Asalamualikoum wa rahmatollahi wa barakato.
Welcome back to Allah Loves.
So in this episode, its very simple, Allah loves love.
A very particular love.
Love for his sake.
And this is something that is so special about our religion.
Allah talks about the wonder of it, just looking at the earliest generation of Muslims.
"Wa'tasimo bi hablilaahi jamee'an wala tafarakou wthkoro nemat Allahi alaykoum ith kontom a'daan
fa alafi bayna koloobikoum fa asbahto bi nematihi ikhwana".
Allah says hold the rope of Allah and do not be divided and remember when you were just
a bunch of warring tribes but Allah connected you hearts.
So it wasn't just some sort of superficial connection or one that was forced by the Prophet
(pbuh) to bring people together.
Your hearts became connected to each other, which is a requirement for the other types
of unity to actually be able to hold.
"fa alafi bayna koloobikoum fa asbahto bi nematihi ikhwana" so you became brothers.
and you would have otherwise wanted to kill each other but Allah saved you from yourselves.
What's so special about this is that Islam has the ability to unify people across race,
across class, across social gathers, across your likings and you're hobbies.
It brought these people together that would have been very unlikely to have any type of
friendship outside of something as powerful as Islam but they loved each other for Allah.
So what does it mean to love each other for Allah and how does this warrant the love of
Allah and is there a proportion that gives you a greater portion of the love of Allah
(swt)?
The Prophet (pbuh) mentioned to us those that are shaded by the throne of Allah.
The one that I just mentioned, one of the categories is a person who is tied to the
masjid and we talked about the mosque and we talked about the masajid and the scholars
said in the masjid, what's likely to happen?
And thats why the very next category is what that likeliness is, two people who love each
other for Allah and for absolutely nothing else.
Allah binds them, they come together on Allah's love, the part from one another from Allah's
love.
And the Prophet (pbuh) said in a beautiful narration in Sahih Muslim, there was a man
walking to visit his brother in another town and an angel came to him in human form and
told him why are you going to visit so-so and he said walahi I'm only going to visit
or the only thing that brought me out to visit him is because I love him for the sake of
Allah and he said then know that I am a messenger of Allah that has been sent to you to tell
you that Allah loves you because you love him.
Allah loves you because of your love for him.
When you love for Allah's sake, then you know that Allah loves you.
And the Prophet (pbuh) said that Allah has said that on the day of judgement that those
who love each other for my sake are under my shade and under my glory.
And so in this world as well, that love that you have for Allah's sake is really an unbreakable
bond.
It's also a form of cover and shade and glory in this world as well that brings people together
in a really transformative way and hopefully extends the communities of love where people
love each other for the sake of Allah (swt).
The Prophet (pbuh) also said that if you love someone for Allah then you should tell that
person that you love them for Allah and this gets really awkward sometimes because 'I Love
You' is something that we might say to our spouses and children, but how many times do
you actually tell a brother or a sister, of course brothers telling brothers, sisters
telling sisters, I love you for Allah.
How often do you express that love for Allah (swt).
And yes, you can tell your wife too, you can tell your husband too.
You can say I love you for Allah, it's fine.
But expressing that love for Allah (swt) is also part of it and the Prophet (pbuh) said
that when two people love each other for Allah, when it's mutual, that the one who is stronger
for the love of Allah will be the one that is more loved by Allah.
So it's not just two people that love each other for Allah, how much you love the other
person for Allah is also proportionate to how much Allah (swt) loves you for that love.
The Prophet (pbuh) finally told us in a beautiful hadith, a hadith in which the Prophet (pbuh)
mentioned that Allah loves someone and when Allah loves someone he calls Jibreel, alayhi
al salam, his beloved one and says, 'Ya Jibreel, inni ohibo fulan, fa ahiba' 'O' Jibreel, I
love this person so you should love this person too'.
So Jibreel loves that person.
Then Jibreel calls out to the angels and says 'Allah loves this person, so you should love
that person too' So all of the angels love that person too.
And then as the inhabitants of the heavens love that person because Allah loves that
person, then "ulda'o lao kobolaho bi ard' Acceptance and love is put in the hearts of
the people on this earth.
Now that particular love however is not when people love something of you that's not true,
its when they love something of you that is true about you and Allah causes them to love
about you what made you beloved to Him in the first place.
So its the type of people that Allah directs toward you.
So the type of people that love you and what they love you for is in fact true of you.
So we ask Allah to make us among those who love and are loved for His sake and who are
all brought together by loving Him and being loved by Him and that are shaded by his glory
on the day of judgement because of his love for us and our love for him.
Allahoma ameen, jazakoum Allah khayran wa salamualikoum wa rahmatollahi wa barakato.