The khutbah on Jumu\u2019ah this time (7th December 2012) spoke on something that is close to our hearts. Well, in it actually. It can give us strength and bring out the best in us. That something is love but not just any kind of love; it is the one that transcends all others: it is the love for Allah SWT.<\/p>\n
It exists in all of us and is further strengthened by having faith in Him and His attributes. To truly love Allah S.W.T however, this faith translates into two things:<\/p>\n
1. Abiding and obeying all that which has been commanded by Allah
\n2. Love for all of His creations<\/p>\n
Below is my reflection on the two points made during the khutbah<\/em>:<\/p>\n When we love someone, we\u2019d do everything within our capacity to make him\/her happy and to ensure that he\/she stays happy.\u00a0 We\u2019d try our best to avoid making him\/her sad or angry at us by not doing things that displeases him\/her right? We are willing to go to great lengths for their sake as proof of our love but here, this is not our parents, siblings, spouses or our children that the focus is on; this is our creator and sustainer, Allah SWT. Anyone can claim to love Allah. Giving lip service is easy. It could even be as simple as a click of a button to \u201cshow\u201d that love but let\u2019s ask ourselves this:<\/p>\n Can I honestly say that I love Allah when I\u2019m consciously doing things that would result in His displeasure? To love Allah is to love all of His creations. Why? It\u2019s because He created it; emphasis on the word \u201cHe\u201d. There is no other way about it for it is through His creations that Allah gives us a glimpse of His attributes<\/strong>. The fact that we can feel or even know what love is is because of that.<\/p>\n Could we have known what love is had it not been for our mothers who nursed us as a baby or our fathers who taught us wrong from right?\u00a0 Thus, respect and care has to be given to all of His creations especially our own family. It is by extension of our love of Allah and His attributes that we love His creations as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>It is not through the mutual exclusion of our love for only Allah, Rasulullah(S) or people but it is when we combine the love of all three would we be able to taste sweetness of faith.<\/p>\n [divider]<\/p>\n Fadhuli Taufek<\/strong> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The khutbah on Jumu\u2019ah this time (7th December 2012) spoke on something that is close to our hearts. Well, in it actually. It can give us strength and bring out the best in us. That something is love but not just any kind of love; it is the one that transcends all others: it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,2161],"tags":[10,2166,2164,2162,2163,1422,1430,2167,728,2165],"class_list":["post-3948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spiritualreligious","category-khutbah-reflections","tag-featured","tag-friday-khutbah","tag-friday-sermon","tag-friday-sermon-singapore","tag-jumaah","tag-jumuah","tag-khutbah","tag-khutbah-reflections-2","tag-singapore","tag-solat-jumaat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3951,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions\/3951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nDoes He not deserve more <\/strong>than what we\u2019d do for the people we love?\u00a0 This is why conscientious effort is needed on our part to strive in the things that Allah has commanded of us and refrain from the things that He has prohibited as proof of that love.<\/p>\n
\nFadhuli is an aspiring writer and believes in putting in the time and effort into meaningful causes. He strives to improve himself as a person and as a Muslim.<\/em><\/p>\n