Love for the Qur’aan is a sign of the love for Allaah

بسم الله والحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله ، وبعد

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله said:

One’s love for the Speech of Allaah (the Qur’aan) is indeed a sign for (his) love for Allaah عز وجل. If you ever want to know how much love - you or other than you - have for Allaah, then look for how much love you have for the Qur’aan in your heart, and that your delight upon listening to the Qur’aan is much more than the pleasure one derives from listening to the entertainers (actors and performers) and music and singing. For it is well known that when a person is in love with someone, then the speech and conversation of his beloved is dearer to him than anything else. As it was said:

When you claim to love me…

Then why did you abandon my writings?

Did you not contemplate on what it contains…

Of the sweetness from my speech?

And `Uthmaan Ibn `Affaan رضي الله عنه said:

❝Were our hearts to become pure, we would never get tired of the Speech of our Lord.❞

[Al-Jawaab al-Kaafee (1/235-236) (the book is also known as al-Daa’ wal-Dawaa’]

Al-Baihaqee further added to the statement of `Uthmaan رضي الله عنه:

❝I hate that a day ever goes by in which I have not looked into the Mus-haf (the Qur’aan).❞ 

[al-Asmaa was-Sifaat of al-Baihaqee (524/1/593)]