Ishq-Meaning

“Bismillahir Rahmannir Raheem”Al-Hamdu Lillaahi Rabbil ‘Aalameen was Salaatu was- Salaamu ‘Alaa Sayidinaa Muhammadin wa Aalihi wa Asabihi Ajma ‘een (tauheed- risalat- ahkirat and islam-iman-ihsan)

CONCERNING EXCESSIVE LOVE (‘ishq)

ALLAH (SWT)’S LOVE TOWARDS MAN —-1.consists in showing much favour to him, 2.and giving him a recompense in this world and the next, 3.and making him secure from punishment and keeping him safe from sin, 4.and bestowing on him lofty “states” and exalted “stations” 5.and causing him to turn his thoughts away from all that is other than Allah (swt). 6.His good will towards him

MAN’S LOVE TOWARDS ALLAH (SWT) —1.is a quality which manifests itself in the heart of the pious believer, 2.in the form of veneration and magnification, 3.so that he seeks to satisfy his Beloved 4.and becomes impatient and restless in his desire for vision of Him, 5.and cannot rest with anyone except Him, 6.and grows familiar with the remembrance (dhikr) of Him, 7.and abjures the remembrance of everything besides. 8.Repose becomes unlawful to him and rest flees from him. 9.He is cut off from all habits and associations, 10.and renounces sensual passion 11.and turns towards the court of love and submits to the law of love 12.and knows Allah (swt) by His attributes of perfection.

And the Apostle said: “1 heard Gabriel say that Allah (swt) said, ‘Whoever despises any of My friends has declared war against Me, I do not hesitate in anything as I hesitate to seize the soul of My faithful servant who dislikes death and whom I dislike to hurt, but he cannot escape therefrom; and no means whereby My servant seeks My favour is more pleasing to Me than the performance of the obligations which I have laid upon him; and My servant continuously seeks My favour by works of supererogation until I love him, and when I love him I am his hearing and his sight and his hand and his helper.” And the Apostle also said, “Allah (swt) loves to meet those who love to meet Him, and dislikes to meet those who dislike to meet Him”; and again, “When Allah (swt) loves a man He says to Gabriel, ‘0 Gabriel, I love such and such a one, so do thou love him’; then Gabriel loves him and says to the dwellers in Heaven, ‘Allah (swt) loves such and such a one,’ and they love him too; then he bestows on him favour in the earth, so that he is loved by the inhabitants of the earth; and as it happens with regard to love, so does it happen with regard to hate.”

When I want to talk to allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)

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