Love and Forgiveness

Love
There are so many shades of love.
The love we feel for our parents, the love we feel for our closest family members, for all family members.
The love we feel for people we like, for people that touch our heart.
The love that makes us cry simply because it is so rich of emotions.
The love between friends, between closest friends.
The love between a man and a woman.
The love at first sight.
The love that is fresh and new and whose future remains somehow unknown.
The love that grows by time, the love that comes with trust.
All those shades of love feel different, you can feel some of them at the same time and if you are very lucky you can feel them all.
But what is above that? Whats about the one who created all those shades of love? The one who created in us the ability to feel and to give all those shades of love?
Allah is the ever loving, the continuously loving.
Allahs love is above all the love he created, because every shade of love we feel in this live is just a very very small part of the love he has.
You have never tasted the sweetness of this life until you have loved Allah!
You have never seen the real beauty of love until you have seen the love of Allah!

I once attended a lecture back home in Germany when our imam talked about the love to Allah. We must love Allah more than everything in this world simply because he is exalted over everything in this world, he created this world!
And if your love to Allah is greater than every other love you feel, if one of these loves let you down or falls apart, there is always the love to Allah that is so much greater than the loss you just suffered from.
Some people say that they cannot live without their partner/husband/wife.
But if you say that and really meant it, it means that you love that particular person more than you love Allah!
Of course you can be without that person, you can be without that persons love because the only thing important in this life is to believe in and to love Allah alone!
That being said, it is only natural that we want to love and be loved by people, that we need to be around people we care for and that care for us as well.
And the most beautyful way to love a person, is to love her/him for the sake of Allah.
When you love for Allah, you love that person desspite all his defaults. You will love that person for the sake of Allah so that Allah may love you too.
When u love for the sake of Allah, it will be so much easier to apply beautyful charactertraits we should always strive for.
Allah is forgiving, not a forgiver but the forgiving, continuously forgiving!!! When you forgive a person for the sake of Allah, Allah will forgive you too and if you love a person for the sake of Allah, Allah will love you as well!
In all the lectures I have heared about that topic it has been said that loving a person for the sake of Allah is different than the love a husband may feel for his wife and vice versa. And I must say I disagree with that.
I believe that there can be physical love as well as spiritual love between a couple and in fact I believe that there should be those two types of love inorder to make the union of the couple strong and complete.



When Allah created us he knew that we would sin, we were created as human beings, not as angels who never sin. What makes us good humans and loved by Allah is not the fact that we don't sin, what makes us good and loved by Allah is the fact that after commiting a sin we return to Allah and repent to him alone and ask him for guidance.
Prophet Mohammad, peace be upon him said: "the worst of the worst of the worst people are those who think they commited so many sins that Allah cannot forgive them!" Because he can, he can forgive everything because he is the all-mercyful, the all-forgiving!
Sometimes we cannot imagine how Allah could forgive our sins, but that is only natural since we don't have the merci Allah has, we cannot even imagine how merciful Allah is. So it is only natural that we cannot understand the extend of his mercy, but that does not meant that it doesn't exist!



Once I met a lady who told me that she would like to wear hijab but she was ashamed and affraid she would fail a second time. She had been wearing hijab some years before but struggled so much that she took it of. And now she was so a shamed about that and said she could never forgive herself. So maybe she could never forgive herself, but Allah surely already forgave her long time ago. because what is her mercy on her self compared to the mercy of Allah, the most mercyful?