Is that possible for someone who is not on the verge of death?

The questioner : Whoever loves to meet Allah, Allah loves to meet him, and it is a conditional sentence.

The Shaykh : Yes

The questioner : And every condition is a cause for the result. How can the love of Allah be a cause for the cause of His love?

The Shaykh : Yes, that is correct. That is, whoever loves to meet Allah, Allah loves to meet him.

The questioner : That is, his love is a cause for the cause of His love.

The Shaykh : Yes, indeed, whoever...

The questioner : ...

The Shaykh : No, whoever loves to meet Allah is the meaning of the hadith. Whoever loves to meet Allah, Allah loves to meet him. The meaning is not that whoever loves, that follows after it. That is, you do not love to meet Allah unless Allah loves to meet you. That is the meaning. So it is a conditional sentence that is informative. That is, every person who loves to meet Allah, Allah loves to meet him. The parallel to that now is you and a friend of yours. You both love to meet. He loves to meet with you, and you love to meet with him. So whoever loves to meet his friend, his friend loves to meet him. Whoever loves to meet Allah, Allah loves...

The questioner : to meet him.

The Shaykh : to meet him. The meaning is not that Allah’s love for meeting you is after your love for meeting Him. No, the meaning is on the basis of being informative. The information...
The reader: He spoke about it in the commentary.

The Shaykh : Who?
The reader: In al-Fath, he spoke about it in the commentary and said that it is from the category of information.

The Shaykh : Yes, I do.