What is Love? #1 Allah says, “Say to the people! If you love Allah then you should follow me.(Only then will) Allah will love you and forgive your sins. And Allah is the All-Forgiving, All-Merciful.” (3:31) Imam al-Qushayri (Allah have Mercy upon him) said in his ar-Risalah: “As for the seekers love of Allah, it is a state experienced in his/her heart, too subtle for words. This state brings him/her to Allah and attempts to gain His pleasure having little patience in separation from Him, feeling an urgent longing for Him, finding no comfort in anything other than Him, and experiencing intimacy in the heart by making continual remembrance of Him.” In the Meccan Illuminations, Muhyidin ibn Arabi (Allah have Mercy upon him) said: “This Divine Love derives from the Names of Allah = Beautiful and Light. Light goes forward to the entities of the possible things and dispels from them the darkness of their gaze upon themselves and upon their own possibility. It occasions for them a seeing that is Lights own seeing, because light alone allows anything to be seen. Then God discloses Himself to the entity through the name Beautiful, and it falls in love with Him.” End quote. It should be known, that this love is not something that can be explained, nor is it something that just comes to be. Love is a Divine gift, given from Allah to whom He wills, when He wills. Sayyid Shaykh Muhammad ibn Yayha an-Ninowi (Allah increase him in every good) once said, Love ought to change you. If love remains only lip-service you do not really love. If love does not change you from the inside, from your heart and soul. And if it does not fundamentally change your behavior, your words and even in your non-verbal communication than you have not even started to love, you would be just a talker. Allah loves those who turn unto Him in repentance and loves those who purify themselves.” (2:222)
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:21:27 +0000
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