عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رضي الله عنه، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «إنَّ اللَّهَ قَالَ: : مَنْ عَادَى لِي وَلِيًّا فَقَدْ آذَنْتُهُ بِالحَرْبِ، وَمَا تَقَرَّبَ إِلَيَّ عَبْدِي بِشَيْءٍ أَحَبَّ إِلَيَّ مِمَّا افْتَرَضْتُ عَلَيْهِ، وَمَا يَزَالُ عَبْدِي يَتَقَرَّبُ إِلَيَّ بِالنَّوَافِلِ حَتَّى أُحِبَّهُ، فَإِذَا أَحْبَبْتُهُ: كُنْتُ سَمْعَهُ الَّذِي يَسْمَعُ بِهِ، وَبَصَرَهُ الَّذِي يُبْصِرُ بِهِ، وَيَدَهُ الَّتِي يَبْطِشُ بِهَا، وَرِجْلَهُ الَّتِي يَمْشِي بِهَا، وَإِنْ سَأَلَنِي لَأُعْطِيَنَّهُ، وَلَئِنِ اسْتَعَاذَنِي لَأُعِيذَنَّهُ، وَمَا تَرَدَّدْتُ عَنْ شَيْءٍ أَنَا فَاعِلُهُ تَرَدُّدِي عَنْ نَفْسِ المُؤْمِن، يَكْرَهُ المَوْتَ وَأَنَا أَكْرَهُ مَسَاءَتَهُ» 

Abu Hurayrah narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said that God says:

1. Whoever shows enmity to a friend of Mine, I shall be at war with him. 2. My servant does not draw closer to Me with anything I love more than the religious duties I have made obligatory for him. 3. My servant continues to draw closer to Me with voluntary worship until I love him. 4. When I love him, I shall be his hearing with which he hears, his sight with which he sees, his hand with which he strikes, and his leg with which he walks. 5. Were he to ask something of Me, I would surely give it to him; and were he to ask Me for refuge, I would surely grant it to him. 6. I am never reluctant to do something I want to do as much as I am reluctant to gather a believer’s soul: he hates death and I hate to upset him.

Related by al-Bukhari, 6502


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Say: ‘If you love God, follow me; God will love you and forgive you your sins. God is much-forgiving, ever-merciful’.  

(3: 31)

Those whom you invoke beside Him cannot give you any support, nor can they even help themselves.  

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For certain, those who are close to God have nothing to fear, nor shall they grieve; (62) for they do believe and remain God-fearing. (63) Theirs are the glad tidings in the life of this world and in the life to come: there is no changing the word of God. This is the supreme triumph.  

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God will certainly defend those who believe. For certain, God does not love anyone who betrays his trust and is bereft of gratitude.

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