Sunday, February 17, 2008
Love According to Al Quran
at 10:48 PM
Love According to Al QuranAccording to Al Quran, human is created by Allah SWT in a pair—a man and a woman, and they are bestowed with love and affection, and it is natural that human wants to love and to be loved. If the necessity of love is fulfilled in a correct way, then it will make a man or woman feel peaceful, tranquil, and happy; on the contrary, a love not following correct procedures will cause misery.
In Al Quran, love feeling between man and a woman is called “mawaddah”, “rahmah”, (Q: 30:31) “syaghafa”,(Q: 12:30) “mail” (Q: 4:129), and “hubb-mahabbah” (Q: 12:30). Those different terms indicate that love is delicate, deep, and has various forms. Love indeed has very broad and deep dimensions in which different characteristics of love will lead to different behaviours.
In Arabic, love itself is mentioned in three characteristics, (1) appreciative (ta’dzim), (2) attentive (ihtamaman), and (3) love (mahabbah). In the first, the beloved one has the position like that of tiger or sword (things that we afraid of but at the same time we admire). In the second, the beloved one is like a disaster we should wary of. In the third, the beloved ones is like a liquor (the thing we are addicted to)
The three groups of characteristics are united in the term “mahabbbah”. The person is called habib, habibah, or mahbuh. Specifically, Arabic mentions 60 kinds of love such as isyqun (or “asyik” in Indonesian), hilm, gharam (passionate love), wajd, syauq, and lahf. Al Quran, however, mentions only 6 terms.
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