You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.
Perform more nawaafil ( voluntary acts of worship ) :
"Nothing endears My servant to Me than doing of what I made obligatory upon him to do. And My servant continues to draw nearer to Me with the supererogatory ( nawaafil ) so that I shall love him." (Bukhari)
Always remember ALLAH swt :
The righteous used to say that you awake and sleep remembering ALLAH swt, then you awake and sleep without a sin. Not that we will not make mistakes, but sins are erased by constant dhikr, (remembrance of ALLAH swt) and good deeds, insya ALLAH.
Choose what ALLAH swt prefers over what you prefer.
This is the last article in this series, and I pray we have all benefited. May ALLAH swt enable us to find tranquility through loving Him.
A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand : "TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED MY FACE."
They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one, who had been slapped, got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After the friend recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone : "TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE."
The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?"
The other friend replied : "When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it."
'LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND, AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE'
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