Achieving the Love of Allah by Fulfilling Obligations and Abandoning Prohibitions

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: If I fulfill the obligatory acts of the Shari'ah and abandon the forbidden acts, have I achieved the love of Allah, or is love a matter of the heart, like passion?

Answer:
Love increases and decreases, it increases and decreases. The one who fulfills the obligatory duties and avoids the forbidden, and limits himself to this, is called the moderate one; he is moderate. The one who fulfills the obligatory and the recommended, and avoids the forbidden and the disliked, is higher than him. This is the sinner, , the one who races ahead, the forerunners, , yes.
So the believers are on three levels: one who is unjust to himself, one who is moderate, and one who races ahead in good deeds, as in the verse , meaning the Qur'an, and of our servants, meaning this praised community, some are unjust to themselves, and that is the sinner whose sin is less than shirk (associating partners with Allah); this is the one who is unjust to himself. And some are moderate, and that is the one who has no sins but he limited himself to the obligatory and left only the forbidden; this is the moderate one. And the one who races ahead in good deeds is the highest of the levels, and we ask Allah of His bounty. Yes.