Those who love one another for Allah 2

Those who love one another for Allah 2

We are still talking about the love for Allah because of its great effect in the reining of the individual which reflects on all of us for rectifying the whole community. No doubt that if each of us rejected the bad morals which is the basis of all sins, embraced good morals, and followed the guidance of the Beloved Chosen Prophet [PPBUH], this will spontaneously lead to the reform of the community. Many Hadith were narrated, from the guidance of the Beloved [PPBUH], about the love for the sake of Allah, which drive the believers to love one another for Allah, and show them the virtue of those lovers for Allah over all others and their rank and reward with Allah, Almighty. It also shows them the conditions of this love and its effects on the lovers.
The two Imams: al-Bukhary and Muslim narrated in their Sahihs that the Prophet [PPBUH] said (Three things; whoever have them, he will find the sweetness of the belief. Who loves Allah and His Messenger more than anything else, love anyone only for the sake of Allah, and hates to convert back to disbelief, after he was saved from it, as he hates to be thrown into hell). So "loving for the sake of Allah" was one of the pillars that make a man taste the sweetness of the belief in his heart.
In Sahih Imam al-Bokhary, narrating the Prophet [PPBUH], that he said (there was a man who visited a brother of his in another village. Allah sent him an angel to wait for him on his way. When the man came to the angel, the angel said to him: where are you going? He said: I want to visit a brother of mine in this village. The angel said: Do you have a gift that you gave him before, and you seek a payback? The man said: No, I swear by Allah that I only love him for Allah, Almighty. The angel said: I am a messenger from Allah, that He loves you as you loved that man for Him). So the pure love for Allah has to be free of any transient request of the worldly life, only purely for Allah.
Al-Fodayl ibn Ayad [AAH] and others used to say "The look of a brother to his brother's face with love and mercy is worship. So loving for Allah is not right unless it has the condition of mercy when meeting, advice on separation, avoiding backbiting, complete loyalty, presence of intimacy, lose of estrangement, removal of loneliness, presence of delight, removal of reservation". Al-Fodayl used to say also "If backbiting comes, brotherhood goes".
Al-Gonayd said "No two got to be brothers for Allah, Almighty, and one of them felt lonely with the other or reserved from him, unless there was some thing wrong with one of them". And in the same context what was narrated from the Prophet [PPBUH] that he said (No two loved one another for Allah, unless the one who love his brother more was the one that Allah loves more).
In another narration (was the best one). In another trace (the most beloved of the brothers to Allah is the kinder to his brother).
Imam Ahmed narrated in his Musnad from Mogahed that Abo-Zarr said "the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] came out to us and said (Do you know which deed is more loved by Allah, Almighty?) Someone said: Prayers and Almsgiving. Another one said: Jihad. The Messenger said (The most loved deed for Allah, Almighty, is loving for Allah and hating for Allah)".
Ibn Katheir narrated from al-Hakim and an-Nisa'I that the verse [If you have spent all that is in the earth you could not have attuned their hearts, but Allah has attuned them. Lo! He is Mighty, Wise] al-Anfal 8:63, was for those who love one another for Allah. Mogahed said "If those who love one another see one another, took each other's hand, and smiled at each other, then their sins will fall down like the leaves of the trees".
Praise be to Allah, Almighty, All-Wise. To this extent was the reward for the love for Allah and its benefits. As only meeting and shaking hands would make their sins and misdeeds fall off them. We are always misled away from these benefits by Satan and his soldiers. Satan always leads us to the circle of hatred, enmity, and envy to prevent us from this great blessing and its fruits, which is the love for Allah. So look with me, O, beloveds of the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH], at what we have and Allah wants us to be. Now let us obey the orders of Allah and His beloved Prophet [PPBUH], let us make the accursed Satan miss his opportunity, and let us repel the dislike, hatred, enmity, and cruelty from our hearts and put there instead the love for Allah.
Te love for Allah is also one of the signs to Belief. At-Tabarany narrated in his two big books, and al-Bayhaqy in his "Branches of Faith" from ibn Mas'oud that the Prophet [PPBUH] said (It is from faith that a man love another only for Allah with no money taken. That is the faith).
At-Turmuzy, ad-Darmy, and Imam Ahmed narrated that the Prophet [PPBUH] said (the best of the companions for Allah, is the best for his companion. And the best of the neighbors for Allah is the best to his neighbor).
In the interpretation of His saying [Whoso obeys Allah and the messenger, they are with those unto whom Allah has bestowed favor, of the prophets and the saints and the martyrs and the righteous. The best of company are they!] an-Nisa' 4:69. So Allah, Almighty, is teaching us that whosoever accepts His judgments and His Messenger and obeys their orders and keeps away from what they prohibited, will be with the best creatures with Allah. Imam al-Baydawy said that Allah, Almighty, has divided them into four sections according to their ranks in knowledge and work, and He encouraged all people not be dropped behind them. They are:
- The prophets who won the perfection of knowledge and work, and who passed the perfection to the limit of perfecting others.
- The saints whose souls have ascended; once onto the ascenders of watching the evidences and the signs and another time onto the ascenders of purification and exercise to the top of knowledge, until they were shown the reality of things and came to tell about it.
- The martyrs who were led by their eagerness to obedience and seriousness in showing the truth, until they sacrificed their souls to raise high the words of Allah.
- The righteous people who spent their lives in Allah's obedience and their whole situations in pleasing Allah. You can say that those who were bestowed with the favor of Allah are the knowledgeable of Allah. Those are either in the rank of witnessing or in the rank of deduction and evidence.
It was narrated that Thoban, the servant of the Prophet [PPBUH], once came to him [PPBUH] with a changed face and a weak body. So the Prophet [PPBUH] asked him about his condition. Thoban answered "I do not have any pain except that if I did not see you, I miss you so much and I feel so lonely until I meet you. Then I remembered the hereafter, and was afraid that I might not see you there because I realized that you would be raised with the prophets. And if I entered paradise, I would be in a lower rank than yours, and if I do not, then I would not be seeing you at all". So this verse was revealed [Whoso obeys Allah and the messenger…] to the end of the verse.

Written by Abdel-Sattar al-Fiqy
Translated by Sameh
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