Those who believe are intense in their love for Allah. On the contrary, humans love women, sons, gold and silver, wealth and the dunya. – and those who fight in His way against tyranny, injustice, wrongdoings, aggression and transgression. Such a beloved emotion it is that in the Holy Quran, Allah SWT mentions who He himself loves. Falling prey to the cultural manifestations of love (Heer-Ranjha, Romeo- Juliet, Laila-Majonoo), and out of sheer ignorance of the deen, we often get frustrated to why Allah does not want us to express one of the strongest emotions he has blessed human beings with. What we believe to be true love is actually false love gift wrapped as true love by the media and the pop culture for off late, more than any other time, it has turned into an idea that sells. The problem with this issue or pursuit arises due to the difference between our definition of true love and what it actually is. That is, it is important for us to realize that love (or rather, feeling (verb)) is a function of the heart, just like seeing is the function of the eye. The word “Muhabbat” comes from the Arabic word “Hubb(a)”, which literally means seed a seed that every human being has. It also includes some points from a lecture delivered by Alimah Sobia Qasim (a student of the speaker) at a summer program in Karachi called Footsteps. The following is an edited version of the notes prepared by Maliha Abidi during the lecture. The IBA Iqra Society invited Sheikh Kamaluddin Ahmed’s wife ‘Alimah Sobia Ahmed’ on the 22nd of November, 2010 to deliver a lecture on the topic Romance in Islam.
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