The above title was beautifully written in yellow chalk, on the blackboard on the last day of our classes. My friend pointed that out to me when the class had already begun. I felt it rubbish at the first look but as our teacher wrote things below it, I couldn’t resist looking at the words and admiring them. The words were deep and heavy…I wondered whether the one who wrote it did really understood what it meant…?

I smiled at her…and whispered slowly…”I wish I could tell who wrote this what it really means!” she smiled. I knew I need not give her more talk, she understood what I meant. We faced the teacher again…I nodded not understanding a single thing…a smile on my face, I felt the feeling in my heart. I had realized the meaning of love maybe a bit late, but yes I did understand it.

 

I have loved lots of things before understanding, and it now reveals to me that how worthless they were and how blindly I was following them. I knew they had an end…and that they would haunt me for a very long time afterwards. Yes, that love was nothing but an illusion…and even though I knew what it was…foolishly, I was pursuing them.

 

Most of you, I reckon, do love “illusions”. What you are seeking after has no reality and even if it has, a very short reality…Let me tell you then…of an eternal love…a feeling that is beyond any feeling…a feeling that some scholar said,” if people in paradise don’t have it…they are not in paradise”. Yes! it is the love…the love of the creator of the materialistic things that you adore…the love of Allah!

 

Tell me for what do you admire people or any thing…for it’s beauty…for its talent…for personality…for any favor…Oh! Then where is your love for the creator of all beauty…for the creator of all talents and personalities…for the one who has bestowed all favors upon you…from parents…to caring friends…where is it?!!

 

Indeed! Allah is between your heart and you…just try looking in there! I am sure you never did. The person or thing you love will never have any place in your heart. You will see it wearing away in time…but Allah…who didn’t forget you when you where in your mother’s womb…will not forget you when you call upon.

 

Who in the world will answer you every time you ask…but Allah, whenever a person says “O, Allah!”. Allah replies (subhanahu wa taala), “Oh my slave!”, He is a merciful Lord…indeed he is a merciful lord…so where are you in asking him?

 

O people! O the Ummah of the prophet (peace and blessing s of Allah be upon him)! In what are you wasting your young age and the power…health & wealth that you have been given? What you think love, is not love. It’s destruction. Come back to your senses. Love is… if at all…then for Allah…or for the sake of Allah. Love a person because of his beautiful character in Islam…every love beyond that is meaningless…take my word for it…and in time you will see!

 

Love Allah! It’s beautiful…indescribable. You will feel the light here! In your heart. No matter how worse things get! Allah is with us; isn’t it?!  Love for Allah is like a glowing lamp in the darkness of the heart…in the darkness of the body…in the darkness of the night…in the darkness of the universe…and nowadays in the darkness of the trials we face in Islam (AlFitan)

 

Did you ever count the favors of Allah on you? From every breath you take in, to the work of every cell in your body…we have taken these things for granted! Who regulates your cells and glands?!!!

 

And as Kaleemullah Moses (peace be upon him and our prophet) said  'O Allah! Even giving us the ability to thank you is a favor from you!’

"If ye would count up the favours of Allah, never would ye be able to number them: for Allah is oft-Forgiving, most Merciful."(18)Surah al Nahl.

 It’s a fake stupor that Satan has put us in! Get up! It’s time now! Our Ummah is facing billions of trials and you are the energy today. Muslims are being killed mercilessly in the name of terrorism…our brothers are being persecuted ruthlessly…Quran is being mistreated…kicked around…being flushed down toilet…why don’t you get aroused then! Why don’t you do what you can?

 

We stand before Allah in prayer five times a day…out of love for him…then what goes in going to the battle fields and getting martyred…it will do nothing except get us closer to Allah, once and for all; away from the bothers of this worthless life…and like the Prophet said on his death bed:

 

I am dedicating the article whole-heartedly, to the one who sketched that proverb on the board. May Allah (subhanahu wa taala) guide you…may Allah guide us all to his love! I tell you brothers and sisters…love of Allah is priceless. I wish I could paste my tears here to express it…it is indeed priceless, may Allah guide us all and give us the ability of doing something for Islam…to raise the word of Allah high…well! It is a dream worth living for…and worth dying for!

And remember that martyrs never die!