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Let me begin by saying that I desire and pray for all of you to be extremely close to Allah SWT I want to be closer of course but I still sincerely desire for you all to have an extremely beautiful relationship with Him SWT and be extremely pleasing to arRahman SWT. Insha Allah we will all get to enter Jannatal Firdows and when that happens bi’idnillah I invite you all over for hundreds of thousands of years and I mean that. Well have good times insha Allah ta’aala. Bi’dnillah ta’aala that will happen please pray right now for that to happen. Barak Allah ta’aala

Alrighty then, here we go

Firstly, barak Allah Ta'aala and thank you very much for your reply my brother Shuayb

However, as we all know, Allah s' greatness cannot be comprehended by humans (or by any of His creation). So keeping that in mind, I think you should forget about the fact that Allah swt will give you "more" love if you ask Him to give you "more" than the next person, or that He will give someone else "less" because He is giving you "more". In other words, I think you're unintentionally placing limitations on Allah's mercy & treasures, even though you know that they are limitless. Allah can give the entire mankind "more" and it wouldn't have any effect on His treasures. Similarly, He can give the entire mankind "less" and again it would have no effect on His treasures. Allah's treasures are infinite and boundless.

Very true my brother Shuayb. Your point relates to what Bro NNoor was saying that we can’t quantify Allah’s SWT love as though one has to deprive others of Love in order to recieve more. I 150% agree that’s not the case. Allah SWT can grant an infinite number of His SWT servants with abundant love still having more to offer. But that doesn’t mean He SWT can’t provide that love in varying degrees such that only one receives the most love. That’s logically possible wouldn’t you say my bro? Yes of course you would. And in fact this is the case with us- Allah SWT loves the Prophets the most and He SWT least loves that last man who will enter paradise. The order of everyone else’s positions relative to these two extremes is in proportion to their Iman - the more of it we have the more beloved we are to Allah SWT. Allah SWT Knows best.

I highly doubt that on The Last Day it will be said "well you made more dua for yourself and said to give you more attention than everyone else, so good for you here's a spot for you in Janat al-Firdous while everyone else you made (less) dua for is going to be under you in Jannah as per your wishes. Good thing you didn't ask the best for them or they might've gotten your spot". I hope that makes sense & Allah knows best.

I couldn't help but smile when I read that but I think it would sound more like this “well you made more dua for yourself and said to give you more attention than everyone else and strove harder than all others, so good for you here's a spot for you in Janat al-Firdous while everyone else who made less dua for themselves and strove less is going to be under you in Jannah because they don’t deserve it”.

My brother would we blame the brother in the first row of jamaa’at for taking the guy in the back row's potential spot? for 'depriving' him of it? Or is it that guy’s own fault for coming late and being lazy?

Whoever is granted the most love will most definitely deserve it and the rest of us will not be angry at them for that but will ebe angry at our own-selves. A lazy student will never blame a hard working student for their poor grades, they know the hardworking student deserved the top mark and they respect them for that.

So I guess the point I'm trying to make is that we're better off trying to make dua for everyone else and maybe even make ourselves the last ones we make dua for, and Insha'Allah if we do it with ikhlaas, The Creator will award us accordingly.

Putting others before ourselves in dunya maters is honorable and commendable. Being very generous with our time, money and lives to serve the deen is beautiful but I ask you my bro: would you share your good deeds with HighHopes? Would you withdraw 1000gooddeeds from your ajar bank account and deposit it into mine? Of course you wouldn't because that wouldn’t be considered generosity; it’d be the opposite of humility and/or the opposite of intelligence.

On the day of judgment, none will spare even a tiny speck of a good deed for a loved one. The reality is-though It may sound ugly- being ‘greedy’ for ajar is actually very virtuous and so is being ‘greedy’ for Allah’s SWT love. In fact It’s this greed that drives all those selfless acts Muslims do; they do it because they know of the tremendous reward in store for them if they make those sacrifices so they choose to suffer in the short term to be fantastic winners in the end.

Always remember that the Prophet had fikr and made dua for everyone and he put others before himself, every single time, time and time again. If that hadn't been the case, I don't think any of us would be here on SF as Muslims discussing these things. Allah knows best.
May Allah forgive me if I said anything wrong and Allah knows best.

Absolutely, we ought to have fikr for all Muslims my bro and I’m not against that because, indeed, to truly love Allah SWT is to:

love what He SWT loves because He SWT Loves it,
hate what He SWT hates Because He SWT hates it,
love for others that which He SWT loves for them because He SWT loves it For them , and hate for others that Which He SWT hates for them because He SWT hates it for them,

Perfect internalization of this is I think what made our Habib SAW extremely selfless and generous as he SAW was; it’s what made him SAW the epitome of vicegerency because his desire and will rested on the ‘desire’ and will of his Beloved SWT. Wallahua’lam and honestly, I could be completly wrong in everything that I’m saying .

Still, with all that beautiful selflessness, the Prophet SAW never once supplicated for his SAW position of nearness to Allah SWT be granted to someone else instead. In fact our Habib SAW specifically prayed for the waseelah and the fadeelah for himself and no one else because he SAW knew better than all of us that the Love of Allah SWT and nearness to Him SWT is something we can NEVER pass up.


So from now on my bro I hope you and everyone else pray to be granted the most love and attention from Allah SWT.

Thanks again for your reply barak Allah ta’aala. Feel free to comment on anything i said.

Anything I ever say which is good is from arRahmaan SWT for your benefit. The rest is from me and shaytaan. Barak Allah