To love and to hate is part of human nature. As a result, all of us love and hate something or someone. And we do that in one form or another and at one point of our life or another.
Those who are driven entirely by their own base needs and emotions, they love and hate for narrow personal and selfish reasons.
But those that are blessed and favoured by God, they love and hate for broader and more enlightened reasons. They love and hate for the sake of God.
That means they use their basic human emotions of love and hate as an instrument of loving God and serving all of humanity and all of God’s creation.
As a result, they love all – and hate none. For, love is their dominant emotion.
But when they see God’s laws being disrespected, and when they see God’s most basic commandments being violated, and when they see all kinds of atrocities and injustices being perpetrated on their fellow human beings, or on God’s broader creation in any form or fashion, they often tend to react not only in sorrow and pain, but also in anger and with indignation.
But theirs is a righteous wrath.
And it is not unlike God’s own wrath and indignation when he beholds humans violating his laws and commandments on earth: knowingly, wilfully and persistently.
And when he sees human beings commit all kinds of blatant wrongs and oppressions against one another – something the Qur’ān repeatedly refers to as Zulm, a term that sadly is not a part of English vocabulary.
So, the wrath of these good people against Zulm, in that context, is a reflection on earth of divine displeasure in Heaven.
And those who do not feel this righteous wrath and indignation, at any time and with regard to any issue, are often the ones whose hearts have gone dead.
They are people who have not allowed themselves to rise above the lowest level of human existence.
In fact, they are like animals, if not worse, as the Qur’ān puts it.
They proceed from the narrowest focus and motives of personal greed, ambition and selfishness.
But what the good people in their state of righteous wrath and divinely inspired indignation do not do is take the law of the land – any law of any land – in their own hands as it were.
Nor do they use their righteous rage to perpetrate any atrocity or terrible deed of their own (Zulm) on the guilty.
But instead they set about systematically working to wipe out all injustices from the face of the earth.
And they do so by embarking upon a totally focused mission of inviting humanity to God and to his Book, the Qur’ān, and to his prophet, Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam.
And they do that using the best and the finest possible means and methods of human communication and outreach ever devised.
Such blessed individuals are God’s reflection on earth. They are God’s elect.
And they are God’s chosen and favoured people in every age and place.