People Worth Envying

PEOPLE WORTH ENVYING Those who make God the object of their love and the centre of all one’s feelings and emotions, also become God’s beloved. This is the highest level of faith. T here is a tradition recorded in various books of Hadith. According to Sunan al-Bayhaqi, it states: “‘So, I tell you of those who will neither be prophets nor martyrs but on the day of judgement the prophets and the martyrs will envy them, because of their rank with God. There they will be on the pulpit (raised platform) of the light.’ The Prophet was asked who they would be.The Prophet said, ‘They are those who make efforts to bring people to love God, and so enable them that God loves them and they walk the earth as the well-wishers of others.” (Shu‘abul Iman by Al-Baihaqi, Hadith No. 405) Who are these people whom even prophets would envy? They are those who discover God in such a way that God becomes their beloved, who live in the love of God.There is no being greater than God, therefore,