Quotes About Love

“Allah loves His creation. That’s why He rewards so greatly for serving them.

“If you chose a spouse for the right reasons, prayed istikhara, asked Allah for the good of that person, and still ended up with a bad spouse…know that there is a “good” lesson that you were being taught and pay close attention to the Teacher

Shaykh Omar Suleiman

“We all want love. From God, and from the creation. We are all running towards something. Ironically, the more we run after the creation, the more the creation runs away from us! As soon as we stop running after the creation, and reorient, as soon as we start running towards God, the creation runs after us. It’s a simple, simple formula:

Run towards the creation, you lose God and the creation. Run towards God, you gain God *and* the creation.

Allah is “Al Wadood” (The Source of Love). Therefore, love comes from God—not people. “To acquire love…fill yourself up with it until you become a magnet.”

When you fill yourself with the Source of love (Al Wadood), you become a magnet for love. Allah teaches us this in the beautiful hadith Qudsi: “If Allah has loved a servant [of His], He calls Gabriel and says: “I love so-and-so, therefore love him.’” He (the Prophet pbuh) said: “So Gabriel then loves him. Then he (Gabriel) calls out in Heaven, saying: ‘Allah loves so-and-so, therefore love him.’ And the inhabitants of Heaven love him. Then acceptance is established for him on earth.” [Bukhari, Malik, & Tirmidhi]

We’re all running. But so few of us are running in the right direction. We have the same goal. But to get there, we need to stop. And examine if we are running towards the Source–or just a reflection

Yasmin Mogahed

“Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.

Yasmin Mogahed

“A spouse's oppression of his or her spouse is a deeper corruption and a faster road to catastrophe than a ruler's oppression of his subjects.

Muhammad al-Ghazali

“We know that “I love you” is easy to say but difficult to prove yet we still fall for mere words and complain when we are hurt.

Mufti Ismail Menk

“He who is attracted to you because you showed perhaps your legs or your shape - those legs are not going to look like that for the rest of your life, nor will you be able to maintain that shape forever. So therefore it is better for you to realise that he who is attracted to your heart, your goodness and your character is the one to whom no matter what you look like, he will love you and adore you and 60 years down the road would still tell you that you’re ‘the one’.

Mufti Ismail Menk

“Every relationship has tough days. Don’t let the grudge last. Be the first to try to make things right and stop waiting for an apology.

Nouman Ali Khan

“Let not your love become attachment, nor your hate become destruction.

Umar ibn al-Khattab

“Relationships can’t blossom unless there is meaningful communication. That’s why “supplication is the key to worship.” It is a sign of meaningful communication between God and a person

Suhaib Webb

“If the heart is fed by love, the greed for pleasure would disappear.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.

Yasir Qadhi

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Waleed Basyouni

“When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly—but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies.

Yasmin Mogahed

“You don’t truly love someone unless you include them in your supplications.

Abdulbary Yahya

“Islam didn’t make it Haram for you to fall in love. It didn’t forbid you from wanting someone. It only guides that love so it protects you, her, your families and especially saves you from humiliation on Judgment Day. If you love her so much, why are you OK with letting her engage in this questionable relationship knowing full well that she will have to answer Allah just like you will. You don’t love her enough to save her from that?

Nouman Ali Khan

“Marry someone who is deeply interested in the Deen, because that is who your children will follow.

Mufti Ismail Menk

“Love has many colors, just because someone does not show love the way you perceive it to be does not mean they don’t love you.

Abdulbary Yahya

“Forbidden love stories end at marriage, while true halal love stories begin at marriage and end with both entering paradise together.

Abdulbary Yahya

“Once you begin to see everything beautiful as only a reflection of God’s beauty, you will learn to love in the right way: for His sake. Everything and everyone you love will be for, through and because of Him. The foundation of such love is God. So what you hold onto will no longer be just an unstable feeling, a fleeting emotion. And what you chase will no longer be just a temporary high. What you hold, what you chase, what you love, will be God: the *only* thing stable and constant. Thereafter, everything else will be through Him. Everything you give or take or love or don’t love, will be by Him. Not by your nafs. It will be for Him. Not for your nafs.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Love of Allah is the power of the heart, the sustenance of the heart, the light of the heart.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Allah must be dearer than anything else to the slave, Allah must be more important than all else.

Ibn Taymiyyah

“I loved. I lost. So I learned to love what is never lost.
Then even what I loved that can be lost was through what cannot be lost…so it was never lost.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The worker, who wants to know his degree in the master's eye, should first observe how much he works for him.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Some people look for hollywood and bollywood love stories, and then get married to real people…

Abdulbary Yahya

“You don’t need the whole world to love you, you just need One…Allah.

Abdulbary Yahya

“Love Allah more than yourself and He will give you more than you would give yourself.

Yahya Adel Ibrahim

“It may be that Allah does not give you the person you want so you can have the One you need.

Abdulbary Yahya

“Allah has guaranteed His love for those who love each other for His sake and no two people should love each other more for His sake than a believing husband and wife.

Shaykh Omar Suleiman

“Whoever prefers Allah to all others, Allah will prefer him to others.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Marry a religious woman. She will neither abuse your right nor reveal your secret and she will take care of your property and your child in the best way.

Muhammad ibn Salih al-`Uthaymeen

“And the cure for this deadly illness (i.e. love before marriage) is for the person that is afflicted to realize that this love is only due to his/her own delusions and ignorance.

So upon such a person is to first and foremost strengthen their Tawheed and reliance upon Allaah, and secondly to increase in worship and busy themselves with it, so much so that they do not have any spare time letting their minds wander and think about their beloved.

And they should call upon Allaah to protect them and save them from this evil, just as Prophet Yusuf called upon Allaah and he was saved. And they should do as he did, be as he was, in terms of ikhlaas (sincerity) and remembering Allaah in abundance.

This is because if the heart is filled with ikhlaas for the sake of Allaah, there will be no space left for any unlawful love to be present, rather this only happens to a heart that is empty and has no ikhlaas whatsoever.

And let such people remind themselves that whatever Allaah has decreed for them is only in their own best interests, and when Allaah commands something it is never to cause harm or misery to His slaves.

And let them also remind themselves that their unlawful love does not benefit them, neither in this world or the hereafter! As for this world then they will be so preoccupied with their love that it will cripple them and will cause them to live in a fantasy world. And as for the hereafter then it will cause them to be preoccupied with the love of the creation instead of love for the Creator!

These people need to be reminded, that the one who is emerged in something will never see its ill effects, neither will the person who has never experienced such things. The only people who will be able to relate to them are those who have experienced the same thing but have been saved. Such people can look back and realize how evil it is.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Imam ad-Darani was asked: What's the best deed that would make a servant closer to Allah? He cried, may Allah have mercy on him, and said: "For Allah to look in your heart and see that you do not want anything but Him from dunya (the worldly life) and akihrah (the Hereafter)."

Imam Abu Sulaiman Ad-Darani

“Whoever loves the Quran will love Allah and His Messenger.

Abdullah ibn Masud

“If a person loves an attribute of Allah, then this will help him to reach Him.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“The Lord is to be loved.

Ibn Taymiyyah

“Nothing destroys trust like lying, and nothing destroys marriages like lost of trust.

Abdulbary Yahya

“Blinded by sins many choose the wrong person to marry.

Abdulbary Yahya

“Why not love the Being who is the Creator of all beauty, why not love that Being who is beauty Himself?

Shaykh Kamaluddin Ahmed

“If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

Rumi

“The happiness of the drop is to die in the ocean.

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“We are people who need to love, because Love is the soul’s life, Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.

Hafiz Shirazi

“I can be without anyone, but not without You. You twist my heart, dwell in my mind, and fill my eyes You are my joy. I can’t be without You.

Rumi

“Take away everything that takes me away from You.

Rumi

“Dear friends, Our souls have been in love with God For so very, very long.

Hafiz Shirazi

“I once had a thousand desires, but in my one desire to know you, all else melted away.

Rumi

“Love for God envelops the heart, it rules the heart and it emanates over everything.

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“Each lover is alone, in secret, with the one he loves, and I’m here too; alone, hidden from all of them with You

Rabi`a al-Adawiyyah

“I hear nothing in my ear but your voice. Heart has plundered mind of its eloquence. Love writes a transparent calligraphy, so on the empty page my soul can read and recollect.

Rumi

“‎O Beloved, what kind of fountain is Thy Love, of which I sipped but one drop and wept rivers.

Saadi Shirazi

“You will be with those you love.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“Last night, within my heart I heard Your whispers of love, and my heart is still quivering to know You were there.

Hafiz Shirazi

“I desire not to desire anyone but You.

Rumi

“My heart is expanding a thousand fold. Every cell, taking wings, flies about the world. All seek separately the many faces of my Beloved.

Rumi

“A lover may hanker after this love or that love, But at the last he is drawn to the King of love.

Rumi

“Your earthly lover can be very charming and coquettish but never very faithful. The true lover is the one who on your final day opens a thousands doors.

Rumi

“Love has come to rule and transform. Stay awake, my heart, stay awake.

Rumi

“You know what love is? It is all kindness, and generosity

Rumi

“Every leaf that grows will tell you…What you sow will bear fruit. So if you have any sense my friend, don’t plant anything but love.

Rumi

“One day your heart will take you to your Lover. One day your soul will carry you to the Beloved. Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.

Rumi

“There’s only one way to win Him, this Beloved of mine - become His.

Rumi

“God Almighty (swt) says: My love is incumbent for those who love each other for Me; who sit together for Me; who visit each other for Me; and who spend on each other for Me.

Mu'adh ibn Jabal

““Do not love this world, Allah would love you and do not have a longing for whatever people have, people would love you”.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“I love you O Lord, for when people's hearts are hard towards me I find you opening your arms so that I may return to you and I hear you promising me with a Paradise that's beyond my dreams and imagination.

Salman al-Ouda

“People wonder what goes wrong after the wedding day. I think its when giving turns to expecting and gratitude turns to entitlement.

Yasmin Mogahed

“When Allah blesses us with someone that we love, we forget that Allah is the source of that blessing, and we begin to love that person as we should love Allah. That person becomes the center of our world—all our concerns, thoughts, plans, fears, and hopes revolve only around them. If they are not our spouses, we are sometimes even willing to fall into haram just to be with them. And if they were to leave us, our whole world would crumble. So now, we have shifted our worship from the Source of the blessing to the blessing itself.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong.

Yasmin Mogahed

“One teardrop that falls from the eye of a believer out of love and fear for Him is better than this world and everything it contains.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“It will keep hurting you, until you let go and there remains nothing in the heart but Him. Once that happens you will no longer love for your own sake. Everything you want, love, or hate will be for, through and by Him.

Yasmin Mogahed

“True or pure love should never contradict or compete with one’s love for Allah. It should strengthen it. That is why true love is only possible within the boundaries of what Allah has made permissible. Outside of that, it is nothing more than hawa, to which we either submit or reject. We are either slaves to Allah, or slaves to our hawa. It cannot be both.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Real love brings about calm—not inner torment. True love allows you to be at peace with yourself and with God. That is why Allah says: “that you may dwell in tranquility.” Hawa is the opposite. Hawa will make you miserable. And just like a drug, you will crave it always, but never be satisfied. You will chase it to your own detriment, but never reach it. And though you submit your whole self to it, it will never bring you happiness.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Real love, as Allah intended it, is not a sickness or an addiction. It is affection and mercy. Allah says in His book: “And of His signs is that He created for you from yourselves mates that you may find tranquility in them; and He placed between you affection and mercy. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought.” (30: 21)

Yasmin Mogahed

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