precious tips towards the love of allah ﷻ by sheikh maulana abdus sattar (db)

8/7/2019 Precious Tips Towards the Love of Allah by Sheikh Maulana Abdus Sattar (Db)

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From the bayan of Sheikh Maulana Abdus Sattar (DB)(Imam and khateeb of masjid Bait-us-salam,Karachi)

Written bytheheartopener

Precious tips towards the love ofAllah


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Love of Allah brings spring in the life of a muminWhen the land is not looked after properly, weeds and thorns grow in it. When the plants

and trees are not watered, they loose their greenery and they look faded. Similarly when

there is no rain of muhabbat (love) and shiddat (passion) of Allah on our hearts, then thegreenery of the eeman of the believer is lost and his life fades away. The spring comes in

the life of a believer when there is the shower of muhabbat of Allah on his heart. Justlike when the water showers on the plants, they turn green, with flowers blossoming with

fragrance emanating from them, the fragrance of muhabbat of Allah and his life witheeman is sensed by others. When the ears cannot hear, we say it has become deficient and

when tongue does not do its job of speaking, we say it has become deficient. The job of this

heart is to love Allah and when it doesnt do its job, it gets ruined. When the house is notaabaad (populated) and when there is no light in the house, we get scared that there might be

devils or saaya (adumbral). When this heart inside us is not aabaad with Allah and thereis no light of His muhabbat, then this heart becomes barren. This heart becomes thecamp of fear, we get the thorns of distress and the inner worries tease the man and he has the

ruined heart. When the land is left uncultivated, the thorns grow up by themselves without

any hard work, the weeds grow up and the rubbish gets gathered. When no attention is paid

to the heart and when no hard work is done on the heart to grow the muhabbat of Allah , then it gets ruined by itself. There is no need of any hard work to grow the thorns of hatred.

When this heart is formed, then the insaan is formed. When this gets ruined, the life of

insaan gets ruined. The job of this heart is to love Allah and the believer used to loveAllah . The life of a believer just cannot be beautified with the muhabbat of Allah butit should be accompanied with the shiddat (passion).

A young man said that his sister fell in haram muhabbat with a hindu boy and she turned

into a hindu. When there is shiddat in the haram muhabbat that can make people leave

everything, then how cannot the shiddat in muhabbat of Allah will not make onesacrifice everything for sake of Allah ? Today when there is shiddat in haram muhabbat,then the parents become insignificant in the eyes, the family becomes insignificant and the

bond of relation breaks. Barriers like mountains move away because there is shiddat in themuhabbat. Impossible and unbelievable outcome come in front of us because the muhabbat

has such strength. The man is weak but the muhabbat makes him very strong and creates

strong courage in him. He gets himself to face the mountain like barriers. Aforetime,

believers used to have muhabbat of Allah and there used to be shiddat in their muhabbatof Allah and so unbelievable determination could be seen in the life of Sahabahs .Today we see the haram muhabbat and so we see the unbelievable outcome. The son of a

muslim father is becoming a ghair muslim, the daughter of a muslim father is becoming a


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ghair muslim. He is leaving his family, relatives, his brothers and his sisters, his culture and

religion as there is shiddat in the muhabbat. This muhabbat used to be for Allah and therewas shiddat in the muhabbat and every barrier used to move away from the way of the

believer.

What we lack today?Today one says it is difficult to carry out the command and the deficiency lies in the

muhabbat. If there is shiddat in the muhabbat, even in these times of fitna, he would be the

man of Allah He finds difficult to act on the command of Allah . because there isdeficiency of shiddat in muhabbat of Allah . When shiddat comes, even the mountain willturn into dust. Allah gave the Sahabahs His muhabbat and also the shiddat in themuhabbat and how was the unbelievable outcome. They are leaving their houses for the sake

of Allah . They are sacrificing their lands for Allah . They left all their big businessesfor the sake of Allah. They left their country for the sake of Allah They left all their .

brotherhood for the sake of Allah . They tolerated their lonely life and yes they bore it forsake of Allah . A woman brings the infant and presents him before Huzur Prophet and says, Take him with you for he can act as a shield against the arrows for you. How

was this unbelievable outcome? Because there was shiddat in the muhabbat. Today there is

no shiddat in the muhabbat of Allah .

Today he asks, What is the wisdom in this command, the reason and the benefit? These

questions arise because there is no shiddat in the muhabbat of Allah . When the muhabbatof Allah entered the hearts of the beloved one with the shiddat, when command came tostrike off the neck of the son with the sword, he didnt ask the reason but obeyed the

command. Is it easy to strike the neck of the son with the sword? It is easy to strike ones

own neck than striking the neck of the innocent son. But there was shiddat in the muhabbat

and so he was prepared. When the child was just able to walk and there was muhabbat for

the wife and also for the son, Allah commanded him to leave them in such a barren placewhere there is no sign of living, there is no human residence, no source of water, no market,

no source of living and there Allah commanded him, Go, leave your wife and the childin that place. How came the unbelievable outcome? There was shiddat in the muhabbat. He

sacrificed everything for the sake of Allah . The wife asked him, Why are you leavingus here? The command was to remain silent and so he was silent. She asked again and he

was silent. She asked again and he was silent. Then she asked, Did Allah commandyou? Ibrahim nodded his head affirming that. The wife too was strange, she said that ifyou are leaving us by the command of Allah then He , wont deprive us. Definitelywhen there is shiddat in the muhabbat and we sacrifice for sake of Allah then see how , Allah replaces with something better. But show something sacrificed to Allah andleave something for sake of Allah and then see. For surely Allah is ash-shakur.


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Barriers like mountain will move away with passion in love of Allah When there is shiddat in the muhabbat of Allah, every barrier will be moved away and every

difficulty concerning the deen will become easy. Even in times of fitna, being a man of

Allah will be easy. Yes even in times of fitna. Is anyone driving us out of our homesbecause we practice deen? Is anyone making us to lie on the burning bed? Are we cut into

halves with a sword because we practice deen? No, none is doing that. Is anyone ripping off

of our skin making us standing alive? Does anyone throw us in the boiling oil? No, none is

doing that. All these things were happening during those times but there was shiddat in the

muhabbat of Allah and so they lead their life. They know that living the life of Allah is leading the life of a death warrant and the life of fire. There is possibility of losing all the

friendship, losing the trade, destruction of economy, there is the possibility of the boycott by

the whole family. All these things were present right before their eyes but they had the

shiddat in their muhabbat and so they advanced their steps. They embraced all these trials.

Today we have deficiency of this shiddat in the muhabbat. That is why a muslim does

something and leaves something as he wish. He appears as a ghair muslim in some cases. He

moves with one appearance here and with a different appearance in markets. When someone

dies, there is a different scene and when there is a wedding, there is some other scene. Why

doesn't he become a man of Allah in every place because there is deficiency in themuhabbat of Allah .

Signs of shiddat in the life of a muminWhen there is shiddat in the muhabbat of Allah , there are some things that appear in thelife of a mumin. First, we will see times of solitude in his life which will be purely for Allah

because if one has muhabbat and shiddat for something, the man allots the time ofsolitude for that thing. When a muslim has muhabbat and shiddat for Allah , then therewill be definitely times of solitude where only he and his Maula is present. That is why the

one who has the muhabbat and shiddat of Allah will have the tawfeeq of prayingtahajjud. If he didn't get the time for tahajjud due to some reasons, he takes care to have that

time of solitude in some other time of that day or night where only he and his Maula is

present. So this is one thing seen when there is shiddat in muhabbat. Second thing is when

there is muhabbat for Allah and that too to a very high level, then one gets the desire tomeet Allah and predilection for the akhirat, for there will be a meeting with Allah . The grief of death comes to an end. But today we see when one hears death, he becomes

depressed. Our beloved Prophet said. "When one loves to meet Allah then Allah , too loves to meet him." The one who doesn't like to meet Allah , Allah too doesn'tlike to meet him. Definitely there will be the time of solitude in his life where only he and

his Allah are present and when there is shiddat in the muhabbat, he will get the desire forthe akhirat. Then, when there is this shiddat in muhabbat, when one gets even little thing

from his beloved, he thinks that is too much. But the condition is that he is truthful in his


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muhabbat. So when there is muhabbat of Allah , he will have gratitude in his life even ifhe has little. Also even if he has done so much for his beloved one, he won't get content for

he will be worried if his beloved will like it or not. He will always have this thought of fear

and uneasiness troubling him. The Sahabahs ridhwaanallahu ajmaeen were truthful in their

muhabbat and they even had shiddat in their muhabbat. They were hungry, no good clothes

to wear, their wives had the scar of carrying pots of water, they had the scar in their hands

running the mil but still their hearts and tongues were filled with the words of shukr. They

were so truthful in their muhabbat that they spend their whole night in worship and when the

time of sehri comes, they used to seek forgiveness fearing that if Allah liked their gift ofworship. So when there is muhabbat and shiddat of Allah , he has the time of solitude forAllah , he has the desire to meet Him , his heart is filled with gratitude and he has thefear troubling him if his life is moving as pleasing to Allah .

Today a person performing few times of prayer gets content with himself when he sees a

person just offering jumuah salah, a woman wearing the head cover sees the woman with no

head cover and gets content and thinks oneself as buzurg while one who has true muhabbat

and shiddat for Allah will never be content with his/her ibadah. They keep advancingand they seek forgiveness even for their righteous deeds. Their bodies are separated from

their beds in the night, sometimes standing, sometimes in ruku and sometimes in sujud.

When they start seeing the day light, they start seeking forgiveness from Allah When . there is shiddat in the muhabbat of Allah , we get to love those who love Allah . Whena muslim starts loving Allah , then it is impossible that muhabbat of Prophets is notseen in his heart or the muhabbat of sahabahs or the muhabbat of tabieen or themuhabbat of awliya or the ulema because the muhabbat and the shiddat of Allah willmake him love all those who love Allah . When some one has muhabbat and shiddat forsomeone, his friend becomes his friend, his beloved one becomes his beloved and he severs

the contact with the one who fell before the eyes of the beloved. This is shiddat in muhabbat.

That is why Prophet used to make duaa, "Allahumma inni asaluka hubbak wa hubbamanyyu hibbuk. Ya Allah! Grant me your muhabbat and muhabbat of those who love you.

So when a person loves Allah with the shiddat, all these five things are seen in him. Hismuhabbat is for Allah , his friendship is for Allah and his contacts are for Allah .If he says he loves Allah with passion but he befriends his enemies, then he is just lying.This is like a man saying he loves his mother and he loves the person who talks bad about

his mother. Will he be called someone grateful to a mother? Is it possible someone

befriending the enemies of a father? It cannot happen. So his friendship is for Allah , hismuhabbat is for Allah and his contacts is for Allah . When he is of Allah , he willbe for Him . This will happen only when there is shiddat in the muhabbat. Then all thesethings will be seen in the life of a man.


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How do we get the shiddat?Now how can we be fortunate enough to get this muhabbat? This muhabbat of Allah isvery much necessary for the life and to get the spring in the eemani life, to get the flowers

blossom and to get the fragrance in the life. The muhabbat that too that of shiddat. Now how

will it come, I will present few things and let Allah make us give importance to that.Then we will get shiddat in the muhabbat of Allah The first thing is that muhabbat . increases by talks. Let Allah forbid, when girls get the mobile in their hands and theylack the tarbiyat, and then just by talking, their life gets ruined. When the youths get the

access to the internet and they do not have the tarbiyat, then their honor and youth gets

ruined. Even the haram muhabbat increases by talks, the ways of worldly muhabbat (ishq e

majazi) are opened, then the shiddat comes and everything goes destroyed. Talk is

progressed by talk. So Allahs muhabbat too will increase with the talks. When onerecites the Quran and talks to Allah in solitude, then we will get the shiddat in Allahs muhabbat. Recitation of kalam of Allah and then talking to Him in solitude brings inthe shiddat in Allahs muhabbat. In the beginning, we might not get the desire to recitethe Quran but when a person constantly does this, believe it then he wont get the desire to

leave the recitation because definitely there will be a pleasure in talking to Allah .

When muhabbat has shiddat in it, then we cannot even calculate the time for it moves away

fast. The whole night passes away talking to Allah that ones legs get swell. The nightspass away in the muhabbat, hours goes away. Let Allah make us all fortunate to recitethe Quran and talking to Him in solitude. Let not a single day pass us without recitingthe Quran. When beloved sisters cannot recite the Quran, they can do adhkaar in those days

and do the tasbeehaat but do not omit it altogether. Whenever you recite the Quran or do thedhikr, then make this niyyat (intention) that your love of Allah is improving and that Iam talking to Allah and in fact Allah is replying to our talks. In hadeeth, we come tosee, when the slave says, Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen, Allah replies, Yes myslave praised me. When the slave says, Arrahman nirraheem Allah replies again andso it goes. Until the slave pays attention to Allah Allah , too pays attention to him.When he moves away his attention, Allah too moves away His attention. So if youwant shiddat in the muhabbat, then recite the Quran and do some adhkaar in solitude. The

other thing is Prophet said the most beloved in the sight of Allah is faraaiz and

nothing is precious than faraaiz in the sight of Allah He gets so close that Allah . But due to the abundance ofnawaafil, the slave attains the kurb (closeness) of Allah . becomes his eyes, his ears, his tongue and his hands, which means all these faculties, will be

used as pleasing to Allah . Because of the abundance in nawaafil, shiddat in Allahs love is attained.

If Allah blesses one with nawaafil of tahajjud, it is more blessed. If one is tired that he

cannot wake up, then before praying witr, let him pray few rakats of nawaafil with the


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niyyat of tahajjud and so let there be some nawaafil. Normally people enjoy their time in

their own ways till last third of the night and then they sleep. They get sleep automatically

for that is the special time that Allah blesses His beloved slaves and He wants towake them up and so He makes the others sleep. If Allah makes us fortunate to attainthose hours, then it is more blessed. If one cannot pray tahajjud, then in the day and the

night, let people allocate some time for nawaafil like the ishraaq or chast or awwaabeen or

nawaafil before and after farz salahs. Do give importance to such a number of nawaafil so

one can do that throughout their life and one can do it constantly for there is more barkat in

doing constantly and there is more barkat in istiqaamat (steadfast). This ibaadat of nawaafil

is in salah and also in wealth that is sadaqah and khairat (alms), in maamlaat (affairs) and in

dealing with society too, where we have the mustahabbaat (recommended) narrations. One,

there is faraiz which should be fulfilled in maamlaat, muaasharat, ibadat and akhlaq. In spite

of this, when one gives importance to the nawaafil and mustahabbaat, then one attains the

love of Allah . Take an example of a officer and his duty is to work for 8 hours and heleaves the office after completing his hours and on the way he finds something liked by his

employer and he does that for him even though it is not his office time and now when the

employer comes to know this, wont his status be raised in the eyes of his employer or not?

How much he will like him for it is not his responsibility but still he did that. When a

muslim gives importance to the nawaafil, then his appreciation and his value increases and

his status is raised in the sight of Allah So one gets the shiddat in Allahs muhabbat . when there is abundance in nawaafil.

The third tip to get the shiddat in Allahs muhabbat is that we as muslims have the beliefthat every blessing is from Allah but we dont contemplate that this nimat (blessing) isfrom Allah When we start contemplating that this nimat is from Allah . and thatnimat is from Allah in the form of duaas as taught by our beloved Prophet for everyusage of the nimat, like when one thanks Allah when he wears dress, thanks Allah when he eats food, thanks Allah when entering the house, when he drinks, he thanksAllah , when he comes out of the toilet, he thanks Allah and in thanking Allah atevery opportunity, we get the shiddat in Muhsins love. We do have the eemaan that nimats

are from Allah but we dont contemplate. When one thinks about the persons help likein such and such time, he helped me like this, he did that in that particular situation, and in

difficult times, he stood with me and so on, will he not get the love of that muhsin? So when

we contemplate on every nimat of Allah in the form of duaas at every opportunity, weget the shiddat in Allahs muhabbat.

A short summarySo five indications were pointed out that shows the shiddat in muhabbat of Allah whichare:

1. There will be the time of solitude in his life.


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2. He will have the desire for the akhirat.3. His heart will be always filled with gratitude.4. His heart will be troubled with fear and uneasiness all the time if his deeds are

accepted by Allah or not.

5. He would love those who love Allah and beloved to Allah .To get the love of Allah, three ways were discussed

1. Recitation of Quran and doing adhkaar.2. To give the importance to nawaafil in abundance.3. To contemplate on the blessings of Allah, that is by saying duas for different

situations.

4. There is also a fourth way and that is to prefer the environment where people havelove in their hearts and where Allahs tazkira (memoir) is done. And through thisalso comes the shiddat in the muhabbat of Allah and progress in that.

So we get the love from those who love Allah but the condition is we should sit withthem with the niyyat of gaining love of Allah that I have come here to gain the love ofAllah . In such a case, even when he doesnt say anything, he will get the love of AllahEven by just seeing them, we might get progress in love of Allah . but the onlycondition is that the niyyat is correct. One niyyat is that his worldly needs get fulfilled and

the other is his love for Allah gets increased. He has come so he gets shiddat inmuhabbat. I am telling the truth that Allah will then make the person say such a thingthat will be required by the on comer and it will be felt like that he has read my mind, he

said just what I wished because Allah knows everything and so He brings thosewords from his mouth for which the on comer has the quest. Whatever is one in need, Allah

brings it through his tongue because the quest of the on comer is sincere and so he getsthat. Yes through this, one gets the shiddat in the muhabbat of Allah .

Barriers in the path of Allahs love and its solutionIf there is anything acting as a barrier in the path of Allahs love, then that is the

disobedience of Allah . Our lives are filled with sins. But there are three sins on which ifwe concentrate to remove, then inshaaAllah one will be saved from other sins. Pay more

attention to this and give more importance to save from these three sins.

1. The sin of the heart.2. The sin of the tongue.


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3. The sin of the eyes.Saving from the sin of the heart is saving from badgumani (suspiciousness, having bad

opinion of someone). Badgumani has so widely spread by the shaitan that the slave started

having bad opinion about Allah The army of shayateen has made one to suspect even . the elite group of Sahabahs who are the base of the whole deen. His badgumani went sobad that he suspects even the aalame Rabbani and without the company of ulema, where is

the deen? The wujood (existence) of deen is with the wujood of the ulema. Ulema are the

inheritors of Prophets but from just hear say, the shaitan has made him to suspect eventhe ulema. In fact the gheebat (backbiting) of ulema has become his best ghiza (food). It is

said that the meat of ulema is very poisonous that doing their gheebat can even wipe away

ones eeman. When one is aalame Rabbani, who does not insist on minor sins, does not

commit major sins and does not practice any innovation, then to suspect such a person is

dangerous to eeman. Prophet used to say, Become an alim and if not, become a talib(student) of ilm. If that is not possible, sit in the majlis of ulema to hear their words and if

that too is not possible, then love the ulema to the least but dont join the fifth group for you

will get sunk and that is to have bad opinion about them Dont have rancour against them

for you will get sunk. Badgumaani is the sin of the heart. Today the quarrels in our home are

mainly due to this badgumaani. Having a good opinion about a muslim is a righteous deed

and having bad opinion of someone is putting oneself in the problem for tomorrow Allah will make you stand to bring the daleel (evidence) for the bad opinion. So save yourself

from three sins and inshaaAllah, you will be saved from all the sins.

1. Save oneself from badgumaani-the sin of the heart2. Dont do gheebat-the sin of the tongue. Think about ones own self and why to

bother about others but people dont get enjoyment unless there is no gheebat in the

majlis. Prophet used to say two things are very easy to do but heavier in scales.One is to remain silent and the other is to have good akhlaq.

3. The third sin is that of eyes. Dont look at ghair mahram with these eyes. Dont lookat haram things.

If one saves from all these three sins in todays environment, he will be saved from all the

sins. If eyes are not under control, then nothing can stop the heart from the filth and when

the heart falls in filth, nothing can protect the youth and chastity. This happens when the

eyes become uncontrolled. By controlling the heart, tongue and eyes, one will be saved from

lot many sins. So there is no barrier for the love of Allah but the disobedience and fordisobedience, let these three sins be paid more attention. Then let us hope inshaaAllah we

will be fortunate to get the love of Allah . Let Allah grant us all His love and grant usshiddat in His love. Ameen.

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