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What It Means To Love
Movies make falling in love absolutely easy. You see a person, something happens between you two, chemistry is built, and the chemistry lasts a lifetime. Well, we all know movies, sometimes what it creates is a million miles away from reality. Really far away.
Well, do not get me wrong. People develop chemistry all their lives. But to love people goes beyond just having the emotion to love them all the time. Sometimes, you have to love someone even when the feeling of loving them is far gone. At that point, when you truly love someone, when the emotion of love is far gone, then you indeed love the person.
Picture this, if everyone only loves when the emotion of love shows up, then loving one another would not be a big deal. Everyone would be able to do it. The hormones in our body tell us to love, and we simply obey. Loving in that situation is hormonal. Even other animals can get to that quickly.
The real difference is when you love, even when you have no hormones telling you to. You are making a choice to love, and that is the true definition of love. For all types of love that are forever, the condition for love is unconditional. The love Allah has for us is absolute. The love our…
