Whoever Loves Allah...

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum

Dear Friends

I pray that you are well.

The objective of loving Allah is that He is pleased with you. Have you ever seen someone loves someone except that he strives to obtain his pleasure? The slave finds pleasure and sweetness in drawing near to Allah. This is a direct result of the diligence that the slave exercises in seeking the pleasure of Allah.

The sign that the slave loves Allah is to love obedience to Allah. He becomes passionately attached to the remembrance of Allah. His tongue never becomes feeble of it nor does his heart become void of it. Indeed, he who loves something constantly remembers it and when he remembers that thing he becomes attached to it. Also he is pleased with what he is afflicted with in the path of his beloved (i.e. Allah), instead he doesn’t even consider it. This is primarily due to the fact that he knows this is what his beloved (i.e. Allah) intended. So it becomes the most adored thing to him due to the fact that it encompasses the pleasure of his beloved, even if it includes obliteration of his own self.
Wise sayings:

Whoever loves Allah, then he finds himself preoccupied with the worship of Allah, prostrating and bowing and if he doesn’t have the ability to do so, he suffices himself with remembering Allah with his tongue along with praising Him. And if he doesn’t have the ability to do this, he remembers Him in his heart and contemplates about His magnificence. The one whom Allah loves, He gives him gentleness like that of the ocean and compassion like that of the sun when it sets and humility like the earth.

The highest level of loving Allah is to cut yourself off from everything that will distance you from Him, all for the sake of your Lord, to seek intimacy with Him with your heart, intellect and the rest of your limbs. Make your love of Him firm in your heart so that you give nothing precedence over it. If you are fortunate enough to reach this point, then it won’t matter to you if you were on land or at sea or in ease or difficulty!

The lowest level of love is to find delight in the one you love while in seclusion with Him. Whoever considers sleep and talking business to be more pleasurable to him than seclusion with Allah, then how could his claim to love Allah be genuine.

May Allah love us and help us to know Him and love Him. Ameen.

Please include us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.

And Allah knows best.
Wassalaam