Chapter VI: Love, Longing, Contentment
U>u Darda said to Ka'ab : Tell me a verse from the Torah. : God says : Hope of the righteous persons to meet Me is id My hope for meeting them is still greater. There is by its side : He who wants Me gets me. He who does not 2 does not get Me. Abu Darda said : I bear witness that I e Prophet say this.
Iazrat Daud said : God said : O Daud tell the inhabitants orld : I love one who loves Me. I am with one who sits e alone. I am satisfied to remember one who finds : to remember Me. I become the companion of one who mpany with Me. I choose one who chooses Me I remain t to one who obeys Me. I take the love of one who loves heart and I love him so much which nobody can get. He rvts Me sincerely gets Me. He who searches other than oes not get Me. O inhabitants of the world think over the which you live. Come to see My skill, to keep company and to stray with Me in solitude. Be satisfied with My / and I shall also be satisfied with your company and
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hasten to love you. I have prepared the conduct of My dear ones with the conduct of My dear friend Abraham, My dear friend Moses and My chosen Muhammad. I have created the hearts of those who hope for Me with My light and increased it with My glory.
(4) A certain ancient sage said : God revealed to a Siddiq : There are some servants of Mine who love Me. I also love them. I am attached to those who are attached to Me. I remember those who remember Me. I look to those who look to Me. If you adopt their ways, I will love you. I will hate you if you give up their ways. He said : O Lord, what are these ways ? God said : They see the shade of the day in such a way as a kind shepherd remains anxious for the setting of the sun when grazing a herd of sheep or as a bird is anxious to return to its nest at the time of sun- set. When the night covers them, darkness spreads evil and every lover is engaged with his beloved. They stand up on their legs, fall prostrate upon their foreheads, talk with Me in solitude with My words, invoke Me for My favour. Some cry some raise voices, some prostrate down. I will give them three kinds of rewards for the troubles they take for Me. (1) I will cast My light in to their hearts. Then they will give news about Me as I give out news to them. (2) I will think light if the heavens and the earth and what is therein are weighed against them. (3) I will appear to them with the brilliance of My face.