God is love and He has abundantly blessed all His creation with this splendid emotion as well. But since human beings are God’s most superior creation so the love He has bestowed them with is of the best and most refined sort. Love itself is the most superior of all human emotions. Hate is the antonym of love. Imagine how highly inferior the antithesis of something as love would be!!! Unquestionably, such an emotion would be the basest of all emotions!
Humans are made neither of light (good matter) unlike angels nor of fire (bad matter) unlike genies, but of mud instead, which is in between light and fire with respect to its characteristics. As a result, the nature of humans is not completely good or bad. Half of human nature consists of good and the other half of evil, nevertheless, hate is still not a part of the half bad nature. It is an emotion developed later in life by subsequent bad experiences. It owes its existence to life’s experiences (in which the inherent ABILITY to hate is employed) and not to human nature as straightforwardly as love! So, it does not come as naturally to humans as does love.
In case of love, not only is the ability to love found intrinsically in human nature but also love itself. It is proven by the fact that a baby/small child only knows how to love, and love unconditionally. It is manifested in a pre-Islamic account of a little girl who was wiping the sweat from her father’s forehead while he was busy digging a grave to bury her alive (as was the custom in those days regarding female children)!! So love is certainly more natural to humans than its antonym—hate—which does not get born with a person, unlike love.
As indicated earlier, human nature only has the ability to hate, not hate itself, in the beginning of a person’s life. Afterwards, hate is developed as such a strong, full-fledged and proper emotion that it assumes a position opposite to nothing less than love, the greatest emotion! We must at all times try to control hate, and not let its tether so loose that it instead starts controlling us, by becoming very powerful! It must be kept leashed at all times, to the best of our ability. But as it is inevitably developed as a latent emotion so it becomes a part of the half bad nature. As we know, the half evil nature must be subdued and the half good nature must be fostered more and more for attaining a noble personality. Whether or not we do all this determines our being good or bad, overall, as persons.
Unfortunately in our society there is no dearth of those who have made the worse half nature (evil—that eventually comes to contain hate too) so powerful and dominant that it has ciphered the good part of their nature totally. It happens when the bad part overpowers the good one in such a way that the latter diminishes and finally disappears, by being overwhelmed by the former. They pay no attention to even slightly empowering the good part by ‘feeding’ the soul, let alone having a consistent internal tussle between good and evil! All they eventually come to embody is evil and just evil. They know nothing of basic humanity and humanism, let alone diversity and pluralism! In short, LOVE is absent from their blackened souls and spirits!
The greatest and most bountiful treasure i.e., love, is interestingly found closer to humans than they could imagine–right inside their nature! Apparently every human’s heart should have been so plentifully filled with love that they would distribute it to everybody and eventually have an aura of love surrounding them, but as paradoxical as it may seem, it is just not the case. Growing up in a world full of hate, love assumes the position of a locked treasure which requires to be unlocked! Having said that, not everybody has the good fortune to be able to receive its key from the Creator, for opening this treasure chest. Only those lucky ones in whom the Lord spots the required spark to divinely receive the bounty of unconditional, pure love are granted this key! Only by consistent good deeds can one prove oneself worthy of receiving the auspicious key! When that happens and resultantly when one is blessed with it, this treasure is opened, enlightening the human heart with its incandescent lucence of love upon its very opening. Apart from this warm light, a shimmering spring of unconditional, selfless love gushes from this treasure. The best part about this spring of love is that it flows right from a one’s heart until one’s last breath. The reason of its unstopped flow is that a person that tastes the love for humanity once will never ever sell it for any price. They will spread it by planting love in others’ hearts, thus serving to start springs of love from them too! They eventually find themselves spreading it greatly to humanity sans barriers. Such chosen people will not even think of letting go of this truly beautiful love, the essence of all good things! The spring of love that flows from their hearts is so lovely that it is equally beneficial for everybody. It does not benefit some more and some less! Persons so blessed will embrace every fellow human with open arms, be they Ahmadi, Christian, Shia, Hindu, Sunni, Zoroastrian, Baha’i or Sikh! Such a person becomes an epitome of noble values! Belief in respect, equality, tolerance, peace, harmony, open acceptance ooze from their beings! They enlighten everybody on their way whom they pass, with their superior humanistic values. True, lucky ones are those who think of humanity and whose rightly guided emotions have no room for any discrimination and bigotry for certain segments of humanity. Let us take the pledge to be humans first, prove ourselves worthy of having our hearts divinely filled with love, and give it out immeasurably to others after receiving it. Let us try to be selfless, and love humanity purely and unconditionally!
Peace and love! 
