Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 412
✧ The meanings of love
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيُّ، أَخْبَرَنِي الْحَسَنُ بْنُ رَشِيقٍ إِجَازَةً، حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ الْوَرَّاقُ، حدثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْبَغْدَادِيُّ، حدثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْخُوَارِزْمِيُّ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ ذَا النُّونِ، وَسُئِلَ عَنِ الْمَحَبَّةِ
قَالَ: " أَنْ تُحِبَّ مَا أَحَبَّ اللهُ، وَتُبْغِضَ مَا أَبْغَضَ اللهُ، وَتَفْعَلَ الْخَيْرَ لِلَّهِ، وَتَرُفُضَ كُلَّ مَا يَشْغَلُ عَنِ اللهِ، وَأَنْ لَا تَخَافَ فِي اللهِ لَوْمَةَ لَائِمٍ مَعَ الْعَطْفِ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ، وَالْغِلْظَةِ عَلَى الْكَافِرِينَ، وَاتِّبَاعِ سُنَّةِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فِي الدِّينِ "
Translation
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machine translationAbū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī informed us: al-Ḥasan b. Rashīq informed me by license (ijāzah): ʿAlī b. Yaʿqūb b. Suwayd al-Warrāq narrated to us: Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Baghdādī narrated to us: Muḥammad b. Saʿīd al-Khwārizmī narrated to us, he said: I heard Dhū al-Nūn, when he was asked about love.
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He said: "It is that you love what God loves, and hate what God hates, and do good for the sake of God, and abandon everything that distracts from God, and that you not fear in God the blame of any blamer, while being compassionate toward the believers and stern against the disbelievers, and following the Sunnah of the Messenger of God ﷺ in the religion."
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