Imam Junayd said, “I heard al-Harith al-Muhasibi say:
“Love (mahabbah) is your inclination to something with all of your being. It is your preference to that thing over your own self, your soul and your possessions and wealth. It is also your being in accordance with that thing inwardly and outwardly, privately and publicly. Then comes realizing your shortcomings with regards to your love of it.”
It was said, “Love (mahabbah) is a fire that burns in the heart. It burns everything other than what the beloved wants from the lover.” It was also said, “Nay, it is exerting all efforts in pleasing the beloved. And such can never be so until one no longer sees the ‘love’ itself anymore, but only witnesses the beloved.” It is mentioned in some of the Hadith Qudsi, “My servant, I am, by your right, a lover of you. So, be you, by my right upon you, a lover of Me.”
‘Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak said,
“Whomsoever is given something of love and is not given its equivalent of awe and veneration (khashyah), then he is deceived
Yahya ibn Mu’adh said,
“A muster seed’s amount of love is more beloved to me than seventy years of worship without love
Taken from "The Garden of the Lovers and the Excursion of Those Who Yearn”Rawdah al-Muhibbeen wa Nuzhah al-Mushtaqeen " By: Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah
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