found in all books written about the goal ofcreation in Islam.
According to this Hadith Qudsi, Allah (SWT) says: "I was a hidden
treasure; I loved to be known. Hence I created the worldso that I
would be known."
Allah (SWT) has created the world out of love. Thus, a question
arises: why did Allah (SWT) love to be known? Certainly, Allah (SWT)
has no desire for fame. The purpose behind His love to be known is
understandableby considering the fact that Allah (SWT) who is the
Wise, the Compassionate and the Merciful creates the universe and
particularly human beings to give them the maximum graceand perfection
that they have the capacity for receiving. Of course, the perfection
of any kind of being is decided by the degree of its similarity or
closeness to Allah (SWT), and the most important factors in this are
love of Allah (SWT), and prior to that knowledge of Allah (SWT), since
there can be no love without knowingthe beloved.
It is narrated in another Hadith Qudsi that when God loves someone, He
becomes his ears, his eyes, his tongue, and his hands: "When I love
him, then I shall be his ears with which he listens, his eyes with
which he sees, his tongue with which hespeaks, and his hands with
which he holds; if he calls Me, I shall answerhim, and if he asks Me,
I shall give him."
Similarly the way man has physical needs in life which he strives and
struggles to fulfill, the soul too has needs that must be satisfied.
These spiritual needs and urgeshave been placed by the hands of the
creator in the depths of the creation's soul. Man has anatural
inclination to find love and love in any form towards any object has
no valid reality except when it is for the sake of Allah (SWT). All
love directly or indirectly in some way, shape, or form is a man's
hope to be in reach of the ultimate perfection, which can be nobody
butAllah (SWT) - the Almighty.
God's love for the world in general and human beings in particular is
unanimously believed and emphasized by all Muslims. Indeed, one of the
God's names is al-Wadud, He who loves. Some non Muslims allege that
God in Islam is very strict and cruel God who demands to be obeyed
fully. He is not loving and kind. Nothing can be farther from truth
than this allegation. It is enough to know that, with the exception of
one, each of the 114 chapters of the Noble Qur'an begins with the
verse: "In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate."
In one of the sayings of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) we are told that,"God
is more loving and kinder than a mother to her dear child."
A young man came before Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) with a carpet and
said, "O prophet of Allah! I passedthrough a jungle and heard the
voices of young birds; and I took and put them into my carpet; and
their mother came fluttering around my head, and I uncovered the
young, and the mother fell downupon them, then I wrapped them up in my
carpet; and there are the young which I have."
Then Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said,"Put them down." And when he did so,
their mother joined them: and Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said, "Do you
wonder at the affection of the mother towards her young? I swear by
Him who hath sent me, verily God is more loving to His creatures than
the mother to these young birds. Return them to the place from which
you took them, and let their mother be with them.
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