Love in the Light of Faith: A Journey Through Islamic Love Stories
8 Kapitel Laufend Many of what we call "love stories" today are nothing more than stories of lust and desire, physical attraction disguised as love.
Is love about dying for the one you love or living every breath with him/her?
Swapping love notes... exchange , living happily ever after...
Normally, we associate these ideas of love with couples who meet, date, and fall head over heels for each other. Very rarely do we relate these images to married couples.
Moreover, we almost never connect this perception to Muslim couples, who marry according to purely Islamic customs. Although this link is quite rare, there actually exists an example in Islaam's own history, which not only depicts this kind of love but goes far beyond it.
For ease of reading, I have not inserted "Peace be upon him" each time the name of the prophet SAW is mentioned in some stories, but please take it that the salutation apply to him peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him..
The stories have been compiled from various sites/books/lectures/Articles....