thinks that he has achieved perfect maarifah would in effect never have discovered maarifah at all.Make God Your Supreme Concernost people talk frequently of maarifah without ever having attained it. The reason

REALIZATION OF GODRealization of God is the discovery of the Benefactor, the source of one’s support system and all blessings. Love of God wells up within one’s entire personality with this realization

love God most.” (2:165) The Believers mentioned in the Quran in this verse are those who have discovered God at the level of realization. All their feelings and emotions will be associated with God alone

solely on God. Owing to his limitations man cannot see God in this present world, but he experiences God’s mercy and blessings at every moment, and this experience is the real source of his love of God. Everything

LOVE: A TWO-SIDED MATTERGod’s love for a person is like a divine gift, and the love for God by God’s servant is a matter of gratitude and acknowledgement. This is the key to entering Paradise. There

tradition recorded in the books of Hadith, one part of which is: “The Prophet of Islam once observed that God would not cast anyone in the fire whom He loved.” (Musnad Ahmad, Hadith No. 13467) This Hadith has

one who, upon reflection, realizes God, the Creator, who discovers God as the Benefactor, will become endeared to God. All his emotions and feelings will attach to God. When one reaches this state as a

to remove the curtain of doubts that man is confronted with is just one: knowing and understanding God’s creation plan. This creation plan explains things so that all doubts are removed, and the

love God most.” (2:165) The Believers mentioned in the Quran in this verse are those who have discovered God at the level of realization. All their feelings and emotions will be associated with God alone

solely on God. Owing to his limitations man cannot see God in this present world, but he experiences God’s mercy and blessings at every moment, and this experience is the real source of his love of God. Everything

received in this world is a blessing from God.The more one thinks of divine blessings, the more one’s love of God will increase.The source of the love of God is the discovery of blessings and not the sight

establish a connection with God, but due to wrong thinking, he considers someone other than God to be worthy of worshipping and calls out to him, he will get no reply directly from God. Instead, he will hear

telling him that the ‘god’ he called does not exist. The idea of God is embedded in every person’s nature. Man, by nature, seeks God. By birth itself, every human being aspires to find God. However, in history

attributing the status of God to someone other than God. Establishing a relationship with the true God is the biggest blessing for man. The life of someone who establishes a relationship with God will be suffused

You may dislike something although it is good for you, or like something although it is bad for you: God knows but you do not. (2: 216) The Quran also applies this principle to the issue of marriage. There

verse in the Quran in this regard: If you dislike them, it may be that you dislike something which God might make a source of abundant good. (4: 19) Marriage leads to lifetime companionship. Therefore

defining the love of God, merely tells us one demand or aspect of the love of God, and that is, that the love of God demands that you become the follower of God’s Prophet. The love of God is the most elevated

source of the love of God is the realization of His blessings. When a person discovers God as a perfect benefactor, this results in his total immersion in the love of God. The love of God becomes the most cherished

gifts from God–including one’s feelings of happiness and pleasure. This being so, it is but natural that, man should love God more than anything else, that he will have a strong attachment to God and that

that incident in his youth and in his prayers to God he said that had he killed himself by committing suicide, today he would have found himself in the fire of Hell: “It was by Your favour that I was saved