Love and Desire in the Light of Islam

<p><strong>Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's Profound Reflection on Love</strong></p><p> </p><p>Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya offers a profound exploration of love from both a spiritual and psychological perspective clarifying its rightful form and the ways it can go astray. He opens with an emphasis on the purest and most beneficial form of love-love for Allah the Exalted-and highlights its central place in the life of faith. He then carefully examines how love can become misdirected crossing into the realm of forbidden passions and turning into a spiritual trial that tests the integrity of the soul.</p>