The Love of Allah | Shaikh Adna Abdul Qadir

• The Purification of Tawhid from the Filth of Deviation

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FI الموجبة المحبة الله THE LOVE OF ALLAH Shaikh 'Adnân 'Abdul Qâdir
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Introduction........ Content THE FIRST CAUSE - Knowing the great Beauty of Allah....................8 THE SECOND CAUSE - Knowing the great Qualities of Allah...............25 THE THIRD CAUSE - Knowing the Kindness of Allah towards us....... ....28
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Introduction All praise is due to Allah, and we seek refuge with Him in the evil which lies within our ownselves. Whoever Allah guides, there is none to lead him astray and whoever He leads astray, there is none who can guide him and I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship except Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is His Prophet and Messenger. After this, know dear brothers, that Allah has said in His Qur'an, وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجَنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِ ال "And I have not created the jinn and mankind ex- cept that they should worship Me (Alone)." [Surah al-Dhariyat (51): 56] What is the meaning of worship? Is the meaning of worship to establish prayer only Or to give Zakah? Or to make Hajj to the house of Allah? Or to fast? Are these things only worship? Or are these things mere signs of worship? As explained by Shaykh ul-Islam, Ibn Taymiyah, "Worship is an expression of love for Allah and it also expresses complete humility to Allah." 1 1 'Ibadah' is a comprehensive term that encompasses everything that Allah loves and is pleased with, of both statements and actions, [both] the appar- ent and hidden. For worship does not merely mean prayer but just a sign of worship, worship is love for Allah. prayer is Many people claim that they love Allah and say; 'I have prayed, I have fasted, and I have performed the Hajj and I gave Zakah. After all of this, what does Allah want from me, I have done all these forms of worship? I have worshipped Allah.' Has this person really worshipped Allah? Does Allah need our prayer? Does Allah need our fast? Does Allah need our Zakah and our Hajj? Allah is High above all these things! In a hadith, the Prophet said, in that which he conveyed from his Lord, the Blessed and Exalted; "O My servants! I have forbidden oppression for Myself and I have made it forbidden for you, therefore do not oppress one another. O My servants! All of you are lost except for those whom I have guided, therefore seek guid- ance from Me and I will guide you. O My servants! All of you are hungry except for those whom I have fed, there- fore seek sustenance from Me and I will sustain you. O My servants! All of you are naked except for those whom I have clothed, therefore seek clothing from Me and I will clothe you. O My servants! You sin by night and day and I forgive all sins, therefore seek forgiveness from Me and I will forgive you. O My servants! You will not be able to harm Me so as to bring about any harm to Me and you will not be able to benefit Me so as to bring about any benefit to Me. O My servants! If the first and last of you, the human and jinn of you, were as pious as the most pi- ous heart of anyone amongst you, it would not add any- thing to My dominion. O My servants! If the first and last 4 5
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الموجبة المحبة الله THE LOVE OF ALLAH Shaikh 'Adnân 'Abdul Qâdir Many people claim that they love Allâh and they say; 'I prayed, I fasted, I made the Hajj and I gave Zakât'. After all of this, what does Allâh want from me, I have done all these forms of worship? I have worshipped Allâh.' Has this person really worshipped Allâh? He does not need our worship. We need the worship of Allâh, we need Salâh, we need Zakah and we need to fast. We are poor and Allâh is rich, we are weak and Allâh is strong, we are the degraded and low and Allâh is the Most High and Mighty. We need the love of Allâh. O brothers! We relate to Allâh as we relate to this world. Who from amongst us, when someone comes to him, says to his brother: 'I love you and I am this and that in obedience to you,' and then you say to him, if he said these words to you: 'Have you said these words from your heart?' Did he really understand what he said to you or are you merely speaking words that you have memorized. O brothers! are we truly relating to Allâh in our prayers in this manner? How many of us recite Fâtihah, the opening chapter of the Qur'ân, in the right manner? How many of us, when we prostrate to Allâh, feel in our hearts, humility? We enter the prayer, when the Imâm says 'Allahu Akbar', Allâh is the Greatest and we remember, at that moment, all the affairs of the world. We remember, only at this moment, the affairs of the world and we forget Allâh. We remember our food when we go to prayer, we remember our friends when we go to the prayer, we remember our needs when we go to the prayer and we don't know what the Imâm is saying, what he is reading and we don't feel any effect from the prayer except for when the Imâm says 'as-Salâmu 'Alaykum.' Do we really love Allâh? Daar us-Sunnah Publishers P.O. Box 9818, Birmingham, B11 4WA, United Kingdom E-mail: Daar-us-Sunnah@mail.com T: +44 0 121 766 7993 F: +44 0 121 766 7982 ISBN 1-904336-03-5 9781904 336037