How to Attain Love for Allaah
Bismillaah
In order to attain true love ['ishq haqiqi] for Allaah, the following principles must be established:
Sincere Yearning [Talab]
The foremost condition of attaining love for Allaah is to sincerely crave such love. A person may acquire the material world [dunyaa] passively, but true love ['ishq] is a treasure; therefore it cannot be acquired unless one actively seeks it.
I am humbled by my abaseness, and in awe of Your exaltedness,
Yet, what can I do of my heart, still it desires to reach You.
A person may be made of dust and earth, yet far does his gaze travel when he desires the countenance of the True Beloved.
Where is this [lowly] heart, that it may desire to attain the Beloved?
Where is the King of the beautiful? And how far are we?
When a person sits to remember Allaah, but discovers his heart full of heedlessness and neglect, he should recite the following prayer to himself:
O Beneficient One, have grace upon me, I am in great agony,
I am sitting before You, yet still I remain veiled.
A person must make firm intention in his heart to acquire true love for Allaah and must be prepared to sacrifice everything for this goal.
To be continued… insha’Allaah
Ta marbutah wrote,
As-salamu ‘alaykum dear Umm Layth,
Jazak’Allah khair for posting that up. I highly recommend you reading this book available online “Love for Allah”: http://www.tasawwuf.org/writings/love_allah/index.htm
Link | March 28th, 2007 at 6:19 am
Umm Layth wrote,
wa `alaykum as-Salaam ukhti
I suppose now I don’t have to type the other parts, because that’s the same book, masha’Allaah : ). Thanks a lot for the link wa Jazaaki Allaahu khairan!
Link | March 28th, 2007 at 6:48 am