Expression of inward love

BismillahirRahmanirRahim
Assalaamu alaykum

I pray that you are well.

We have heard and read this before many times "Say: 'If you love Allah, follow me, and Allah will love you, and forgive you your sins; Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.' Qur'an AleImran 3:31

If someone truly love Allah, it will manifest itself in that person following the sunnah of the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace. Following the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, will cause Allah to love us and forgive our sins. Following the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, was a simple matter for his companions because they knew and loved him. When he would tell them something they heard and they obeyed him. Disobeying him never even crossed their minds.

How do we follow the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace? We must love Allah--why can't we not love Allah? If someone give you a nice car (just because...like my kids always say to me...no particular reason other than out of love), won't you love that person? Allah gives us more than a nice car--Just by the fact that we are still blinking, we owe Him much love and gratitude. Just because you cannot see Allah, you know He is there. He is the One who is sustaining you. We don't see Him because we are too busy to stop and think about who is the One behind all these that are with us and surround us--we are too visual--we must see with the eyes to appreciate and to love. We need to be less visual and ponder and reflect more often His creation--and the more we do this the more we "see" Allah, inshaAllah. And that will inevitably result in the hastening to obedience of Allah.

If we obey Allah and the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, out of love, then our worship is elevated from a mere ritualistic practice to something that is a deep expression of inward love. This should be what we all should strive to do. And love is sweet!

And Allah knows best.

May Allah grant us that sweetness of faith. Ameen.

Wassalaam