The Glorious Names of Allah – Names of tenderness and compassion – Al-Wadood – The Most Loving
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The speakers discuss the importance of showing love back to individuals and the meaning of Allah's name in relation to one's relationship. They also discuss the concept of love and how it can be used to prepare for the future. The importance of protecting one's eyes and being strong in the face of challenges is emphasized. The speakers stress the importance of learning to do duCM and finding one's father in the same room as the partner. They also emphasize the importance of acknowledging one's love and finding joy in one's love, as it is crucial to not forgetting his history and knowing his potential.AI Generated Transcript ©
This name, even though it's only in the
Quran twice,
is one of the most beautiful names of
Allah
that we have. And this is a name
that
is worthy of your contemplation and and your
reflection. And the category of yes of of
the names from yesterday and today,
attributes of his kindness
and his closeness, subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And we have one more category to go,
basically, which is what we'll cover tomorrow. And
then on
Monday,
I'll do a,
a finale. And then Tuesday, which will be
the last day of Ramadan,
I'll have a, kind of end of Ramadan
talk.
In that way, we've covered one name or
at least one name from each of the
12 categories of
Allah's names.
Regrettably,
there's a number of names that I wish
we had time to cover, but we did
not.
Allah name, is in the Quran twice. He
says
as he speaks to his people.
And seek forgiveness from your lord
and repent to him indeed. He is the
most merciful, and he is the most loving.
He
says in
Surat al Buruj.
It's probably one of the most
difficult surahs to read once you understand the
story behind it because the story is just
so brutal.
It's just such a difficult story to, you
know, to to contemplate when these believers are
thrown into a, a live fire alive themselves
to burn for no real reason except for
saying, there's
nothing else.
But at the end of the Surah, when
Allah
speaks of his of his might,
he says,
He He is the most forgiving, and he
is the most loving
What is the difference between
and?
Because one of his names is is,
but one of his name is not Al
Habib.
You can't you can't use that name. You
can describe him
in in
that sense if you're
It's an acceptable description, but you can't use
it as a name.
Allah subhanahu wa'ala did not call himself that,
but he called himself.
And if you were to go to a
book like
and you turn to,
the, the chapter where he talks about
and he talks about the concept of love.
And the Arab,
interestingly enough, as
rough as they were sometimes or many times,
when it came to this topic,
they
they cared a lot,
not only for it, but for describing it.
So they had between 17 18 levels of
of what they would call love.
And if you were to take
and it keeps on going up. It has
all these levels.
And don't ask me how I know this,
but this is how he this is what
they would go. And then one of the
highest levels of, of love that you find
in this book,
is the pure love.
The one who offers it wants nothing in
return for it.
It is important
because when you think about Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala's love for you,
you may
you might go to say, well, he wants
something in return. He wants wants. No. No.
To want something in return, you have to
want something that's beneficial for you in return.
That's where, that's what would be.
Wood is when you want nothing in return,
and he wants nothing in return because there's
nothing you have to offer him in return.
Logically speaking, if you just take the word,
and you just use it because there's always
there's an aspect of it, and it's it's
a complicated term. Whether you want something in
return, you want to be loved back, right,
or you want something back from
that's going to benefit you, makes you feel
different, or makes you feel nice.
So that's why to just to use that
name as for habib, then then it would
suggest that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants something
back for himself
that he would benefit from, but he doesn't.
So he is al wadood, subhanahu wa ta'ala.
He is the one who shows love. He
shows his servants love
and mercy and kindness and tenderness and compassion
and empathy.
And he does
things to show them that, and he wants
nothing back in return
because
he does not benefit
from your love, nor does he benefit from
your obedience, nor does nor nor does he
benefit
from your exalting or magnification.
When he asks you for it, when he
commands you to do it because
in its essence,
it's helpful for you. It's not helpful for
him, subhanahu wa ta'ala. This piece for us
as Muslims is very important because this is
how we understand god.
Understand God that way. Other faiths know they
look at there's a reason of why he
created it, and they and because they similar
yeah. They they make draw similes
between
man and God, they they suggest or they
assume that God created and he must want
something in return. There must be something that
he's looking for for himself. He
must be lonely or he wants to be
He
there's nothing to offer him. So he's in
Qadud because there's nothing in it for him.
He just shows you love. Now if you
choose to show love back to him, then
good for you and it's something that will
help you, but it doesn't do anything for
him, subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And that is why he's called alwadud because
no matter what you do, whether you obey
or you don't or you love or you
don't, it doesn't make a difference to Allah,
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
His
What we're doing is we're doing it for
us. It's something that's filling our hearts up.
And that's why he created us to experience
the beauty that we get to through loving
him. But he is Radul because that that's
the meaning of it.
If Allah loves
a servant and there are degrees of love,
as I've explained to you, the Arab had
degrees of love. So there's a basic degree
of love that Allah subhanahu wa'ala shows all
of his creation. And then there's other degrees
of love. It escalates and goes higher
depending on on what you do.
Right?
And my servant will continue to perform
and give and do I do stuff that
he doesn't have to. She doesn't have to
do, but she's doing it anyway
until he loves you. Until he loves you,
meaning a a level of love that is
higher than the level that he already showed
you So
if he loves his servant at a level
that is higher than what he has offered
everyone else, he will call upon Jibril, and
he will say, yeah, Jibril
Indeed, I love this person, so love him
too.
And Jibril will love you or love the
person who Allah
And then you'll be able to call upon
amongst the, the the people or the ones
that live in the skies and the cosmos.
Allah's creations that we don't know.
Indeed, Allah loves Fulan, so love him or
and and the people of the sky will
love it.
Then Allah
will will will put kabool, kabool acceptance. He
will descend acceptance on earth for the for
the on earth for this person.
You would tell
him.
If
you told if someone told the prophet,
you ask him, do you tell him? And
he'll say no. So go tell him.
Him, not her.
Just so you understand and don't take this
wrong way.
Go tell him the sunnah of and if
you love someone, you you you make it
clear. Sayedna Ali
had a beautiful had a beautiful thing he
said. He said this once. He said,
If on the day of judgment, I was
given the the the, the option of Allah
judging me or my parents judging
me, I would have chosen god.
Because he is more compassionate, loving, and empathetic
towards me than my father and mother will
ever be.
This is the the firkhah of Imam Ali,
his understanding of things. Allah says, I will
love you more.
Believe me, if your parents judge you and
they find out all the stuff that you
did what they didn't know about,
and they thought you were all you didn't
do a lot of things you did that
they they they are led to believe that
you didn't do, and you're better off having
them led to believe they didn't do.
They find out that you did it, and
then that's it. I knew it. I knew
you were lying the whole time, and then
Allah
He says
Indeed, the ones who believe and they perform
the deeds that was asked of them.
Their lord, the Rahman, the most merciful will
make for them
He will prepare for the it's as if
it's as if wood, which is love, which
is the which is the type of love
that I've explained to you, it's as if
it's a, an entity. It's something. It's it's
almost like it's physical.
Almost like it's going to have a physical
existence or physical
entity
that he will have prepared for you
to receive once you get there. Once you
get there, you're going to receive
this divine love from the Rahman subhanahu wa
ta'ala himself. Have you ever thought about how
how this whole story began with the prophet
alaihi salatu wa sallam? When you think about
this story, when we're coming throughout these nights,
and you this whole story began in one
of these nights. Maybe last night, maybe the
night that's coming, maybe the night after, maybe
one after. But maybe it was a few
nights ago. Within these last 10 nights, this
whole story began. And the prophet
when he when he witnessed the beginning of
Ilwahi,
it was Jibril
coming to him in the form that Allah
created in him in, in the magnificence of
Jibril.
But when you think about it, what is
it that Jibril did to the prophet, alayhi
salatu wa sallam?
And as serious as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
wanted the prophet to take it, with all
of that being understood, I knew in the
back of our under of our minds,
still the first moment was with
with
it was with a hug.
That's what the prophet
tells us.
He came and he hugged me,
but he hugged me really tight. It's a
tight and firm hug for sure. The prophet
felt he was gonna die, but it was
still a hug.
Wasn't a punch.
Wasn't a and he wasn't held down. It
was
a.
It was a bum that was a it
was a hug. It was a hug be
because this whole story is going to start
with love. It's firm.
It's intimidating because it's serious because the story
is not to be taken lightly. Because what
you're going want to be asked to do
in life is not simple.
It's no joke, yom al Qiyama, but it
starts with a hudun. It starts with a
hug because because the basis of it all
the basis of it all is love.
So,
All those who believe, if any of you
decide at some point to walk away from
all of this,
commit apostasy and say I'm done, then know
Allah
will bring others than you,
those whom he loves and those whom love
him back. Subhanahu wa ta'ala. That was the
first description. But
He loves them and they love them back.
Yeah.
This concept that if you fall if you
follow this word in the Quran, the concept
of love, you'll find it all over, everywhere.
It's all over this. Everywhere in the
And there are people who will choose
associates and other forms of of gods aside
from Allah. And they'll love them love them
as they love Allah. But the believers, the
true believers, the mumminun, know.
They love Allah more.
Meaning, they'll never love anyone as much as
they love Allah
Actually,
there's an ayah in Surah Al Tawba that
kinda breaks this down a little bit more
deeply.
He he talks about 8 things, all 8
things you're supposed to love.
Supposed to love your parents and your children
and your brothers and your spouse and your
tribe. He's supposed to love you the house
that you live in, the and and the
wealth that Allah gave you and the career
that you chose. All that you're supposed to
love these things.
But if they're more beloved to you than
Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, and his prophet, is
striving for his sake, then wait for for
difficulties to come your way. Allah, subhanahu wa
ta'ala, has to be more beloved to you.
Say if you truly love Allah, then follow
me.
Follow the prophet,
prove it by by following him. If you
do that, then Allah will love you back,
meaning he'll increase his love to you.
There is no way to explain why the
universe around us is the way it is
without
without concluding his love.
When we talk about his name, al Badia,
his al Badia is the fact that the
world is as beautiful as it is because
his name is al Badia. He made it
that way. He innovated, invented, and put it
put it that way. But why is it
that the
made it that way? Why do why do
roses smell the way they do? Why do
birds sound the way they do? Why are
there so much different types of things to
eat that taste so good? Why does the
why does nature look so beautiful? Why is
there all this beauty within the world? Because
Allah is.
Because he's the most loving, and he shows
his love by having you experience all of
this beauty around you at all times. Al
Badi'ah is the one who put it there.
Al Badi'ah is the one who put it
there.
There's
a difference. Al Badi'ah is the one who
put all that there, set it all out.
The reason that it was chosen to be
set out that way is because Allah
is.
When you listen to the Quran, you see
you hear him
talk to the prophet
during difficult moments.
And persevere until I give you my judgment
or my decree comes your way.
Indeed, you are
you ever you ever go to, I mean,
to an Arabic country, and you speak to
especially if you got if you come to
Damascus and stuff and you and you speak
to someone,
Can you take care of for
me? I'll take care of him. What do
you mean
put him in your eyeballs? I I don't
see that to be even physically possible. But
it's it's a figure of speech, meaning I
will I will protect this one as I
protect my eyes.
As much as I love my eyes, I
will show him love equally. So Allah
uses the same phrase when he speaks about
the prophet, alayhi, a salsalam.
Persevere, and it's okay.
You're you're in our eyes. You're we continue
to, we take to watch over you and
protect you as we would protect Subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
The prophet, alayhis salatu, was on left Mecca
brokenhearted.
He left Mecca brokenhearted, alayhis salatu, so he
walked away with tears in his eyes. Looked
at Mecca and
say, Indeed, you're the most beloved piece of
land on this earth in my heart, and
it wasn't for the fact that your people
kicks me out. I've never left. So he
left, and he was brokenhearted
so
Allah revealed revealed to him the end of
Surah Al Khasr. And this is what it
says, indeed, the one who has obligated you
to carry the Quran,
he'll send you back. He'll come back one
day. Don't worry.
After after they lost during the battle of
Uhud when they when they it was a
hard loss. It was very painful.
Sahaba felt bad on so many different levels.
It's like all these problems that came from
Uhud. Uhud just kept on it was the
gift that didn't stop giving. Just one problem
after the other, and it was really
it was heavy. So this
And you are still the ones who have
the upper hand because you carry the truth.
Meaning if you if you still believe in
it.
When the prophet, alayhis salatu was salam, spent
6 months without revelation at the beginning of
his beatha at the beginning of his beatha,
he received
then and then it stopped. Jibreel stopped coming
altogether. Was it for a day or 2
or 3? It was for 6 months at
least. And there's a difference of opinion among
scholars regarding the time. But it was it
was enough time that the prophet
felt uncomfortable.
It was enough time that no new Quran
was being produced that Quraish was starting to
mock him for it.
Where's the,
what? You have no nothing else? That's all
you got? Like 4 or 5 words? Where's
the is Jabil not so he started he
started doing any make fun of him, alayhi
salatu wa sallam. And he didn't know what
what he did if he did something wrong
or if if so Allah will come
and say
Indeed, I swear to you by the brightest
moment of the day, the darkest moment of
the night,
that your lord never turned his back upon
you nor does he ever forget about you.
And the hereafter will be better for you
than this dunya anyways.
He's going to give you your lord's going
to give you until you're satisfied,
until you're happy.
You won't be you won't be unhappy at
the end of all of this. You'll be
fully you'll be fulfilled and you'll be fully
satisfied at the end of it.
When you go to the Quran, you find
there's dua and we talk about dua and
we talk about dua when we talk about
his name Al Mujib but
his name is,
it's not that you use.
You do something called something
called
So you're not necessarily asking for anything.
You're just you're just speaking to him
When you listen to Maryam alaihi salaam and
she speaks
to Allah,
Indeed, I have I'm going to make another
what she meant by that is I'm I'm
going to
offer my offspring
as dedicated to you, to to the protection
and the,
preservation of Masjid al Aqsa. That was the
idea.
He's well except for me. So she gave
birth.
So she starts speaking alayhi salam to Allah
Subhaana Wa Ta'ala. He says,
oh oh oh my lord, indeed I have
given birth and it's a it's a daughter.
And then the ayah says it's almost like
between brackets or parentheses.
Knows what she gave birth to.
He he did not need to be informed
by Omariam, alayhi salaam. Yeah. But she but
that's what Munaja is,
and that only happens when there's love.
That du'a is is necessity. When you start
learning this stuff, start figuring out,
oh, you're commanded to do du'a. You're commanded
you have to do learn to do du'a.
We tell you, learn to do du'a. Do
du'a. Well, But dua is just the first
level. There's there's
many more. There's higher levels than dua, more
meaningful levels than dua. You start out by
just saying, you Rabbi give me this, and
you Rabbi
seek refuge you from you and this.
You want things. And then if you want
to
graduate to something higher, it's where you just
you just speak to Allah
You put your matter in his hand. You
speak
and females and males are not the same.
I wanted to make her I wanted to
make my offspring dedicated to Masih Al Aqsa.
But it's a girl. I'm gonna do it
anyways. And I called her Mariam.
I mean, Abraham she's she's speaking to Allah.
It's it's just it's just saying things.
It just explain
you're you're in a conversation with them, subhanahu
wa ta'ala. It's a it's a higher you
find that. You find the prophet, alayhi, salatu
wa salam, doing this. Right?
And you find him in his dua, alayhi,
salatu wa salam, he he does that.
He just he just he's talking to Allah
Indeed, you're the one who's most worthy of
being worshiped, the most worthy of being praised,
the most worthy of being invocated.
You are the one
who you are the king who has the
most tenderness.
You are the one who's asked and you
give the most. You're the one once once
once supplicated,
you offer that which the the the supplicator
would not even imagine to receive.
You're the one and there's no one with
you or the king and there's no king
aside from you. Everything will end except your
face. This is what he this is what
he does, alayhis salaam. He's speaking to Allah
A lot of these I I don't even
have a punch line at the end.
A lot of these and you find in
the the books doesn't even have a there's
nothing. It's just he's just speaking to If
I say, indeed, lord, my I I have
been inflicted by harm, and you are the
most merciful.
But what's the question? There is no question.
Yeah. There's no question.
When when
lost his eyesight,
he couldn't he couldn't see anymore. He was
so sad that he lost Yusuf when he
lost Benyamin after him. Just sad. A father
that was sad. You know, he lost his
sons. He loved his kids.
Some people, you know,
struggle with that more than others. And he
he he it was so sad and then
cried so hard that he couldn't see anymore.
His eye his eyesight got affected.
And they got upset with him. Like, why
are you doing this to yourself?
I am taking my my my pain and
my sorrow and my and my sadness to
Allah. I'm not taking it to you, and
I'm not asking him for anything.
Nothing.
Even when he wanted to ask, he said
I'm going to show beautified perseverance.
Maybe Allah one day will bring them back
to me. He didn't even ask. He didn't
ask because whatever he decreed, when the prophet
walked out of Ta'if after being,
I mean, horrifically treated by the people of
Ta'if.
He would sit under that tree, and the
hadith
may have some authenticity issues, but I I
am not aware of a scholar that, that
does not, accept it and use it. And
it's in the all three all three records
of Sira, both all ibn Hisham, Luqaqidi, and
Abir Ishaq. And the prophet
would sit there
He would make this long dua that you
all know. Oh, Allah, I complain to you.
The weakness of my strength,
the scarcity
of my of my resources,
and how humiliated I am in front of
people.
He just he just talks to Allah
And go back and read the, I mean,
the the dua of the prophet alayhi salawat
wa sallam. But this is this is coming
from a from a place of love.
This is coming from understanding his name, Al
Wadud, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will send it
out and say,
If the people who are walking away from
me knew how much I wanted them to
come back,
how much I love to see them turn
around and repent.
They would
melt in love towards me. And this is
how I love those who walk away from
me. How do you think I love those
who come towards me?
Listen to the prophet
as he's walking,
And they had not heard this before until
then.
And he when he's when they started on
the journey, I've always thought this moment would
be
the
prophet start chanting
means I'm I'm coming.
I am coming to you. I am responding
and I'm on my way to you as
fast as I can and as eagerly as
I can. Alright?
The word is a beautiful Arabic word. When
someone calls you, you say, meaning I'm not
only I'm at your service, whatever you want.
I'm here. You command, and you'll get.
No no objection.
No delay right then and there. And that's
what Levbayk means. It comes from a heart
that wants to please him
wants to do whatever whatever he asks for.
I'm going to this you know, we got
a time. So I'll end with this, this
story. This story is in the collection of,
Imam Ahmed and Abu Dawood and others as
well. The authentic generation.
Tells and and there's a piece of it
in in a collection about Muslim. It's just
not, it's not in it's not detailed.
Well, the prophet tells
us about the last person who who leaves,
Walayad Abila, who leaves Jannam.
And the story is that he this person
gets out of Jannam.
All praise be to Allah that I that
I got out of you.
And then he is put yeah. He comes
out. He's all burnt. So he falls into
the river of life that exists outside of
Jannah, and then he comes out and he's
back to how he was before.
So he sees a tree and he sees
some water under it.
Can I go and sit there?
I go. I eat from the fruit. I
sit in the shade. I drink the water.
You don't ask me for anything afterwards.
That's it. I want nothing else. You'll send
me there. I'm good. So he goes. He
sits there. He eats. He drinks. He enjoys
the shade.
Allah shows him something a little bit better.
So he looks at it. It's bigger. It's
flashier. There's more fruit. The water seems, yanny,
it's more sparkly.
The grass a little bit greener.
So he waits for a bit because he
made a promise. They said,
Allah
says,
didn't you just tell me you wouldn't ask
me something else?
That's it. I won't ask anything else.
Allah tells him, go go ahead.
He sits there. He's happy.
He's something even bigger.
So he shows perseverance for as long as
he can show perseverance. Like, he holds on
for as long as he can because he
made a second promise, And then he loses
it, and he said, yeah, give it to
me. So Allah asked him, didn't we agree?
This is the last time promised last time.
So So he gives it to him. He
goes there. He eats. He drinks. He enjoys
the shade.
Then Allah subhanahu wa'ala shows him the gates
of heaven, and he sees
And he sees the people in it, and
they see the joy that they're in. So
he sits, and he waits for as long
as he can, but at this point, it's
getting very difficult.
Let me go. Let me go enter.
Fine. Enter. So we enter
Jannah.
So Allah subhanahu wa'am shows him when he
answered that it's full.
There's no vacancies.
There's no spot. There's no place to sit.
There's no place to eat. There's nothing to
do. He can't everything is full.
The servant turns back to god.
I didn't find a place to sit. I
mean, you told me to enter, but there's
no
where do I go? There's not nowhere for
me to sit.
How about I give you the size
of of earth in Jannah in terms of
sovereignty, what you will own?
You're mocking me. You're the lord of the
worlds. Why would you mock me?
How about I give you 2 of them?
So at this point, he's the the abd
feels, oh, this is actually serious.
I'm
good. But I make it threefold.
I'm I'm satisfied.
And he count and he counts ninefold
of the sovereignty of the our biggest king
on earth.
And nothing comes close to the weight of
my name.
This is the person who is the least
in Jannah. He's the the lowest
the last person to enter Jannah.
What do you think the people in the
highest state of Jannah get? So the Sahaba
said, yeah, he became extremely
And what do they get if this is
the you know, this if this is for
the person who has the least, then what
does the person who has the most get?
Those are the people who look at the
face of their lord twice a day.
Between the first time they look and the
second, they just wait for the next time
for them to do it.
They look at him and they sit down
waiting for the next time. That's all. They
don't care. And nothing else matters. Everyone else
is in their spaceships or doing whatever it
is that they want to do, enjoying whatever
sport they didn't enjoy in this life or
whatever spouses they didn't have in this or
whatever is they want to do. These people,
they look at Allah and
then they go back and they wait until
the next, next, timing to do it.
And there is no one in Jannah that
is even close to the that these people
are in.
To look at Allah
beautified face.
Because
he's. How do you live with this name?
You love Allah
You show him love as he has shown
you. As you are today alive,
and you know his name, and you are
guided to Islam,
so he's already shown you more love than
you could ever repay if you were to
live a 1000000 lives, fold after fold, time
after time. You can never repay it. He's
already showing you a lot of love, so
show him some love back,
The least we can do is show Allah
love. Love is different than obligation. We play
we pray because we have to and we
we do
learn to do things because you want to.
That's where love comes in. Love kicks in
when you do things because you want to,
not because you have to. It's okay to
do it because you have to as a
beginning, as a starting point. No problem. Do
it because you have to. But don't stay
there for the rest of your life. That's
a that's a lousy place to stay in
for the rest of your life. Move on
to where you do things because you love
Allah, because you feel that love. Even in
the midst of difficult, in the midst of
agony and pain, in the midst of humiliation
and and loss and blood, you still know
that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala loves you. And
you still know and you still feel that
love and you still show him back love
Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Or else why you think
the prophet was told these verse in the
midst of his difficulty. The verses of love
came in the midst of his suffering, in
the midst of persecution and loss of of
life and loss of wealth and loss of
status.
As long as you're not upset with me,
as long as there's no wrath upon me,
then I don't care. I'm happy with whatever
you give me.
But I hope that your afeah can find
a way to encompass me. I just hope
to find your afeah.
So show Allah love. Number 2, acknowledge that
he loves you. It's important to acknowledge that
Allah loves you. Make sure that that you
don't forget tapi, that he is al wadood,
that he does love you.
There's there's 2 types of love. Right? There's
ease love and there's tough love sometimes.
There's tough love too. Sometimes there's tough love.
Okay. Still love. Still love.
He's already shown you more love than you'll
ever need. Whatever happens from now on cannot
take away the the love that he's already
shown you. Just that has to be whatever
happens in your life from now until the
end, no matter how it doesn't matter what
happens. He's already shown you more love than
anything can cancel. Nothing can cancel it. It's
always gonna be there. That love is divine.
That love is divine in nature.
And then finally,
love people and love what he created and
love what he put here. I'll end with
this hadith for you to contemplate.
3 things. If you have them, you will
find the sweet nectar of imam. Like, you'll
actually enjoy it. It'll become something that you
love. You'll become like the prophet, alayhis salaam.
We stand and read juzut 2, 3, 4.
You're happy. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter how long.
You're not bothered. If the Quran is being
recited, you love that. You love listening to
Quran. You sit there. You say his name.
You love it. You love hearing the name,
love saying the name. There's a joy that
comes in saying his name
and saying the names of the the ones
that he loves, like the prophet
find joy in that. Find joy because you
love him. Yeah. You want to come to
that point, there's 3 things.
3 things. Number 1, you love Allah more
than you love anything else. You love his
prophet, alayhi, sallam, more than you love anyone
else. And you love the Muslims around you.
You love people only for the sake of
Allah. You're not looking for anything. You don't
want anything. You're not hoping for anything in
dunya. You're just doing it because, you know,
they are close to Allah. You and they
are helping you to be close to Allah.
You will love them for that sake. You
will love them out of compassion. Number 3,
you hate to leave your deen, which means
you love it. If you hate to leave
your deen, it's like you would hate to
be thrown into the fire. It means you
love this. So you love Allah. You love
his prophet. You love the Muslims of Islam.
Love. If you love if you love this
stuff, then you'll find the sweet nectar of
iman. The sweet nectar of iman. Iman will
taste sweet to you. It won't be something
forced upon you, something that you're disciplining yourself
to do, it's something that you just find
joy in doing. You find joy in it
because it's filled with love. Because you love
him, you love his prophet, you love his
deen, you love the Muslims,
and that's his name.
May Allah grant us his love and allow
us to love him. I will I will
I will share with you before we end
this his dua. We'll just make it at
the end. This is what he used to
say
Oh Allah grant me your love. Grant me
the love of those who love you. Grant
me the love of every deed that will
bring bring me closer to loving you. Oh
Allah, everything that you gave me that I
love, allow me to use it in a
way that you love. And anything that I
love that you took away from me, allow
that time that was going to be spent
it that you love.
it that you love.