What Is Love?
100 Answers
While the answers are infinite, here are 100 answers to the question: What is love?
Love is…
- An aching in the heart
- A fear in the chest
- A rose blooming without the knowledge of whether it will survive
- Free falling without fear
- Trust and honesty
- Being vulnerable
- Inhaling with ease
- Untetherable
- Growing old together
- The pink on my cheeks
- Knowing you are there for me
- The sparkle in your eyes
- The look you give our children
- Your arms around me
- Why we sacrifice
- When I search for you in the crowd
- You parting that crowd for me
- The reason we are here
- Sharing whispered secrets under the star-strewn sky
- Seeing more beauty with you
- Why I cry
- Messy and wild
- Our breaths mingled
- Feeling cold without your near
- Trying harder
- Allowing you to guide me, even with my eyes closed
- Why I feel safe
- An arrow landed true
- Taking risks
- The smell of cake
- Something I want to always share
- A journey
- A party at all hours
- Being present
- Giving selflessly
- Devoted faith
- Loyalty
- Music that pulls at my insides
- Unjudging of my madness
- A poison we happily drink
- Smiling at nothing and everything
- Being grateful
- The moon’s light
- The sun’s craving
- Fulfilment created
- Hate destroyed
- A force so potent
- Stolen moments
- All-encompassing
- Having nothing in our pockets but everything in our hearts
- My strength
- My weakness
- What pushes me
- Not sufficient a word to explain what we have
- Wiping and kissing away pain
- Unravelling fast between us and snaking around our hearts
- Caring about pleasing God
- Not giving up
- Learning from mistakes made
- Patient
- Impatient
- Laughing until we cry
- Praying for those that are your loved ones and those who are not
- A bedtime story
- Frozen lips from shared ice cream
- A mother braiding her daughter’s hair
- A father’s cheer
- A comforting touch
- An honour
- Why we are bound
- Why they kept apart
- Knowing to agree in public and work on it in private
- Striving for excellence
- Putting up with your snoring
- Without question
- Your soul intertwined with mine
- Brotherhood
- Not to be ignored
- Simmering, an endless fire
- Moulded bodies
- Sisters bonding
- Giving your last coin away
- Healing
- A thrill
- Sowing seeds
- Showing your naked soul
- Letting your guard down
- Being yourself
- Now, forever and always
- Loving yourself
- Unfiltered
- Rare
- Everywhere
- Support from you all
- Going to catch you unawares
- My language
- For the sake of Allah
- Poetry and prose composed
- What I yearn for
- Ours
And so much more. Infinity more.
I could go on and on for the rest of my days and still not have encompassed the meaning. There are different types and degrees but it is present everywhere. May you find the purest kind and it finds you, if not already.
وعنه قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم : والذي نفسي بيده لا تدخلوا الجنة حتى تؤمنوا ولا تؤمنوا حتى تحابوا أولا أدلكم على شيء إذا فعلتموه تحاببتم: أفشوا السلام بينكم (( رواه مسلم))
-Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, “By Him in Whose Hand my soul is! You will not enter Jannah until you believe, and you shall not believe until you love one another. May I inform you of something, if you do, you love each other. Promote greeting amongst you (by saying As-salamu ‘alaikum to one another)”.
لَن تَنَالُوا۟ ٱلْبِرَّ حَتَّىٰ تُنفِقُوا۟ مِمَّا تُحِبُّونَ ۚ وَمَا تُنفِقُوا۟ مِن شَىْءٍۢ فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ بِهِۦ عَلِيمٌۭ
-You will never achieve righteousness until you donate some of what you cherish. And whatever you give is certainly well known to Allah. ~Qur’an 3:92
Thank you for all the support and inspiration I have been blessed with from so many individuals, including but not limited to:
Dovey ♡
Beau
