The Difference Between the Love of Worship and Natural Love
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: How can a person distinguish between the love that is the love of worship, which is prohibited, and the other types of love?
Answer:
Natural love and the love of worship. This is the difference between them. Love is of two types: the love of worship, which is the love of Allah, the love of His Messenger, and the love of obeying Allah and obeying His Messenger. This is the love of worship. As for loving food, loving one’s wife, loving one’s children, and loving wealth, this is natural love. One is not blamed for it unless he prioritizes it over the love of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: How can a person distinguish between the love that is the love of worship, which is prohibited, and the other types of love?
Answer:
Natural love and the love of worship. This is the difference between them. Love is of two types: the love of worship, which is the love of Allah, the love of His Messenger, and the love of obeying Allah and obeying His Messenger. This is the love of worship. As for loving food, loving one’s wife, loving one’s children, and loving wealth, this is natural love. One is not blamed for it unless he prioritizes it over the love of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 72 من 76/شرح فتح المجيد لشرح كتاب التوحيد/اتخاذ الأنداد من دون الله/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة — youtube.com (52:13)
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