Da’wah (Invitation To Allah) Is A Work Of Love

Yes faith in its proper and sincere experience is the ultimate gift in this life. One needs to make the efforts to learn its correct definition in the Quran and Sunnah (Traditions of Prophet Mohammed) and to apply both internal and external expressions related to preserving and growing the faith.

No philosophical discussion, scientific definition, historical event can define the experience and movement of faith. Each one of us experiences faith in a different way and in different circumstances, but ultimately it has the same purpose, how to please our Creator and enjoy, therefore, the peace and happiness that we seek desperately.

A close example is the love that two people can share. It is about the kind of emotion and attachment that drives one person to forget himself or herself to please the beloved, or to truly be happy for the blessings that the beloved is favored with. It is not only about passion or desire. When we transpose this to our relation with our Creator, the dimension changes form earthly to heavenly and from temporary to eternal…[1]

Because there is nothing in this life that can compare or match the Love of Allah and rewards that await His servant when that servant struggles by His Grace to please Him.[2]

It is the finest of all blessings to be inspired to participate in any event that supports spreading knowledge and understanding of the Creator’s message and the Prophet that conveyed it.

The common knowledge learned during research in these Da’wah (invitation to Allah) centers is that most of the reasons people choose to research or embrace Islam or “revert to Islam” is because of how some Muslims behaved with them ( In a positive kind manner ). And this brings us to the most important point of this research.

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^[1]Some Quran Verses about Love 

^[2] Some prophetic narrations about Love

“None of you has faith until he loves for his brother or his neighbor what he loves for himself”

Source: Sahih Bukhari 13, Grade: Muttafaqun Alayhi

Abdullah ibn Amr reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

مَنْ أَحَبَّ أَنْ يُزَحْزَحَ عَنْ النَّارِ وَيَدْخُلَ الْجَنَّةَ فَلْتُدْرِكْهُ مَنِيَّتُهُ وَهُوَ يُؤْمِنُ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ وَيَأْتِي إِلَى النَّاسِ مَا يُحِبُّ أَنْ يُؤْتَى إِلَيْهِ

Whoever would love to be delivered from the Hellfire and entered into Paradise, then let him die with faith in Allah and the Last Day and let him treat the people the way he would love to be treated.

Source: Sahih Muslim 1844, Grade: Sahih

Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

لَا تَدْخُلُونَ الْجَنَّةَ حَتَّى تُؤْمِنُوا وَلَا تُؤْمِنُوا حَتَّى تَحَابُّوا أَوَلَا أَدُلُّكُمْ عَلَى شَيْءٍ إِذَا فَعَلْتُمُوهُ تَحَابَبْتُمْ أَفْشُوا السَّلَامَ بَيْنَكُمْ

You will not enter Paradise until you believe and you will not believe until you love each other. Shall I show you something that, if you did, you would love each other? Spread peace between yourselves.

Source: Sahih Muslim 54, Grade: Sahih

Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَقُولُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَيْنَ الْمُتَحَابُّونَ بِجَلَالِي الْيَوْمَ أُظِلُّهُمْ فِي ظِلِّي يَوْمَ لَا ظِلَّ إِلَّا ظِلِّي

Verily, Allah will say on the Day of Resurrection: Where are those who love each other for the sake of My glory? Today, I will shelter them in My shade, a Day when there is no shade but Mine.

Source: Sahih Muslim 2566, Grade: Sahih

Mu’adh ibn Jabal reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ الْمُتَحَابُّونَ فِي جَلَالِي لَهُمْ مَنَابِرُ مِنْ نُورٍ يَغْبِطُهُمْ النَّبِيُّونَ وَالشُّهَدَاءُ

Allah the Exalted said: Those who love each other for the sake of My glory will be upon pulpits of light and they will be envied by the prophets and the martyrs.

Source: Sunan At-Tirmidhi 2390, Grade: Sahih

Mu’adh ibn Jabal reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَجَبَتْ مَحَبَّتِي لِلْمُتَحَابِّينَ فِيَّ وَالْمُتَجَالِسِينَ فِيَّ وَالْمُتَزَاوِرِينَ فِيَّ وَالْمُتَبَاذِلِينَ فِيَّ

Allah the Exalted said: “My love is obligatory for those who love each other for My sake, who sit together for My sake, who visit each other for My sake, who spend on each other for My sake.

Source: Musnad Ahmad 21525, Grade: Sahih

Umar ibn Al-Khattab reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

إِنَّ مِنْ عِبَادِ اللَّهِ لَأُنَاسًا مَا هُمْ بِأَنْبِيَاءَ وَلَا شُهَدَاءَ يَغْبِطُهُمْ الْأَنْبِيَاءُ وَالشُّهَدَاءُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ بِمَكَانِهِمْ مِنْ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى

Verily, there are some people among the servants of Allah who are neither prophets nor martyrs, but whom the prophets are martyrs will envy due to their status on the Day of Resurrection.

They said, “O Messenger of Allah, tell us who they are.” The Prophet said:

هُمْ قَوْمٌ تَحَابُّوا بِرُوحِ اللَّهِ عَلَى غَيْرِ أَرْحَامٍ بَيْنَهُمْ وَلَا أَمْوَالٍ يَتَعَاطَوْنَهَا فَوَاللَّهِ إِنَّ وُجُوهَهُمْ لَنُورٌ وَإِنَّهُمْ عَلَى نُورٍ لَا يَخَافُونَ إِذَا خَافَ النَّاسُ وَلَا يَحْزَنُونَ إِذَا حَزِنَ النَّاسُ

They are people who love each other with the spirit of Allah, not because of family relations or wealth. By Allah, there will be light on their faces and they will be upon light. They will have no fear when the people are afraid and they will not be sad when the people are grieved.

Source: Sunan Abu Dawud 3527, Grade: Sahih