GETTING TO KNOW ALLAH

Do you want to know Allah? Do you strive to obey Allah? Do you yearn to please Allah? Do you consider and ask yourself these questions daily? Do we reflect on who Almighty Allah is in our prayers? Do we understand the power of Allah when we stand before him? Allah is more merciful than our own mother upon us. If it’s not Allah whom you desire to please, if it’s not Allah whom you turn to then where would you go to? Who would look after you and shelter you, aid you and protect you other than Allah? You were created in this world for a purpose, for a reason, and that is to know Allah. Do we not exist in this world except to know Allah SWT and to worship him? Allah in His glorious Quraan says, “And I did not create jinn and mankind except to worship me alone.” In order to worship Allah you must strive to become closer to Him. You must ponder the attributes of Allah in order to try to know Him. In order to fear and love Allah SWT we are required to know Him. Part of our worship is to know Allah. Whenever anything other than Allah is in our hearts, whenever any other than Allah SWT is the one whom we love and submit to we invite corruption into our hearts and it leads to our destruction. Knowing that Allah is the cause of life for the individual is the second birth that every person who believes in Allah will experience.
Allah describes the life that was given to the person after he was dead.
“And is one who was dead and We gave him life and made for him light by which to walk among the people like one who is in darkness, never to emerge therefrom? Thus it has been made pleasing to the disbelievers that which they were doing.” (Surah Al An’am, v 122) There is no doubt that knowing Allah is the greatest and noblest of knowledge. It is the Ilm – the beneficial knowledge we are encouraged to seek. When you learn about Allah SWT, you are learning about the purpose of your existence. You are learning about living a life set on the right course.