Love of God

LOVE OF GOD The Quran says: “Remembrance of God gives one’s heart peace of mind”. (13:28) This means that it is only the love of God which can give man peace of mind in the real sense. The strongest human feeling or emotion is that of love. When man makes something his foremost concern, it naturally happens that a feeling of love becomes associated with that thing. In religious terminology, this is called “deification”. The thing one loves the most is one’s deity or the object of one’s worship, whether or not one utters this word. Faith in God is for man to discover God to the extent of loving Him more than anything else. The Quran says that “those who believe love God most.” (2:165) This means that one who loves God the most has made God his object of worship. Genuine love for God will find expression in many ways. Even uttering such words as praise, thanksgiving, and remembrance, as we find in the Quran, also