Therefore, His love for Himself is the most perfect love and the most loyal one.

Therefore, His love for Himself is the most perfect love and the most loyal one.[^4] He also adds that since God is the Simple (not compound, without any parts) and Divine attributes are not additional (or accidental) to His essence in existence (the idea which is greatly accepted by Muslim philosophers and the majority of theologians and known as the unity of His essence and His attributes), His love is identical to His essence.

In this way, one can justifiably say that He is love as He is knowledge and life. God’s Love for Creatures God's love for the world in general, and human beings in particular is unanimously believed and emphasised by all Muslims. Indeed, one of the God's names is al‑Wadud, He who loves. This is in addition to those names which imply His love for creatures, such as al‑Rahman and al‑Rahim meaning the all‑Compassionate, the all‑Merciful.

Every chapter of the Qur'an except chapter 9 (which starts with verses about warning pagans) begins with the phrase: " In the Name of God, the all‑Compassionate, the all‑Merciful ". Yet the number of repetition of this phrase in the Qur'an is equal to the number of chapters i.e. 114, since in the chapter 27 this phrase occurs twice.

It is noteworthy that although one of the things attributed to God in Islam is the wrath (ghadab), its application is much more limited compared to His mercifulness and love for His creatures. Indeed, His wrath is only for those who deliberately disbelieve or commit evil actions. This is an idea that all Muslims agree and is clearly expressed in many sources. I would like here just to mention only one profound statement.

In a well‑known prayer, Jushan al‑Kabir, God is addressed as the one "whose mercy has preceded His wrath". As we will see later, this wrath or anger is also out of His love and mercy. If His love or mercy did not exist He would not care at all.

It is like a father who becomes angry with his son when he does something wrong, because he has care and concern for his son and his entire family, because he wants his son to correct his behaviour and set a lesson for other children not to copy that wrong act. God has different levels or degrees of love for His creatures. One is His general and encompassing love that includes all beings. If there were no such love nothing, would be brought into being.