loves Allah with the love that is obligatory must hate His enemies and love what He loves, including waging jihad against them. As He, Most High, says:
“Indeed, Allah loves those who fight in His cause in ranks as though they were a solid structure.”
One whose love is complete is unaffected by blame or reproach; rather, it encourages him to remain steadfast in his love, as so many poets have said. These are those who incur blame for praiseworthy reasons: they do not fear anyone who blames them for doing what Allah loves and is pleased with—waging jihad against His enemies. Indeed, blame for this is plentiful. But blame for doing what Allah dislikes or abandoning what He loves is justified. Patiently enduring such blame is not praiseworthy; rather, returning to the truth is better than persisting in falsehood. This makes clear the distinction between the “Malāmiyya” (people of blame) who do what Allah and His Messenger love, fearing no one’s blame for it, and the “Malāmiyya” who do what Allah and His Messenger hate and patiently endure blame for it.
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Since love is the foundation of every religious deed, fear, hope, and other such states necessarily entail love and have their basis in it. For someone who hopes and yearns only yearns for what he loves, not what he hates. And someone who fears flees from what he fears in order to attain what he loves.
He, Most High, says:
“Those whom they call upon