This world is temporary

         As long as people love this life, this dunya,  troubles will never go away.  Everyday they will fall down more and more, sinking into sufferings;  but if truth comes to your heart, it takes away the love of dunya and changes that love into the love of your Lord, the love for Allah Almighty.   The sign that you love your Lord Almighty Allah  is the defeat in your heart of the love of this world, the love of this life;   because if we give our love to a temporary thing and it goes, our love finished.  That love is something given to us to put in a suitable place.

         The Angel Gabriel once came to prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and said to him,  “ Oh Muhammad, you may put your love with anyone you may choose, but you must know that everything that you love in this world is going to leave you.”

If you put your love with your family, with your spouse, with your partner, with your business, with your car, with your castle, with your rank – you may put your love with anything or anyone - but you must know that it will go away and leave you, and your love will go with it and finish.  So it is ‘falsehood’ to put our love there; because Allah Almighty gives us that love, and it is Divine. 

         You must be very careful where you put that precious thing as to whether you are losing it or protecting it.   If during your life you give your love to anyone .. when you leave this life that love will not be with you.  Those people or those things will stay here and you will go without love;  your love will stay behind.   When truth comes to your heart truth says to you, “Don’t give your love except to the eternal existence of your Lord, Allah Almighty.”   Give Him your love; because that Love comes from Him;  give it back to Him also.  When you are here, that Love is with you.  If you go, it goes with you.  He does not leave you.  He is with you for ever;  and in the eternal life also.  You will gain (love) because you have put it with the correct and suitable One.”

         Every Prophet came to make (this certain) for everyone so that they may give their love only to their Lord.  “Oh people, your Lord gave you that Love and He is asking it back from you to Himself.”  That is important.

         We are not playing.  We have not come into this life to 'play' with families, with wives, with children – no.  There are some place in our bodies which belong to children to wives to animals, to farms, to flowers;  but Love is for Allah only.   : ...   (it) is falsehood – to put your love with temporary things.    You must change it.  You must give your love to the eternal existence of Allah Almighty, the Lord.  We must try. We must try to do it.

 - You must give that love to The One who gave you that love to you.   No one else is suitable for that love; only your Lord.  He will ask you on the day of resurrection – “What did you bring, o My servant?  What did you bring  Me?”

         Fasting, praying, giving charity, going on pilgrimage – all of them to what?  For the sake of that Love.  You are giving your love to your Lord.  Present Him with fasting, with worshipping.   Every kind of worshipping makes you present your love to His Divine Presence.  Yes – the real aim of every kind of worshipping and charity is to say “Oh my Lord,  I am presenting to You my love through this worship.  Our worshipping is not (worthy of) You.  We can only give You our love.”

 And He is asking that love from His servants.

 See original text in Towards the Divine  Presence   Book 3 pp16-18