Cause Of The Failure To Love God

CAUSE OF THE FAILURE TO LOVE GOD When someone develops love of God, he starts remembering Him most of the time. Love for anything other than God gives one mere lifeless rituals. A ccording to the Quran, only that person is able to achieve a high level of realization of God who is able to develop a relationship with God on a very high plane. The sign of this level of relationship is his developing an intense love for God (2:165) and standing in awe of God alone. (9:18) When someone develops such a profound relationship with God, he begins to remember Him most of the time, if he is lacking in this relationship by even one percent, he will be deprived of any high level of realization of God. This was the state of the Jews in later periods of degeneration. Their deep relationship was centred on their great religious scholars. As a result, they were