Love Is In The Air!
Or at least that's what the advertisers want you to think in February. While it's nice to express you feelings, emotions and your love often, Valentine's Day comes once a year, leaving you no choice but to do so or risk seeming heartless. For the owners of floral boutiques and chocolate shops, Eid comes in February for Lovers.
I was remind of some questions when I reflected on something a friend of mine had told me about her love. She described how it felt to be with the person she loved. In her words, the whole world disappeared when they were together. The more I reflected on her statement, the more it affected me and the more it made me wonder.
As Humans, we are made to feel love for one another and attachment towards other. This is part of love and our human nature. While we can feel this way about another human being, five times a day we enter into a meeting with our Lord and Creature. I wondered how often we ever felt the whole world disappear while in His presence. Can we Really claim that our love for our Lord, for our ALLAH is greater than our love for anyone and anything else?
So often we think that ALLAH only tests us with hardships, but this is not true. ALLAH also tests with ease. He tests us with blessings and with the we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail. We fail because when ALLAH gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols of the heart.
When ALLAH blesses us with money, we depend on the money rather than ALLAH. We forget that the source of our provision is not and never was the money, but rather it was the giver of that money. Suddenly we are willing to sell alcohol to avoid losing money in our business , or we need to take out loans with interest to feel secure. In doing so we are foolishly and ironically disobeying the Provider in order to protect the provision.
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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. but if they were to leave us, our whole world would crumble.
So, now we have shifted our worship from the source of the blessings to the blessings itself.
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.( "Quran 2:165)
But on the other hand, ALLAH warns us: "O you who have believed, indeed, among your wives and children are enemies to you, so beware of them."(Quran 64:14)
The warning in this ayah is critical. Our spouses and our children are listed here because they are among the blessings we love the most. And it is in that which you love most that you find the greater test. So if conquering that test means seeing through a storm of greeting cards and roses to a greater love that awaits, then so be it. And when could that be more relevant?
Because after all, LOVE is in The Air.
