Loving the Best of Creation ﷺ: What is Love? - Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

love is a very amazing word in in english it's an amazing word in arabic there are many words for love in arabic but the the essential word is hope that's the essential word and love in uh love in in is it's an old uh it's an old english uh word that goes back to a saxon word and uh and it relates to being pleased with to be pleased with it and interestingly enough our word believe is related to love to believe because you believe in what you're pleased with what you love things that your your heart accepts are things that you believe so love is related to acceptance the idea that something you're pleased with you have love for and the in in arabic the word hub which is the word the prophet said more beloved to him so the word hub is a word if you look at one of the root meanings it's a seed so love is a seed that's nurtured and and it's nurtured with knowledge of the beloved the more you know about the beloved the more you love the beloved so it's it's a seed the habba in arabic is a seed and the prophet saw i said as you get to know the prophet sallallahu alaihi salaam and you get to know him intimately and that's one of the purposes of this text is to know the prophet saw i said intimately as you get to know the prophet isaiah intimately he becomes well one of the descriptions of love is is they say friendship on fire that's that's a description of love that it's something that becomes it starts to consume you and we have people from our tradition who died of love of the prophet's license literally died we have people that bled tears of blood and tears of blood which is an old blues motif for people who know anything about about an american music i'm crying tears of blood for you tears of blood are real because when somebody goes into a very intense you get blood those small little blood vessels in the eyes burst and so it's a real thing tears of blood that's what imam al-busayri aminta decreed uh you know that is it from remembering just the places the beloved used to go to that causes this mixture of tears and blood to flow from your eyes so tears of blood there's people that have wept tears of blood out of love of the prophet sallallahu alaihi salam there's people who have literally died from ish and and is it's it's another amazing word it's a type of vine that begins to grow around a tree and it strangles the tree so it kills the tree the arab says is a deadly disease that can only be cured by connection by being connected to the beloved by the union the habib and so the uh the uh the love of the prophet saws can can really take hold of the heart now when you love somebody you remember them that's one of the attributes of love you think about them i mean that's what happens when you fall in love and you call i'm just thinking about you can't stop thinking that's real it's real i can't stop thinking about you i mean why is that pressing on the the heart because you're in love that's what love is i can't stop thinking about you you write poems you do think what is that effusion that's coming out of the heart to write poems really and people write the worst poems when they're in love but it doesn't matter they would never do it if they weren't they would know how ridiculous it is but it doesn't matter because they there has to be some type of tabby now what is tabir you are it's what you express the the word which is a discerning lesson something you gain is related to abra which is a tear and it's related to etibar which is respect respect back to respect tabiruhu you know i have respect for him i don't give it any significance so when something has significance and import and meaning then it begins to affect the heart and that's why even the remnants of the beloved woman this is the jahili motif of nasib and the jahadi poetry is to imran kais begins his by just saying stop my two friends let's look here at where the beloved used to be just to look nipki and weep over the traces of the beloved just to look these are jahli people these aren't this isn't these are just people that knew what love was because jahli arabs had a deep and profound knowledge of hope they really knew what love was and they were very intense in their love they had intense love but that's one of the motifs of just just weeping over places where the beloved used to be diarrhed i passed by the houses of leila and and kiss the walls of the houses it's just so beautiful you kiss the walls of the houses but it's it's not the walls that have enraptured my heart but love of the one that lives between those walls that's why people come to mecca and medina it's not the stones you know when you go to the tomb of the prophet says it's it's not the wajiha but the wajahat is amazing and you could just stare at it and stare at it look at it even though you're not even supposed to out of eddap but to look at the picture you can look at a picture of the wad you have for a long time and not grow tired of it but it's just metal it's a great that somebody built but it's what it's it's what's beyond that metal it's what it represents and that's what all this is in the end of the day that's all this these are walls that are hiding the eternal and living god that's what the world is that's why when you when you begin to understand that that's what you love about the world not the dunya the alam the adam lord of all the worlds the alam is the arabs call that ismo allah it's it's a noun of instrument an alam is the instrument of it's the instrument by which you know something and and what you know it from the world is the alim it's it's it's it's god's vehicle for giving us knowledge and that's why things are so important that that's why things things as shia you know things are important possessions are important that's why property is is one of the essential im reasons why we were given sharia is to protect property because things are important because things have meaning the prophet named all of his things he didn't have many things but the things that he had he named them he gave them names because they had meaning and that's what the world is it's meaning it's meaning everywhere the whole thing is meaning it's mana in [Music] like the poet said this whole cosmos is meanings set up in images and whoever understands that is from the people of discernment the people of eber the people of fa tabiru ya'lu think deeply give this ebrah give this and then the ibrah leads to abra that's where the tears come you know they come from perception of meaning you know to really know what something means it's just it's an amazing thing to know what something means you know it's it's a great gift that god gave to human beings he taught man he taught adam the names the ability to create meaning to give meaning to things because the meaning is a transference it's it's a movement from something to another thing so a name is a great meaning if i say tree and suddenly in your mind an image of a tree comes that's meaning that's that is meaning and that's why the more that you know about the prophet sallallahu alaihi the more powerful those meanings penetrate your heart when you understand his import what he means the manner the meaning of the prophet what he means sallallahu alaihi wasallam and the prophet saws he said minh hussaini islam and mari from the beautiful islam of a person is to leave what has no meaning for him what has no meaning for him it doesn't have mana for him like gossip what what does that mean if you uh know about so and so and such and such getting a divorce how does that affect you what's the meaning for you so meaning is that's what this whole thing is about and that's what that's what the gift of this religion is it it gives meaning that people you know the the non-muslim like some of the atheist people not christians because christians believe in meaning also but some of the atheists they say oh religion is just a way for people to find meaning exactly we totally agree with you really we agree with you because they say this is all meaningless but we don't believe that because we know and experience and taste meaning and we know that it's real it's real all this other stuff is not real but meaning is real that is what's real about the world and the greatest meaning the highest mana in the world is the messenger of allah we'll get to look at uh at the uh at some of those meanings inshallah in the text you

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Published: Mon Oct 19 2020