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on</td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-title-with-pretitle" style="font-size:200%;font-weight:normal;padding-bottom:0.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Theism" title="Theism">Theism</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">Types of faith</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agnosticism" title="Agnosticism">Agnosticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apatheism" title="Apatheism">Apatheism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">Atheism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Classical_theism" title="Classical theism">Classical theism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deism" title="Deism">Deism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henotheism" title="Henotheism">Henotheism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ietsism" title="Ietsism">Ietsism</a></li> <li><a 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complex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/God_gene" title="God gene">God gene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theology" title="Theology">Theology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ontology" title="Ontology">Ontology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Problem_of_evil" title="Problem of evil">Problem of evil</a> (<a href="/wiki/Theodicy" title="Theodicy">theodicy</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">Religion</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_religion" title="Philosophy of religion">philosophy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_text" title="Religious text">texts</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portrayals_of_God_in_popular_media" title="Portrayals of God in popular media">Portrayals of God in popular media</a></li> <li><i><span class="nowrap"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:P_religion_world.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/P_religion_world.svg/16px-P_religion_world.svg.png" 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href="/wiki/Template_talk:God_sidebar" title="Template talk:God sidebar"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:God_sidebar" title="Special:EditPage/Template:God sidebar"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Love of God</b> can mean either love for <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> or love by God. Love for God (<i>philotheia</i>) is associated with the concepts of <a href="/wiki/Worship" title="Worship">worship</a>, and devotions towards God.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> term <i>theophilia</i> means the love or favour of God,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>theophilos</i> means friend of God, originally in the sense of being loved by God or loved by the gods;<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but is today sometimes understood in the sense of showing love for God.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Greek term <i>agape</i> is applied both to the love that human beings have for God and to the love that God has for them.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Baháʼí_Faith"><span id="Bah.C3.A1.CA.BC.C3.AD_Faith"></span>Baháʼí Faith</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love_of_God&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Baháʼí Faith"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The teachings of the <a href="/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_Faith" title="Baháʼí Faith">Baháʼí Faith</a> hold that the love of God (<i>philanthropia</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-PSEncyclo2000IA_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PSEncyclo2000IA-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/%CA%BBAbdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1" title="ʻAbdu'l-Bahá">ʻAbdu'l-Bahá</a>, the son of the founder of the religion wrote: "There is nothing greater or more blessed than the <i>Love of God</i>! It gives healing to the sick, balm to the wounded, joy and consolation to the whole world, and through it alone can man attain Life Everlasting. The essence of all religions is the Love of God, and it is the foundation of all the sacred teachings."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Christianity">Christianity</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love_of_God&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Christianity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Love_of_God_in_Christianity" title="Love of God in Christianity">Love of God in Christianity</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Love_of_Christ" title="Love of Christ">Love of Christ</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a> uses a rich vocabulary to express the love of God, as a concept that appears in many instances.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Lord expresses his love through the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah and says, "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving kindness" (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jer31%3A3">Jeremiah 31:2</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-WELS-OT-NT_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WELS-OT-NT-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the <a href="/wiki/Exegesis" title="Exegesis">exegesis</a> of the love of God in the Old Testament has presented problems for modern scholars.<sup id="cite_ref-Erhard_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Erhard-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The love of God appears in a number of texts (e.g. Hosea 1–3, and then in Ezek 16 and Isa 62) but resolving the references to produce a consistent interpretation has been challenging and subject to debate.<sup id="cite_ref-Erhard_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Erhard-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Emeritus Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 'The Difficult Doctrine of Love<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="incomplete reference-author not named (October 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>, says both the love of God and the wrath of God are ratcheted up in the New Testament over the Old. Also the concluding verses of several epistles emphasis love (<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(American_Standard)/1_Cor#16:22" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Bible (American Standard)/1 Cor">1 Corinthians 16:22</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(American_Standard)/Ephesians#6:24" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Bible (American Standard)/Ephesians">Ephesians 6:24</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(American_Standard)/1/2_Thess#3:5" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Bible (American Standard)/1/2 Thess">2 Thess 3:5</a>). </p><p>Many of the most stunning promises in the Bible are for those who love God, notably <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(American_Standard)/Romans#8:28" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Bible (American Standard)/Romans">Romans 8:28</a> (all things working for good for those who love God) and <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(American_Standard)/Deut#7:9" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Bible (American Standard)/Deut">Deuteronomy 7:9</a> part of the prelude to the 10 commandments (those loving God being blessed to a thousands generations, where many of the worst curses in the Old Testament where curses went to 4 or 10 generations). Jonathan Edwards said his chief obligation was to raise the affections of his congregation as high as he could toward God in volume 4 of the Yale edition of his works, entitled “The Great Awakening.”<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Both the terms love of God and <a href="/wiki/Love_of_Christ" title="Love of Christ">love of Christ</a> appear in the <a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a>. In cases such as in Romans 8:35 and <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(American_Standard)/Romans#8:39" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Bible (American Standard)/Romans">Romans 8:39</a> their use is related in the experience of the believer, without asserting their equality.<sup id="cite_ref-Moo_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moo-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(American_Standard)/John#14:31" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Bible (American Standard)/John">John 14:31</a> Jesus expresses his love for <a href="/wiki/God_the_Father" title="God the Father">God the Father</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Lamar192_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lamar192-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This verse includes the only direct statement by Jesus in the New Testament about Jesus' love for God the Father.<sup id="cite_ref-Lamar192_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lamar192-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Greek_polytheism">Greek polytheism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love_of_God&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Greek polytheism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Polytheism" title="Polytheism">polytheism</a>, that which is loved by the gods (τὸ θεοφιλές) was identified as the <a href="/wiki/Virtue" title="Virtue">virtuous</a> or <a href="/wiki/Pietas" title="Pietas">pious</a>. <a href="/wiki/Socrates" title="Socrates">Socrates</a> famously asked whether this identification is a <a href="/wiki/Tautology_(logic)" title="Tautology (logic)">tautology</a> (see <i><a href="/wiki/Euthyphro_dilemma" title="Euthyphro dilemma">Euthyphro dilemma</a></i>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id=""Philotheos"_and_"theophilos""><span id=".22Philotheos.22_and_.22theophilos.22"></span>"Philotheos" and "theophilos"</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love_of_God&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: "Philotheos" and "theophilos""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%23111163">philotheos</a></i> means "loving God, pious", as <i><a href="/wiki/Philosopher" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosopher">philosophos</a></i> means a lover of wisdom (<i>sophia</i>). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=2%20Timothy%203:4&version=nrsv">2 Timothy 3:4</a>, using the word <i>philotheos</i> in the plural form, speaks of certain people as φιλήδονοι μᾶλλον ἢ φιλόθεοι (lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God). The word <i><a href="/wiki/Theophilus_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Theophilus (disambiguation)">Theophilos</a></i> was and is used as a proper name, but does not appear as an adjective or common noun in Greek,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which uses instead the form <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2348342">theophilês</a>,</i> which means "dear to God" but also "loving God". </p><p>However, <a href="/wiki/Eric_Voegelin" title="Eric Voegelin">Eric Voegelin</a> used <i>theophilos</i> to mean "lover of God": "In the <i><a href="/wiki/Phaedrus_(dialogue)" title="Phaedrus (dialogue)">Phaedrus</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a> has <a href="/wiki/Socrates" title="Socrates">Socrates</a> describe the characteristics of the true thinker. When Phaedrus asks what one should call such a man, Socrates, following <a href="/wiki/Heraclitus" title="Heraclitus">Heraclitus</a>, replies that the term <i>sophos</i>, one who knows, would be excessive: this attribute may be applied to God alone: but one might well call him <i><a href="/wiki/Philosopher" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosopher">philosophos</a></i>, a lover of wisdom. Thus in the classic sense and reference of 'philosophy', actual knowledge is reserved to God; finite man can only be the lover of knowledge, not himself the one who possesses knowledge. In the meaning of the passage, the lover of the knowledge that belongs only to the knowing God, the <i>philosophos</i>, becomes the <i>theophilos</i>, the lover of God."<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hinduism">Hinduism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love_of_God&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Hinduism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Love_of_God" title="Special:EditPage/Love of God">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">September 2021</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Bhakti" title="Bhakti">Bhakti</a></i> is a Sanskrit term meaning "loving devotion to the supreme God". A person who practices bhakti is called a bhakta. Hindu writers, theologians, and philosophers have distinguished nine forms of bhakti, which can be found in the Bhagavata Purana and works by Tulsidas. The philosophical work Narada Bhakti Sutras, written by an unknown author (presumed to be <a href="/wiki/Narada" title="Narada">Narada</a>), distinguishes eleven forms of love. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bhakti_movements">Bhakti movements</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love_of_God&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Bhakti movements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Bhakti_yoga" title="Bhakti yoga">Bhakti yoga</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Svayam_Bhagavan" title="Svayam Bhagavan">Svayam Bhagavan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Krishnaism" title="Krishnaism">Krishnaism</a></div> <p>Devotees of <a href="/wiki/Krishna" title="Krishna">Krishna</a> worship him in different emotional, transcendental raptures, known as <i><a href="/wiki/Rasa_(theology)" title="Rasa (theology)">rasas</a></i>. Two major systems of Krishna worship developed, each with its own philosophical system. These two systems are <i>aishwaryamaya bhakti</i> and <i>madhuryamaya bhakti</i>. <i>Aishwaryamaya bhakti</i> is revealed in the abode of queens and kingdom of Krishna in <a href="/wiki/Dv%C4%81rak%C4%81" title="Dvārakā">Dwaraka</a>. <i>Madhuryamaya Bhakti</i> is revealed in the abode of <i><a href="/wiki/Braja" class="mw-redirect" title="Braja">Braja</a></i>. Thus Krishna is variously worshipped according to the development of devotee's taste in worshipping the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krishna, as father, friend, master, beloved and many different varieties which are all extraordinary. Krishna is famous as <i>Makhanchor</i>, or butter thief. He loved to eat butter and is the beloved of his little village in <a href="/wiki/Gokul" title="Gokul">Gokul</a>. These are all transcendental descriptions. Thus they are revealed to the sincere devotees in proportion to the development in their love of Godhead. <a href="/wiki/Vaishnavism" title="Vaishnavism">Vaishnavism</a> is a form of <a href="/wiki/Monotheism" title="Monotheism">monotheism</a>, sometimes described as '<a href="/w/index.php?title=Polymorphic_monotheism&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Polymorphic monotheism (page does not exist)">polymorphic monotheism</a>', with implication that there are many forms of one original deity, defined as belief in a single unitary deity who takes many forms. In Krishnaism this deity is Krishna, sometimes referred as intimate deity – as compared with the numerous four-armed forms of <a href="/wiki/Narayana" title="Narayana">Narayana</a> or <a href="/wiki/Vishnu" title="Vishnu">Vishnu</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It may refer to either of the interrelated concepts of the love of God towards creation, the love of creatures towards God or relationship between the two as in <a href="/wiki/Bhakti" title="Bhakti">bhakti</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Islam">Islam</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love_of_God&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Islam"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The love of God, and the <a href="/wiki/Fear_of_God_(religion)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fear of God (religion)">fear of God</a>, are two of the foundations of <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>. The highest spiritual attainment in Islam is related to the love of God. "Yet there are men who take (for worship) others besides God, as equal (with God): They love them as they should love God. But those of Faith are overflowing in their love for God." (Quran 2:165). Another Islamic concept is that God's love leads towards good deeds "And feed with food the needy, the orphan and the prisoner, for love of Him (i.e. God)." </p><p>Islam, as Christianity, has numerous <a href="/wiki/Mysticism" title="Mysticism">mystics</a> and traditions about the love of God, as in: </p> <dl><dd>"O lovers! The religion of the love of God is not found in Islam alone.</dd> <dd>In the realm of love, there is neither belief, nor unbelief." (<a href="/wiki/Rumi" title="Rumi">Rumi</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>The concept of Divine Love, known as <i>Ishq-e-Haqeeqi</i> (<a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>), is elaborated by many great Muslim saints to date. Some Sufi writers and poets may have taken human love as a metaphor to define Divine Love but the prominent mystics explain the concept in its entirety and reveal its hardcore reality. <a href="/wiki/Rabia_Basri" title="Rabia Basri">Rabia Basri</a>, the famous 7th century mystic, is known as the first female to have set the doctrine of Divine Love.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Islamic <a href="/wiki/Sufism" title="Sufism">Sufism</a>, Ishq means to love God selflessly and unconditionally. For <a href="/wiki/Rumi" title="Rumi">Rumi</a>, 'Sufism' itself is Ishq and not the path of <a href="/wiki/Asceticism" title="Asceticism">asceticism</a> (zuhd).<sup id="cite_ref-Sufism_is_Ishq._23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sufism_is_Ishq.-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Sultan_Bahoo" class="mw-redirect" title="Sultan Bahoo">Sultan Bahoo</a>, Ishq means to serve God by devoting one's entire life to Him and asking no reward in return. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Judaism">Judaism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love_of_God&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Judaism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Jewish_views_on_love#Love_between_God_and_human_beings" title="Jewish views on love">Jewish views on love § Love between God and human beings</a></div> <p>The love of God has been called the "essence of <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a>". "And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might." (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Deuteronomy%206:5&version=nrsv">Deut 6:5</a>) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other">Other</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love_of_God&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Other"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Goethe" class="mw-redirect" title="Goethe">Goethe</a> expresses the sentiment of love of God alongside the opposite sentiment of <a href="/wiki/Hatred_of_God" class="mw-redirect" title="Hatred of God">hatred of God</a> in his two poems <a href="/wiki/Ganymed_(Goethe)" title="Ganymed (Goethe)">Ganymed</a> and <a href="/wiki/Prometheus_(Goethe)" title="Prometheus (Goethe)">Prometheus</a>, respectively. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love_of_God&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1246091330"><table class="sidebar sidebar-collapse nomobile nowraplinks plainlist"><tbody><tr><td class="sidebar-pretitle">Part of <a href="/wiki/Category:Love" title="Category:Love">a series</a> on</td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-title-with-pretitle" style="font-size:175%;padding:0 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">Love</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image" style="padding:0 0 1.0em;"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Heart_icon_red_hollow.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Red-outline heart icon"><img alt="Red-outline heart icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Heart_icon_red_hollow.svg/45px-Heart_icon_red_hollow.svg.png" decoding="async" width="45" height="43" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Heart_icon_red_hollow.svg/68px-Heart_icon_red_hollow.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Heart_icon_red_hollow.svg/90px-Heart_icon_red_hollow.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="497" data-file-height="470" /></a><figcaption>Red-outline heart icon</figcaption></figure></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;background:none;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">Types of love</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Affection" title="Affection">Affection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_bonding" title="Human bonding">Bonding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broken_heart" title="Broken heart">Broken heart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Compassionate_love" title="Compassionate love">Compassionate love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conjugal_love" title="Conjugal love">Conjugal love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Courtly_love" title="Courtly love">Courtly love</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Courtship" title="Courtship">courtship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Troubadour" title="Troubadour">troubadours</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falling_in_love" title="Falling in love">Falling in love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friendship" title="Friendship">Friendship</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cross-sex_friendship" title="Cross-sex friendship">cross-sex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romantic_friendship" title="Romantic friendship">romantic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friend_zone" title="Friend zone">zone</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interpersonal_attraction" title="Interpersonal attraction">Interpersonal attraction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interpersonal_relationship" title="Interpersonal relationship">Interpersonal relationship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intimate_relationship" title="Intimate relationship">Intimacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Limerence" title="Limerence">Limerence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love_addiction" title="Love addiction">Love addiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love_at_first_sight" title="Love at first sight">Love at first sight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love_triangle" title="Love triangle">Love triangle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lovesickness" title="Lovesickness">Lovesickness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lovestruck" title="Lovestruck">Lovestruck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Passion_(emotion)" title="Passion (emotion)">Passion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Passionate_and_companionate_love" title="Passionate and companionate love">Passionate and companionate love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Platonic_love" title="Platonic love">Platonic love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puppy_love" title="Puppy love">Puppy love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queerplatonic_relationship" title="Queerplatonic relationship">Queerplatonic relationship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romance_(love)" title="Romance (love)">Romance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Self-love" title="Self-love">Self-love</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Amour_de_soi" title="Amour de soi">Amour de soi</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unconditional_love" title="Unconditional love">Unconditional love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unrequited_love" title="Unrequited love">Unrequited love</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;background:none;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">Social views</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anarchism_and_issues_related_to_love_and_sex" title="Anarchism and issues related to love and sex">Anarchist</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Free_love" title="Free love">Free love</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patriotism" title="Patriotism">Patriotism</a></li> <li>Chinese <ul><li><span title="Chinese-language text"><i lang="zh"><a href="/wiki/Ren_(Confucianism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ren (Confucianism)">Ren</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Chinese-language text"><i lang="zh"><a href="/wiki/Yuanfen" title="Yuanfen">Yuanfen</a></i></span></li></ul></li> <li>French <ul><li><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Amour-propre" title="Amour-propre">Amour-propre</a></i></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_love" title="Greek love">Greek</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greek_words_for_love" title="Greek words for love">words for love</a></li> <li><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/Agape" title="Agape">Agape</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/Eros_(concept)" title="Eros (concept)">Eros</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/Color_wheel_theory_of_love#Ludus" class="mw-redirect" title="Color wheel theory of love">Ludus</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/Color_wheel_theory_of_love#Mania" class="mw-redirect" title="Color wheel theory of love">Mania</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/Self-love" title="Self-love">Philautia</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/Philia" title="Philia">Philia</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/Trust_(social_science)" title="Trust (social science)">Philos</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/Color_wheel_theory_of_love#Pragma" class="mw-redirect" title="Color wheel theory of love">Pragma</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/Storge" title="Storge">Storgḗ</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/Xenia_(Greek)" title="Xenia (Greek)">Xenia</a></i></span></li></ul></li> <li>Indian <ul><li><span title="Sanskrit-language text"><i lang="sa"><a href="/wiki/Kama" title="Kama">Kama</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Sanskrit-language text"><i lang="sa"><a href="/wiki/Bhakti" title="Bhakti">Bhakti</a></i></span></li> <li><span 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title="Mamihlapinatapai">Mamihlapinatapai</a></i></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;background:none;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">Concepts</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Color_wheel_theory_of_love" class="mw-redirect" title="Color wheel theory of love">Color wheel theory of love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhakti_yoga" title="Bhakti yoga">Bhakti yoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biology_of_romantic_love" title="Biology of romantic love">Biology of romantic love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love_letter" title="Love letter">Love letter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love_of_Christ" title="Love of Christ">Love of Christ</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Love of God</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Love_of_God_in_Christianity" title="Love of God in 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Hatcher">Hatcher, William S.</a>; Martin, J Douglas (1989). <span class="id-lock-limited" title="Free access subject to limited trial, subscription normally required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bahfaithemer00hatc/page/100">"God, His Manifestations, and Man"</a></span>. <i>The Baháʼí Faith: The Emerging Global Religion</i>. <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>: <a href="/wiki/Harper_(publisher)#Harper_&_Row_(1962–1990)" title="Harper (publisher)">Harper & Row</a>. pp. 100–101. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-06-065441-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-06-065441-4"><bdi>0-06-065441-4</bdi></a> – via <a href="/wiki/Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=God%2C+His+Manifestations%2C+and+Man&rft.btitle=The+Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD+Faith%3A+The+Emerging+Global+Religion&rft.place=New+York+City&rft.pages=100-101&rft.pub=Harper+%26+Row&rft.date=1989&rft.isbn=0-06-065441-4&rft.aulast=Hatcher&rft.aufirst=William+S.&rft.au=Martin%2C+J+Douglas&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fbahfaithemer00hatc%2Fpage%2F100&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove+of+God" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFʻAbdu'l-Bahá1912" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/%CA%BBAbdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1" title="ʻAbdu'l-Bahá">ʻAbdu'l-Bahá</a> (1912). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/PT/"><i>Paris Talks</i></a>. Baháʼí Distribution Service (published 1995). pp. 82–83. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-870989-57-0" title="Special:BookSources/1-870989-57-0"><bdi>1-870989-57-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Paris+Talks&rft.pages=82-83&rft.pub=Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD+Distribution+Service&rft.date=1912&rft.isbn=1-870989-57-0&rft.au=%CA%BBAbdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Freference.bahai.org%2Fen%2Ft%2Fab%2FPT%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove+of+God" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Theology of the Old Testament, Volume One by Walther Eichrodt 1961 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-664-22308-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-664-22308-7">0-664-22308-7</a> pages 250–251</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-WELS-OT-NT-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-WELS-OT-NT_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20080102075112/https://www.wels.net/cgi-bin/site.pl?1518&cuTopic_topicID=40&cuItem_itemID=1380">"God in Old Testament / God in New Testament"</a>. <i>WELS Topical Q&A</i>. Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wels.net/cgi-bin/site.pl?1518&cuTopic_topicID=40&cuItem_itemID=1380">the original</a> on 2 January 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">29 Jan</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=WELS+Topical+Q%26A&rft.atitle=God+in+Old+Testament+%2F+God+in+New+Testament&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wels.net%2Fcgi-bin%2Fsite.pl%3F1518%26cuTopic_topicID%3D40%26cuItem_itemID%3D1380&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove+of+God" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Erhard-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Erhard_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Erhard_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Theologies in the Old Testament</i> by Erhard Gerstenberger 2007 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-567-08812-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-567-08812-X">0-567-08812-X</a> page 87</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://byfaithweunderstand.com/2010/09/09/edwards-quote-success/">"Edwards Quote Success! | by Faith We Understand"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Edwards+Quote+Success%21+%26%23124%3B+by+Faith+We+Understand&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbyfaithweunderstand.com%2F2010%2F09%2F09%2Fedwards-quote-success%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove+of+God" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Moo-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Moo_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Epistle to the Romans</i> by Douglas J. Moo 1996 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8028-2317-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-8028-2317-3">0-8028-2317-3</a> page 547</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Lamar192-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Lamar192_17-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Lamar192_17-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Preaching the Gospel of John: proclaiming the living Word</i> by Lamar Williamson 2004 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-664-22533-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-664-22533-0">0-664-22533-0</a> page 192</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The word does not appear in the great <a href="/wiki/Liddell_and_Scott" class="mw-redirect" title="Liddell and Scott">Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek-English Lexicon</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Eric Voegelin, <i>Science, Politics, and Gnosticism (ISI Books <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-932236-48-1" title="Special:BookSources/1-932236-48-1">1-932236-48-1</a>), p. 41</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Scheweig, (2004) pp. 13–17</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rumi's Quatrain no. 768, translated by Gamard & Farhadi. Versions of this quatrain have been made by Shahram Shiva, "Hush: Don't Tell God", p. 17 and by Azima Kolin (based on Mafi), "Rumi: Whispers of the Beloved", p. 71. [`âshiq to yaqîn dân, ke musulmân na-bûd dar maZhab-é `ishq, kufr-o îmân na-bûd]</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRegunathan2010" class="citation web cs1">Regunathan, Sudhamahi (29 Nov 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newageislam.com/islam-and-spiritualism/rabia-basri-and-her-divine-love/d/3743">"Rabia Basri and her Divine Love"</a>. <i>New Age Islam</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=New+Age+Islam&rft.atitle=Rabia+Basri+and+her+Divine+Love&rft.date=2010-11-29&rft.aulast=Regunathan&rft.aufirst=Sudhamahi&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newageislam.com%2Fislam-and-spiritualism%2Frabia-basri-and-her-divine-love%2Fd%2F3743&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove+of+God" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Sufism_is_Ishq.-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Sufism_is_Ishq._23-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSeyed_Ghahreman_Safavi,_Simon_Weightman2009" class="citation book cs1">Seyed Ghahreman Safavi, Simon Weightman (October 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=tEPXmDAqW_sC&q=ishq+e+haqeeqi&pg=PA75"><i>Rumi's Mystical Design: Reading the Mathnawi Book One</i></a>. SUNY Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-438-42796-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-438-42796-6"><bdi>978-1-438-42796-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rumi%27s+Mystical+Design%3A+Reading+the+Mathnawi+Book+One&rft.pub=SUNY+Press&rft.date=2009-10&rft.isbn=978-1-438-42796-6&rft.au=Seyed+Ghahreman+Safavi%2C+Simon+Weightman&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DtEPXmDAqW_sC%26q%3Dishq%2Be%2Bhaqeeqi%26pg%3DPA75&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove+of+God" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love_of_God&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNathan,_Maungo1898" class="citation book cs1">Nathan, Maungo (1898). <i>Krishna and Krishnaism</i>. 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(2005). <i>Dance of divine love: The Rasa Lila of Krishna from the Bhagavata Purana, India's classic sacred love story</i>. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ; Oxford. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-691-11446-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-691-11446-3">0-691-11446-3</a>.</li> <li>HAWLEY, John Stratton: <i>Three Bhakti Voices. Mirabai, Surdas, and Kabir in Their Time and Ours</i>. 2nd impression. 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