This document discusses the Islamic concept of love, defining four types of love in Islam: love of Allah, love of the Prophet Muhammad, human love, and spousal love. It focuses on the importance of love of Allah and love of creation. Loving Allah leads to avoiding sins and contemplating nature, while love of creation can misguide people into seeking love, respect, and happiness from the physical world rather than from God. True and lasting love comes from directing one's focus and efforts towards the Creator rather than the creation.

1. In The Name OF Allah, The
Most Merciful & Beneficent

2. Final Project
Oral Communication

3. Group
Members
Ayesha
Shoukat
Sadia Nasir

5. Definition : LoveDefinition : Love
Love is
basically a
“Strong
feeling of

6. As everyone’s way of perceiving & viewing
of life is different so in the same way
everyone’s definition of “Love” is different too.
So, lets see what other definitions of Love
are :
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere they’re
in each other all along. ~ Rumi
Love is the beauty of the soul. ~ Saint
Augustine

7. Love is patient, Love is kind. It does not envy,
it does not boost, it is not proud. It is not rude, it
is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it
keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not
delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It
always hopes, always perseveres. ~ The Bible
Prayer is…Love’s tender dialogue. Between
the soul and God. ~ John Richard Moreland

8. The best way to know God is to love many
things. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Love is an untamed force. When we try to
control it, it destroys us. When we try to
imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to
understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and
confused. ~ Paul Coelho
True love allows you to be at peace with
yourself and with God. That is why Allah says :
“that you may dwell in tranquility.” ~ Yasmin

9. There are basically four types of Love in Islam :-
Love of Allah (SWT)
Love of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Human Love
Spousal Love

10. Love of Allah (SWT)
This love leads you to avoid committing sins &
also urges you to contemplate all the different
aspects of nature that usually leads you to have a
deeper faith in the Creator who created all this
beauty around us.
Love of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
This love leads you to follow the example of
Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa (PBUH) in all dealings
& manners of life and this love is also an indication
of the love of Allah (SWT).

11. Human Love
This love means that Muslim has to help other
fellow men regardless of ethnic, linguistic, or
cultural background. This includes love of
neighbors, colleagues, relatives & even strangers.
It also persuades the Muslim to help anybody
whenever he/she can.
Spousal Love
This love leads the couple to have a peaceful &
happy family life, which is the core of the Muslim
society.

12. So, the main focus is on two major kinds of
love:
Love of Creation
Love of Creator

13. Love of Creation

14. We’re spending our lives running after the
creation, because we’re needy of friends &
people all the time.
But at the heart of what really makes us run
after the creation is love.
Need to give & receive love has been
created as a “driver” by the Creator of this
universe. And every need created by God, has
been created for a purpose.

15. Driver pushes us back to God. As you see,
We began with God, and God wants us to
come back to Him in this life even before we
come back to Him in the next.
Driver – Created by God. But it takes us
towards the creation because we seek it in
wrong way and that’s where we get lost.

16. Why do we run after other people ?
Why do we run after the money ?
Why do we run after the status or power ?
We run after these things because we want
love & respect. And we believe that by
attaining these things, we’ll succeed at getting

17. Human being is hasty, We prefer….
Immediate over delayed
Seen over unseen
Physical over spiritual
We do this because human being is needy &
dependent, Human being is also impatient &
weak. We go for what seems closest, easiest,
quickest.

18. See, we think that the more we run after this world
(Duniya), the more we run after the love of people,
wealth, beauty, and status – the more we’ll have it.
More we drown in this false equation, the more we fail
at reaching our goal, and the more we miss the true but
simple equation of life & love.
More intensely we want the creation itself, the less
likely we are to attain it. If it is love you need, and you
seek it from the creation, you’ll never “truly” get it or get
enough. Anything of the creation sought for its own sake
will evade you. And will never fill you.

19. Love of Allah
(SWT)

20. I’ll explain by an example – Happiness. The
more we run after it, the more it evades us.
BUT
If we run to God instead, then…
Happiness will run after you
True success will run after you (Life + Hereafter)
Provision will run after you
“This is the secret formula for which tyrants have
burned down cities, and kings have searched the
world – but never found.”

21. In a profound hadith (Prophetic teaching), a
man came to the Prophet (PBUH) and said :-
“O Messenger of God, direct me to an act,
which if I do, God will love me and people will
love me.”
He said: “Detach yourself from the world, and
God will love you. Detach yourself from what is
with the people, and the people will love you.”

22. Run towards the Creation, you lose both God &
Creation. But if you run towards the God, you gain
both God & Creation.
He’s (Al-Wadud-Sources of Love) Love comes
from God…Not from people.
When you fill yourself with the Source of love
(Al Wadud), you become a magnet for love.
NOTE :-
We all are running. But few of us are running in the
right direction. We have the same goal. But to get
there, we need to stop. And examine if we’re
running towards the Source or just a reflection.
Conclusion

23. Thank You