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A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.

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Singling out Allah with complete love.

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Since singling out Allah in worship is the obligatory monotheism (Tawhid),

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and love is the essence of worship,

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it is therefore mandatory to single out Allah the Exalted with love.

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This means that all love should be for the sake of Allah,

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and one should not love anyone alongside Him.

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Rather, one should only love for His sake and in accordance with His pleasure.

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Just as one loves His prophets and messengers,

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His angels, and His close servants (awliya'),

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and so on.

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Loving them is part of the perfection of loving Allah,

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and it is not love alongside Him.

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Allah has made the sincerity of love for Him

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a criterion distinguishing between the believers and the disbelievers.

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Whoever associates others with Allah in love and treats them as His equal,

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is a polytheist who has taken, besides Allah, an equal to be worshipped.

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As the Exalted says:

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“Yet of mankind are some who take unto themselves (objects of worship which they set as) rivals to Allah, loving them with a love like (that which is the due) of Allah (only) - those who believe are stauncher in their love for Allah - Oh, that those who do evil had but known, (on the day) when they behold the doom, that power belongeth wholly to Allah, and that Allah is severe in punishment!” (2:165)

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“Yet of mankind are some who take unto themselves (objects of worship which they set as) rivals to Allah, loving them with a love like (that which is the due) of Allah (only) - those who believe are stauncher in their love for Allah - Oh, that those who do evil had but known, (on the day) when they behold the doom, that power belongeth wholly to Allah, and that Allah is severe in punishment!” (2:165)

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This polytheistic equality in love

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is also what is intended by Allah’s account of what the people of the Fire will say to their deities:

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“By Allah, of a truth we were in error manifest” (26:97)

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"Indeed, we were in manifest error when we equated you with the Lord of the worlds."

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It is not permissible to equate the love of anyone with the love of Allah,

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let alone for it to exceed it.

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The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:

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"There are three qualities which, if found in anyone, will allow him to taste the sweetness of faith:

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that Allah and His Messenger are more beloved to him than anyone else,

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that he loves a person only for the sake of Allah,

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and that he hates to return to disbelief after Allah has saved him from it,

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just as he would hate to be cast into the Fire."

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Agreed upon.

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A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.