Love : for God, Because of God - Writing Essay 2

There are two kinds of love in Islam, love for God and love because of 

God. If we have both of them, we could feel love to the fullest; 

moreover, we could know the limit of what we could do to the others 

we love because we love God and love because of God. However, what 

Esthers felt Laurance was not love because of God, it was desire. Her 

desire to have him for herself had made her think that take his life 

was the only chance for her to make sure nobody will have him. 

The true love will never make the one whom we loved gets hurt; besides, 

the true form of love is for God and because of God; therefor, hurting

others is prohibited. However, we know that the differences between 

love and desires is as thin as a sheet of paper. Sometimes desires 

could be mistaken as a love and the other way around; however, only

desires that could control someone to license anything for what he 

desires. We can look at how big Esthers' desire to have Laurance that

her desire had made her killed him. She does not care her lover will 

be  suffered by her action or not, as long as she have him, or rather, 

as long as nobody have him instead of her, she will do anything. 

Because she know that he would never have him, her desire had mad her 

kill him because she can not bear to see him with another woman. If 

what she had been true love insted of desires, all of her thought to

kill him will  never appeared, instead she will encouraged him and 

wished for his happiness since she will know her limit. 

One of the story about love I have described is about Ibrahim and his 

son, Ismail. After years of waiting for a child, Ibrahim was ordered 

by God to tribute his child. Because of his love for God and loving 

his child because fo God, he followed God's order to tribute his child. 

However, because of his love for God, God saves his child and replace 

it with a goat from heaven. 

These are two examples of love for God and love because of God. When we 

love for God and loving his child because of God, we will have many 

good things followed us; however, when our love is not because of God, 

someday it will control us to go beyond limit.