Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Love for Allah
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ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada speaks about his love
in the Quran, in a number of places Inshallah, we're going to
try to understand what we need to do and how we're supposed to be
able to
inshallah achieve and acquire the love of Allah subhanho wa taala.
Because look, Allah subhanaw taala says, While arena aminu assured do
have been Lilla those people who believe those people who have
Iman, they are most intense in the love for Allah subhanho wa Taala
so the question that we have to ask ourselves is, are we intense
in the love of Allah subhana wa Tada?
And how do we achieve this if we're not there? Because for a
person to be a true believer, one of the signs that Allah subhanaw
taala is mentioning here is that they are intensely in love with
Allah.
To understand love,
it will take too long to give a detailed exposition of what love
means. But even in our common understanding of love, what do you
think it means? When you love something? What do you do for it
when you love? Somebody? You told me what do you When you love
somebody? What do you what happens to you? What are the few things
that happened to you give me give me some ideas?
You guys never loved anybody. Come on, man.
You give sacrifice. That's one number two.
Can you communicate often you want to speak to them as much as
possible? was number one number one. Obey? Yeah, to a certain
degree? Yes. Depends. Yes. So sorry. closeness, you want to be
as close as possible always. Because when you love someone,
then you want to be close to them by body.
So yes, closeness and proximity. So you get an idea that when you
love someone, then you want to do these things. So you want to obey
them. You want to be close to them.
You want to speak to them a lot. You want to be communicating with
them as often as possible. So these are all signs that you love
somebody. So what about if you claim you love somebody, but none
of these things happen? You don't really, really want to meet them.
You don't even try to meet them. You don't try to communicate with
them. Then can you imagine what kind of love that is? So if the
people of iman are supposed to be most intense in their love for
Allah subhanaw taala because they value their faith, and they
understand where it's coming from. They understand that it's coming
from Allah subhanho wa taala, who is their Creator? Who is their
nourisher? Who is the one who gives them everything that they
have and everything that they will need and then they will need him
in the hereafter because he's mighty Kiyomi Dean, then they
should love him.
Now let's ask the questions. You're the ones who said that sign
the signs of love is communication, feeding close,
obeying, how much do we feel close to Allah? How much? Are we obeying
Him
in the way to express our love? Do we want to be close to him? with
Allah subhanho wa Taala Allah subhanaw taala tells us that
you need to pray five times a day, which we know
the way I look at it is that slowly slowly, you know, when you
don't know somebody who's got a lot of qualities, and you're
ignorant about them, then it's very difficult to to acknowledge
and appreciate them.
When you when you when there is someone who you don't know too
much about, it's very difficult for you to appreciate it. That's
why companies put information and brochures, they send out brochures
to you. They have a website in which they detail they have
frequently asked questions. They tell you about different people's
experiences, what they tried to do, they are trying to tell you
the value of their product, how it helps you how it's beneficial for
you how great it is, what quality it is. That's what they do on a
poster to
promote a product you're going to mention the most salient features
of why it should be helpful to you.
When they've done that, and you've then started reading it and you
start seeing all of these benefits are okay if you have a Tesla car
then you don't need to you know put petrol inside is better for
the environment. It doesn't make any noise it goes zero to 16. So
I'm just making all of this up. Right, but I'm assuming that's
what they say.
Right, I'm assuming that that's what they say, when you start
hearing this and you thought, yeah, that's wonderful, I should
get a Tesla as well. The only thing that's bothering you then is
the price. Right? But otherwise, I mean, you'd like to have a Tesla
because you've got so many qualities, right? So basically,
once you started understanding something, then you develop a love
towards it, the more you know about it. So don't you do think
that one of the reasons why our love for Allah has shortcoming, is
because we don't know enough about him.
We don't know enough about him. Allah subhanaw taala wants us to
read the Quran because that's where ALLAH is revealed. That is
where Allah subhanaw taala tells us who he is. And then after that,
he wants us to pray five times a day with an understanding of the
Quran if, if possible, that makes you get closer to Allah. Then he
wants us that when it was like everybody I knew for Indian
Corrib, that when my companions are met, when my people, my
servants ask about me, then tell them, I'm very close to you, then
he wants us to ask him when we need of something. And then he
gives us and we're supposed to acknowledge that these are all
various different means of us getting closer to Allah so that we
can start to love him.
When a person begins to love Allah, they start feeling better
in their prayer. They, when they go in Salah to no longer will they
perform it just because they must do and they fear that they'll be
punished or they will be a bad Muslim, if they don't. The reason
they pray them is because they love Allah, they want to be with
him. And that's why I remember one of the seven people in the shade
on the Day of Judgment is the one whose heart is constantly in the
place of prayer. Because he's always wondering, when's the next
time I can go and speak to Allah. It's just like, I have to go to
work. Now. I'll call you after work and you just can't wait that
your work finishes, then you're allowed to take your mobile out
and speak to your beloved. I'll call you a bit later I have to go
now, right? You speak until the last second to you actually go
into your office, right or until you go into your classroom,
they'll call you back straight out. As soon as you get out. You
want to, it's in your mind, it's always there in your mind. That's
what you call love of something. And the few people who have that
kind of love for Allah subhanaw taala will be in the shade on the
Day of Judgment. Now, then, the other thing we do for Allah
subhanaw taala is that in the month of Ramadan, especially when
you have the long hours in summer. What makes it easier to fast is if
you love Allah, it's a bit more difficult to fast if you don't
know why you're fasting, if you're doing it just as an obligation.
But if you understand why you must first and you love Allah, then
staying hungry for your beloved becomes easy.
Allah subhanaw taala then chooses a select amount of people to bring
to his house, one of the signs of one of the signs of love is you
want to be close. You've been speaking on the phone for such a
long time. Right? You've been speaking in the prayer for a long
time. Now you want to be able to close so now you can go to the
local Masjid. But the ultimate experience of this is to go to the
haram.
Now do you understand why people go seven times around the Kaaba? A
lot of people ask why do you do the waffle? Why seven times? Why
do you go around? What are you doing in that time? The people who
really love Allah subhanaw taala they understand that that's what
it is, is to go around the house of Allah, this is the closest you
will get to something linked to Allah subhanaw taala because the
beta Allah the house of Allah, that is a major expression of
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tadas manifestation because it's his
house. So we're allowed to go around there, then you get a few
people who are then allowed to go so close, that they get to touch
they get to kiss the Blackstone, humans like to kiss things. It
shows an expression. So while we don't have shake, while the stone
has no benefits,
that's why oh my god Allah and said, I know that the stones have
no benefits. But the reason we kiss you is because Allah so that
we the prophets of Allah told us to do this. This is just a human's
expression of what they want to do. So the reward you get for
kissing the Blackstone is all of your sins get forgiven. Then the
prophets of Allah Islam, he Do you remember what he did? He went to
the militarism. There's the door of the Kaaba and the Blackstone.
And between that that area next to the door of the Kaaba, next to the
Blackstone, that is called militarism. That's where the
Prophet sallallahu Sallam went, he put his chest there, he put his
cheek there, and he cried out, and he cried them made dua to Allah
subhanaw taala that is considered to be a very worthy deed. But
again, you can show that that is an expression of love. When a
person goes there, they break down, they fall down in emotion
and they start crying. And that's why they don't want to let go and
all the people who are standing behind this thing Hurry up, hurry
up, hurry up.
And it's it's a very, it's a very emotional moment that is, but
these are all expressions of love for Allah subhana wa Tada. But to
be able to develop that and get to that level, then we need to
develop the love of Allah subhanaw taala like that. Now let us
understand what the ALLAH SubhanA does just to give you an
understanding of generally what we mean by loving someone
How we can love Allah subhanho wa Taala like that, how do we then
develop the love of Allah? In the short time that we have, I'm going
to go through quickly what the Quran says let's just speak from
the Quran today and see what Allah subhanaw taala is telling us,
first and foremost, Allah subhanho wa Taala says this in a hadith al
Kotze, the prophets of Allah some relates from Allah directly. Allah
said, Man Takara, Ilya Chevron, the courage to leave Iran, whoever
comes close to me just by one handspun just got a bit close to
Allah you make, what that means is you make an effort, you make a bit
of an effort. And Allah subhanaw taala says that I will come closer
to him a hand span.
So you go, you come close hand span, Allah will come at arm's
length. That's what he says, burn, I come and arms and I'm willing to
give you more Allah says, then any endeavor you make, but I want an
excuse from you, I want you to show me that you're trying
something. So I'm out of love for Allah, I pull out my tsp while
I've got a break at work, and I do a bit of TSP, I pick up the Quran,
and I read a bit on my mobile phone or on an app or something
like that. I want to show my love to Allah subhanaw taala because I
just remember, look what Allah has given me. Look at this great job
that Allah has given me. Look at these great clothing that Allah
has given me. Look at the great place that I have, the
satisfaction that I have, the great family that I have, whatever
it is that you get excited about. And you say, Allah gave me this,
thank you, Allah. And then you want to do some vicar to Allah
subhanaw taala that is what you call, coming close to Allah.
That's all Allah wants from us. Show me your love, Allah says, and
I will show you even greater love. And we wonder why we think we
don't love Allah because we don't make the effort in the beginning.
We want him to love us first. Allah loves us His love is
unconditional. Allah says even if you're sinful, he still calls us
His servants. You know, when parents get angry on their
children. Imagine there's a mother at home and he's she's been
bothered by her by the children all day when the father comes home
from work. The mother, what does she generally say to the husband?
Your son did this. Your daughter was doing this? Well, isn't it
your daughter as well? Isn't it your son as well? Not today. You
know, she doesn't even want to call them my son or my daughter.
She's complaining to your son, your daughter. So she's kind of
disowning them for the moment. Of course mothers have great love
they eventually that they make they gone love them again
afterwards, but with Allah subhanaw taala he says Coolio,
everybody. Alladhina so for Allah unforeseen la takana to me
Rahmatullah Oh my servants who have aggressed against themselves,
who have transgressed against themselves, my servants who have
transgressed against themselves, don't become despondent of Allah's
mercy, Allah is there Allah is waiting for him to give us. Allah
subhanaw taala wants to give us he just wants an excuse. Let's give
him excuses. So then it says, Whoever comes close to me a hand
span, I come close to him a cubit. Whoever comes close to me a cubed,
a cubed is a is the arm's length. Then I come to him to answers. So
you give him this much, he gives you that much, woman attorney EMC
a day to her Wollaton, whoever comes walking to me, I'll come to
him running. Allah doesn't run. These are things that are muted
shall be hot, but Allah is saying, you just make an excuse. Just give
me an excuse and you come a bit closer. I'll do the rest of the
work for you.
You do the bit, I'll do the rest. Subhanallah What a beautiful way
that Allah subhanho wa Taala explains it. Now another Hadith
again. sahih Hadith in Sahih al Bukhari it says,
The Prophet sallallahu sallam said that Allah said, while ASR da da
da caribou, La Bete, noire, Phil Hatta or hippo.
See, in order to even start getting close to Allah, there is
one condition that you can't say that I love you and then each time
I'm disobeying your orders, because remember, obeying is
considered to be according to what we understand obeying is supposed
to be a sign of you loving someone. Now if I tell you, I love
you, but I never do what you what you told me to do, I never do it,
I'm always i and even if I do it, it's like half mine did half
baked, it's not with my heart and you know it, then you're gonna
understand that I don't really love you. And this is where a lot
of the husband wife relationships break down. Because they don't
express themselves. They don't do what the other what makes the
other person happy. So Allah subhanaw taala, the basic
condition to begin to love Allah and for him to love you to prove
it is to at least try to fulfill the obligations and to stay away
from the harms.
Now, as you know, even your best friend if they make a mistake, and
they apologize, and they're your best friend, will you not forgive
them?
Will you not feel soft hearted against them? Especially if you
are soft hearted person to start with? If you're a generous person
to start with, if you're a stubborn person, it's a different
story.
with Allah subhanho wa taala, he's the most generous, he is the most
compassionate, he is the most.
Here, he is the most Haleem. He is the most Karim. And he has all of
the attributes that you would love to have in a friend. He has all of
those attributes.
And he has every he has, he also has all of these attributes that
you wouldn't want to see in any enemy either. But we're not
talking about that side. Allah is the Munduk him he is the kahar as
well. But he has everything you would love in anyone that you want
to be close to. He is so tolerant, so tolerant, that he's willing to
forgive people
reject Him, they criticize him, they insult him, he still gives
them food, he still gives them dunya.
So Allah subhanaw taala
in order for us to get even,
to basically prove that we love Him, we must try to follow the
obligation must try to make our solid must try to do what he wants
us to do. Of course, if we can't do it, and we're always making
excuses, like genuine excuse that inshallah I'll do it, I'll do it,
I'll do it. Right, then that is better than saying I'm never gonna
do it. Look, some people they can't for example, you know, you
have some sisters, they can't wear hijab right now. Or some brothers
they can't do certain obligations right now the hedges why'd you ban
them hedges necessary on them, they've got enough money, but
they're not going because maybe they can't get time off work or
whatever. But they feel bad. I would love to come. I would love
to get a job but I just don't have the strength yet. Inshallah this
person tomorrow here will be able to do it.
Tomorrow they will be able to do it because you've got a desire.
But if you say look, you know what?
I don't No need to do this stuff.
In my situation, I don't need to do it. So the first obligation is
to try as best as you can to fulfill the obligations and to
stay away from the harm and if you make a mistake do Toba. Simple as
that. Then the Hadith says after that Wallah your sidewalk the
caribou Ilia benowa video hit that hit bow after that a person comes
closer and closer to me the more Noah feelin optional deeds that
they do. So you go and you help out somebody, you go and you give
some sadaqa you go and you do some extra Noah, Phil prayer, you keep
some Nephal fasts, you go and helping a relief organization, you
help in a masjid, you help some poor people, you help somebody on
the street with a good intention for Allah all of these are
optional acts, the more you do the closer you get. And the closer you
get, the more Allah starts giving you that's what you have to
remember.
For either up to now what is the benefit of Allah loving a person?
What do you get? What do we get if Allah begins to love us now, for
either up to hook on to some I will let the yes man will be a
boss Allah who led the up Ruby. Then Allah says that if I
agree to love someone, then I will become the hearing from which
through which they hear the site by which they see. And it
continues the hand by which they touch the feet by which they walk.
What does that mean? It means you know the the how tough we find it,
to make sure that we avoid Listen, avoid listening to haram and
speaking bad things and doing bad things, looking at bad things.
Once Allah begins to love us, then he protects us in all of these
things. Because he's saying, I'm going to take over this, the Olia
Allah, the friends of Allah, those who have become his lovers and
he's become their who's loved he who he loves, then they are
generally protected for the most part.
They are they become protected, things become easier than you will
still have challenges. But it'll be easier to deal with your mind
will be more confident you'd have more your clean, you'd have more
your clean and conviction that now I can deal with this issue. That
is the benefit of loving Allah enough that he loves you. And
remember from the earlier Hadith, we know that you just have to love
him a bit, show a bit of your expression of love for him to love
you even more. So it's not that difficult, but we need to make an
effort. The way you show sacrifice is am I willing to give up
something else that I love for the love of Allah? That's the
sacrifice. It's easy when there's no competition. It's easy when
there's no competition to do something. But when there's other
things which are challenging you and then you still say no, no, no,
I'm not going to go out with my friends right now because I have
to pray. Or I'm going to make sure I pray even though
it's difficult and I'm going to miss my football match my soccer
match. Do you see what I'm saying? How do you express your love to
Allah subhanaw taala
another thing which is very useful to get to love Allah is the two
hours must noon two hours you know
The doors for eating the doors for sleeping the doors for using the
bathroom, the doors for riding a car, the doors for everything,
because they all make us remember Allah. So they get they get us to
start thinking about Allah all the time.
You know what, when I go to my wardrobe
and I see mashallah, all my clothing, they're nice and ironed.
Right? When I see all my clothing nice and ironed, and I take one, I
give the art to my wife.
Because to have all of those clothes in there nicely I and that
I can go and pick whichever I want. If I don't think I'm being
ungrateful.
The minimum she needs from me is that I make to offer.
Right? Likewise for anything somebody does for you, shouldn't
you be thanking them? They don't have to even know the more one is
you go and thank the brother, thank you very much. Or you say to
your wife, thank you very much. That's one thing makes them happy.
But even more powerful than that is to make dua to Allah for them.
Because that goes even further.
To understand, so Allah who has given us all of these things, why
should we thank him?
Why shouldn't we thank him.
It's the same kind of thing. So that's why in when when we are
eating, we start in the name of Allah. When we finish, we say
Alhamdulillah Hindi, Armand was a corner which anonymously mean all
praises to Allah Who gave us to eat,
or gave us to drink, and who made us Muslim. So we're thanking
Allah. But at least we're thinking of Allah at that time, the
thinking is thinking, when you start, you say, Bismillah Baraka
Tila, in the name of Allah, and with the blessing of Allah. So the
whole point is, this is a blessing of Allah, you know, the entire
universe, the entire world is a book, the nature around us is an
open book.
So when you look at the heavens, and you look at the skies, and we
look at the water, you look at the fruits that Allah has created for
us, you look at the trees and everything else. All of this is
the book of nature, which is essentially the book of Allah.
All of these things are the book of Allah. What do I mean by that?
I'm feeling thirsty, and I've got this water here. Or imagine you've
got a nice apple,
or a nice mango, whatever you like, nice strawberries. One is
that when you see that you feel like you really want to eat it,
mashallah, we have some nice cake here who made this cake by the
way, anybody here?
Know, whoever made it, but it looks really nice. And if I feel
that I've got a sugar craving, it's gonna, I'm gonna really want
to eat this.
You know what I should first do when I see that Apple, I should
think this is a sign of Allah. This is a sign to Allah, the
Creator of it. If you look at the fruits, every fruit is designed
differently. There's somebody who I think I know who became Muslim
because of just pondering over fruits, that no way this could
have been created randomly. If you look at all of the different
fruits, just amazing. Just look at an orange.
You have the outer peel, a nice orange actually makes you feel
that you wanted, it looks so sumptuous and so juicy. It has a
citrus color, which is of like orange, you unpack that. You peel
that. And then you've got all of the segments of the orange, all of
the nice slices already naturally slice for you. Right? And you put
they're all they're all together, you take one apart, and you have
all of this fiber around it. Right? You take the one individual
segment and you open it and it's not just some kind of lump of
fruit inside. But again, it's very neatly packed smaller segments.
Then the water that the liquid in the and the fiber in there, how
it's brought together. It's amazing.
It's amazing. Look at the watermelon. It's mostly water.
That's why you generally get it bigger.
Has anybody ever had durian
in Malaysia?
Amazing. I know some people don't like it, but I was just amazed by
the way it would look it was a spiky outer skin which is hard you
cut it open and it's quite thick. The skin is like a protective
layer you cut it out and it has these compartments inside where
this really soft, creamy fruit is inside with a seed and that fruit
is so creamy that you take out the seed and you eat the fruit and it
melts in your mouth. But Allah created with all of this nice skin
around it to protect it. Look at the strawberry it has small seeds
that you can hardly tell but then you can taste them. Look at the
shape of it. Have you seen Have you seen a fig recently?
Have you seen a fig I was just in Turkey and I bought some figs you
open it under amazing kind of brain
Unlike structure inside, it's amazing. Allah Subhan Allah this
is all a book of Allah. So when we see when we're drinking water next
we say this is a sign of Allah. This is true which gives life then
the secondary reason, the secondary reason for the fruit
that you eat. The second reason is that it's for your nourishment.
The first reason is that it's assigned to Allah.
So then when I drink this water
that I think Allah, this tells me who Allah is a number two, it
feeds me. But remember the next time you look at any fruit, think
of Allah first. That's the primary reason. The secondary reason is
that it's to feed you and give you pleasure. And if you see that you
will appreciate it more.
Finally, Allah subhanho wa Taala said this in the Lavina ermine,
while I'm in a solidly healthy sage I Lulu humo Rahman woulda
those people who believe and who do good deeds, Allah, in fact not
Allah. He doesn't mention Allah he says Rockman the Most Merciful One
will place love for them.
Allah loves all of those who do good deeds, who are believers to
do good deeds. You just have to give him that excuse of doing the
good deeds. And Allah subhanho wa Taala will love you. This is in
surah Meriam verse 96, it's there.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
when Allah begins to love somebody he told us what the sign is when
Allah begins to love somebody. Either another sorry either habila
Who Abdon when Allah begins to laughs and this is a Hadith sahih
al Bukhari, etc, that when Allah begins to love somebody, he
invites Gibreel he calls Gibreel Jabril. Come here, he's the Arch
Angel. He says to Djibouti Lottie Salaam in the Bab to fallen
in the back to full on
I love such and such a person brother Ahmed, Brother Muhammad,
sister, Aisha, Sister Khadija, this the sister Alicia, the
I love her, you must love her at all as well. He tells you real
that you must love her as well. You must love him as well.
So God, Allah, Islam begins to love them because they follow all
orders of Allah. He spreads this among the angels. So all the
angels begin to love that person.
Now what's the benefit of the angels having you, the angels are
who come down onto the earth to do all of the various different
things like bring you bring nourishment, bring protection,
bring rain, bring food, and so on and so forth. That love of this
person subliminally, however you want to say it begins to spread
among people. And then people begin to love the majority of
people begin to love this person.
Because these people are generally going to be more selfless people
who are connected to Allah in a strong way. And you can see this
once you start doing things for Allah. People will I was speaking
to a sheikh recently. And he was just speaking, it was speaking it
was a kind of a very graphic discussion we were having. He
said, you know, have you noticed people that were if they haven't
had a whistle?
After being seminary defiled, they have this kind of absence of Lulu
from their face. They may be the whitest people in terms of skin
complexion, but there's no lower because they're in an impure
state. The people who do Tahajjud prayer at night which is one of
the ultimate expressions of loving Allah, to be able to pray at night
stand up wake up do will do and other people are sleeping son
Looby lady when nurse Oneonta could legitimately be Salam. The
what it says is that these people get the brightest faces, they
could be the darkest complexion people but they will have the
brightest mashallah you could see the news emanating from their
face.
complexion is one thing that's a natural thing, nobody changes that
that's from Allah. But then you get the * on top of it, which
is better than any makeup that you can have.
is better than any makeup. Whether that be from Estee Lauder, or
Clinique or whatever it is, it's you start doing dodgy that night
and you will soon see your face shine.
So this is the sign of love for Allah love that Allah places among
people is that people will begin to love that person.
Allah subhanaw taala says, in contempt to Hebrew and Allah, for
Toby Rooney, you we've come Allah
tells us another way, sort of Allah Imran.
If you love Allah,
then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam is saying, Allah is telling
the prophets awesome to say this. If you love Allah, then follow me.
And Allah will love you. Well, Phil comes through back home and
he will forgive all of your sins. So by following obedience, you
have to prove it if you have claims that you love God
If you have claimed that you love God, but you don't do anything,
then nothing comes about it.
Some of the Allama were asked
how Where does it say in the Quran, that Allah will not punish
his beloved people?
Do you think Allah will punish his beloved? What do you think? If
you've got somebody that you really love, would you punish
them?
Or would you try to make any excuse to forgive them? You know,
if you love somebody, and they've made a mistake, what is your what
would you desire from that person?
You would want to give them every excuse that if they just show a
bit of remorse, if they just show that, okay, you know, I'm really
sorry, you're willing to forgive them. But an enemy if they do
something wrong, or somebody you don't love and they do something
wrong, then you need a bigger excuse for them for you to forgive
them. But for somebody you love, you're just waiting for that just
moment. That's why when husband and wife that do love each other,
and then they have a problem.
Each side is waiting for the other side just to give an expression.
You're just looking for an excuse. So some one of the scholars was
asked that where will you prove that Allah won't punish his people
who he loves. So then the scholar he recited Wirkkala Delia who do
an assault on
what are
the Yehuda NESARA they say that we are the children of Allah and His
Beloved. So Allah says then called Fatima you as debo can be the new
become, why will Allah punish you then?
By why will Allah punish you for your sins if he loves you?
This proves, but unto mushroom human hudec You're just another
group of people just like everybody Allah has else Allah has
created your theory Romania where you as the woman Yasha He will
forgive and he will punish whoever He will wills. But this proves
that just claiming love for Allah is not enough.
Finally, there are some very specific doors that final doors I
will make. These are the doors that have come many of them in the
Sunnah, how we can develop love for Allah one of my favorite dogs
is Allahumma Allahumma sukhna. Her book, her bombing and pharaoh now
her boring duck, but these are the few dollars I'm going to see them
you just say I mean Allahumma inni Luca Hogberg Berman, you hit book
will help but Amelie new Karibuni Illa Rubik. O Allah, I asked you
for your love, and the love of those who loves you.
So give me the love of those people who love you. Not the not,
don't give me love of those people who don't love you. What are you
asking for here? You're asking for good company. You're asking for a
good spouse. You're asking for good surrounding people. Right? So
grant me your love and the love of those who love you. And the love
of those actions which make me closer to you, Allah wonderful.
Give me the love of those actions. So make me love those things which
bring me closer to you and not love those things which take me
further away from you. Because that's our biggest challenge in
this world. That's one door. Another door. Allahumma ma Razak
Dyneema. Oh, hey, Boo Fajr. And who federal who were to leave FEMA
to head on as a way to aneema or Hey, Boo Fajr Allahu Farahani FEMA
to him. Oh Allah, everything that you have given me. Among those
things, which I love. You've given me a nice house, you've given me a
nice spouse, you give me a nice business, nice work, whatever.
Everything that I love, right? Oh Allah, that which You have given
me from what I love. Make it a source of strength for me to do
those things that you love. So whatever you've given me make that
a strong resource to be used for those those things which you love.
And those things you've kept away from me, among those things that I
love, then make those things a source of
a source of emptiness in those things that you love. So make make
it be make me satisfied in what I don't have. And give me
satisfaction in those things that I do love. It's a very
comprehensive door if that gets accepted, your life is sorted.
Another one is Allahumma JAL who Bucha la murli were mentally ill
birded Allahu Allah, O Allah, make your love more beloved to me, then
the love of my family, my wealth and from cold water.
When you're thirsty,
make your love more beloved to me than all of those things.
Because that love of water right now is a good thing. But Love of
Allah will help you in the hereafter as well. It will help to
get our mind right in what I should be doing what I shouldn't
be doing. Our desires will be kept under control, not the DA
Allahumma Habib de la mala erotica, welcome
EcoVadis Zuleika worry buddy kosali him, Oh Allah make me
beloved towards your angels, towards your prophets, towards
your messengers and towards your righteous servants. So when
righteous people begin to love you then you know one of the greatest
benefits of that is what? What do you think?
If righteous people love you, what do you think you'll get out of
that?
They will make dua for you in this world what else?
They will hopefully they'll give you intercession.
April Josie used to say Rahima, hula, that always have good
friends,
righteous friends, because you know, when you do something in the
world, and you're all gathering together, and if you got a
righteous friend, they will remember you say, Hey, how come so
and so didn't come with us? Where is he? Let's call him up, you
know, invite them over as well. So Inshallah, in the hereafter if
they go into Jannah they're going to be saying, Hey, where's my
friend gone? Where's that guy gone? That used to always come,
you know, such a, you know, where's that person gone?
You know, he or she used to love Allah subhanaw taala so much, you
know, they were friends. They're gonna make intercession for you.
So it's always nice to be with the best people because you're saved.
You got more options. That's why he's saying make me beloved to all
of these categories of people. Allahumma Gianni or Hibou can be
called equally. Oh Allah make me love you with all of my hearts.
Like genuinely, all my hearts were
all the cobija had equally. And make me satisfy you with all my
efforts. Anything I put effort in anything I do anything I'm working
towards, make it for your satisfaction. If that happens
automatically by Allah helping us it just makes life easy, doesn't
it? It makes life easy.
Allah azza wa jal hook be cool who look, oh Allah make my love
entirely for you was set equal to whom in neurotic and all my
efforts, make them for your satisfaction.
Now if you do this every day, and then one day it gets accepted
hamdulillah Hamdulillah.
So that's, that's how I kept the lecture actually very, very short.
Because you know, we had limited amount of time, and I use just
mostly Quranic verses to give us an understanding of what Allah
wants from us for Allah, what is the love of Allah? So we ask Allah
subhana wa Tala, for is of any other questions, whether it's
question time, any other questions? There is no, the
question that we've just had is, how do you reconcile between the
love of Allah and the love of the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam?
And if you love the prophets of the loss of more than does that
mean you love the province the loss of more than Allah? I'm just
interpreting your question.
There's absolutely no contradiction between the love of
Allah and the love of the Prophet salallahu Salam, the love of the
Prophet you do because he represents Allah subhanho wa Taala
as commands and beauty and the lack of Allah subhanho wa Taala
the Quran in this world? So you may it may just seem like you are
targeting your love at the Prophet sallallahu some more. But does
that mean you don't have Allah subhanaw taala Do you actively
think I don't love Allah, but I love the Prophet sallallahu
sallam, that would be a really weird situation. But otherwise,
the whole point is that you love Allah because you love the
prophets of Allah, awesome because of Allah. It's just maybe for some
people, because you know much more about the progress of the Lord SLM
in the sense of, he's a human being and thus you can relate more
to him, you know, his Syrah and so on. So because you know more about
the world, and that's probably why you think you love Allah, you love
the privacy laws more. But otherwise, if you start to learn
about Allah more, than you will be able to target both of them with
your love, or you can say include both of them in a very equal form
of love. Otherwise loving those who Allah tell you to love, for
example, me loving my children, my parents, my my, my spouse is
actually part of the love of Allah. But if you love them for
the sake of Allah, then it's like you love Allah subhanaw taala as
well. And that's why they're Omar mentioned, that if you have really
experienced the true love of Allah, your love for those he
tells you, the love will actually increase in a higher form of love.
It will no longer be a cheap form of love that is based on selfish
desires. When you love somebody, why do you love them? What about
when they do something? When they do something that may upset you?
Will you will that love be compromised, When you love
somebody purely for the sake of Allah,
then there's not there'll be very few things that can actually harm
that love. Because your love is a very pure love for the sake of
Allah. It's not a selfish love anymore. So what I would suggest
though, if you really want to understand the concept of love,
one of the best books that have been written on that, from an
Islamic perspective is an entire PhD that was done by
His Majesty Prince advisee of Jordan. It's been published by the
Islamic society, and you can probably find the book online as
well on
on
or some al bait Foundation, maybe website or something, but it's a
whole PhD on just what love is all about. It goes really deep.
If Allah loves us, why don't he reply to our doors?
You see, what you have to understand is that if I love my
children, let's imagine that I take something back from Norway, I
take it back home. And it's this really, really beautiful poster or
delicate, very delicate. And I take it back home, I love my
child, he wants to play with it.
Or you're going to give it to him to play with.
You just spent 10,000 Kroners or 100,000 Kroners on it. Right? It
cost several 100 pounds, you're going to say here you go, you play
because you know it's gonna it's not appropriate.
Now, if my oldest son who's 19 years old, he says, Can I have a
look at it, please, I'll say, Here you go.
But if your young two year old wants to play with it, because
it's all sparkling and everything, you're going to give it to them
no. So we have to really get it into our mind that the US, Allah
subhanaw taala is not our servant or slave, that everything you do,
or everything you asked for, he must do it straight away. That's
your slave does that your servant does that your employees supposed
to do that even your employee, if you tell him to do something
crazy, they won't do it, or something inappropriate. Allah has
the whole world to run. And everything is interlinked.
Sometimes we may want something which is inappropriate for us
right now. So Allah won't give it to us. He knows that if I just
graduated, and I get this really high paying job, he knows that I'm
going to splash the money and waste my life.
He doesn't want me to do that.
The thing is that every dollar you make you get a reward for it,
every dollar you make you get closer to Allah. But the sign of
it is not that He gives you everything you want. You have to
remember that Allah gives this world as a hadith, which is very
clear, Allah gives this world to whom he loves, and those whom he
doesn't love. But he only gives the asset to those he loves.
Having material possession, or marrying the person who you think
is best for you.
Does not mean that that is the best thing for you. In the future.
Allah knows best. And I've got an entire lecture of that on zamzam
Academy, which you should listen to, there's about one or two
lectures on dua that describe this in greater detail. It's just I
don't want to take too much time right now, because we don't have
much time. But that's the crux of it. Just because you ask for
something, Allah doesn't have to give it to you. And nowhere does
even promise that I'll give you everything you asked for the
famous, it's well known that there are three ways it was accepted.
You either get it now or later, or Allah subhanaw taala. If he thinks
it's inappropriate for us to have it right now in the grand scheme
of things of the world, then he will
remove another calamity from us or give us something else. And the
third option is that if he thinks is best for us to have it in the
Hereafter, then he'll give it into here, it won't give it to us right
now. Because remember, we're not the only people that exist in this
world. I don't exist in this world, and I don't control it the
way I want it. And me having something, if it's going to have a
bad influence on somebody else, that maybe Allah won't want me to
have it because he doesn't want me to be a bad influence. So it you
have to look at it in a very holistic way.
This, what are the signs of Allah subhanaw taala not loving a
person,
a person that is distant from Allah, there's a number of levels
to this, right? Number one, a person will not have any
contentment will have no satisfaction. They may, they may
have a lot of stuff. They may have material means, but they won't
have any tranquility, they won't have any feeling of happiness,
generally that that's why if you look at this data, for example,
it's a very powerful book by Hassan Basirhat. The lady.
If you look at some of these so far, he says, Oh Allah, I seek
your forgiveness from those sins, which has brought darkness in my
life, which has brought
the absence of satisfaction in my life. So a lot of the time it's
because of our sins that we start feeling distant from Allah, we
start feeling alone, even though we got friends, we just don't feel
good. There's a number of these signs, mostly to do with no
satisfaction in the heart. Otherwise, those people who have
less sometimes they still feel very satisfied in the heart if
they're close to Allah subhanaw taala because Allah gives you a
lot of strength. When you don't feel that strength in the heart,
then it means that you have distance from Allah, you're
missing the main ingredient in your life. If you read Do we have
any copies of hurleys be dieting hidayah
Imam Hassan is B dieting, a diet that's actually very good now. If
you read it, what is the main part?
The book is that it starts off with your day of how you're
supposed to spend a day. Now, I will tell you from before from the
beginning, if you read that book, take it with a grain of salt. He
wants you to be the perfect man to such a degree that he doesn't want
you to.
He wants you to just do worship all day. Right? Yeah, it's this
book, what he wants you to do is he wants you it goes, he starts
the ticket awaking from see using the lavatory. ablution, ritual,
bath, dry ablution setting up for the masjid, worship, good works,
earning a living, putting your religion preparing a ticket of
sleep. So it goes through the basics of your whole day, you can
learn a lot from it. But if you try to follow it, literally, you'd
probably have a big problem because it's just too complicated.
He wants you to be fully dedicated to Allah subhanaw taala. But you
learn a lot from it to understand what are the rights that Allah
wants from us? So then we can actually start putting some of
those rights inside. So it's actually very beneficial in the in
that case in that sense? Good point. Good, good question. If
Allah subhanaw taala loves somebody, why does he need to test
them is a Hadith that when Allah loves somebody, he will put them
under test. Now what you have to understand is that one thing is
what Allah knows his omniscient knowledge, he knows everything. He
knows what's going to happen, even before we were created, He knew
what was going to happen. Right? But Allah subhanaw taala never
does anything based on his duck idea about us what he knows about
us, because the the proof has to be established that we've done
good or bad, right? Because nobody is going to go into hellfire,
feeling that they have been wronged. Nobody, you will, we
would have done something with our free will to do that. So what the
Hadith means is that Allah wants to see from us.
Who do we love more? He wants us to prove it. Again. He wants us to
give him the excuse. So look at Ibrahim Melissa O'Brien was the
Helene of Allah, look at the tests that he put him through.
He made him nearly sacrifice his son, he told him to sacrifice his
son, he told him to leave his wife. But I don't think you'd ever
tell us to do that. That's a very high level of test. That's a very
high level of test.
For us, we ask Allah for Althea, we ask Allah for it, which means
we ask Allah for well being of Allah give us
a comfortable love of you. Don't test us we can't deal with your
test. But I'll tell you something. If you do love Allah at an heavy
level at a very high level, then even if he puts test on your you
will not fail it. So why is he giving you the test?
I'll tell you why. The scholars have discussed the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam Do you remember his last few days how much pain he
was in?
If you've read the last few days, the biography he had huge amount
of pain. He was
in fever. Even Fatima the Allahu anha. She was saying y'all look at
the pain of my father. And he said, Don't worry, after this day,
there will be no pain.
People Allah subhanaw taala wants to raise somebody status.
By putting you in pain and allowing you to bear it the reward
of sober is huge. It's one of the most powerful worships you can do.
Yours. Yeah, it's like a fast, expedited process of taking you up
higher. So Allah test you. He wants to show everybody what it is
as well. And he wants to see whether you really love him or
not. And if you pass that test, then it's not like you've just
passed the test. Okay, fine. No, then you just get an elevation in
his in his sight. So there's many benefits of Allah testing us.
Just like a law here, if there's no more question Jazak Allah for
listening, but for those questions, I would suggest one
talk that you should listen to. If you haven't, it's on zamzam.
academy.com it's called, don't be depressed, you don't know your
future. This really helps us to understand what Allah has written
and what we do, and how we're not forced to do what he's written
because he is dictating to us, but because whatever he's written is
based on his knowledge of what we're going to do with our own
freewill. So we ask Allah subhana wa Tada for acceptance.
Not until Hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen