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Have you ever tried in a moment of
serenity to say sincerely, ‘I love you, my Lord?’ Have you ever uttered
it from the bottom of your heart?
You may take this matter lightly and say,
‘What is all the fuss about? We all love Allah The Almighty, and it is
very easy for us to say so.’ However, I believe that if you have ever
experienced this closely, you would not say so. Claims like these are
very easy to make, but the real question is: do the words truly spring
from the bottom of your heart? Do you love Allah The Almighty
wholeheartedly? Do you love Him in such a way that your love preoccupies
you from anything other than Him?
I asked some of my brothers in Islam to
enact this experiment for a week and to write down their notes while
trying to urge their hearts to utter this declaration without deception
or lying, and to avoid saying with their tongues what is not really in
their hearts. The results were as I expected: most of them failed to
utter the words, and wrote, “Whenever I tried to utter it I felt that I
was a liar; I only managed to utter it sincerely once.”
Indeed, the matter requires sincerity and transparency, as well as practical application of this love.
‘Abbaad ibn Mansoor, may Allaah have
mercy upon him, said, “During the lifetime of the Prophet, sallallaahu
‘alayhi wa sallam, some people claimed that they loved Allaah The
Almighty, but Allaah The Almighty wanted them to translate this claim
into action. So, Allaah The Exalted Says (what means): {Say, [O
Muhammad], “If you should love Allaah, then follow me, [so] Allaah will
love you and forgive you your sins. And Allaah is Forgiving and
Merciful.} [Quran 3:31]”
Likewise, the Jews and the Christians
claimed that they are the children and beloved ones of Allaah The
Almighty: {But the Jews and the Christians say, “We are the children of
Allaah and His beloved.”} [Quran 5:18], but Allaah The Almighty Says to
them (what means): {Say, “Then why does He punish you for your sins?”
Rather, you are human beings from among those He has created. He
forgives whom He wills, and He punishes whom He wills.} [Quran 5:18]
In this verse, Allaah The Almighty refers
to the fact that love has certain signs, including the fact that one
does not punish those whom he loves. Hence, the absence of these signs
means that the claim of being loved by Allaah The Almighty is false.
If you truly love Allaah The Almighty,
then provide the evidence. Where is the evidence of your true love for
Allaah The Almighty?
How can we claim that we love Allaah The Almighty and then disobey Him?
You may inquire, ‘Does love for Allaah The Almighty mean that one must be sinless?’
The answer is “no”. We are not
infallible, because we are neither prophets nor angels, but love for
Allaah The Almighty makes one repent quickly and return to his Lord
constantly. Hence, when you see such a person, he would appear as if he
is sinless.
Ash-Sha‘bi, may Allaah have mercy upon him, said, “If Allaah The Almighty loves a slave, his sins would not harm him.”
‘Abdul-Rahmaan ibn Zayd ibn Aslam, may
Allaah have mercy upon him, said, “Allaah The Exalted may love His slave
to the extent that He may say to him, ‘Go and do whatever you want, and
I have forgiven it in advance.’”
The meaning is that Allaah The Exalted
will guide such a slave to sincere repentance, and the acts that expiate
any sins he commits, until he becomes sinless. If this were the only
benefit of gaining the love of Allaah The Almighty, it would have been
sufficient.
My dear brother and sister in Islam,
Do you really want to love Allaah The Almighty and to be loved by Him?
Do you really aspire to this love that will quench your thirst forever?
Are you ready to do whatever it takes to attain this great honor?
Do you want a remedy for your heart to stop committing sins and misdeeds?
Have you fallen into an unsuccessful love
affair that has affected you psychologically and left unforgettable
painful traces in your heart?
Do you suffer from the evil of this world and its blights and aspire to gain divine protection and care?
Do you wish to enter Paradise while you
are still on earth, to taste real happiness when you find the sweetness
of faith inside your heart?
If that is how you feel, then come with
us on this faith-boosting journey in the gardens of the “love for
Allaah”, hoping that we will be able to plant this great meaning in our
hearts.
How can we not love our Lord?
My dear brother and sister in Islam,
Whenever you find that your soul is
driven to sins and evades good deeds; or loves misguidance and swerves
from the right path; or loves what you know angers Allaah The Exalted
and neglects or even hates what Allaah The Almighty loves, then you
should know that this trial is mainly caused by your ignorance about
Allaah The Almighty.
That is because if you really knew Allah The Exalted, you would love Him sincerely and fear Him in a manner that befits him.
If a slave knew his Lord through His most
beautiful Names and Attributes, even for a moment, he would fear Him,
because He is severe in penalty. However, He would also aspire to His
mercy, as He is the Beneficent, the Merciful.
However, the problem is that we do not
glorify our Lord in the manner that is due to Him. Allaah The Exalted
Says (what means): {They have not appraised Allaah with true appraisal.
Indeed, Allaah is Powerful and Exalted in might.} [Quran 22:74]
Hence, the feet slip into sins and deviate from the right path.
Ignorance about Allaah The Almighty is
the cause of all sins, because whoever disobeys Allaah The Exalted is
certainly ignorant, just as whoever obeys Him is knowledgeable. This is
because when one knows Allaah The Almighty and realizes His glory, pride
and loftiness, he will fear and never disobey Him.
It was said, “If people had contemplated
the greatness of Allaah The Almighty, they would have never disobeyed
Him, because fear of Allaah The Exalted is sufficient knowledge, while
underestimating the wrath of Allaah The Exalted comprises limitless
ignorance.”
Is there any sweetness or delight in a
sin that will cause loss and deprivation? What will benefit you if you
lose your Lord? Who will compensate you if you are deprived of the mercy
of your Lord that encompasses everything?
O you who knew the path of Allaah The
Exalted and then deviated from it, what affliction can be graver than
yours? Allaah The Exalted Says (what means): {O you who have believed,
whoever of you should revert from his religion – Allaah will bring forth
[in place of them] a people He will love and who will love Him} [Quran
5:54]
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