Living in God's Glory

WE OFFER YOU OUR LOVE just like that of the dancer devoted to her art: God becomes the focal point in his life; he has no life of his own when separated from God; so deep are his feelings for his lord that he cannot find words to convey them adequately. WE OFFER YOU OUR LOVE Man has nothing more significant to give anyone than love. Therefore, in all His perfection, man cannot discover God and offer Him something less than love. There is a verse in the second chapter of the Quran (aiBaqara) which reads like this: “yet there are some who set up equals with God and adore them with the adoration due to God, but those who believe love God most. if only the wrongdoers could see—as they will see when they face the punishment—that all power belongs to God, and that God is severe in punishment.” (2:165) Man is forced by his very nature and the circumstances in which he finds himself on earth to seek some external source of dependence. unable to rely on his scant inner resources, he seeks a prop in life—one who will compensate for his shortcomings. To take another person or thing to oneself in this way is to worship it. Feelings of adoration and devotion are then directed towards one’s object of worship, for to worship something is to love it above all things.