Ramadan Excerpts 1444 H (Lesson 14): Love for the believers
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In the Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, Most Merciful
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds, and peace and blessings be upon our Master Muhammad, the Faithful and the Honest.
In psychology there is a map for every person. To draw that map, close to one thousand questions are asked, and if the person gives one different answer, it will show in the question that comes next, given I studied that in psychology in my specialty.
This map of every person defines his relation with his family and society and how he spends his free time, his annual leave and his weekend. Some of the questions are very specific and have to do with his way of thinking, his values, his principles, his morality, his relationships and so forth.
After asking these questions, we will get a map of that person, the device of this test gives vertical line. Now if we give the same questions to another person and get his map, whenever they both answer the same answer we will have a horizontal line.
As for love, we will have lots of horizontal lines. We can say that two persons are on the same page when for example one of them does not like to say dirty jokes and the other does not like to listen to dirty jokes. Also, when someone loves generosity and another person is generous, they will get along.
The more congruent the ambitions, desires, orientations and affiliations are between two persons, the more horizontal lines we will have. So in the end, if two maps of two persons have so many horizontal lines this means there is love.
This psychological test uses a device to measure love, and I say that love is unquestionable between believers. If we take two believers, they are (both) honest, trustworthy, chaste and timid. This is because believers share same morality, and this leads us to say that love among believers is a rule of thumb in life.
I had been to so many countries around the world, and what caught my attention was that I was warmly welcomed by people in countries like Brazil. They treated me as though they had known me for 50 years, and this is because we shared so many horizontal lines in our maps.
Friendliness between believers has a scientific explanation. Every human being has a map and this map has lines, and in case two people share so many horizontal lines, this means there is love between them, and the more lines we have, the greater love there will be. Every believer will love another believer, because both of them are honest, trustworthy, affectionate and kind. Thus, sharing the same characteristics creates love among believers.
