To listen is an act of love
Allah always listen to our prayers. He is full of love.
So it is our duty to listen to others. To listen is an act of love
Most times it so difficult to listen another, to listen to each other. With so many thoughts rushing through, so many thoughts to think, so much to plan for the future. We are in multi-tasking when a friend pours out her heart, we pretend to be an interested listener, but really just sleeping awake waiting for our cue to nod, say ‘uh-huh,’ or move the conversation along to something of our choice. Then there are those times we just want to solve the problem or convince her she doesn’t have a problem, when indeed, all our friend really is asking for or needs or wants is a sympathetic ear.
She just needs someone willing to pay attention to her and listen to what she has to say with a loving intention.
What is listening? What is listening with love?
Love is an experience. It is an experience of the deepest, most profound energies of Allah. To love is to be healed. To love is to become more like the angels, more like God. To love is to be aligned with the flow of Allah’s decree.
When anyone asks us to listen, he is offering us a gift. He is offering us the opportunity for us to flow as Allah would have us flow. He is asking us to represent for him, for that moment, life itself.
Why on earth would we refuse such a gift?
Today I will be present to my world and the people around me, and whenever I have the opportunity to spend time with another person, for a minute or an hour, I will set aside my concerns and worries and engage in the loving act of listening. And when my thoughts pull me back inside, I will choose, again and again, to be present. And to listen.
