Expressions of Divine Love through the language of poetry is a familiar concept in the religion of Islam. Stories of mystics whom spent their life adoring the Beloved are a few of my falling in love stories with Allah.
To achieve love for God beyond hope and fear, a love that comes from knowing His love for you and His creation. His All-Encompassing Compassion even to those who say things about Him with no knowledge of what a grave error they speak, He continues to provide.
We don’t know nor do we fully understand how our body functions, we know a little and are still discovering. If that is not an estimate of our miraculousness, of His Perfection and Mercy then I don’t know what is.
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O my Lord,
if I worship you
from fear of hell, burn me in hell.
If I worship you
from hope of paradise, bar me from its gates.
But if I worship you
for yourself alone, grant me then the beauty of your Face.
– Rabi’a Al Adawiyya
