Introducing Islam a Simple Introduction to Islam
Love for God
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LOVE FOR GOD
In the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the
alternation of night and day; in the ships that sail
the ocean with cargoes beneficial to men; in the
water which God sends down from the sky and
with which He revives the dead earth after its
death, dispersing over it all kinds of beasts; in the
swirling of the winds and in the clouds that are
driven between earth and sky; surely in this there
are signs for people who understand. Yet there are
some people who choose from other beings besides
God, as rivals to God, loving them as God alone
should be loved—whereas those who believe love
God more than all else. If the evildoers could only
see, when they behold the doom, that power lies
with God alone and that God is severe in
punishment. When those who were followed
disown their followers and they behold the doom,
and their cords are cut asunder, those who followed
will say, “If only a return were possible for us, we
would disown them, as they have disowned us.”
Thus God will show them their own work as
anguish for them. They shall never emerge from the
Fire. Mankind, eat of what is in the earth lawful and
