Love and Intimacy the Islamic Way
Love and Intimacy the Islamic Way
The tenets of Islam can help to improve your life even in the romantic department. By Elsa Febiola Aryanti.
WHEN LOVE AND INTIMACY go beyond the physical, isn’t life beautiful? Beautiful, too, is the thought that the love and intimacy we share in this world can span throughout eternity. That is the very idea of love and intimacy in Islam: To give us happiness in this world, to connect based on faith and to bring the love and intimacy we create through to the afterlife—and well into eternity.
In Islam, intimacy is about more than just a physical relationship between man and woman. It is the union of faith, body, soul, mind and vision of the hereafter. The phrase ‘happily ever after’ is not meant only for storybooks. Being united in this world and the hereafter is the ultimate goal of couples that love each other deeply because of Allah. Finding a partner with whom to spend our life is among the signs of Allah’s grace. The Qur’an puts it beautifully in Ar–Ruum verse 21:
And of His signs is that He created for you from yourselves mates that you may find tranquillity in them; and He placed between you affection and mercy. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought.
Allah creates men and women to live in peace together, to share our feelings based on affection and mercy between us. Anyone who has ever been in love will agree with this verse. We desire harmony and tranquillity with our partners. We want to love and be loved in many ways, in good times and bad.
