HOW TO BECOME THE BELOVED OF GOD

How to become the beloved of God 

The Great Reformer said:

  

"The verse:  

In kuntum tuhibbuunallaha fat-tabi-uunee yuhbib-kumullahu wa yaghfir lakum zunuubakum - (If you love Allah follow me and Allah will love you and forgive you your sins) clearly shows that nobody can become the beloved of God nor can he deserve to attain to His nearness through the ways and means of worship chalked out by himself. The Lights and the Blessings of God cannot descend upon any one unless he is totally lost in the obedience to the Holy Prophet (saw).

He who gets completely lost in the love of the Holy Prophet (saw), and it is, as if, he causes a death to himself in loyalty and obedience to the Holy Prophet, becomes the recipient of the Light of Faith and Love which grants him freedom from all others than God; it also grants him salvation from sin. In this very world he attains to a life of righteousness and piety and is brought out of the dark, narrow graves of low passions. 

The Hadith (traditions of Holy Prophet Muhammad - saw)

*Anal haashirullazee yuhsharannaaso 'alaa qadamee points to this very fact. It says: I am that one who gives life to the dead on whose footsteps they are raised. What it really means is that whatever is the basis of salvation, it cannot be acquired without the life which is granted to a man through the Holy Spirit. The verse of the Holy Quran quoted above, pointedly draws our attention to the fact that the spiritual life cannot be had without giving full obedience to the Holy Prophet (saw). All those who are rebellious and do not obey the Holy Prophet because of some enmity that they have against him, are under tne shadow of the Satan; they do not have anything of the spirit of the pious life. They are apparently alive but in reality they are dead. The Satan rides over their hearts. It is a pity, such people do not remember that they have to pass away from this world, one day.* And how far is death from them? He who is fifty years may live a few years more two to four, or at the most ten years. After all, he has to pass away from this world. Death is sure like anything and there is no escape from it for anybody whosoever he might be.  

I could see that people keep themselves engrossed in the material affairs-counting of money-but they never make any calculations about their life. Unfortunate is the person who never thinks of his life (that its span is short). The most important thing for which an account should be kept is nothing but life. It should never be that at the time of death (which he might deem sudden) he should be full of regrets. The Holy Quran tells us that just as the heavenly life starts from this very world, so also is the case with the life of the Hell. When a man dies with regrets, it is, as if, he has been thrown into the Hell".  

(Malfuzat Vol. II, pp. 183)