Here you will find some verses from the Quran on the subject of love. I have divided the verses into four categories: love of God for man, love of man for God, love of man for his fellow man, and love between spouses.
Love of God for Man
Seek forgiveness of your Lord and turn to Him in repentance. For my Lord is indeed merciful and loving. (Quran 11:90, Wahiduddin Khan)
"Put him in a wooden box and cast it in the river. The river will cast it on the bank. An enemy of Ours, and his, will retrieve it." We bestowed Our love on you that you may be reared under Our eyes. (Quran 20:39, Ahmed Ali)
And He is the Forgiving and Loving One. (Quran 84:14, Wahiduddin Khan)
Love of Man for God
Piety does not lie in turning your face to East or West: Piety lies in believing in God, the Last Day and the angels, the Scriptures and the prophets, and disbursing your wealth out of love for God among your kin and the orphans, the wayfarers and mendicants, freeing the slaves, observing your devotional obligations, and in paying the zakat and fulfilling a pledge you have given, and being patient in hardship, adversity, and times of peril. These are the men who affirm the truth, and they are those who follow the straight path. (Quran 2:177, Ahmed Ali)
Yet there are some who set up equals with God and adore them with the adoration due to God, but those who believe love God most. If only the wrongdoers could see, as they will see when they face the punishment, that all power belongs to God, and that God is severe in punishment. (Quran 2:165, Wahiduddin Khan)
Say, "If you love God, follow me and God will love you and forgive you your sins. God is most forgiving, and most merciful." (Quran 3:31, Wahiduddin Khan)
You tell them: "If your fathers and sons, your brothers and wives and families and wealth, or the business you fear may fail, and the mansions that you love, are dearer to you than God, His Apostle, and struggling in His cause, then wait until God's command arrives, for God does not show transgressors the way." (Quran 9:24, Ahmed Ali)
So We heard him and gave him John, and cured his wife (of barrenness). These were men who vied in good deeds with one another, and prayed to Us with love and awe, and were meek before Us. (Quran 21:90, Ahmed Ali)
The servants of God fulfill their vows and are afraid of the day in which there will be widespread terror. They feed the destitute, orphans, and captives for the love of God, saying, "We only feed you for the sake of God and we do not want any reward or thanks from you. We are afraid of our Lord and the bitterly distressful day." (Quran 76:7-10, Muhammad Sarwar)
And turn to your Lord with all your love. (Quran 94:8, Ahmed Ali)
Love of Man for His Fellow Man
And hold you fast to God's bond, together, and do not scatter; remember God's blessing upon you when you were enemies, and He brought your hearts together, so that by His blessing you became brothers. You were upon the brink of a pit of Fire, and He delivered you from it; even so God makes clear to you His signs; so haply you will be guided. (Quran 3:103, Arberry)
You are indeed the best community that has ever been brought forth for [the good of] mankind. You enjoin what is good, and forbid what is evil, and you believe in God... It is you who love them, but they do not love you; you believe in all the revealed Books. (Quran 3:110,119, Wahiduddin Khan)
Is he who knoweth that what is revealed unto thee from thy Lord is the truth like him who is blind? But only men of understanding heed; such as keep the pact of Allah, and break not the covenant; such as unite that which Allah hath commandeth should be joined, and fear their Lord, and dread a woeful reckoning; such as persevere in seeking their Lord's Countenance and are regular in prayer and spend of that which We bestow upon them secretly and openly, and overcome evil with good. Theirs will be the sequel of the (heavenly) Home Gardens of Eden which they enter, along with all who do right of their fathers and their helpmeets and their seed. The angels enter unto them from every gate, (saying): Peace be unto you because ye persevered. Ah, passing sweet will be the sequel of the (heavenly) Home. (Quran 13:19-24, Pickthall)
So your Lord has decreed: Do not worship anyone but Him, and be good to your parents. If one or both of them grow old in your presence, do not say fie to them, nor reprove them, but say gentle words to them and look after them with kindness and love, and say: "O Lord, have mercy on them as they nourished me when I was small." (Quran 17:23,24, Ahmed Ali)
Good and evil are not alike. Repel evil with what is good. Then you will find your erstwhile enemy like a close. affectionate friend. (Quran 41:34, Ahmed Ali)
It maybe that God will create love between you and your enemies. God is all-powerful, and God is forgiving, ever-merciful. (Quran 60:7, Ahmed Ali)
Love Between Spouses
And of His signs is this: He created for you helpmeets from yourselves that ye might find rest in them, and He ordained between you love and mercy. Lo! herein indeed are portents for folk who reflect. (Quran 30:21, Pickthall)
Note: Allah is the Arabic word for God. Jewish Arabs and Christian Arabs call God Allah. Arabic Bibles have the word, Allah, as the word for God in them.
