What are the types of love

Types of love

🔹 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝙰𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚊𝚑:

• This is the foundation of eeman and tahweed.

🔹 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝙰𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚊𝚑:

• Love for Allaah’s prophets and messengers and their followers, and loving those actions, times, places, etc. which Allaah loves.

• And this follows from one’s love for Allaah and is a perfection of it.

🔹 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝙰𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚊𝚑:

• Love that the polytheists have for their gods and partners – whether these be trees, rocks, human beings, angels or otherwise.

• This is the foundation of shirk and its very basis.

🔹 𝙽𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚕 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎:

• That which carries no blame for the slave and is that which he feels for food, drink, intercourse, clothing, companionship, etc.

[Source: al-Qawl al-Sadeed Sharh Kitab al-Tawheed (p.128, ch. 31) by Imam as-Sa’di]

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