RIZQ, PROVISION AND
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
RIZQ AND ALLAH’S LOVE AND
THE LOVE OF US TO ALLAH [swt] AND
THE LOVE OF EACH OTHER FOR ALLAH [swt]
The real love is the love Allah has for us, share with us, provided to us. By this way the real teacher of love, the real example of true love, we can get it from the example of the love of Allah, to whom He loves. The sign of love and what He expected of whom He loves and the sign of loving Allah to a servant and the sign of servant loving Allah.
Allah SWT is the owner of all quality. We are supposed to learn His quality and attributes and His names and try to imitate. This is the sign of belief, respect, and engagement in a relationship of love. Allah SWT introduces to us the real meaning, the highest meaning of all the quality. Meaning our role model is Allah and after that His prophet SAW, the one given by Allah the perfect quality of a human being to be a role model for us. The love without obsession, without ownership, without waiting to take, without limitation, without revenge or anger in times of mistake, neglect, fault, fall or even committing wrongdoing against whom you love. A love without any boundary. A love for infinity. A love that starts, it continues, it grows, it can benefit us to lead to the ultimate love. The highest, the final ending, the heavens (the paradise), the happiness forever. The pleasure of Allah.
A journey of love starts with very small steps and Allah SWT, He takes it, He grows it, He develops it, He strengthens it, and He enhances it to allow us to reach the love beloved to Him SWT.
Now look to this journey of love, the style of love Allah shows us, He shower us with and He educate us with versus the style of love we claim we have to one another.
Important note:
Do you consider the love of Allah is not a provision? And which provision is that? Is it low provision (sufli) or high provision (U’lwi)?
Actually this is the highest provision you can get.
Question needs answer
In the middle of everyday, running after low sufli provision, do you think about aspiring or desiring or making effort for the high provision?
To gain the quality if Allah, to share this quality, to live this quality and spread this quality. This is the job of messenger and prophets.
Question: Why today we lack many qualities?
Answer: We are busy running after low provision and we neglect high provision. We are running and we care about insignificant quality. Quality of food, quality of shelter, quality of material life in general until we reach the bankruptcy of real quality, the high quality, the U’lwi quality.
The quality of Allah, The quality Allah loves, the quality that has been given to us to be a role model. The quality of our beloved prophet SAW.
Now let me give you an example a real beautiful example. It can change and shape the future of you, your family, the ummah of Rasool SAW and mankind. It can change your future now, in the grave, in your legacy after death on earth. And your final chapter and final residence of your soul, which is either Paradise or Hellfire.
What are we talking about will lead you not only to Paradise but to the highest. An example a lot of young generation is so confused, the young and the parents and that is marriage.
Is marriage not a provision, not part of your destiny? Is marriage considered to be a low provision or a high provision? If you ask me it is both, high and low. If you choose a husband or wife for beauty, physical, material status worldly gains and worldly success and a show. Bad news. This is low provision which can harm you in this life and hereafter and will produce a disgrace and downfall to you, to Islam, to mankind and in the Day of Judgment.
On the other hand if we chose a husband or a wife according to the love of Allah, the love of Rasool Allah Saw, the love of Islam, the pleasure of Allah.. The elevation of future of Islam, the one can support us in the journey of Iman and lead us to a journey of high provision. The elevation of us and Islam. The journey of loving Allah, the journey to be a role model, living the quality of Allah and leave it as a legacy.
What do you think now? You choose husband or wife for SabeelAllah, for love of Allah? You take the relationship for the same and you experience and exercise the journey of giving not taking?
What do you think? What do you want? Do you want a child beloved to Allah and blessed by Allah? Do you want a relationship that can honor you in this life and hereafter? Do you want to die leaving a child behind you carrying the noble message you started? What do you think? Do you see what the love of Allah can produce and what the quality can and will produce? Do you see? Do you fell? Do you want? Do you desire to go to a journey of the highest provision of Allah in earth and hereafter? Do you see? Think and try to conclude. Try developing the thinking and the realization about, which rizq (provision) I am seeking, desire, try to achieve, gain it and eager to live it?
Let me show you something that hurts me and makes me sad. Something should not happen but a lot of time and actually most of the time it happens but should never happen. This is just a small tiny example, but it contains a lot, a lot of meaning and to let you know where we are and if our love is real or fake.
I love you as a brother or a sister for Islam. We meet each other after sometime and one of us has gained a successful provision of either material life or has gained a successful activity of high provision.
Bad news…
Most of the time in my life, people who claim they love me for Allah, whenever they see me succeed in any goodness, I get from them silence and sometime they go away and will not talk to me for a long time.
Extremely bad news…
Do you know what it means?
It means my success in material life or me gaining some good quality or even involved in beautiful good deed for SabeelAllah (meaning high provision) hurts them.
They feel upset they feel jealous to the point I can see it from their behavior and their silence to the point it generates a volcano of anger hidden inside their chest against my success. To the point they start talking behind my back about a fault or generate rumors just to satisfy themselves. How you feel? Do you do the same or?
If I love you or you love me and we exercise a real love relationship for Allah, by Allah, towards Allah for the benefit of Islam and mankind or even just basic love between two people. I am talking about love of goodness or love of Allah.
- If I have any good news about you or if I see any goodness coming to you, I should be very happy, full of joy for you even if I gain nothing of what you have.
- I should express this feeling by my face, by my smile, by my du’a for you, by any means possible. I am full of joy. I love you and I want complete goodness for you even if this goodness makes you reach high place in Jannah (Paradise) above me and higher than me.
- I should ask you if I can support you by any means possible for your success.
- I should envy you, the beautiful envy the one recommended by Allah wa Rasooluhu. The one makes me want to gain the same quality, to achieve and to be a good role model like you. This is recommended and desired. Beloved to Allah and his prophet SAW which is to imitate each other in goodness for Sabeellilah.
- I should spread the good news about you and should ask people to make du’a for you. I should love you more and ask Allah to increase his provision and bounty for you.
Now you can see the real love generates all kind of beautiful goodness. Quality for me, for you, a zeal and desire to gain such compassion, to share with him or her, to share this feeling and to think and love how I can be a positive role model full of love of Allah. Wishing my brother or sister in Islam to support the journey which will generate a beautiful momentum in my heart full of unstoppable gush of love and giving without no want for return or recognition or calculation or thought of what you are going to give me, doing it purely for Allah’s sake and want to gain Allah’s love, Allah’s pleasure and Allah’s rewarding.
What it means? It means it makes me a pure giver with a pure heart, with a pure intention, with a pure willingness to give or share or even sacrifice whatever I have for Allah SWT.
Do you remember I mentioned to you about marriage as an example. Imagine now that if a man or woman, a momin or a momina, engage in such beautiful relationship with this meaning, what kind of relationship can it be? And what will be the outcome? and what kind of children would you have? What kind of happiness and pleasure you could gain with such relationship in this life and the hereafter and what kind of legacy you will leave in this earth before departure…
Rizq, Love of Allah, Marriage, Brotherhood, Sisterhood.
Da'ee Ahmed Moait
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