The love of Allah, like the fear of Allah, is the highest love that we need to live, feel and reflect on our actions and lead us to good morals and eternal happiness. Those who love Allah love Allah’s creations for Allah’s sake, love everyone, reach true happiness, and feel no sadness in this world or in the hereafter.
Apart from this, Allah Almighty reveals important signs of His love for Allah as follows: “O believers! Whoever among you abandons their faith, Allah will replace them with others who love Him and are loved by Him. They will be humble with the believers but firm towards the disbelievers, struggling in the Way of Allah; fearing no blame from anyone. This is the favour of Allah. He grants it to whoever He wills. And Allah is All-Bountiful, All-Knowing.”1
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “Allah (mighty and sublime be He) said: My servant draws not near to Me with anything more loved by Me than the religious duties I have enjoined upon him, and My servant continues to draw near to Me with supererogatory works so that I shall love him. When I love him I am his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with which he sees, his hand with which he strikes and his foot with which he walks. Were he to ask [something] of Me, I would surely give it to him, and were he to ask Me for refuge, I would surely grant him it.”2
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Whoever possesses the following three qualities will have the sweetness (delight) of faith:
1. The one to whom Allah and His Apostle becomes dearer than anything else.
2. Who loves a person, and he loves him only for Allah’s sake.
3. Who hates to revert to Atheism (disbelief) as he hates to be thrown into the fire.“3
If it is not for Allah’s sake, loving the creatures turns into a calamity. Because the thing you love often doesn’t know you, doesn’t know you, doesn’t understand you. All of a sudden he disappears and leaves you in sadness. Like your youth, property and money. He leaves you even if you don’t want to. He leaves his pain to you. However, the love of Allah takes a person’s hand both in this world and in the hereafter, in poverty and in abundance, and leads one to Allah’s approval. Since the heart is a mirror in which Allah casts the evil eye, only Allah should be loved directly with that decent heart, and other things should be loved not directly and for themselves, but for Allah’s sake and for Allah’s sake.
It is understood that the following symptoms are seen in a person who experiences the love of Allah:
The following signs are seen in a person who loves Allah:
1- A person who loves Allah takes his religion seriously, takes the orders of his religion as a crown and fulfills the requirements of his religion. S/he does not neglect the fards. S/he tries to increase his supererogatory(nafila) prayers.
2- A person who loves Allah will be humble towards believers and dignified towards unbelievers.
3- A person who loves Allah works for Allah in the way of Allah and strives to live and glorify Allah’s religion.
4- A person who loves Allah does not hold back from living his religion for fear that people will talk back and forth.
5- A person who loves Allah obeys the Sunnah of the Prophet (ﷺ) as best s/he can.
6- A person who loves Allah hears for Allah, sees for Allah, holds for Allah, walks for Allah, seeks and desires Allah’s approval in his/her deeds.
7- A person who loves Allah, loves friends of Allah for the sake of Allah.
8- A person who loves Allah gets on well with his wife, family, children, mother, father, relatives, neighbours, and Muslims. S/he is forgiving and merciful. S/he doesn’t harm anyone. S/he tries to increase his goodness.
Prayer
My Allah! Help us on the day of reckoning! Do not withhold your mercy on us on the day of reckoning! Forgive us on the day of reckoning! Bring us to the intercession of our Beloved Prophet (pbuh) on the day of reckoning! Do not embarrass us on the day of reckoning! Don’t hold us accountable for what we forgot and what we made a mistake. Our Lord! Don’t put a heavy load on us. Our Lord! Don’t burden us with things we can’t afford! forgive us! forgive us! Have mercy on us! Don’t judge us by our faults and flaws! You are our Mawla!
Ameen… Ameen… Ameen…
Footnotes:
1- Surah Maida: 54
2- Riyad as-Salihin 386
3- Sahih al-Bukhari 16, Book 2, Hadith 9
