Love comes softly...

There are many versions of a love story.  To those who are lucky, they live their life, then meet up with their soul mate and fall in love, get married soon or later afterwards. To those who are a little bit unlucky, they fall in love many times before they finally meet their right match. Along the way they might be heartbroken more than once. There are also those who have been in love and yet later on in their life they are being tested by Allah and separated.

If I am being left with the freedom to write about the story of love, I think there will just never be an ending full stop to it. It is impossible to imply that anyone who is alive never ever been in love before. However, one unique thing is that love can come from various forms. It can be in the form of love between 2 lovers or it can be in the form of love of a mother’s towards her child. It can also be in the form of love towards our friends, family, animals and trees. That is one unique thing about love. It can come from various forms.

However, those form only use one medium which is the heart. Yes, without a heart a person will never be able to feel love. We will never be able to portray our love or convey it well. Therefore, a heart plays a fundamental role in portraying one’s love.

However, we all seem to forget one other thing that we need for love. The source of love itself. Which is from Allah. This is what we human choose to forget. We are being extra careful with whom we choose for a spouse and yet we do not even have the slightest care or gratitude to establish a good relationship with the power who gave us that love. After all, the feeling of love itself is a gift from Allah and being instilled into the hearts of anyone whom He wills. It is not within our power to control it. We will never be able to control with whom we fall in love with, or who will fall in love to us. We never failed to pray to Allah to provide us with a spouse who is a soleh/solehah and yet we never bother even for once to express our gratitude to the one who give us that love. When we manage to meet with our love ones, when there are trials and tribulations arises we never fail to pray to Allah to ask for His guidance.

True, it is good to constantly pray. But it will be much better if for once, in our life we express our gratitude as well. Remember, Allah never disappoint us. He is always by our side, while the people whom we love might leave our side any time soon.

To me, the love of Allah towards us is a wondrous thing. It is a love that comes softly. Allah love towards us is like the overflowing water in the sea with no end to it. It is something that cannot be described. We were born into this world, live among His creations and felt His love later on in life. His love has always been with us. But we only realize it later on in life. His love unlike the normal human love, it come very softly. That is the very beauty of it.

Say (O Muhammad pbuh to mankind) : "If you really love Allah then follow me, Allah will love you and forgive you your sins. And Allah is oft forgiving, Most Merciful." [Quran 3: 31]