Say [O Prophet]: "If you love God, follow me, [and] God will love you and forgive you your sins; for God is much-forgiving, a dispenser of grace." [3:31]
The Godly Intimacy
There are many feelings in this world. Induced by the many hormones and biochemical reactions within the human endocrine system, humans get to feel what they perceive as sadness, happiness, anxiety, fatigue, ecstacy and the like.
Who then sets the limit to the number of feelings we can experience?
What if one day, a man feels a certain emotion undescribable by human language, so exotic yet so natural, so poignant yet undefined, so overwhelming but ever so subtle, but no one else would believe so?
Once, a friend of mine asked me on the topic of BGR, "Faizal, when are u ever gonna have a girlfriend?". I replied with a smile, "Do I have to?".
This, my friends, is what im trying to explain, this feeling or emotion, or rather, a soulful phenomenon that many wish to experience but only a handful deserves:
The Godly Intimacy.
Like a romance not charaterised by lustful passions or sinful desires, this closeness to God of a feeling is acompanied by sincere worship, faithful prayers and soulful passion.
Like a fondness, like a longing, like hoping that this lasts forever, like a lover pining and crying each night for the return of his love. Like a companionship bound by unwritten promises, by an almost 1500 years of wisdom and sacrifices, by an everlasting source of love.
Like when believers pray in solitude in the middle of the night in vigil, with not a single soul awake at that moment, with all that could be heard was the splitting silence of the peaceful night, without the crazy buzz of the traffic nor the busy conversations of daily work, as he seeks solace in the comfort of a Friend All-hearing, All-knowing, as he prays for protection from the evils of this world, from the traumas of relationships, dilemmas of decision-making, the stresses of schoolwork, the problems of parenting, the worries of working, confusions on crossroads, and the many thorns on the roses of Life.
Like when the faithfuls pray in congregation in the House of God in the holy month of Ramadhan, crying out loud to experience the bestowed Night of Power, as they recite the words from the Speech of God, indulging in the overwhelming power of His Book, as they bow and prostrate in perfect harmony, in unity to the King of Kings and of Servants, begging for mercy for the sins they committed, and for peace in this life and the hereafter and for God's Acceptance and the Love of God.
Those are few of the many, many ways to unlock that hidden feeling within the depths of the human heart. Yet many do not, or rather will never ever, get a chance to feel this feeling, a romance like none other, this Godly Intimacy. That is, if they are too caught up with this world, struggling and drowning against the cruel currents on the river of life. Seek His Pleasure, His Love, and soon enough you will feel that like none other. Alone God is enough for me. To the friend with that question about that BGR thingy? I can only say, "The romance I seek, is like nothing on earth."
"..For such He has written Faith in their hearts, and strengthened them with a Spirit from Himself. And He will admit them to Gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein (for ever). Allah will be well pleased with them, and they with Him. They are the Party of Allah. Truly it is the Party of Allah that will achieve Felicity." [58:22]
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burn! - 'cus the lovers of God are ablaze.
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