Do You Love Allah?

AsSalaamu Aalaykum WarahmatAllah Wabarakatuh

Love of Allah (Poem)

Imam Ibn ul Qayyim al Jawziyyah

Excerpted from An-Nooniyyah

Quoted in "Al-Walaa wal-Baraa" of Muhammad Saeed al-Qahtani

The love of the Beloved

must be unconditionally returned.

If you claim love

yet oppose the Beloved,

then your love is but a pretence.

You love the enemies of your Beloved

and still seek love in return.

You fight the beloved of your Beloved.

Is this Love or the following of shaytaan?

True devotion is nothing

but total submission

of body and soul

to One Love.

We have seen humans claim to submit,

yet their loyalties are many.

They put their trust here, and their hope there,

and their love is without consequence.