Love of Allah
Posted by midnight stroller on June 1, 2008
THE LOVE OF THE BELOVED
The love of the Beloved
must be unconditionally returned.
If you claim love
yet oppose the Beloved,
then your love is but a pretence.
You love the enemies of your Beloved
and still seek love in return.
You fight the beloved of your Beloved.
Is this Love or the following of shaytaan?
True devotion is nothing
but total submission
of body and soul
to One Love.
We have seen humans claim to submit,
yet their loyalties are many.
They put their trust here, and their hope there,
and their love is without consequence.
Source: “Al-Walaa wal-Baraa” of M S al-Qahtani.
midnight stroller said
Love of Allah is life itself, and to be deprived of it entails a terrible death; it is the light without which one would sail in a sea of darkness; it is the cure without which one’s heart will be overwhelmed by a multitude of diseases; it is the joy without which one will remain in permanent grief; it is the essence of faith and deeds, without which they become like a soulless body.
midnight stroller said
“Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth….” (24:35) That is, all the light in the entire universe emanates from Allah. If He did not create light, it could not be derived from any other source. If there were no sun, the earth would be surrounded in darkness. But Allah has spread throughout His domain countless extremely bright moving bodies to shed light continuously on all parts of the universe. In the absence of this all-encompassing order, the universe would be reduced to a dreadful abyss.
Here we speak of material light. But the same is true of intellectual and spiritual light. All the inhabitants of this earth are in need of a guiding light to enable them to think rationally and to find the spiritual sustenance which will fill their hearts with divine wisdom and inspiration. The source of this intellectual and spiritual light is the Quran and ahadih. It cannot be obtained from any other source.
When man truly and sincerely believes in Allah, he establishes a link with Him on a spiritual level. His whole being is subsequently illumined by this spiritual attachment. He begins to find Allah in the daily occurrences around him. He begins to find Allah reflected in the tears that well up in his eyes. Allah is so instilled in his thoughts and feelings, it is as if he has come very close to Him, as if he is leading his life in the shadow of the Almighty’s blessing.