qur'an. For love to be
instituted, the morals of perseverance, self-giving, ADNAN OKTAR (HARUN YAHYA)
generosity, heedfulness, guardianship and most im-
portant of all, fear and love of God, need to be estab-
lished. And the Qur'an gives us all these beautiful
qualities so that we can become true people of love.

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