Love

Assalamualaikum wbt dear blog readers,
May peace be upon you :)

Allah says of such people:
"And yet, among the people are those who take other than Allah as equals to Him. They love them as they should love Allah. But those who believe are stronger in love for Allah" (2:165)

Once in a while, people enter your life. Not for what they give you - but for what they are. The beauty you see in them is a reflection of the Creator, so you love them.

Suddenly, it isn't about what you are getting, but rather what you give. This is unselfish love.

Once you begin to see everything beautiful as only a reflection of God's beauty, you will learn to love in the right way; for His sake.

Everything and everyone you love will be for, through and because of Him.

So what you hold onto will no longer be just unstable feeling, a fleeting emotion. And what you chase will no longer be just a temporary high.

It will be the only thing stable and constant. it will be God. It will be for Him. Not for your nafs.

This means you will love what He loves and not love what He does not love.

Your love will be by Him, for Him and because of Him. That is the liberation of the self from servitude to any created thing.

And that is freedom.
That is happiness.

That is love.

Quoted from the book Reclaim your heart by Sister Yasmin Mogahed.

A beautiful reminder indeed :)

To love is to need, to be dependent, to have expectations - all the ingredients for misery and dissapointment. But if it is true love that you seek, seek it through God.

Dearself, you will find it one day.
In shaa Allah.

Till then, have  a good year ahead!

NB