PIETY ~ LOVE ❤️

There are at least 2 types of love. 🍃

There will be some people you love because of what you get from them: what they give you, the way they make you feel. 🍃

This is perhaps the majority of love, which is also what makes much of love so unstable. 🍃

A person’s capacity to give is inconstant and changing. 🍃

Your response to what you are given is also inconstant and changing 🍃

So if you’re chasing a feeling, you’ll always be chasing. 🍃

No feeling is ever constant. 🍃

If love is dependent on this, it too becomes inconstant and changing. 🍃

And just like everything in this world, the more you chase it, the more it will run away from you. 🍃

But, once in a while, people enter your life that you love, not for what they give you, but for what they are. 🍃🍃

The beauty you see in them is a reflection of the Creator, so you love them. 🍃

Now suddenly it isn’t about what you’re getting, but rather what you can give. 🍃

This is unselfish love. 🍃

This second type of love is the most rare. 🍃

And if it is based in, and not competing with, the love of Allah, it will also bring about the most joy. 🍃

To love in any other way is to need, to be dependent, to have expectations, all the ingredients for misery and disappointment. 🍃

So for all those, who have spent their life seeking, know that purity of any thing is found at the source. 🍃🍃🍃🌿🍃🌴🌾

If it is love that you seek, seek it through Allah. 🌾🌴🍃🌿

Once you begin to see everything beautiful as only a reflection of God’s beauty, you will learn to love in the right way: for His sake. 🌿🍃🌴🌾

Everything and everyone you love with be for, through and because of Him. 🌾🌴🍃🍃

The foundation of such love is Allah. 🌴🌾🌿🍃

So what you hold onto will no longer be just an unstable feeling, a fleeting emotion. 🌿🍃🌾

And what you chase will no longer be just a temporary high 🌾🍃🍃

What you hold, what you chase, what you love, will be Allah: the only thing stable and constant. 🍃🌾🌿🌴

Thereafter, everything else will be through Him. 🌿🌾🍃

Everything you give or take or love or don’t love, will be by Him. 🌿🌴🌾🍃

This means you will love what He loves and not love what He does not love. 🌾🌴🌿

And when you do love, you will give to the creation, not for what you can get in return from them. 🍃🌾🌴🌿

You will love and you will give, but you will be sufficed from Him. 🌿🌴🌾

And the one who is sufficed by Allah, is the richest and most generous of all lovers. 🍃🌿🌴

Your love will be by Him, for Him, and because of Him. That is love.🌾🍃🌿🌴