Allahs Beautiful Names #19 No One Can Love You Like Allah – Al Wadood

Is there a person who's beyond Allah

love?

The loving.

Allah

mentions this beautiful name in 2 places in

the Quran. In Surah Hud, Allah

says, My lord is merciful and loving.

And in Surat Al Buruj, Allah says,

and he is the forgiving, the loving. And

both of these pairings

are really, really profound because

the merciful and the loving and the forgiving

and the loving. The reason being that we

all may have people that we love. And

if they were to wrong us, depending on

the severity of that wrong, it may take

us a very long time to be able

to forgive them. And in fact, that might

even require a tremendous amount of work. But

even if we do come back to being

able to forgive them,

is that love ever gonna be the same

again? Like it was before? It becomes like

a glass that's shattered. Even if the pieces

are placed back together perfectly,

the cracks are still visible. Umar ibn Khattab

stood face to face with the killer of

his brother Zayd. And Zaid was Umar's older

brother, and he had accepted Islam before

Umar, and he had migrated before Umar. And

Zaid would participate in the campaigns against Musailemma

the liar, the false prophet.

And Musailemma

would be killed and he would be defeated,

but Zayb would be martyred. And after Musa'ilama

was killed, those who had apostated and were

supporting him, they embraced Islam again and they

got reabsorbed into the Muslim community. Now, Umar

is the Khalifa, and he's standing in front

of one of those men, and he asks

him a point blank question. He says, I

ask you by Allah,

did you kill my brother's aid? And the

man simply says, yes.

Umar then said, stay away from me then,

then because I will never love you as

long as the earth does not love blood.

We're never gonna be okay. Right? And so

the man says, Amirul Mum, meaning commander of

the faithful, Is your lack of love for

me gonna prevent me from any of my

rights? And Umar says to him, no. Your

rights are secured.

My love for you is something else. Your

rights as a Muslim are secured. The man

then says, well, what do I care about

your love then? I don't care about your

love. But the point here is

that

say that you've done such an injury to

me by killing my brother,

that even if you've been forgiven by the

state, even though you are not accountable for

those crimes because of your reacceptance of Islam,

Ahmed is saying, I'm never gonna be we're

never gonna be like buddy buddy. Just stay

away from me.

And someone who had a bigger capacity, both

for forgiveness and for love, then Umar

was

himself.

We see the amount of people who had

done so much injury to the prophet

in Mecca and when they came back and

accepted Islam in Medina, the prophet

welcomed them and the prophet

forgave them. But an injury that transcended himself

was the murder of his uncle Hamza.

Washi,

who killed Hamza

at the Battle of Uhud, came to accept

Islam.

And when he did, the prophet

said, are you the one who they call

your And he said, yes. The prophet

said, can you distance your face away from

me? The prophet

was willing to accept the Islam of Washi,

but the idea of seeing him all of

the time and the reminder of the mutilation

of Hamza on the battlefield of Uhud and

seeing his killer was too much. And so

when

Allah appears, the merciful and the

loving,

or the forgiving and the loving,

it is incredibly inspiring because it shows us

that there is no one who is alive

on this earth, who's not beyond not only

being forgiven by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, but

being loved by Allah, no matter what the

crime is. So what are the ways that

we can garner the love of Allah

Firstly, to ask Allah for his love. Abu

Darda, radiallahu, he reported that Rasulullah

said, one of Dawud salallam's

supplications was, one of his duas was, Allahu

mayinias aluka hubbaq. Oh, Allah ask you for

your love.

And the love of those who you love.

And the love of actions that will garner

me, your love.

The love of deeds that will cause me

to attain your love. And the hadith is

reported by Tirmidhi. So that's number 1. Number

2 is to seek out the attributes that

Allah

loves. Look through the Quran and see what

Allah

says that he loves, and then go and

try to develop those attributes. For example, Allah

loves the people of taqwa. So let me

try to increase my taqwa. Allah

loves the mushineen, the people of Ihsan, the

people of goodness, the people of excellence. So

let me increase in my excellence. Allah

loves the tawabeen. Allah loves the people who

repent. And so let me repent to Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah loves the.

Allah loves those who purify themselves. Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala loves those who follow the prophet

Allah

says, say if you love Allah, then follow

me. Follow Rasulullah

In doing so, Allah

will love you. And so the more I

want the love of Allah, the more willing

I am, the more concerned I am, the

more I care for following the sunnah of

Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

To be reciprocated by the object of their

love. Thirdly, to increase in our worship. Because

the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says in

hadith that's reported by Muslim that Allah

said, my servant does not come closer to

me with anything that's more beloved to me

than what I have obligated.

And my servant will continue to come closer

to me with voluntary

actions until I love them. And so doing

voluntary actions

increases Allah

love for you. So these are 3 ways

to come closer

to Al Wadud, the loving. May Allah write

us His love

and give us the love of those who

will garner us His love.

will garner us His love.