What is true love?

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walaikum assalam,

I do not believe that true love can exist in this world except for Allah (swt) and for one's parents.
The love for wife can be replaced. Its not unique to one wife. One man can love two wives. It might be a true love for one's wife but its not something similar to the love which one develops for Allah (swt) who is one and parents who are also one! You have only One Allah, You have only a one set of parents ... but you can have new wives, whether during the life of first wife or after her death.

Same can be said from a wife's perspective. If her husband dies, she might marry a new guy. Actually very few people dont re-marry after the death of their spouses. Its perfectly fine with Islam to remarry after spouse's death. but you cant do that with parents eh! Whether they die, you cant replace them. Thats why i call love for parents "true love."
 
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Someone on this same forum posted this, I can remember who or when, (if that person recognizes themselves please refresh my memory :) ) I found it quite beautiful;

Ibn Hazm put it beautifully:

If the cause of Love were physical beauty, the consequence would be that no body defective in any shape or form would attract admiration; yet we know of many a man actually preferring the inferior article, though well aware that another is superior, and quite unable to turn his heart away from it. Again, if Love were due to a harmony of characters, no man would love a person who was not of like purpose and in concord with him. We therefore conclude that Love is something within the soul itself. Sometimes, it is true, Love comes as a result of a definite cause outside the soul, but then it passes away when the cause itself disappears: one who is fond of you because of a certain circumstance will turn his back on you when that motive no longer exists.
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I don't really believe in love between two people. You may be infatuated with someone, but that usually fades. Only after enduring hardships and joys and having that person constantly by your side can you claim to love them, but I find nowadays even that is hard to find.
 
syilla said:
well okay...how about two mothers and two fathers.
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how is that possible? I cant love any human more than the body and the vessel (my biological mother) from whom I emerged into this world even if she tortured me. So the question of guardian mother does not even arise.
 
Wa7abiScientist said:
how is that possible? I cant love any human more than the body and the vessel (my biological mother) from whom I emerged into this world even if she tortured me. So the question of guardian mother does not even arise.
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I'm not talking about you...lol I mean what if others who have two mothers and two fathers. Probably because the mother or father married another. Maybe because one of the parents has died.
 
True love will be experienced if we ever finally get to be in the prescence of Muhammad (pbuh) or those shining souls who will be judged worthy enough togaze upon the countenance of Allah
 
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