On Allah

 أَعُوذُ بِٱللَّهِ مِنَ ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنِ ٱلرَّجِيمِ، بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ

All of my existence, since my earliest days, I have sought to understand as much as I could, everything that I could see and in time, everything I couldn't see. Intrinsically, in my own DNA, and as a result of reflecting on my life experiences, I have always been drawn to my Creator. The basis of this is need of Him, but the more insight one gains of Allah, it stretches into an appreciation that has no equal. 

I had a recent realization which seems so obvious in hindsight, but subhanAllah it took its own moment to reach me: the predominant factor of how Allah deals with His creation is love.

So many Prophets and Messengers were sent to humanity, why? Just so that people might remember Him and be guided. There can be no more essential motive for this than love, for Allah stands in need of nothing and no one, yet everything other than Him is in need of Him. There is not a single action or intent of His that is "selfish" or can even be considered as such, for the selfish being necessarily considers his/her own need before others - while Allah has no need and thus every consideration of His becomes founded in the vested interest of His creation. Thus Allah is truly the most selfless, and many of His names corroborate this: Ar-Razzaq (The Provider/Sustainer), Al-Waasi' (The Vast/Limitless), Al-Karim (The Most Generous), Al-Ghani (The Self-Sufficient/Wealthy), and others. And then there is His name, Al-Wadud (The Most Loving/Affectionate), one especially endearing to me.

What motivation is more deeply-rooted in selflessness than the purest, strongest, most deserving-of-praise kind of love that could only be attributed/belong to Allah? 

 

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10/5/2021:

Seems fitting to add on to this post, a link to something I've written on this life. Allah is not one to be understood simply conceptually, but instead putting one's Creator in side-by-side context with the afterlife, that is the most natural way of consideration because He is part of what is unseen, as is the Last Day. These two aspects of belief, in Allah and the Day of Judgment, are the reasons behind everything of what matters in the faith of Islam - without either leads to irrelevancy.