Love from Islamic Perspective Through the Horizon of ‘Verses of Love’

Love in Islam is not confined only to individual.   In the context of love in line to the axis of Islam, love and Islam nurture each nature harmoniously, as neither love nor Islam will harm the beauty and purity of each element. Therefore, one should possess thorough conviction on faith, through the behavior of obedience and the act of avoiding from committing prohibited things in order to preserve the betterment of Islam in conjunction with love, as illustrated in ‘Verses of Love’; Fahri felt guilty for been left together with a woman (Maria) in a room (hospital’s cell) as it is forbidden in Islamic Law (Drs. Bambang Udoyono, 2009). As drawn from the conduct, the value of to love and to hate on behalf of no others but Allah S.W.T., ought to be instilled in each of Muslims soul as fact that it is the greatest form of love in which Muslim men and women will find out the sweetness of faith in return. Alongside, love also should be prioritized by its ordinal; the primary essential love and the love which is the most unique and highest of all is the indispensable love for Allah S.W.T., followed by the mutual affection among humans.

In reality, love and knowledge are two different mode, where lies on both no question of predominance of one over the other (Nasim Fatima, 2001). The knowledge of God always engenders love, while love in the other hand clarifies the value of knowledge itself as illustration of the beauty of it. Islam encourages all people to pursue and gather treasure in form of knowledge to a great extent in respond to the religion calls for the urge of searching for knowledge and furthermore, beneficiating the knowledge into practices, for instance, Aisha applied the concept of women in Islam and portrayed the values of Islamic woman through the graceful behaviors and as sure in her manners towards relationship with the opposite gender,   Fahri in the other half, helped Aisha out explaining about the concept of Islamic women to Alicia, a Christian America...