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Prophet; this love is the gauge of perfection and improvement.Allâhu ta’âlâ created His Prophet as the most beautiful, thebest, the most lovable human being. In him, He accumulatedevery virtue, every kind of beauty and every superiority. All as-Sahâbat al-kirâm loved him. All their hearts burnt with love forhim. It was the sweetest flavor for them to see his moon-likeface and his luminous beauty. They sacrificed their lives andpossessions for their love of him. They loved him more thantheir lives and possessions, briefly, more than all that could beloved. Because they loved him excessively, they loved thosewho loved him. For this reason, they loved one another verymuch, too. They became hostile against those who could notunderstand his superiority or see his beauty and attain thehappiness of loving him. Due to this love for him and for oneanother and their hostility for others, they earned the love andapproval of Allah; they got promoted and became the mostexalted, superior and respected human beings, since the majorworship is to love the dears and dislike the enemies. Those whosay that they love Allâhu ta’âlâ have to be like the Sahâbat alkirâm.One should also love those whom his dear loves, andfeel hostility towards the enemies of his dear. This love andhostility is not a forced desire, but a natural outcome. The loveris somewhat crazy in his love and hostility. For this reason itwas said, ‘Unless a person is said to be crazy, his îmân isnot perfect!’ Those who do not have this craziness aredeprived of loving. Unless there is hostility, there cannot befriendship! In order to be sincere in saying, ‘I love,’ it isnecessary to be hostile against the enemies of the beloved. Ourwords should not be misunderstood! It should not be presumedthat hostility against the Prophet’s companions was for thesame reason!Some people say that, in order to love Hadrat ’Alî (radiy-Allâhu ’anh), it is necessary to bear hostility towards thegreatest ones among the Sahâbat al-kirâm of the Prophet. Thisthought is quite wrong, since hostility should be felt towards theenemies of the beloved so that one may love. Enmity towardshis friends is unnecessary. Allah declares in the sûrat al-Fat’hthat the Sahâbat al-kirâm were rahîm to one another, that is,they loved one another. ‘Rahîm’ means ‘extremely andcontinuously merciful and mutually loving.’ This âyat reports thatthe Sahâbat al-kirâm loved one another very much. In Arabic- 17 -