Love is lovely to the Lord and to His servants.   If you do anything with love it should be accepted by Your Lord, and He should make it tasteful for you.

If you love your work it will be easy for you;  if not it will only be a burden.

The Lord says, “I am not in need of your worship.  I am only seeking the love with which it is offered.”

Oh servants of the Lord, oh believers, you must not overlook this point.  Don’t be like slaves rowing in the galley of a ship.  If you pray you must pray with love, not by force as if a slave driver were standing over you with a whip.  Allah never appreciates such forced devotions.

 Nowadays we are trying to perform all the practices but forgetting to ask for Divine Love. Thus we are becoming like robots, or like people performing gymnastics.

Allah has asked us to engage our bodies in His worships and in service to His creation through charity and good deeds;  but what must be the fruit of those actions?         If the fruit is not love it is a bitter fruit and is rejected.     If our worship causes Love of God to grow in our hearts we must keep to that practice and continue on our way;  and if we are keeping the company of a spiritual teacher and find that through  his company love of God is awakening in our hearts, then we must follow him closely.

Quality not quantity

Our Lord has given us an instrument that measures, not our blood pressure but our ‘love pressure’; and our goal is to make it high!  Yes – seek to improve each new day.  The holy Prophet said,  “Whoever does not improve with each day is losing ground.”      What does this mean?  It doesn’t mean that if we pray forty rakats of prayer today we should pray 41 tomorrow and 42 the next day.  No.  That is not required.  What is intended is that you fill your worship with ever more love of your Lord so that He will observe; ‘My servant has sent Me more love today than yesterday.” 

One of our Grandshiekhs summarised this perfectly by saying ‘”An atom’s weight of love is worth more that seventy years worship without love.”

From Rising Sun