Does Allah love the man praying in the masjid all day and night more?
Or
Does He love the woman barely able to make sujood without three little kids hanging off her back in the middle of the chaos of raising young children?
Does He love the woman who teaches Quran all day without charge more?
Or
The man who works all day so he can financially support her ability to do so?
Does He love the elderly father who is caring for his disabled adult son more?
Or
Does He love the custodian of the masjid who cares for His House?
Does He love the woman who is working night and day in the hospital saving lives more?
Or
The teacher who makes his classroom a safe space for kids in high risk areas?
There is no way to know who is the most beloved to Allah. But He gave us a gift; in that almost every action can be turned into a form of continuous worship through our intention. And that in every wide expanse of this earth is a place to prostrate and worship Him. And in that every tongue or every ear or every eye can recite or hear or see His words and remain in His remembrance.
You might think those most beloved to Him are those who can worship Him in the masjid every moment of the night and day and perhaps they are.
But if you didn’t have the responsibilities of life, would you be doing so as well? Make that intention. You living, serving, working, giving- you do all of it for His sake while wishing you were making Tawaf and praying in front of the Ka'aba and praying in the Rawdah of Al-Habib ﷺ and begging Him to be of the people He loves and honors to choose to see His Blessed Face in the Highest Paradise.
You dealing with the joy and the struggle and the trauma and the blessings and the pain and the hope and the fear and the excitement and the craziness of life and still remembering Him through every second of it- perhaps that is what makes you beloved to Him.
“Say. Surely my prayer and my sacrifice and my life and my death are (all) for God, the Lord of the worlds”(Quran 6:162)
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