Bismillāhir-Rahmānir-Rahīm
South Africa - Capetown - Bayān
29/06/15 Shaykh Kamaluddin db
Who are the 'allathīna āmanū - those who believe?’ - they are ashad hubul-lillāh! They are extremely intense and intensely extreme in their love for Allāh swt. Ramadān shows us that we can do it - we flipped and switched in this month…we started become ashaddu hubul-lillāh. Some of make du’ā, some sitting in i’tikāf, some praying tahajjud - we behave like lovers in this month, but after the month passes, we lose this feeling of love.
How can you keep this love for Allāh swt after Ramadān:
How can you ever lose this love? We lose it when we allow ourselves to fall in love with something else (ghayr mahram). Sometimes a person falls in love with ghayr mahram - and they don’t do this in Ramadān..they fall in love outside Ramadān. Always remember this - whenever you let your heart feel an untrue love, Allāh swt will take away the true love you had for Him. Allāh swt doesn’t accept roommates. This is called Ghayra! When you do this, you will get lost - you will lose the loving feeling! Some men make such a mistake that they allow themselves to feel this love for a complete stranger - someone they met in business or at the shop. Be careful - guard your heart.
Only love Allāh swt, and those you can love for Allāh swt, for the sake of Allāh swt. Some people become materialistic - they lose their love for Allāh swt. ‘Ya Allāh swt, I want to be your lover always’. Sometimes when we say we will live in Jannah forever, they say we shouldn’t be able to stay forever, cos Allāh swt is only forever. Allāh swt wanted this loving relationship forever so he also let us live forever - you fall deeper and deeper in love. Jannah isn’t static that you remain the same - you will love Allāh swt more. But only those who Allāh swt loves actually enter Jannah. Allāh swt will love you more, and even more, and keep on loving you even more, for ever, for all of future - for ever. That Allāh swt who wants us to love Him forever, can we not love that same Allāh swt for 50-60 years of this life?
The Qur’ān is like a love letter to us - take great care in reciting and memorising it. This is the exchange of love. Allāh swts love for you = Qur’an. You love Him back = You recite Qur’an. Like a lover in this world, they wait for the text of their beloved. If they don’t reply, they read the previous message over and over again. Can’t we love Allāhs love message over and over again?This is a dīn of love.
Second way you love Allāh swt is to love Rasūlullāh ﷺ - he is the greatest beloved. ‘Qul in kuntum tuhibbūnallāha, fat’tabiūnī’, yuhbibkumullāhu, wa yaghfir lakum dhunūbakum’ - if you love Allāh swt, follow me - Allāh swt will love you and forgive you for all your sins.
Follow a sunnah this Ramadān. If you put on one side the love Rasūlullāh ﷺ had for Allāh swt, and then on the other, the combined love of all sahāba, awliyā-ullāh, everyone - the love Rasūlullāh ﷺ had would outweigh the combined love. However, if you also put the fear Rasūlullāh ﷺ had on one side, and the combined fear of all sahāba, of all awliyā - the fear Rasūlullāh ﷺ had would outweigh their combined fear. He was the greatest lover; the greatest slave.
Don’t think Ramadān is just about food. That is for 13/14/15 year olds - they are at the beginning. We start at the beginning, not stay at the beginning. The beginning = hunger, thirst + tarāwīh - but now, you have to go deeper and deeper to increase your connection to Rasūlullāh ﷺ.
Third way = dhikr. Remember Allāh swt in your heart (dhikr e qalbī) - when you’re free, sit for 10-15 mins, I want to do nothing else and only remember you ya Allāh. Make intention your remembering Allāh swt from the heart - forget your thoughts, forget your sorrows - I want to only remember you Ya Allāh! How? Just remember His name in your heart ‘wadhkur ismu rabbika’!
Try to make du’ā after suhūr, after iftār - talk to Allāh swt, spill your heart to Him. Then you will enjoy - Ramadān will then have an effect, a long effect, a long lasting after effect.
May Allāh swt change our life this year; may He grant us a heart changing Ramadān, a life-changing Ramadān. May He swt make it such that we graduate with ‘la’alakum tattaqūn' Aameen
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