{"id":2621,"date":"2014-05-31T07:27:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T11:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2014-05-31T07:27:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T11:27:02","slug":"worship-combination-love-obedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=2621","title":{"rendered":"Worship is a combination of love and obedience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When a person submits to another even though he dislikes him, this is not worship or enslavement; when he loves someone but is not subservient to him, as a man might love his child or his friend, this is not worship. Either of them alone is not enought when it comes to worshipping Allah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Love for anything else than Allah is corrupt love, and veneration for anything except Allah is false veneration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Allah must be dearer than anything else to the slave; Allah must be more important than all else. And nothing is deserving of complete submission but Allah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Allah says:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Say: If it be that your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your mates, or your kindred; the wealth that you have gained; your commerce in which you fear a decline; or the dwellings in which you delight &#8211; are dearer to you than Allah, or His Messenger, or striving in His cause &#8211; then wait until Allah brings about His Decision &#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 [Tawbah:24}<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(Adapted from U&#8217;budiyyah by Ibn Taimiyah)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a person submits to another even though he dislikes him, this is not worship or enslavement; when he loves someone but is not subservient&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,57,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-motivators","category-tafseer","wpcat-33-id","wpcat-57-id","wpcat-21-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}