Hamza Yusuf – Loving the Best of Creation ﷺ – What is Love

			Love is a very amazing word in. In English, it's an amazing word in Arabic, there are many words for
love in Arabic. But the the essential word is hope. That's the essential word, and love in
		

			love in it, it's an old
		

			it's an old English
		

			word that goes back to a Saxon word. And,
		

			and it relates to being pleased with to be pleased with it. And interesting enough to our word
believe is related to love to believe, because you believe in what you're pleased with, what you
love. Things that your your heart accepts, are things that you believe. So love is related to
acceptance, the idea that something you're pleased with, you have love for, and the in Arabic the
word hope, which is the word the prophet SAW him said, like, I had to come here to akuna I have that
either he more beloved to him. So the word hope
		

			is a word. If you look at one of the root meanings, it's a seed. So Love is a seed that's nurtured
and and it's nurtured with knowledge of the Beloved, the more you know about the beloved, the more
you love the beloved. So it's it's a seed that had that in Arabic is a seed. And
		

			the prophets I said him, as you get to know the prophets alight his sin and you get to know him
intimately. And that's one of the purposes of this text, is to know the prophets I send him into
intimately as you get to know the prophets I send them intimately.
		

			He becomes
		

			Well, one of the descriptions of love is, is they say friendship on fire.
		

			That that's a description of love, that it's something that we got, it starts to consume you. And we
have people from our tradition who died of love of the prophets eyes and literally die. We have
people that bled tears of blood and tears of blood, which is an old blues motif for people that know
anything about
		

			about an American music. I'm crying tears of blood for you. tears of blood are real. Because when
somebody goes into a very intense, you get bloods, those small little blood vessels in the eyes
burst. And so it's a real thing tears of blood.
		

			That's what emammal will say it. I'm into the courier on me the * message them and
		

			gentlemen, McClinton bid me you know, that is it from remembering just the places that beloved used
to go to that causes this mixture of tears and blood to flow from your eyes. So tears of blood
there's people that have wept tears of blood, out of love of the prophets of light is that um,
there's people who have literally died from a stroke. And and ash is it's it's another amazing word
Ashoka is a It's a type of vine that begins to grow around a tree and it strangles the tree. So it
kills the tree. The Arab Sailesh would die on Partido de la hora dissolve, you know, the ash is a
deadly disease that can only be cured by connection by being connected to the beloved by the union
		

			that will soon Elon Elon Habib. And so the the the love of the province of Assam can can really take
hold of the heart. Now, when you love somebody you remember them. That's one of the attributes of
love you think about them. I mean, that's what happens when you fall in love. And you call I'm just
thinking about you can't stop thinking that's real. It's real. I can't stop thinking about you. I
mean, why is that pressing on the heart because you're in love. That's what love is, I can't stop
thinking about you. You write poems, you, you do think what is that a fusion that's coming out of
the heart to write poems, really, and people write the worst poems when they're in love, but it
		

			doesn't matter. They would never do it. If they weren't, they would know how ridiculous it is. But
it doesn't matter because they there has to be some type of tag do. Now what is tabea You are
beautiful. It's what you express the word a bra, which is a discerning lesson, something you gain is
related to Abra which is a tear. And it's related to a T bar which is respect.
		

			Respect back to respect a little you know, I have respect for him.
		

			They're all Akilah, who ativar I don't give it any significance.
		

			So when something has significance and import and meaning, then it begins to affect the heart. And
that's why even the remnants of the beloved cliff and empty, mythic rehab even more woman z. This is
the jelly motif of naseeb in the jadie. Poetry is to
		

			interrupt pace begins his malata by just saying, stop my two friends, let's look here at where the
beloved used to be, just to look nip key and weep over the traces of the Beloved. Just to look these
are jelly people. These aren't, this isn't. These are just people that knew what love was because
Johnny Arabs had a deep and profound knowledge of help. They really knew what love was, and they
were very intense in their love. They had intense love. But that's one of the motifs of just bukata
Allen Upsilon just weeping over places where the beloved used to be a more of a deity Dr. Laila or
Kabuto del Gita with LG da Hubbell Ji dari shut up Nickleby what I can hug them and second era, I
		

			pass by the houses of Laila and kiss the walls of the houses.
		

			It's just so beautiful.
		

			No kiss the walls of the houses.
		

			But it's it's not the wall.
		

			That
		

			having raptured my heart.
		

			But love is the one that lives between those walls.
		

			That's why people come to Mecca and Medina.
		

			It's not the stones
		

			when you go to the tomb of the Prophet size, and it's not the word you have,
		

			but the word you had is amazing. And you could just stare at it and stare at it and look at it even
though you're not even supposed to have said that. But to look at the picture, you can look at a
picture of the word you have for a long time and not grow tired of it.
		

			But it's just metal. It's a great that somebody built, but it's what it's what's beyond that metal.
It's what it represents.
		

			And that's what all this is at the end of the day. That's all this these are walls that are hiding
the eternal living god that's what the world is. That's why when you
		

			when you begin to understand that
		

			that's what you love about the world. Not the dunya the alum
		

			the admirable anime Lord of all the worlds The alum is the Arabs call that this more Allah it's it's
a noun of instrument. An atom is the instrument of atom it's the instrument by which you know
something and and what you know it from the world is the add in.
		

			It's It's It's It's God's vehicle for giving us knowledge. And that's why things are so important
that that's why things things Attia. You know, things are important. possessions are important.
That's why property is, is one of the essential
		

			reasons why we were given shediac is to protect property, because things are important because
things have meaning. The Prophet named all of his things.
		

			He didn't have many things, but the things that he had he named them he gave them names because they
had meaning. And that's what the world is its meaning its meaning everywhere. The whole thing is
meaning its manner in the monoclonal morane in Parliament and bisola coolamon. You do recall how the
kanima Helen ever like the poet said, this whole cosmos is meanings set up in images.
		

			And whoever understands that is from the people of discernment. The people have ever the people have
fat taboo, yeah, Ooh, that's a bizarre, think deeply give this a bruh give this and then the Abra
leads to Abra that's where the tears come.
		

			You know, they come
		

			From perception of meaning,
		

			you know, to really know what something means.
		

			It's just it's an amazing thing to know what something means.
		

			You know, it's it's a great gift
		

			that God gave to human beings, Adam, Adam, and as Matt, he taught man, he taught Adam, the names,
the ability to create meaning,
		

			to give meaning to things. Because the meaning is a transference. It's a movement, from something to
another thing. So a name is a great meaning if I say tree, and suddenly, in your mind, an image of a
tree comes. That's meaning.
		

			That's, that is meaning. And that's why
		

			the more that you know,
		

			about the prophets allies, the more powerful those meanings penetrate your heart, when you
understand his import, what he means
		

			the manner the meaning of the Prophet.
		

			What he means salatu salam, and the prophets I sent him said, Hey, you know, I had to come. He said,
Man, Hosni Islam and Mari taco who melayani, from the beautiful Islam of a person is to leave what
has no meaning for him.
		

			What has no meaning for him Malaya, and he, it doesn't have manner for him.
		

			Like gossip? What, what does that mean? If you know about, so and so and such and such getting a
divorce? How does that affect you? What's the meaning for you? So meaning is that's what this whole
thing is about. And that's what that's what the gift of this religion is. It gives meaning that
people you know, the the non Muslim, like some of the atheist people, not Christians, because
Christians believe in meaning also, but some of the atheists they say, oh, religion is just a way
for people to find meaning.
		

			Exactly, we totally agree with you.
		

			Really, we agree with you.
		

			Because they say this is all meaningless.
		

			But we don't believe that. Because we know and experience and taste meaning and we know that it's
real, it's real, all this other stuff is not real. But meaning is real. That is what's real about
the world. And the greatest meaning that highest miner in the world is the messenger of a loss a
lot. I said I'm so inshallah, we'll get to look at, at the
		

			at some of those meanings in Sharla in the text