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It is my understanding that the Muslim's view of God is that He is love. That He loves believers.
So I wonder, who do Muslims say that God loved before he created the everything else? How could he love when there is nothing there to love. This is in contrast with the Christian's view of God, which is that the Father loved the Son through the Holy Spirit from eternity past, before creating man in his image. Is there an Islamic equivalent to this?
Thank you!
the answer is that the attribute of God is that God loves. His name is "Al wudood" which means the one who loves so God is the possessor of this attribute if the creation is not there, that does not mean this attribute is not there.
The answer is simple God is not dependent on the Creation to have the attribute of love
According to Islam, God cannot be restricted by time or space...so by asking who God loved "before" he created the world doesn't seem to make any Islamic sense. It's like saying God can be restricted by time similar to humans and that He did not know the believers before He created them.
The problem here is that we "the humans" see the God with a humanized eyes, it means we consider the God as a Human like as and we start to ask questions, the brother @ali786 have respond greatly to the questions, but there's a thing to consider here, you must know that to be considered as a God you must be out of what you've created.
+1 if it helped, thank you.
Man has limited knowledge as always
Who knows creations of the worlds with life before and after this time.... look at the space we are in one night and ours will end one "'DAY'". but before anything even before the pen Allah created nur of Holy Prophet Muhammad (salalaho alahe wasalam).
I briefly looked into this same question after thoroughly losing a briefly debate with a philosophically-minded Christian.
Imam al-Ghazali writes about this in Chapter 8 of Incoherence of Philosophy. He says that the mistake in reasoning is saying that God's Love is strictly in relationship to someone else. Instead, he argues, God's love exists independent of others, as a quality of him. It is not dependent on creation. With respect to creation it may manifest as what we call love in our temporal sense, but in a pre-eternal sense it has an essential existence, independent of creation.
Phrased different, God's love does not require a target to exist, it is a quality of him. Asking "who did he love then" is begging the question.
