ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE

Muslims shoud know their creator and always strive to obey his commands. Do you yearn to please Allah?  Our prayers should reflect on who Almighty Allah is, Do we understand the power of Allah when we stand before him? Allah is more loving and merciful than our own mothers. It is only the Allah who we have to turn to, he looks after us and provides us shelter from the storm. He gave us life for a purpose,  and for a reason,  that reason is to find out who Allah is.

Quraan says, “And I did not create jinn and mankind except to worship me alone.”

The worship takes us closer to Allah. The characteristics of Allah must be ponder upon for knowing him better. We as Muslims must love Allah for the sake of giving back the love he pours down on us everyday unconditionally. When Muslims forsake Allah’s love from theri hearts, they are destroyed.

Allah describes the life that was given to the person after he was dead. “And is one who was dead and We gave him life and made for him light by which to walk among the people like one who is in darkness, never to emerge therefrom? Thus it has been made pleasing to the disbelievers that which they were doing.” [Surah Al An’am, v 122]

Knowing our creator is our duty and the noblest of all things that we do. It is an extremely beneficial knowledge we are encouraged to seek. To set the life on the right course, knowing our creator’s ways and his personality traits are most important. It gives us direction and a sense of purpose in this life. Being the best Muslim we can be is a blessing that very few human beings reap from their lives.

Ibn al Qayyim’s (rahimahullah) heart-softening words were, “Surely in the heart of every human being, there is a sense of scattering which cannot be brought back together except by turning to Allah. And in the heart of every human being there is a sense of loneliness which cannot be put out except by being close to Allah. And in the heart of every human being there is anxiety and there is a sense of fear and unease which cannot be removed except by fleeing to Allah. And in the heart of every human being there is a sense of guilt and regret which cannot be removed except by being pleased and content with Allah.”

The goal of this life should be attaining the love of Allah. Sometimes the worldly matters consume us so much that it distracts us from reaching out to our God.

Abu Huraira (radiallahu anhu) narrates that the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said, “If Allah loves a person, He calls Jibraeel (alayhi salaam) saying, ’Allah loves so and so; O Jibraeel love him. And make an announcement amongst the inhabitants of the heaven, Allah loves so and so therefore you should love him also’, and so all the inhabitants of the heaven would love him, and then he is granted the pleasures of the people on the earth.” [Al-Bukhari and Muslim]

It is also narrated by Abu Huraira (radiallahu anhu) that Allah’s Messenger (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said that Allah said, “I will declare war against him who shows hostility to a pious worshipper of mine. And the most beloved things with which My slave comes nearer to Me, is what I have enjoined upon him; and My worshipper keeps on coming close to Me through performing Nawafil (praying or doing extra deeds besides what is obligatory) till I love him, then I become his sense of hearing with which he hears, and his sense of sight with which he sees, and his hands with which he grips, and his legs with which he walks; and if he asks Me, I will give him, and if he asks My protection (refuge), I will protect him.” [Al-Bukhari]

Source: missionislam.com/knowledge/getknowallah.html