Love Love and More Love...
assalamualaikum wa rahmatullah,So almost every other post has to do with love, does it not? It's funny how so many of us think that we are in love with so many different individuals in our life. We wonder, what will come of this love? Will it solidify into a strong friendship? Will it lead to marriage? Many other times friends and family will mock our love, telling us that love is not just seeing a person once or twice, it is not based on the superficial, or that we don't understand love and are too naive.
That has lead me to think and think about what love is.
Ibn al Farid has said, "Surrender utterly, Love is no slight thing." So for what, or who would we really surrender utterly. This lead me to think and think and think. Of course one thinks of their parents and their family, and then the closest of friends, but Subhan'Allah there is an individual who in all his beauty and nobleness far exceeds any individual that has ever walked this earth, hearts that tried to contain or hide their love for him were unable to, and he, salalahualayhi wa salam is the most deserving of this love.
Many a times people have questioned what does loving someone entail. Today I actually had this discussion with one of my close friends. Once again we talked about love, what does it mean to love someone. Is love simply just a feeling that one has in their heart and keeps hidden and tucked away? Or is it something greater and deeper then that. I believe there are certain things that can not just be felt or experienced, some examples of these being knowledge, faith, and love. One can not just safeguard knowledge in their minds, leave it there and refuse to act on it. Knowledge is only knowledge in its truest form when it is practiced, or taught. If it is stored in one's memory, then what makes the knowledgeable different from the ignorant?
Similarly Allah subhana wa ta ala has said in the Quran, "Do men think they will be left alone on saying 'We believe' and that they will not be tested?" 29:2. Faith, like knowledge is not something that is tucked away, yet each and every day it is tested, in both major and minor forms. Those who persevere are those who have faith.
This brings us to love. Yes there are degrees of love, but what is the ultimate love? Is the ultimate love simply through the heart. Or is it through words, actions, and forms of expression....
Abu Hurayra said that the Messenger of Allah said, "Those in my community with the strongest love for me are the people who will come after me. Some of them would give their family and wealth to have seen me." (Muslim and al-Bukhari)
Subhan'Allah..........This is one of my favorite favorite favorite hadith. In this hadith, the Prophet salalhualayhi wa salam has elevated our status, us weak and frail Muslims that even if we tried could not compete with the Sahabah in their deeds, by stating that our love for him, salalahualayhi wa salam, is the strongest.
Sit back once again, and think...are we amongst those that the Prophet salalahualayhi wa salam has mentioned in this hadith. He, salalahualayhi wa salam, did not simply say those that love me are those that will come after me, yet he, salalahualayhi wa salam, followed it by that some of them would give their family and wealth to have seen me. This love, requires more then just an inkling of a feeling, it is expressed through sacrifice.
What are we doing on a daily basis to express our love for our Beloved (subhana wa ta ala)'s beloved, salalahualayhi wa salam?
I think about what is going around in the news, the images that are being drawn of our beloved Messenger salalahualayhi wa salam, and then I read about the comments that Muslims in this country are making. Comments like "oh its being blown out of proportion"....and I can't even begin to express how I feel. You know that sound of nails scratching a chalk board, its beyond that.
Tell me something, if someone who is more beloved to you then anyone that has ever existed, or will ever exist, is defamed openly in front of billions of people, would you just shrug it off? Then how does it not tear people up when the Prophet salalahualayhi wa salam's name is attached to an image so grotesque..........
Would you not sacrifice every ounce of your being to obtain his love, to sit in his presence for even a moment. How then would you tell him that you didn't even flinch when people insulted him such.
Are we really in that sad of a state that we are amongst those that make EXCUSES for those who propagate such acts.
How on the Day of Judgment will we ask him, Salalahualayhi wa salam, for his intercession when we could not even defend him with our lips?
Is our love really this weak?
wassalamualaikum wa rahmatullah
posted by Iqra Bismi Rabbika @ 1:35 AM
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