Quotes About Loving Allah

“If the heart is fed by love, the greed for pleasure would disappear.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“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. The foundation of such love is God. So what you hold onto will no longer be just an unstable feeling, a fleeting emotion. And what you chase will no longer be just a temporary high. What you hold, what you chase, what you love, will be God: the *only* thing stable and constant. Thereafter, everything else will be through Him. Everything you give or take or love or don’t love, will be by Him. Not by your nafs. It will be for Him. Not for your nafs.

“Love of Allah is the power of the heart, the sustenance of the heart, the light of the heart.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Allah must be dearer than anything else to the slave, Allah must be more important than all else.

“I loved. I lost. So I learned to love what is never lost.
Then even what I loved that can be lost was through what cannot be lost…so it was never lost.

“Love Allah more than yourself and He will give you more than you would give yourself.

Yahya Adel Ibrahim

“Whoever prefers Allah to all others, Allah will prefer him to others.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Imam ad-Darani was asked: What's the best deed that would make a servant closer to Allah? He cried, may Allah have mercy on him, and said: "For Allah to look in your heart and see that you do not want anything but Him from dunya (the worldly life) and akihrah (the Hereafter)."

Imam Abu Sulaiman Ad-Darani

“Whoever loves the Quran will love Allah and His Messenger.

Abdullah ibn Masud

“If a person loves an attribute of Allah, then this will help him to reach Him.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“The Lord is to be loved.

“Why not love the Being who is the Creator of all beauty, why not love that Being who is beauty Himself?

Shaykh Kamaluddin Ahmed

“If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

“The happiness of the drop is to die in the ocean.

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“I can be without anyone, but not without You. You twist my heart, dwell in my mind, and fill my eyes You are my joy. I can’t be without You.

“Take away everything that takes me away from You.

“Dear friends, Our souls have been in love with God For so very, very long.

“I once had a thousand desires, but in my one desire to know you, all else melted away.

“Love for God envelops the heart, it rules the heart and it emanates over everything.

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“Each lover is alone, in secret, with the one he loves, and I’m here too; alone, hidden from all of them with You

Rabi`a al-Adawiyyah

“I hear nothing in my ear but your voice. Heart has plundered mind of its eloquence. Love writes a transparent calligraphy, so on the empty page my soul can read and recollect.

“‎O Beloved, what kind of fountain is Thy Love, of which I sipped but one drop and wept rivers.

“Last night, within my heart I heard Your whispers of love, and my heart is still quivering to know You were there.

“I desire not to desire anyone but You.

“My heart is expanding a thousand fold. Every cell, taking wings, flies about the world. All seek separately the many faces of my Beloved.

“A lover may hanker after this love or that love, But at the last he is drawn to the King of love.

“Your earthly lover can be very charming and coquettish but never very faithful. The true lover is the one who on your final day opens a thousands doors.

“Love has come to rule and transform. Stay awake, my heart, stay awake.

“One day your heart will take you to your Lover. One day your soul will carry you to the Beloved. Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.

“I love you O Lord, for when people's hearts are hard towards me I find you opening your arms so that I may return to you and I hear you promising me with a Paradise that's beyond my dreams and imagination.

“When Allah blesses us with someone that we love, we forget that Allah is the source of that blessing, and we begin to love that person as we should love Allah. That person becomes the center of our world—all our concerns, thoughts, plans, fears, and hopes revolve only around them. If they are not our spouses, we are sometimes even willing to fall into haram just to be with them. And if they were to leave us, our whole world would crumble. So now, we have shifted our worship from the Source of the blessing to the blessing itself.

“One teardrop that falls from the eye of a believer out of love and fear for Him is better than this world and everything it contains.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“It will keep hurting you, until you let go and there remains nothing in the heart but Him. Once that happens you will no longer love for your own sake. Everything you want, love, or hate will be for, through and by Him.

“True or pure love should never contradict or compete with one’s love for Allah. It should strengthen it. That is why true love is only possible within the boundaries of what Allah has made permissible. Outside of that, it is nothing more than hawa, to which we either submit or reject. We are either slaves to Allah, or slaves to our hawa. It cannot be both.

“Whenever someone asks you, “Do you love Allah?” remain silent, because if you say no, then you are a disbeliever. If you say "Yes," then your actions contradict your words.

Al-Fudayl ibn Iyad (Al-Fozail ibn Iyaz)

“In letting go, the answer lies in love. Fall in love. With something greater, with the Real thing. See the Mansion. Then you won't need the dollhouse.

“The fastest way to heal a broken heart is to find someone better to love, and love more. Know that sometimes heartbreak happens just to push you to God.

“To fast is to say 'Dear God, I love food. I love drink. I love to fulfill my desire. But I love you more. So I give up what I love for what you love.'

“Why was Prophet Ibrahim told to sacrifice his son? It was to free him internally of something that could compete with his love for God.

“Freedom comes when you love and fear the Creator more than the creation.

“There is a candle in your heart ready to be kindled; There is a void in your soul ready to be filled…you feel it, don’t you?

“Every love outside of His love, is pain.

“Lose yourself, lose yourself in this love. When you lose yourself in this love, you will find everything.

“When we are empty and at our weakest it's hard to give love. Even to God. It's then that what we need most is to fill ourselves with His love for us.

“If you want to know where you stand with God, ask where God stands with you.

“Muadh ibn Jabal (ra) was undergoing the pangs and agonies of death, he cried out, “O Allah! Bear witness that I love You, so do with me whatsoever You wish!”

Mu'adh ibn Jabal

“Our weight was only meant to be carried by God. We are told in the Quran: “…whoever rejects evil and believes in God hath grasped the most trustworthy hand-hold, that never breaks. And God hears and knows all things.” (Qur’an 2: 256)

There is a crucial lesson in this verse: that there is only one handhold that never breaks. There is only one place where we can lay our dependencies. There is only one relationship that should define our self-worth and only one source from which to seek our ultimate happiness, fulfillment, and security. That place is God.

“If there is anything—or anyone—other than God, that we could never give up, then we have a false attachment. Why was Prophet Ibrahim told to sacrifice his son? It was to free him. It was to free him from a false attachment. Once he was free, his object of love (not attachment) was given back to him.

“Before you can fill any vessel, you must first empty it. The heart is a vessel. And like any vessel, the heart too must be emptied—before it can be filled. One can never hope to fill the heart with God, so long as that vessel is full of other than Him subhanahu wa ta`ala (exalted is He).

“As human beings, we are created with a particular nature (fitrah). That fitrah is to recognize the oneness of God and to actualize this truth in our lives. Therefore, there is no calamity, no loss, no thing that will cause more pain than putting something equal to God in our lives or our hearts. Shirk on any level breaks the human spirit like no worldly tragedy could. By making the soul love, revere, or submit to something as it should only God, you are contorting the soul into a position that it, by its very nature, was never meant to be in. To see the reality of this truth, one only has to look at what happens to a person when they lose their object of worship.

“The more you love something, the more it has the potential to hurt you (such as spouse, children, etc.). The only exception is Allah.

“Every love that leads away from His love is in fact a punishment; only a love that leads to His love is a heartfelt and pure love.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Love of Allah gives us spiritual life; hope in His Reward is the greatest incentive to do good; and fear of His Wrath stops us from evil.

“Constantly thinking about someone is a sign of true love—so how often do those who claim to love Allah remember Him?

“To love and to be loved is necessary for happiness. So what greater joy is there than to love and be loved by Allah Himself?

“No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return— he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for the love of God.

“As true love of Allah increases, yearning for worldly pleasures decreases.

“Whoever claims to have combined the love of dunya (worldly life) with the love of its Creator in his heart, he has lied.

Imam ash-Shafi`i

“Whoever loves you for the sake of some thing will dislike you when that thing ceases, and whoever loves something other than Allah will be tormented by it.

Ibn Shaheed al-Andalusi

“If you wish to check how much you love Allah, then see how much your heart loves the Quran, and you will know the answer.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“The love of Allah is expressed by total obedience to Him and total surrender of one’s will to Allah.

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