How to increase your love for Allah

Ibn Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) said that there are 10 things that bring about the love of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala:

1) Recitation of the Qur’an with reflection and with understanding of its meanings. 

2) Seeking closeness to Allah by performing voluntary deeds after having performed obligatory ones, this leads one to the highest levels of love.

3) Remembering Allah during every situation, with one’s time, heart and deeds. One’s share of that love is to the degree of one’s share in that remembrance. 

4) Preferring what Allah loves to what you love, when your desires are strong. 

5) Allowing your heart to reflect on Allah’s names and attributes.

6) Reflecting on His many favours and blessings, both the apparent ones and hidden ones, for that leads to His love.

7) Having your heart softened, as it is worshipping Allah.

8) Being alone with Him in worship when He descends during the last third of the night. This means to invoke Him, to recite His Speech, to stand with all sincerity, with good manners, with good submission, and then to end that with repentance and with seeking His forgiveness.

9) Sitting with those who are truthful in their love of Allah.

10) Staying away from all that creates barriers between the heart and Allah.

Posted 10 months ago with 193 notes
Tags: Allah  Guidance  Ibn Al-Qayyim  Increase love for Allah  Islam  Qur'an  Salafi  Scholars  Way of the Salaf  Ilm  
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