Muhabbah
A believer must have
love (Muhabbah) for Allah and a connection with Him. The Muhabbah
(love) or an admiration for someone makes you do everything for the person you
admire. The Muhabbah does everything that seems difficult, easy. And as
a result, the unthinkable becomes feasible. As a person loves something, he
makes efforts to acquire it. If he really likes this thing, then he does not
care about time or money. He arrives at a point where he forgets everything. He
finds nothing around him (Nothing really matters for him except for the loved
one). Only one thing exists for him: it is the thing (or person) that he loves
and admires.
See a young man of
today who has just reached his 18th birthday. (When he loves), he
loves to such an extent that it becomes unbearable for him to live without the
person loved. Without hesitation he leaves the family roof to live with the
object of his love/ affection. He leaves his family, his mother, his dad, his
brother, his sister, his comfort and even his Deen (religion - Islam)
only for the cause of the loved one. He does all this with contentment and joy.
If we (Muslims) had this same (kind of) Muhabbah for Allah, then we
would never find the Deen (religion - Islam) difficult (to practice). We
would have suffered all with joy and contentment only for the love we have for
our Rab (Lord - Allah).
The practice of the Deen
would then become not only easy but also delicious. The example of the pious
personages is before us. They have not hesitated to give up whatever it is that
becomes an obstacle for them in their quest of Allah the Almighty. Hazrat
Ibrahim (as) has abandoned his kingdom in order to reach Allah the Almighty and
to acquire His love (literally: to acquire Allah). If someone can sacrifice his
honour, his dignity, his status for a corpse that will die and who is condemned
to become dust one day, then why can man (the human race) not give up everything for Allah Who is Al-Hayy,
Al-Qayyoum - Who has existed for all time and whose existence will never
stop (that is, His existence has neither beginning nor end). Allah is the One
who watches us all the time. He is a Being who is there for us all the time,
giving us everything we need.