Allah & Love

You are the best nation produced [as an example] for mankind. You enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong and believe in Allah. If only the People of the Scripture had believed, it would have been better for them. Among them are believers, but most of them are defiantly disobedient.

[ALI IMRAN Ch.3:V.110]

          As usual, we start our discussion today by praising to Allah first. It is quite hard to maintain writing one entry per week. Sometimes busy with club activities, busy with studies and sometimes I do not have the mood to write. That is my problem, so thank to Allah for giving me these knowledge and the spirit to write and share with other people. I thought that I already finish talking about God, but the ideas keep coming. Therefore this week, I will again talk about Allah.

          Most of us like to read something that related to love, especially the teenagers and the early age in adult stage. So I hope people like to read this entry because it has some part that related to love. Today’s topic I want to make comparison between Allah and love. Comparison is not finding the differences between two things, but comparison is finding the similarities between two things. Contrast is the exact word for finding the differences between two things.

          I am not saying that love and Allah is exactly the same. I am trying to say that there are some similarities between Allah and love. Let us take a look on a few facts on love first and then we compare it with Allah. First of all, anybody here that can see “love”? Or maybe someone can show to me what “love” looks like is? I do not think that there are people can show to me how the “love” looks like. I am very sure, because I also never see it before.

And We have already created man and know what his soul whispers to him, and We are closer to him than [his] jugular vein.

[AL-QAF Ch.50:V.16]

          If people in love, they always ask their partner to give proves that shows that he/she really loves him/her. Somehow, their partner will never prove by showing “love”. But they will show their love by showing an act that symbolizes the love. They will do many things such as they will do everything for their partner, always take a good care about their partner, will try to fulfil their partner wishes and many other things. Of course there are people who are doing all those things but they are doing it just to cheat their partner, but most of the time that are the acts that people who are in love will do.

          Sometimes, there are symptoms for those who are in love. For example always dreamy thinking of their partner, always mention their partner’s name and many other symptoms. Most of the time, we can determine they are in love from their faces. Maybe they look happier than before. I think that is the most common symptoms. Although there are couples that are living happily but we are now considering the good things only. Love cannot see but we can feel its existence. I am sure all people in world agree with me about this.

Or do you think that you will enter Paradise while such [trial] has not yet come to you as came to those who passed on before you? They were touched by poverty and hardship and were shaken until [even their] messenger and those who believed with him said, "When is the help of Allah?" Unquestionably, the help of Allah is near.

[AL-BAQARAH Ch.2:V.214]

          It is the same for Allah. We cannot see Him but there are signs of His existence. I already wrote an entry earlier in this blog with the title There is A Creator. This entry maybe looks like repeating the entry before, but it actually explaining in different ways about the existence of Allah. Allah wants to test our faith by forbidding us from seeing Him in our lives here, but He will show Himself at the hereafter. To answer the test or to pass the test we need the notes or clues. Therefore, the Holy Scripture, Quran is the notes and inside it has the answers.

          The only one in the pillar of faith in Islam that we can see, we can touch, we can read and so on. That is Quran. Allah is not cruel to punish people without giving any clues to His test. The content of Quran is so good and so detail in explaining the existence of God. Most of the ayah we can understand logically. There are also ayahs that can be proven by science. Nowadays people always seek for the answer that can think logically and compatible with science. However, if we give the answer from Quran, they reject it. It means that they are rejecting the logic that they are seeking for.

Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day are signs for those of understanding.

[ALI IMRAN Ch.3:V.190]

          The above verse gives clear evidence. For people that want to think, that are seeking the truth and also want to accept the truth they will get what they want. All those things like the creation of this universe, the earth, the sun, the moon, the animals, the trees, the wind, the water, the seas including ourselves are the symptoms or the signs or the proves the existence of Allah. We can feel it the signs, we can see the signs, we can touch the signs even we are the signs.

          Allah already says in the Quran, Allah gives human the ability to see, the ability to hear and the ability to speak, but they still not using it to the right ways. Very unique verse, because Allah did not say He gives the eyes as there are people having eyes but they are blind, Allah did not He gives ears as there are people having ears but they are deaf. But Allah says He gives the ability to do all those things, they still cannot see the truth and still do not want to accept the truth. This is the challenges in doing dakwah.

Deaf, dumb and blind - so they will not return [to the right path].

[AL-BAQARAH Ch.2:V.18]

~Wallahua’lam~