عَن أَنَسٍ رضي الله عنه، عن النَّبيِّ ﷺ قال:«ثَلاثٌ مَن كُنَّ فيه وجَدَ حَلاوةَ الإِيمانِ:أَنْ يكونَ اللهُ ورَسُولُه أحَبَّ إلَيهِ ممَّا سِواهُما،وأَنْ يُحِبَّ المَرْءَ لا يُحِبُّه إلا للهِ، وأَنْ يَكْرَهَ أنْ يَعودَ في الكُفْرِ كما يَكْرَهُ أنْ يُقْذَفَ في النَّارِ»
Anas narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
1. Three qualities: when combined by a person, ensure that that person will experience, through them, the sweetness of faith: 2. that God and His Messenger are dearer to him than anyone else; 3. that he loves a person for no reason other than for God’s sake; 4. and that now that God has saved him from disbelief, he hates to return to it just as he hates to be thrown into the Fire.
Believers, if you renounce your faith, God will bring forth [in your stead] people whom He loves and who love Him, humble towards the believers, proud towards the unbelievers. They will strive hard for God’s cause and will not fear to be censured by any critic. Such is God’s favour which He grants to whom He wills. God encompasses all and knows all. (54) Your patron is only God, and His Messenger and those who believe - those who attend to their prayers, pay their zakat and bow down in worship. (55) Those who ally themselves with God and His Messenger and the believers [will find that] the party of God will be victorious.
(5: 54-56)
Believers, do not take your fathers and brothers for allies if they choose unbelief in preference to faith. Those of you who take them for allies are indeed wrongdoers. (23) Say: ‘If your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your spouses, your clan, and the property you have acquired, and the business in which you fear a decline, and the dwellings in which you take pleasure, are dearer to you than God and His Messenger and the struggle in His cause, then wait until God shall make manifest His will. God does not provide guidance to the transgressors.
(9: 23-24)
As for anyone who denies God after having accepted the faith – and this certainly does not apply to one who does it under duress, while his heart remains true to his faith, but applies to him who willingly opens his heart to unbelief: – upon all such falls God’s wrath, and theirs will be a tremendous suffering. (106) This is because they love the life of this world better than the life to come. God does not bestow His guidance on those who reject the truth. (107) Such are those whose hearts and ears and eyes are sealed by God; such are the heedless. (108) Without doubt, in the life to come they will be the losers.
(9: 106-109)
