Assalamu Calikum..
The best solution for two people who love each other is marriage. This interesting excerpt is for anyone who falls in love but cannot marry for whatever reasons and yet do not involve in any sin. This is an excerpt from The Maidens of Paradise by Sheikh Zubair.
Ibn Abbas (rad) narrates that Prophet Muhammed (saw) said, “The person who falls in love, remains chaste, conceals this [from others], and dies is a martyr (shahid).â€
[Some scholars have classified this hadith as weak. The famous scholar, Imam Nawawi in his introduction to the ‘arbain’ (40 hadith) that the scholars have agreed on the permissibility of using weak hadith for describing the virtues of actions. And Nothing is difficult to Allah]
Munawi explains that the love mentioned in the above hadith refers to a love with someone with whom marriage is possible and it is such a severe love that it affects the state of mind. Although this love could occur because of looking and hearing, this is not necessary because Allah can place this love in a person’s heart without any apparent cause. The person who remains chaste despite being afflicted by this severe love and thereafter dies will receive the reward of a martyr in the hereafter. The rank of a person who remains chaste is similar to the rank of a person who dies in fighting in the path of Allah because both have sacrificed their pleasure for the sake of Allah. Just as a fighter sacrificed his life for the upliftment of the religion of Allah, the chaste person strived against his desires for the sake of Allah. The youth especially should strive to remain chaste in order to gain this virtue.
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