Love without actions is of no use

BismillahirRahmanirRahim
Assalaamu alaykum

I pray that you are well.

God revealed to Prophet Dawud, peace be upon him: O Dawud, why are you in loneliness after giving up the society of men? He said, O God, I have adopted the loneliness for You. He said, O Dawud, beware, seek friends for you and do not take those friends who do not help you for My pleasure, they are your enemies. They will make your heart hard and keep you farthest away from Me. Dawud once said, O God, how is it possible that all the people will love me and obey the message of the religion? It was said: Treat with people of the world with the nature of the world and treat the inmates of the next world with the nature of the next world.

The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: Those people among you are dearest to God who love and are loved, and those people among you are objects of greatest hatred of God who roam with slanders and create disputes among brethren.

Abdullah ibn Umar, Allah be pleased with them both, said: By God, if I fast all days and pray all nights, spend all my wealth in the way of God without account and I die on the day with no love for those who obey God and with no hatred for those who do not obey God, it will be no use to me.

Hasan Basri, Allah have mercy on him, said: O children of Adam, let not the following deceive you, "He who loves one will be with him," because you cannot earn the rank of the pious people without their actions. The Jews and the Christians love their Prophets, but they do not act according to their injunctions. Love without actions will be of no use.

From a sermon of a sage: "It is strange that you wish to live in Paradise of Firdaus and in the neighborhood of the Merciful with the Prophets, truthfuls, matyrs and pious men, but what actions you have done for it, what passions you have given up for it, what tie of relationship you have united after it was severed, what faults of your brother you have forgiven and what distant persons you have brought near for God."


May Allah give us tawfiq. Ameen

And Allah knows best.

Wassalaam