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ROMANTICISM: A WEAPON OF SATAN

apart from God, and loves that person or thing as he should love God.
There are many kinds of idolatry perpetrated in society that arise
from the nurturing of a false and illegitimate love. Idolising one's
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father, son, wife, family or ancestors aside from God are all examples
of errant and illegitimate forms of love.
In the following verse, Abraham explains how pagans, out of
mutual love and regard between each other, abandoned God and
adopted idols for worship:
He said, "You have adopted idols apart from God as tokens of
mutual affection in this world. But then on the Day of Rising you
will reject one another and curse one another. The Fire will be your
shelter. You will have no helpers." (Qur'an, 29:25)
The Qu'ran is thus telling us how these bonds of love ultimately
turn to hate and betrayal on the Day of Judgement. The reason being,
that when people establish a bond of inordinate love or adoration
between themselves they make idols of each other, which leads only to
torment. For those who acknowledge God as the only god, there is no
possibility of putting another person or another thing on the same
level as God, or of loving that thing or person more than Him.
Idolators do the opposite, as discussed in the following verse:

Some people set up equals to God, loving them as they should love
God. But those who believe have greater love for God. If only you
could see those who do wrong at the time when they see the
punishment, and that truly all strength belongs to God, and that
God is severe in punishment. (Qur'an, 2:165)
In the above quoted verse, how much people with faith are to love
God is explained to us. So much so, that it is impossible to say that
someone has faith if he adores someone or something else more
strongly than he loves God. If someone claims the opposite, it is clear
either that he is not being sincere, or that he does not understand God
and His religion as well as he should. Indeed, the end part of this verse
makes it clear that those who worship others aside from God have a
wrong and incomplete perception of Him.