The words of God are in and around us, since we and the cosmos are the articulations of the Breath of the All Merciful...we love God in everything that we love. Love of God is a fact of existence. So by our very nature we love God...realizing that it is Him that we love in all that we love is life's quest. At least in this seeker's heart...
and God knows best, indeed He knows all.
Those who love
God are those whom God loves.
~a Sufi saying~
There
are those among us who see God but are ignorant of Him. But just as no one is
poor toward anyone else, so also—by God—none but God is loved in the existent
things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye of every lover—and
there is nothing which is not a lover. So the cosmos is all lover and beloved,
all of it goes back to Him…
Though
no one loves any but his own Creator, he is veiled from Him by the love for
Zaynab, Su’ad, Hind, Layla, this world, money, position, and everything loved in the
world. Poets exhaust their words writing about all these existent things
without knowing, but the gnostics never hear a verse, a riddle, a panegyric, or
a love poem that is not about Him, hidden beyond the veils of forms.
~Ibn
al-`Arabi~
From
his Futuhat al-Makkiyyah II.326.18
Translated
by William Chittick
Quoted
in the Sufi Path of Knowledge, p 181
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