May Allah forgive me if I am wrong. But I feel this way. It seems that we muslims in the present age don’t have that “passionate” love for Allah as our fore fathers used to have.
Even if we take the example of our mother (Whose example Allah give Himself to give us an idea). We mostly don’t disobey her, because we love her VERY MUCH, and ofcourse we are also a bit afraid of hurting her. But we mostly don’t care for rewards.
In case of love for Allah, we seem to be obeying more due to either “fear of punishment” or in “hope of any sort of reward”, and relatively less times we are doing good deeds because we LOVE Allah (swt) very much from the core of our heart, for everything.
Shouldn’t this “Love for Allah” be always dominant over “Hope of reward” and “Fear of punishment”
May be I am wrong, kindly correct me.
IF it is true, what can be the possible reasons of the wrong attitude/ behaviour ?
well i cant say abt the past as i dun know if people at that time were really closer 2 god compared 2 know and if their intentions were better.....but if u take our time....life is moving so fast every1 is concerned abt their goodwill...they want 2 only get n not give...they apply the same procedure with god....they pray when they want something they forget him when they r happier....i, myself included in this...which is really a shame cuz we understand this but still forget 2 remember Allah at all times instead of only at bad times...
Once Hazrat Musa (a.s) saw a person in the jungle. He was alone and talking to Allah. He said that O' Allah I wish if you come on earth, I would give you bath, I would give you good clothes to wear, I would comb your hair,.....etc. (This is what I heard, the wordings might be a bit different)
HAzrat Musa (a.s) was very angry at him and told him to be respectful towards Allah. That man got afraid and stoped talking.
When Allah didn't talk to Hazrat Musa (a.s) for quite sometime, he became worried if he might have done something to make Allah unhappy. When he prayed. Allah repied that you should not have stoped that person as I liked his intense love and passion for me.
I came across some words of the past saints like Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi. If some molvi of the present age reads them, he might even give a fatwa of disrepecting Allah, but it is not like that. Their love was so passionate and pure for Allah, that they wanted to express it in different ways.
Once a saint was doing a tawaf and he heard a women praying and using the word" Mehboob" and other words which made him feel that she is thinking of someone else while doing tawaf. He asked the women about the reason. She said " I am not doing tawaf of this kaaba. I am doing tawaf of Allah"
The saint was really impressed from her passion and love for Allah.
p.s. Some wordings might not be conveying the exact meaning as I have translated them. I have no source to mention as I heard them from some scholars.
its sad but true, our love for this world and its people has grown more than our love for our creator and the promised afterlife.
this world and its ppl whom we love and trust and expect something from them often fail us and lead us astray. they are da cause of depression and disappointment and heart break and yet we continue pinning our hopes and trust on them.
easier said than done i know :D i guess its not easy to resist da seduction of this materialistic world. May Allah forgive us.
you maybe right but is it wrong to pray or obey Allah in fear of punishment or in hope of a reward? I'v always heard that one should always fear Allah and "whoever has fear of Allah in their heart ......'
Also, when you obey your mother, you are getting closer to Allah because that's what he asks us to do. Many things we do that can be categorized as "good" things such as obeying your mother or parents, we are really obeying Allah. hmm
Once Hazrat Musa (a.s) saw a person in the jungle. He was alone and talking to Allah. He said that O' Allah I wish if you come on earth, I would give you bath, I would give you good clothes to wear, I would comb your hair,.....etc. (This is what I heard, the wordings might be a bit different)
HAzrat Musa (a.s) was very angry at him and told him to be respectful towards Allah. That man got afraid and stoped talking.
When Allah didn't talk to Hazrat Musa (a.s) for quite sometime, he became worried if he might have done something to make Allah unhappy. When he prayed. Allah repied that you should not have stoped that person as I liked his intense love and passion for me.
I came across some words of the past saints like Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi. If some molvi of the present age reads them, he might even give a fatwa of disrepecting Allah, but it is not like that. Their love was so passionate and pure for Allah, that they wanted to express it in different ways.
Once a saint was doing a tawaf and he heard a women praying and using the word" Mehboob" and other words which made him feel that she is thinking of someone else while doing tawaf. He asked the women about the reason. She said " I am not doing tawaf of this kaaba. I am doing tawaf of Allah"
The saint was really impressed from her passion and love for Allah.
p.s. Some wordings might not be conveying the exact meaning as I have translated them. I have no source to mention as I heard them from some scholars.
yes i have also heard similar kinds of things , it's not what the words say . it's what lies in your heart .
"aur amaal ka daromadfaar neeyat per hey "
^ Agreed, but you see just like when the intensity of air or water in any container is increased it tries to find out ways to come out.
Example
The name of the baby doesn't seem to give enough space to a mother's love to to vent out of her heart, so her love finds more ways of coming out in the form of Mera "Guddu", mera "Munno", mera "pala sa bacha" mera.......etc.
Similarly when the intensity of Allah's love used to increase in the heart of those saints, they couldn't keep its intensity inside them so had to let out in the form of words...
p.s. I am not comparing the two loves, but only giving the example of how love can't be kept in the heart.
Another example could be that of laila majoon or any other couple, where the intensity of love couldn't be kept in the heart when it increased to a certain extent.
At such a stage/level a person doesn't care about what people might think of their behaviour, what kind of hinderance might come in his way, how big sacrifice he has to give, how much money he would lose. His respect, dignity, nothing matters to him as long as he thinks that the step which he is going to take would bring him closer to his beloved. Than everything a person says or do has some sort of a relation to the love which has dominated his mind, heart and soul