Making God One’s Supreme Concern

MAKING GOD ONE’S SUPREME CONCERN Faith in God is for man to discover God to the extent of loving Him more than anything else. Praise (hamd), thanksgiving (shukr) and remembrance (zikr) are expressions of our love for God. T he strongest human feeling or emotion is that of love. When man makes something his supreme concern, it naturally happens that a feeling of love becomes associated with that thing. In religious terminology, this is called “deification.” The thing one loves the most is one’s deity (mabud), whether or not one utters this word. Faith in God is for man to discover God to the extent of loving Him more than anything else. The Quran says that “those who believe love God most.” (2:165) One who loves God the most is one who has made God his object of worship. Real love for God will find expression in many ways. Even uttering such words as praise (hamd),