Sometimes, it gets kind of scary. And quite overwhelming. But think, Clear Minds, think. He is answering your prayers, He is proving to you He is As-Sami'. He is showing to you He is Al-Wadud, He is professing to you His love...
I think people who does da'wah have big hearts, or ought to have big hearts. Enormous ones. Because, in the earlier phase of doing da'wah, they understand that they need to love everyone. Later, they'll find themselves wanting to love everyone. Before they know it, it is just another fact in this world that they do love everyone.
Why is this so important? Because the love they are professing to everyone is not that of the worldly kind, but, one that is more profound and true. The love for someone fillah (for the sake of Allah) is one that makes the one who loves strive to do all he can so that the beloved ones enter jannah with him. ( it's basically saying: " you know what? I love you so much that I wanna go to jannah, and I want you to go to jannah with me.") It is one that binds hearts together as long as the owner of those hearts bear iman in their souls. It is that which urges these strong souls to do da'wah. It is that which keep their backs straight, their heads up, and their strides consistent in that path of finding Allah's redha, a path never short of mehnah (problems) and tribulations. Their da'wah is actually their profession of love. Towards Allah and towards those beautiful souls that Allah has chosen for them to convey da'wah to.
Alhamdulillah: Praise and gratitude belong to Allah for all that we know of Him and what He does, and for all that we don't.
Last week, I got so many presents that it kind of overwhelmed me. It wasn't even my birthday!
hubb/ukhuwwah fillah is sweeter than this...
Taking a moment to stare at a yellow tissue bearing a note, that I found between the pages of my usrah notebook, a porcelain stick encrypted with "God made us sisters, our hearts made us friends", a box of Belgian chocolate, a postcard from Edinburgh with a note starting with "ditujukan buat kakak yang tercinta" and ending with "(dari) yang merindui", a battered up A4 paper filled with honest words about my strengths, my weaknesses, and sincere advices by those souls who I love and who, insyaAllah, love me too, and an fb group just 2 days old but that which gives me hope and had left me in awe at first.
Subhanallah! This is what fuels me to go on. The sweeter-than-honey-and-sugar-combined-but-totally-safe-even-for-diabetics professions of love by those who I love. <3
even sweeter than this!
But, wow! All that in a span of 2 days! Honestly, it overwhelmed me. To receive so much love that I don't feel quite qualified enough to receive. But Allah has binded these hearts together, and I am not one to let go of love (cewaaahhh..) May Allah keep these hearts neatly and beautifully bound together not just until jannah, but even in jannah, ameen.
ooohh..i wanna eat this...
Taking this as a big package of gifts from my One and Only, the only One who loves to give me unexpected gifts like such forementioned, He also laced it with advice through my sis and muhasabah.
My heart has to be bigger. If I think it's big enough, I'm most probably wrong. The heart can always be bigger.
Responding to the one that my hadek2 bulatan gembira did, which left me in awe and shone like a light in a tunnel to me, my supply (bekalan) of iman and ilmu have to be more to accommodate their need. My mujahadah has to be more, my taqwa has to be more, my amal has to be more. If I want them to love Allah, I have to really love Allah first. If I want to introduce them to Allah, I have to know Allah first. If I want them to be close to Allah, I have to be close to Allah first.
But of course, all that with my One and Only as my ghayah (single most important and till-the-end aim). You don't give a map to someone to show the way but be yourself lost. Take lesson from what happened with Shaytan, who prayed that everybody remained in jannah, but forget to include himslef in his prayer, resulting in his banishment from heaven.
All of that love is of no use if it doesn't move someone closer to Allah, don't you agree?
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