The Glorious Names of Allah – Al-Badee – The Innovator
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The speaker discusses the importance of Allah Subhan Waessela's name, which is not a trademark but rather a way to appreciate beauty created by him. The speaker also touches on Allah's surah, which is a bird that is considered a surah, and his innovation in dress code and creating beauty. He emphasizes the importance of forgiveness and embracing beauty in difficult situations, and offers advice on how to live with one's own success. The speaker also discusses the importance of learning from the experience and finding creative ways to make other people's lives easier.AI Generated Transcript ©
And
the way I've presented it this year is
a little bit different than how I presented
it in in previous years.
Or I go through them the the different
categories of the names of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. And I've established for you 12
different categories for his names
And yesterday or, Thursday or Friday, forgive me.
And today, we're in the category of attributes
of his creation,
And within that category,
there are a number of names that we
talked about his name, Al Khalq.
And I talked about and
as well because they there are names that
kind of fall under Al Khaliq. And today,
I wanna talk about
Ismullah Al Badia.
Ismullah
Al Badia.
It's a very beautiful name. Today, the name
is all it's just beauty.
It's a name that
means beauty, produces beauty, and it and it
pushes us to to appreciate
the beauty of what of what he made
It's
It's in the Quran twice where he says.
Badiyyah as in the
innovator or the inventive one.
From the word Badiyyah, we understand the word
Ibadah,
which is creativity,
When you produce something that is creative and
and beautiful. And
Allah within that meaning, he is the innovator.
He's the one who innovated everything
in this world with no previous example.
So al Badi'ah, this is how you define
it, is the one who invented
and innovated all of creation
with no previous example.
So Badi the inventor
and innovator of the cosmos and the earth.
And once he gives a decree
of anything,
then all it takes is for him to
say,
be, and it will be.
The innovator of the cosmos and the earth.
How is it that you are giving him
a son and he is not one who
has a spouse?
And he created everything
and he is the omniscient
Everything that we
create as human beings, everything we make, everything
we do,
it's all some degree
of repetition. We're copying from something.
The plane,
we bring take that out of nowhere.
The plane looks like a bird.
The helicopter, it looks like certain insects.
A submarine,
a car,
Everything that we make, Allah
had made something similar to it that we
just replicated. We just took from the design
of what
Allah created, and then we tried to replicate
or duplicate that design, and we ended up
with something that we create. The most creative
amongst us are those who are able to
take different patterns of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's
creation and put them together in a in
a way that's a little bit different and
then produce something out of that. But we
don't have the ability as human beings to
create from nothing, to innovate or invent without
there being a previous example. This is this
is a simple
it's a hard, yeah, any fact about who
we are as as human beings.
Like, no matter how innovative you are, at
the end, you're going to go off some
previous example, something that you heard at some
point or someone who did something and you're
drawing an analogy or a parallel or a
parable to something that you had seen before.
And it's not this is not a I
need something to take away from the effort
that people put in into their work, and
it's not something to make you feel less
about it. It just it allows you to
appreciate Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala an aspect of
his magnificent subhanahu wa ta'ala that sometimes goes,
in my opinion, any unnoticed. Badi'ah is not
a name that is talked about often.
It's not when when you go through a
series of
usually it's not one that takes a lot
of space.
But I think it's there there's a there's
a perspective here that is being missed. That,
yes, he created but
also equally important,
it's also something he invented and innovated.
There was no previous example to any of
it. He just made
it from nothing.
Usually, your first attempt at at creating something
isn't that great.
The first poem you write, the first painting
you draw.
The first it's usually not amazing. You you
require a couple of times in a row
before you can get something going. It gives
you a little bit of a you have
a you develop a little bit of a
style. Right? Something that kind
of is a trademark to to your work.
But Allah
with no previous example, no coaching, and no
requirement of multiple creations for it to work,
innovated all of this.
And really studying his name as Al Badia
is just going through the verses of the
Quran that talk about the beauty of what
he of what he made.
And I I wanna start by quoting for
you the verses that we had the pleasure
of of, going over at the beginning of
Ramadan on the weekend post.
Allah is the one who lifted and held
the cosmos and the skies above us without
pillars that you see. And he put at
your service the sun and the moon, each
run to a destination that only he knows
He takes care of the matter and he
details for you the signs so that maybe
you will find in your heart the ability
to be certain about the fact that you
will meet him.
And he is the one who spread the
earth in front of you, and he put
upon it pillars of mountains and rivers. And
from each type of fruit, there are 2
species or there are 2,
Zogenes, 2 types.
It has night cover day and day cover
night. Indeed, within that, there are signs for
those who contemplate.
And on earth, there are pieces of land,
one beside the other.
And gardens of vine
and palm
trees
and plants.
And they have
similar or the same roots or they have
separate roots and they're all irrigated by the
same type of water yet some of them
taste better than others. Indeed within that, there
are signs for those who have have thought.
Do not see how your Lord
spread shade for you.
And if he wanted, he would have made
it consistent or or or stagnant, but he
made sure that it was the sun that
dictated where and how it would look. And
then he drew it closer to him
at the end of the day. And he
is the one who made the night
a time for you to rest, and he
made your sleep a time for you to
relax,
and he made the day a time for
you to be resurrected and for you to
live. And he is the one who sent
through his
winds the aspects of his mercy. And he
descended from the sky water that will bring
back life
to a dead piece of land
so that it may feed many creations and
many people.
He created the cosmos of the earth through.
He is elevated upon that or beyond that
which they they accused him of. He created
the human being from a from a sperm,
from.
And then he grew into someone who is
capable of arguing and
and and debating and discussing and and rejecting
signs.
He created livestock for you. And and within
them, you find warmth
and you find benefits and you eat from
them.
And you find beauty within them.
When you rest during travel and you look
at them.
And when you send them to graze in
the land.
And they carry you to a place that
you would have never been able to arrive
on your own if you were to walk
on your feet. Indeed
your lord is the most tender and the
most merciful.
And horses
and mules and donkeys
for you to ride and for you to
enjoy looking at them because they're an adornment
of this world and they're beautiful. And he
creates that which you have not discovered yet.
Allah is the one who will guide you
the way and some will not find that.
And And if he wanted, he would have
forced guidance upon you.
He is the one who descended from the
sky water. From it, you drink, and from
it, you will bring trees so so that
you may walk under their shade and enjoy
their beauty.
He will bring for you from the ground
with that water
plants
and olives
and palm trees. And from all of the
different plants that you will and all the
different fruits that you will witness on this
earth.
He put out your service, the sun, and
the moon, and day, and night, and he
made sure that the stars are there for
your service indeed within that. There are many
signs for those who can think,
engage in thought.
And what and everything that he put on
earth for you, the different species and different
types.
Indeed, there's a sign for those who are
capable of reflecting and remembering.
And you put out your service to see
and from it, you will take
meat that you can eat and pearls that
you can wear.
You will see the ships as they sit
on top of the water and don't sink.
And for you to go and use that
as means to find his rifts and his
provisions, subhanahu wa ta'ala, and for you to
be grateful.
He
put on earth pillars of mountains to keep
the earth stable so it does not move
as you walk on it. And he put
rivers and he put pathways so that you
can find your way
and your destinations.
And he gave you signs.
And with stars, they find their way.
Is the one who creates equal or similar
to the one who cannot create nothing.
Do you not remember?
And if you count the bounty of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, you will never be able
to end or finish that calculation. It's not
tangible. It's too much of it. Indeed, Allah
is the most forgiving.
His innovation, subhanahu wa ta'ala, is not just
beautiful,
but it's also endless.
There's no end to it.
The more we look, the more we find.
The more we search,
the more we witness
of the
invention and beauty that Allah has
created everything upon.
This
aspect of
of life in my opinion,
this is the one of the most important
aspects of being alive
is this opportunity that you have to witness
the beauty of what he made. Just
you have that
at the tip of your fingers. Today, you
can walk out after this, dust, and you
can stand outside, and you can just look
at the sky for a few moments.
And you can just witness the different colors
that exist, the horizon
at the east as the sun is slowly
coming up. You'll see these grays of colors
that exist.
Where do you think we figured out all
of this?
He made sure all these colors were a
part of his creation that you could look
at.
His his his innovation
We never get bored of it.
Why do you think people love traveling so
much? When you travel, you get to go
and you get to see what it is
that Allah put on this earth. You get
to witness it. You get to experience something
that you you're not experiencing in the place
that you're in. And no matter how many
times you do it, no matter how many
places you go, you stand in awe of
the beauty of what you see. I remember
the first time I saw the ocean.
I've seen the Mediterranean, and I've seen the
Red Sea. I've never seen the ocean before.
Went to Halifax back in
2016 or something for an interview that they
rejected me for.
I ended up going and it was the
it was early, early January.
And just for a for a moment, we
drove by we drove by the ocean. We
didn't stop in any I and I'll never
forget
the it's just the magnificence of this ocean.
I was with my my my aunt, and
she's not Muslim. And I just came out
yeah. I I couldn't
I just looked at something and just
I've I've never it was just it was
magnificent. And she was, Yani, what what are
you saying? So I explained. She wasn't impressed,
but I explained to her what it is
that I I was because
is just something beautiful. His
his creativity,
his innovation
is something that we just from the smallest
things. From the smallest things, he will show
you a degree of innovation and invention that
is difficult. We that's why when he in
the Quran at the beginning.
Right? Indeed, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does not
take shame in giving you a parable or
example regarding a mosquito or anything that is
smaller than it.
Anything that is not what's sitting on top
of it. Again,
linguistically, that doesn't work at all. It's just
whatever is smaller than it.
The the Arab thought it was ridiculous that
he's talking about.
There's a surah in the Quran called ants.
What it's called?
Right? The surah is named after insects.
The Arab thought this was very weird. These
surahs,
and Al Kebut are murky Surahs. They exist
later in the Quran, but they exist earlier
in revelation. So that's the the Quran, they
heard Allah
talking
and talking about
The ant is speaking and there's interest in.
And when he talks about,
he he's talking about these small animals or
these insects in the Arab, like, what is,
this lord that is talking about something that
is so insignificant and pathetic?
So
later in Surah come back and say, there
is no shame. I will give you parables
in in in in about a mosquito, and
I'll give you parables of things that are
smaller than mosquitoes that you can't see. And
today, when we study these insects, when we
study these these creations,
and we see the intricacies, when we see
the detail,
and we see the, yeah, the the numerous
systems that exist within within them that allow
them to function the way they function,
what should happen is that your appreciation
for his invention
should increase.
Your appreciation for his name
should exist in your heart because it's something
that
But it did not look above them to
the sky, to the
And the earth did not see how we
spread it in front of them. And we
put mountains, and we brought plants from the
earth, from every beautiful bahij, from every beautiful
type of of of plant that can be
grown.
As a reason for you to look
as a reason for you to look with
your eyes, so you can look at it.
And a reminder for every heart, every servant
who has a heart that wants to return
to their lord.
Indeed, he is the one who descended water
from the sky and extracted from the earth
the plant of everything, the seed of everything.
And from that, he brought green. And from
that, he brought all the plants and the
trees
and the palm trees and the vine
that are close for you to you for
you to take and eat. And there's pomegranates
and there's olives. And they look similar and
they look different from one another. Look at
them.
Look at it.
Once it's fruitful,
look at it when it's when it's ripe.
Look.
Take a take a moment and and observe
the beauty of what it is that you're,
yeah, you're facing.
Indeed, Allah
is beautiful, and he loves beauty. The Sahaba
were asking about
he had said something
about
dress code.
I find this an interesting phenomenon.
The moment you talk about dress code, people
get confused and upset. They don't like being
told what to wear. Well, it is back
in the time,
this is probably there's at least 4 or
5 hadith where it's not really him talking
about dress code. There's people asking about something
he said about dress code
because there was a little bit of confusion.
He talked about not wearing something that drags
behind you.
Today, no one does that because it's, you
know, it's filthy and there's no point. But
back then, it was it was a way
to establish, wealth that you were so wealthy
that your clothing were actually bigger the the
over the the the it was an oversized.
Most of the time, you you you you
you got something smaller because it was cheaper,
and you didn't have enough wealth for it.
But if you got a lot of wealth,
he would wear wear something that would drag,
and it was a sign of wealth and
status. And the prophet Ali Islam
didn't didn't like it. And told us, so
how about don't don't do that. There's kibr.
There's arrogance in that. We don't want that.
Don't do that.
So they stopped, but then they they were
so confused because they weren't sure. So
he said, Like, we like to wear, you
know, nice chic clothing and nice shoes and
stuff.
Is that okay? Like, what is that, like,
also a problem here?
Allah
is beautiful.
He's lovely, and he loves he loves beauty.
He loves it. No.
Allah loves to see
the consequence or the result of his blessing
upon his upon his serpent. He likes to
see that he blessed you and that you
took that blessing and you actually yeah. You
look good. You take care of yourself.
It's not one of his names
So when you study
the names, Jameel is not one of them.
It's not he he he can't use it.
Just like there are there are descriptions of
Allah
that don't qualify as a name. They don't
say. But in my opinion, this this this
description
is a part of his name, Al Badia,
the the the the inventive one, the one
who created beauty.
In my one of the meanings of it,
Muhammad Ghazali in his
in his
in his book of
is called. It's a very nice book. If
you read Arabic,
you know, it's an it's a short nice
read. You can always you'll find it very
beautiful. And
is called
He talks about the and he said and
the way he defines it is the creator
of beauty,
the producer of beauty. That's why not only
is his creation beautiful, but he asks you,
he asks you not only to look beautiful,
and to dress beautifully, but also
to behave beautifully. That's why in the Quran,
you have these words that are repeated.
When it comes to the your perseverance,
may your perseverance be beautified.
That's why I say
twice. He lost Yusuf
He
lost And Allah
granted him back that which he lost.
You can be perseverant and upset and disgruntled
and grumpy
and, you know,
upset and just difficult to be with because
you're in a difficult situation, Or it can
be
or your perseverance, but you beautified your perseverance.
So you're still smiling, and you're still optimistic,
and you're still working towards a goal that
you think is worth working for. You didn't
let let whatever occurred to you when your
life break you and stop you and change
who you are.
When he talks
about about divorce,
he's he spoke to the prophet
talking to the wives of the prophet
If you're going to let go, if you're
going to divorce, it's
means
you you you separate something. And it's going
to happen, It has to be beautified.
I mean, the has to be beautified. Doesn't
have to talk about the marriage being beautified
because that's human human that's what we that's
where people lose their minds in in in
beautifying things, and that's where they care. Yeah.
That's easy. But even when it comes to
to something as painful and as difficult as
divorce,
It has to be with beauty.
Yeah.
When you forgive someone or you let go
of do it with beauty.
Forgive with in a beautified manner. Don't forgive
with humiliation.
Don't forgive someone and make sure the last
yeah. Just before you forgive, you give them
a nice,
a piece of your mind.
Just make sure you just rub it in
just one more time. Just, you know,
push down just once. I'm gonna forgive you,
so just give me this one, you know,
just give me this one moment of, just
to get it out of my system. No.
If you're going to forgive,
If you're going to forgive, then do that
in a beautified manner. Don't do it in
a way where you're taking something for yourself.
You're walking away. You make sure there's one
last slap before you walk away. No.
Even when you decide that you're going to
leave a friend or leave someone in your
life,
When you part ways with people. You part
ways. You you don't agree with someone. You
work together and you didn't you didn't agree.
I've seen it happen a 1000000 times. 2
friends, friends, friends, friends, friends, they work together.
Nope.
Didn't work out. There's just something missing.
They they they couldn't make it work.
What should we not be friends anymore? No.
We part ways we part ways when it
comes to whatever it is that we need
to part ways for. Do it in a
beautified manner.
Do it in a beautified way.
He's the one who
created the 7 the 7 skies the 7
layers of sky, the cosmos. Yeah? 1 upon
the other. You do not see when you
look at the creation of the Rahma, you
don't see any deficits.
So look again.
Look. Do you see any
any cracks, anything wrong?
Then look again. Look deeper.
Your search for a deficit will come back
empty.
And indeed, he created the skies, and he
he adorned them. He told them,
has put something to beautify.
With lights.
All praise be to Allah. The one who
is is the one who sends something out.
It breaks loose.
It's like this cause within the earth.
Is something that was that existed, but it
was confound. It was confined, I think is
the word here. It was it was limited.
And then it was, released it was released,
it was open, and it spread everywhere. So
all praise to be to all praise be
to the one who released
to the one who made his angels, Rusulan,
messengers to his people.
This part why is this part there?
The ones,
who have wings.
2.
And 3.
And 4.
Increases within his creation, that what he wants.
Why? Because there's beauty to it. The prophet
would say,
Jibril
I saw
Jibril twice in the way that Allah created
him.
The first night,
the night that we're coming near to or
the night one of these nights,
When he was in the and
if Jibreel Alaihi Salam would come to him,
he'd come unannounced in the middle of the
night and he come
He
came to him.
He was closing the horizon, alayhi salaam. He
had hundreds of wings. Every time he shook
them,
rubies
I flew from them.
So I saw him that one that way
once, and then I saw him that same
way, on
the on the,
ascendants.
At that time, he wasn't as magnificent.
He looked like a like a, you know,
a scraggly
cloth
out of the reverence of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala because the prophet looked back and saw
him in his in his form again, but
at that the prophet
was
just right where
was. And Jibril was in a state of
reverence
and fearfulness of Allah
that that that magnificent state he had turned
he he he'd he'd humbled himself and he
looked like a like a like a rag,
alayhis salaam.
I love his name, Al Badia, and I
hope you do too.
And the way you live with this name
is simple.
Take away from his invention and his innovation
something for yourself and use it where it
should be. Use innovation and creativity
where it should be used. Use it in
service,
in in service of others, in the service
of people. Be creative in that, in that
aspect of things. Be innovative in finding ways
to make other people's lives easier in doing
something that is beneficial, in doing something that
will help this ummah. Be innovative in that.
Don't be innovative in in rituals and religion.
Don't don't change his faith. Don't become creative
in figuring out new things that he didn't
put there.
He he perfected the faith, accepted as it
is. There's no need for us to add
anything more. There's no need for us to
self harm as an act of worship. There's
no need for us to deprive ourselves
from things he commanded us to do,
like marriage or like, the ability to enjoy.
Who has the adaustity? Who has the bravery?
Who dares make haram the adornments of Allah
that he put on this planet? Who? Who
is going to dare do this? It is
for all, and on the day of judgment,
it's for the people who believe in him
specifically.
And then second is just appreciate the beauty
of what's there.
Have you ever seen a video
of a child
who's receiving,
hearing aids for the first time?
Ever see
that?
Yeah.
I'm I'm stupid. I I watch these things.
I I look for them. I I look
for these videos. Someone who doesn't,
can't see color and is given the glasses
or some a child,
you know, a 2 year old or
and the first time in his life, they
put they put a
a hearing aid in their in their ears,
and then they hear the voice of their
mother
or they hear sound.
And the child is laughing and crying at
the same time.
Now they laugh and cry the same moment
because it's just
so beautiful.
It's just something yeah. We we're used to
it. We hear it. Well, maybe not my
voice specifically, but but it's a the ability
to hear the sounds that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala has put in this world that we
can that we can appreciate.
Beautiful sounds for us. Think about it. Why
why do birds sound like that? Do they
have to sound like that?
Creation could have been so much more boring.
I mean, maybe at 8 o'clock when you
try and go to sleep on your post
call, they don't sound too good to you.
But aside from that, it's it's beautiful sounds.
And the human
the the the human being sometimes just doesn't
take a moment to notice what Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala has put here in terms of
the beauty, the colors, and the sounds, and
and just the harmony that everything exists within.
As Muslims, we are we are part of
the universe and we and we take pride
in doing that. We we pray based on
the sun. We fast based on the moon.
We we see the clouds. We have a
dua. We hear thunder. We may have a
dua. We see lightning.
Everything that happens around us, we're a part
of it. We feel connected to it. And
I and we've lost a little bit of
that. Like, over the years, we've lost a
little bit of that connection to
to that surroundings. But I can tell you
that the prophet a
part of his character,
a a very strong part of his character
was his connection to the to the world
around him and his appreciation to the beauty
that surrounded him
name,
name,