Любовь в сравнительном религиоведении (ислам и другие конфессии)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issue of love, which lacks interpretation in Islam, since the lat-ter belongs to the masculine worldview with the ritual and collective principle dominating, while the personal-subjective, rational and motivational aspects remain less expressed and investigated. The main reason for this is Islam’s fixation on slavish submission present both in the etymology of the word “Islam” and in its content, which allegedly leaves little room for love in all its manifestations. The article shows that submission in the religious sense means the highest degree of trust, love and human freedom, through which various forms of human dependence are overcome. It is proved that the context of love is in the basis of all religions of revelation and Islam is no exception. It is present in all versions of Islam; the Qur'an and the Sunna contain unambiguous imperatives regarding love for God and for one’s neighbours.The greatest importance is attached to love in Sufism, which is called the “religion of love”. The author grounds the necessary to distinguish between confessional and existential dimensions of love: according to the former, only love for God can be true and complete, while all human dimensions of love are derived from it. However, this statement that is true in the confessional dimension, contradicts the logic of modern cultural pluralism, since it denies the right to real, true love to people of a secular, non-religious worldview and does not fit into the framework of the constitutional norm of the freedom of conscience. The author also attempts to ap-ply the ancient concept of agape love to the Islamic worldview.