Allah Talks About, The Love Of Allah

The Love of Allah

Allah talks about the love of Allah in Surah Al-Baqarah. Allah says some people they love others equal to their love of Allah, but true believers — their love for Allah is greater than all else. It eclipses everything else, it encompasses everything else.

And how does that love of Allah show? It is that if anything else in this world comes between them and their Creator, they push it to the side — whether it's a spouse, whether it's a job, whether it's a business idea.

When Worldly Desires Overtake Our Love of Allah

What happens to us? We get tempted. Our love of wealth distracts us. We get the business opportunity that's actually quite dodgy, it's actually quite suspicious — it might be haram, or it is haram — but our love and our greed and our desire for the gold coin is greater than our desire for our Creator. So we push aside our values and we take the business opportunity.

There's somebody you meet at work, somebody you meet at school, at college, at university. You end up messaging each other, you end up talking to each other, you end up liking one another. But then eventually your interest in this person and your desire to be with this person is greater than your love of Allah. So you are willing now to cross the red line — to push aside the commandments of Allah, the guidelines of Allah — because your desire to be with this person right now, and that feeling, that good tingly sensation you get when you are with them, is greater for you and for me than being in the company of Allah. So we prefer them in that moment.

And so many of us fall into this — the shirk of the heart — where we end up loving things, people, objects, ideas, careers, etc., equal to or more than Allah.