Love in Islam

                                 

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem "In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful":

As salaam alaykom ramatullah wa barakto "May the peace of Allah be upon you, and His mercy and blessings"
Yes, I fell in love with U not coz God or the beauty of U, Ur property..I fell in love bcoz Satan..

 

Once upon a time, a man "A" came to meet a woman. The women are the most 'hot' on campus because it has a photogenic looks, beautiful, charming and most people love her because she is sexy and rich. But unfortunately, she is not Muslim.

First, let me tell you about men "A". A man is the son of a Dato. The important thing is this guy is rich, handsome, stylish. Goes to campus use the luxury cars with own driver.

Alice: Why you want to come see me?

Men A: I already love you.

Alice: (looking at the man with the sinister) reason?

Men's A: Because you pretty. Anyone who looks at a glance you would not be satisfied. Would you be my girfriend?

Alice: But ..

Men A: Do not worry Alice. I have it all,wealth, real happiness and what do you want just say, I can give.

Alice: Excuse me, I have a class. (She is deliberately making excuses)

A week later, another man came to this hot woman. Men B. That this, he looks a bit islamic. He wear Malay cloth and songkok. But, we do not know her heart. bytheway,we must think well.

Alice: Hmm, what?

Men's B: hi. (That man said gently)

Alice: (quite speechless for a moment) Waalaikumsalam. Why do you want to come see me?

Men's B: I ... I ...

Alice: Why? tell me ..

Men's B: I love you ..

Alice: why?

Men's B: Do causal?

Alice: Yes. Because I never knew you, comes - you arrive at falling in love..

Men's B: Well, I love you because God has created feelings of love in my heart for you.

Alice: Owh. (The woman looked at his watch) Sorry, I have a study group. Next time we chat again.

And men B left alone with no response from the girl.

The next week, she was approached by another man. men C. This time, the men's C of ordinary appearance and simple. Her face is not handsome but there was something on his face. I do not know what. The woman smilling at that man because she was sure that this man would be talking the same thing.

Alice: I know why you want to come see me ..

Men's C: (dazed for a moment) You already know?

Alice: Why not? Do you love me?

Male C: Yeah, I love you.

Alice: (smiling sarcastically) Well, why? God has bring a feeling of love in your heart for me?

Men's C: (only able to submit)

Alice: Why silent? or .. you fall in love due to my appearance to me is sexy..or i was daugther to the a person.

Men's C: By Allah, all was not right. (Man C turned into a firm). Yes, it's true I love you Kat, but not for God or for your beauty, your wealth .. I fell in love because of Satan's Doom. Satan who encouraged me to chase you. Anywhere you go, my eyes will follow you. Curly hair flying when the wind blows you, I think I feel no calm. Your face ever come play in my soul I do not want it.I increasingly drift. The more engrossed.

Alice: (speechless) What do you want?

Men's C: I do not want any. Perhaps the only bit of sympathy. Only if your willing.Excuse me, I beg you to pass.

Alice: Wait a bit, who is your name? How do I help you?

Men's C: My name is.. ah, do not qualify I want to tell you. Indeed I have borrowed the name is so precious. I'm sure you know what you want done. Excuse me, I could not want to linger here .. Satan is always whisper evil things to the human ear.Salamu'alaikum.

Alice only saw the steps of the man without a word.

Two years later.

Akif rest on the platform her house while inhaling the fresh morning. Suddenly he is greeted by his mother.

Mother: Akif, the mother not wait to watch Akif married. Akif does'nt have own sweetheart?

Akif: I do not know mother. Difficult for us to find a partner who really standing on a firm foundation.

Mother: Akif, the mother understood. It's hard to find people like it, if any, a small ratio. Humans is swallowed currents drifted the world. The more modern, more and forget our responsibilities as Muslims. But Akif, we could also be a transformer.

Akif: Mother .. Akif understand. God willing, the mother, Akif will find a girl .. if she did not like the Akif expect, Akif that will shape him, change him. Akif mother would try to execute the request.

Mom: (smiling) Akif, I think, I was pleased with this girl. She was nice and sweet person. Her work is honorable. She worked as a teacher at the Islamic school. Posted mother talked with her parents. They are really good.

Akif: Who is she, mother? who's her name?

Mother: Alissa Zakiyyah Nur ...

A week before the engagement. At that time, at home Noor Alissa Zakiyyah. Akif first new there. He came to houses that really big and spacious. That home is also interesting with the landscape is so organized. Somewhat frenetic atmosphere. Akif mother was in the house may be busy helping others prepare food lunch together.

Akif walked to a corner of the page, but the pace was stopped when hhe saw a soft green veil while wearing baju kurung.. I do not know what kind of material is as modern compositions by age. The girl was as he had ever seen in a photograph. Photos provided by his mother. Could it be his fiance?

Akif ventured to accost her.

Akif: Assalamualaikum.

Alissa: Wa'alaikumsalam. (Alissa smiled then turned Akif)

Akif: Are you Nur Alissa Zakiyyah?

Alissa: And you Akif Rahman? (Alissa question without first answering the question Akif)

Akif: yes. Akif Rahman Bin Razaq. You have not answered my question ..

Alissa: Hum .. finally ...

Akif: (Akif surprised) Why? Have we ever meet or get to know?

Alissa: Yes.

Akif: "Who are you? (Full Akif asked puzzled)

Alissa: My name is Alissa Zakiyyah binti Aziz Nur. I was Alice.

Akif: (amazed) Praise be to God. You already changed, I just do not cam crew. How can you be like this?

Alissa: Are not you a bit of sympathy from me asking?

Akif: Alice ... 

Alissa: Akif, I already fell in love with you. Here long ..

Akif: why?

Alissa: I love you because of your religion is ...

 

Akif just smiled .. :)

 

Married woman (to be wife) for four of her property, lineage, beauty and religion.Then prioritize (in what you choose) is deeply religious woman, would you live peace. (Hadith narrated by Bukhari and Muslim)

 

Praise be to Allah. We bear witness that there is only one god who has no partners beside Him, and we bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and messenger.

Praise be to Allah who blessed us with the guidance of His prophets and messengers. Praise be to Allah whose Mercy encompasses everything. Praise be to Allah who knows our needs and answers our calls and brings peace to our hearts.

Praise be to Allah who breathed into us of His Spirit and placed the light of His guidance in our inmost being. Whomever Allah guides, no one can misguide, and whomever Allah misguides, no one can guide. We put our trust in Allah and seek His forgiveness, aid, and support.

A man once came to the Prophet (puh) and asked him about the hereafter. The Prophet asked him, “ And what have you prepared for that time? ” The man replied, “ Nothing, except that I love Allah and I love you. ” The Prophet (puh) answered him, “ You are with the ones you love. ”

Dear brothers and sisters, the guidance of Islam is the guidance of love. The innate, natural and ancient religion that is Islam is the religion of love. The Prophet (puh) came to guide us to love and to make clear the love that is at the core of all religion. Our purpose as human beings is to consciously manifest Allah ' s love in our lives. This is the most significant meaning of Khilafa and Ibada that can bring purpose to us and transform our lives. When we reflect upon the history of the Prophet (puh) and the spread of his message we will realize that Islam could not have taken root in the world without the love that filled the heart of the Prophet and was clearly manifest in his way of relating and interacting with people that brought out their own deep and profound love for him. Without this mutual and abiding love, none of us would be here today. Without this love Islam would not have been possible.

Today, it seems that we too often hear and read much that is harsh and heartless about Islam and not enough that is loving and beautiful. There seems to be too many messages of prejudice, literalism, legalism, violence, and oppression. The superficiality, ugliness and darkness that is too prevalent in today ' s Islamic discourse is nothing like what the Prophet brought us.

I would like to share with you part of the first sermon ever given by the Prophet (puh) in Medina. This is what he had to say to his companions,

“ Verily, the best discourse is the Book of Allah. One is truly successful whose heart Allah has adorned with the love of His Book, and whom, after living in denial, Allah has caused to enter into submission to Him, and caused him to prefer His Book above any human discourse. The Book of Allah is the most beautiful and eloquent of discourses.

Love that which Allah loves! Love Allah with all your hearts! Grow not weary of hearing the Word of Allah. Do not stop remembering Him. Do not let your hearts grow hard toward Him. For verily, Allah has preferred His Book above all of Creation. Indeed, Allah has endowed it with guidance to the best of deeds, and made it an example for the elect of His servants, and filled it with righteous discourse, and has made clear in it what is lawful and unlawful for you.

So, serve Allah alone, and associate with Him no other. Be ever conscious of Him. Be truthful to Allah in what you utter from your mouths. Let the Spirit of Allah be the source of love between you. ”

Can you hear the love in his words? Can you hear his urgent call to our hearts? Can you sense the profound purpose in his teaching?

Love is so central to Islam that without it there can be no real faith. The Quran tells us clearly what following the Prophet is about,

“ Say, if you love Allah, then follow me and Allah will love you greatly and forgive your sins for Allah is forgiving and merciful …”

 

And even more decisively it says to the people of faith that,

“ O you who have faith whoever among you turns back from his religion Allah will surely bring forth a people He loves and who love Him who are humble before the faithful and exalted before the deniers. They strive in the way of Allah and fear no blame from any blamers. This is the favor of Allah, He bestows it on whomever He wills. For Allah is all-encompassing, all-knowing! ”

 

In these two tremendous verses we can understand some remarkable things. We can understand that faith and faithfulness are defined as love between God and the people of faith. A Mu ' min is one who is deeply and profoundly in love with God. It is this love that motivates us to strive, to seek, to turn back to Allah, to give up our worldly attachments and return to our Rabb. It is this love that gives us the power and strength to face the various trials of our faith throughout our lives. It is this love that teaches us humility, compassion, trust, obedience and honesty. It is this love that enables us to sacrifice, to give of ourselves and of our possessions for the sake of God. It is this love that opens us to submission, to Islam. We can also understand that this relationship of love is a special, precious gift bestowed by God upon us. Without His will and generosity we would be heedless of His love in our hearts. We can also understand that the abandoning of religion in the context of this Ayah is to turn away from love because the consequence of this abandonment is that God promises to replace us with people who have this relationship of love with Him. And we can understand that the way to God ' s love is to follow the Prophet (puh), to be in his footsteps, to strive to be like him and in this striving our love is made greater and greater by God.

In a Sacred Tradition Allah says,

“ I was a hidden treasure and I loved to be known so I created heaven and earth that I may be known. ”

One of Allah ' s names, one of His attributes, is Al Wajid. This word has several meanings among them is to bring into existence. It also has the meaning of intense, existential love. Reflecting upon this divine name, we can see that there is a relationship between love and creation. And reflecting upon the sacred tradition we can see that God ' s love to be known is the primary reason for creation. In this way we can come to a truly profound insight; Allah ' s love is the very cause of existence. We are alive today because of His love, the whole Universe is here because of His love.

The relationship of love between us and Allah, between us and others, and between us and all of creation is essential to reaching our full potential as human beings. When we nourish our hearts with love, when we manifest Allah ' s love in our lives; with our families, with our friends, in our work, in our prayers, in everything that we do, the entire meaning of life changes for us and our own experience of our humanness is transformed; we become adorned with the beautiful characteristics of the Prophet.

This is the meaning of following in the footsteps of the Prophet (puh); we follow him by adorning ourselves with the qualities of his noble character. We follow him by striving to become like him in our humanness, in our quality of relationships, in our conduct in society, in our service to humanity.

The noble character of the Prophet (puh) has been best explained by his cousin, Jaffar Ibn Abu Talib, when he was asked by the King of Abbysinia to explain his religion. Jaffar replied:

“ We were a people lost in ignorance. We worshipped idols, we back-stabbed one another in gossip, we committed sins without shame, we severed the bonds of mercy among us, and we were unkind neighbors. The strong among us devoured the weak. Thus we were until Allah sent to us a messenger from among ourselves, well-known to us in his nobility, honesty, trustworthiness, and tenderness. He called us to unity and to devoting our worship to Allah alone and to removing the idols from our hearts. He commanded us to be truthful when we spoke, and to fulfill our trust, and to preserve the bonds of mercy among us, and to be kind neighbors, and to desist from violating what is sacred. He called us to turn back from our sins, and from falsehood, and from devouring the wealth of orphans, and from defaming honorable women. So we believed in him and in his message and we followed what he received from his Lord. ”

Brothers and sisters, the Sunnah of the Prophet is about the kind of character that manifests God ' s love in existence. His Sunnah is that which ennobles us, that which transforms us into better human beings. It ' s about becoming kind and tender human beings who are deeply and profoundly in love with God.

The Prophet's love, awe, and longing for Allah comes through with overwhelming clarity when we reflect upon his prayers. Here is just one example:

"O my God make me love You, make me love those who love You, make me love all things that bring me closer to loving You. O my God, make me love You, and Your angels, and Your prophets, and all of Your creation. O my God, make my love for You dearer to me than myself, and my family, and my wealth, and my children, and from cool, pure water to the thirsty."

May Allah bless us with His love, and the love of those who love Him. May Allah fill our hearts with love. Allah bless Prophet Muhammad, his family, and companions. Peace be with you and Allah ' s mercy.

“ Among people there are those who take others as equal besides Allah. They love them as they would love Allah. But those who have faith love Allah more than anything else. ”

 

You remember in the first part of this Khutba that the Prophet (puh) told the man who came to him, “ You are with those you love. ” The Prophet wasn ' t just being nice to this man, he was teaching him and us something very important. He was making clear that love is the ultimate test of our worthiness as human beings. And he was giving us a way to understand about our own love. To know what it is that we really love.

We are with what we love. Whatever we love is what is closest to us. What is most often thought of and remembered by us, what is most sought by us, that ' s what we love. So, what is it that we remember the most? What occupies our attention the most? What do we wish for the most? Let us be honest with ourselves, do we think of Allah most of the time? Or are we thinking of other things most of the time. Where is our attention? Is it on God or is it on the countless other things that occupy us and distract us from our real purpose?

If we can examine ourselves honestly and know what we love then we have taken a major step forward. If we find that what we love is Allah then we are blessed with a great gift for which all praise is due to Allah. But if what we love is other than Allah, then at least we know and we have the opportunity to seek to change what is in our hearts.

A reliable test of how true our love is for Allah is to see how much we are able to serve others and to give of ourselves generously and openly for Allah ' s sake. This is one of the most important truths: The quality of our faith is reflected in our intention, attitudes, and behavior.

How do we do this? How do we clear our hearts of our love and attachment for all these things that are other than Allah? How do we get rid of our pre-occupation with all the other captivating distractions that compete for our attention? How do we become among those who “… love Allah more than anything else ” ? We can find the answer in the Quran and the way of our Prophet (puh) and it is the remembrance of God because it is in the constant remembrance of God that our hearts can find stillness and intimacy can develop. As we are guided in the Quran:

13:28 “… It is through remembrance of God that hearts find rest ”

In the Quran Allah promises us,

2:152 “ Remember Me, I shall remember you. ”

Our remembrance of Allah is His remembrance of us. Our call to Him is His answer to us. Remembrance is the way of intimacy with Allah.

In a Sacred Tradition, Allah says, “ I am as my worshipper thinks I am. I am with him when he remembers Me … if he seeks closeness to Me by as little as an inch, I come closer to him by a yard. And if he seeks closeness to Me by a yard, I come closer to him by a mile. And if he comes to Me walking, I come to him running. ”

In another Sacred Tradition Allah says, “ My worshipper can get close to me with nothing better than what I have made obligatory. And as he continues to get closer with selfless acts of giving I love him. And when I love him, I become his hearing, his sight, his hands, and his feet. And whatever he asks of Me, I shall give him and whatever aid he seeks of Me, I shall aid him …”

So, Allah ' s grace multiplies with our sincere efforts and honest intention to come closer to Him. Whatever we give to Him comes back manifold to us. In this way, little by little, our love for Allah grows and develops and it transforms us into loving, noble human beings.

We get close to Allah by serving Him, by being for His sake, by learning to make our intentions purely for Him, by learning to become a little less selfish and a lot more giving.

The Prophet (puh) once told his dear companion, Muazh Ibn Jabal, “ Muazh, I do love you! ” Muazh replied, “ And I love you, Messenger of Allah, more dearly than my own father and mother! ” The Prophet then instructed Muazh, “ Do not end a prayer without asking Allah to help you remember Him, to be thankful to Him, and to serve Him in the best of ways. ”

As we continue to live our lives in remembrance of Allah our capacity for love will grow, our hearts will expand and we will reach our full human potential inshallah.

The intimacy and love that develops in us with our remembrance and other selfless acts of service is a mystery and a wonder.

Allah says in a Sacred Tradition, “ I have prepared for my righteous servants what no eye has seen, nor ear has heard, nor been imagined by any human heart …”

May Allah bless us with His merciful guidance to His straight path. May He bless us with His love. Allah we seek refuge in You from hearts that are not humble, and egos that are never satisfied, and eyes that do not weep, and prayers that are not answered, and works that are not elevated.

Allah, bless us with wholesome hearts, grateful tongues, and obedient bodies. Do not let us forget You. Do not deny us loving You. Allah, preserve us and protect us. Be merciful with us. Increase our blessings and support us. O You who has ability over all things.

Allah, bless Your beloved servant, and the light of our hearts, our master and friend Muhammad, the noble and pure Prophet and bless his family, companions, and followers. May we become his companions in this world and in the other world, and peace be upon you and Allah ' s mercy and blessings.

Rise to prayer that Allah may have mercy on us all.May Allah Guide us to straight path AMEEN.

When We Pray.....
ALLAH Hears More Than We Say .....
HE Answers More Than We Ask .....
HE Gives More Than We Imagine .....
But....In His Own Time ...In His Own Way ....

So, Have Faith In ALLAH ..
Thank ALLAH For What You Have ...
Trust ALLAH For What U Need ....