The Glorious Names of Allah – Final Episode
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The importance of knowing someone's name and understanding their attributes is crucial to achieving love and achieving love through a no. Visiting the surrounding universe through seeing the sun and moon is crucial to achieving joy and connection with the Lord. Learning to see the God and surrounding universe through experiencing his name is crucial to develop a connection with him and avoid becoming disappointed and hurt. It is crucial to not be afraid of what others say and not to let anyone else's opinions affect one. The importance of learning to see Allah's teachings and finding joy in his teachings is emphasized.AI Generated Transcript ©
Names of Allah.
Mind you, this is something that I started
doing
roughly 8 years ago, and I did it
over a course of 2 to 3 years
then. And I decided to,
to do it one more time this year
with the intention of of putting it all
together
because I did it in different places, and
it was
sporadically recorded and
some audio without video and some video without
audio. And some of it was properly recorded,
some of it wasn't. So I wanted to
have a proper,
a proper record of of the
of the of the loyalist names of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. I want this presented in
the way that I think is most beneficial,
which is through these categories,
these 12 categories of his name Subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
Because
sometimes the subtleties and understand and and and
the differences between between his names, subhanahu wa
ta'ala, are hard to pick up, especially if
you don't understand Arabic well and Arabic language
is not your first one.
So it's it's nice to know if you're
calling Allah
upon
through the names of his creation, then you
know which names
are of such. And if you're calling upon
him
through
names of his divine judgment, then you know
what to use. And if you're calling upon
him via his names of of self renewal,
then you know what to call. And then
you'll find that all these names are put
in the same category with similar meanings and
similar, yeah, any indications, implications.
It's a good part problem to have, I
guess.
I have to be honest. Whenever I do
the,
the the glorious names of Allah,
I find it to be very, very stressful.
And I didn't want to do it this
year because I didn't wanna carry that stress
throughout the month. Because how is it that
you're going to speak about Allah, Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala? Anything else you speak about is much
less,
it's much less dangerous and and the and
the stakes are are lower. When you're talking
about
then,
you know, the the best the best analogy
I can give is
If you descended this Quran upon a mountain,
the mountain would would revere,
would show reverence even physically.
And those are the examples that Allah gives
for those who reflect. And right after this
verse, he starts to count count, to count
his names.
These are his names.
Why is it that we talk about his
names? Why is it important? Because it's through
his names
that you learn who he is.
Even our
So it's the it's what he left on
this planet that allows you to appreciate his
names. And it's through appreciating his names that
you can understand his attributes. And through understanding
his attributes that you will know him because
attributes cannot exist alone without that, without there
being
an entity that you can refer to.
And the most beautiful thing that we have
in our lives is the opportunity
of knowing Allah
The people of high status within our deen
are called.
This is something that you find all through
the books of of and
and hadith regardless of the background of the
person who's writing the book, regardless of what
school of thought they they
belong to or what they belong to. When
they speak of scholars of the highest caliber,
they will use the
term those who know their lord. Because knowing
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is the ultimate
and the goal of the knowledge that you
seek. That's why
when he when he did
when he made the when he did the
of that verse that indeed I only created
the jinn and the ins.
He said
and for them to know me,
to know Allah
This opportunity that you have to know him
How can he be blocked?
How can he be blocked if he made
apparent everything?
How can he be blocked? Blocked as in
Uhjjab, meaning how is it that you don't
see it? How is it that you how
is there something preventing you from knowing God?
How is there something blocking that? How can
he be blocked if he if he is
a parent
in everything? How can he be blocked if
he's a parent through everything? How can he
be blocked if he's a parent to everything?
How how could he be blocked if he
was a parent before the existence of everything?
How could he be blocked if he is
more apparent than everything? How can he be
blocked if he is the one and there
is not with him anything? How can he
be blocked? If he is closer to you
than everything, how can he be blocked
if without him there would not be anything?
Those who don't know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
can't live through his names.
We have his names because that's how we're
going to find out who he is. He's
not jalajalal who within space or time for
us to be able to imagine.
You know, when you talk about the prophet
alayhis salatu wa sallam, he's a person. He's
a creation, so you can imagine him, sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
Close your eyes and try and imagine a
person because he exists in both time and
space. So we we have that connection with
him. But how do you imagine God? You
can't.
You can't imagine Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. He's
he's not. He created time and space. They
are a fraction of his of his creation
subhanahu wa ta'ala. So he's not contained within
them. So how do you you can't. It's
impossible.
So how do I know Allah? If I
can't imagine him because because visual, the visual
helps helps us along as human beings. We
need a little bit of visual. Well, there's
no visual to god. Well, then how do
I know his names? So you know him
through those names subhanahu wa ta'ala. That's how
you find out who he is. See the
one who does not know Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala can be stingy. They can hold back
wealth because they didn't know his name is
Shakur.
Because they didn't know his name is Shakur,
that he will give you for the smallest
amount that you give fold upon fold
time and time again of what you gave.
You'll times it by a1000000 and give it
back to you. If you know that, you
wouldn't be stingy. You wouldn't hold wealth back.
See the person who ate haram only ate
haram because he does not know what the
name of Allah Subhanahu Wa Taq.
If the person knew that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Taq, the provider, then he would not eat
haram because Allah will provide. Maybe it's a
little, but he'll provide.
One day he'll provide more, but he'll provide
for you so you don't touch haram. The
one who cheats would not cheat if he
knew Allah
the observant.
He wouldn't cheat if he knew that Allah
is watching over and he wouldn't do it.
The one whose heart is filled with hate,
it wouldn't be filled with hate if he
knew Allah
If you knew the most loving if you
knew Allah through his name the most loving,
you wouldn't be filled with hate. You would
find something else to put inside his heart.
The person who walks on earth and humiliates
himself,
humiliates himself towards to other people or for
other people because he wants something from dunya,
didn't know Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Aziz.
If he knew the Allah the unfathomable, he
would never put himself down for another creation.
The one who walks this earth with with
with crippling fear
with crippling fear from everything that may happen,
does not Allah know Allah
If you knew Allah the trustee, he wouldn't
be that afraid.
The person who walks this earth with with
no hope,
is impossible for things to change.
Anyone who lives this life being that nothing
can change, it's not gonna change, things aren't
gonna get better, it's impossible, doesn't know Allah
If you knew the sub doer
he would know he can change. Things can
change anytime.
Knowing his names
allows you to live with his names, live
with him.
And you see what's happening around you coming
from Allah
in every moment you're in,
there's a name for you to live with.
Every moment that you're in, you're exposed to
one of his names subhanahu wa ta'ala to
live with it. And then you call him
by
it. To Allah belongs the glorious names who
call him by those names and leave those
who who don't understand Allah or don't understand
his names altogether.
This concept of understanding of knowing Allah
being able to is how you connect. You
can't love, you can't love the one that
you do not know. It's impossible. I gave
you a random name right now. And I
asked you if you loved this person or
this individual.
Your question would be to me, who is
this again?
No. I'm not gonna tell you who it
is. I'm gonna ask you to love.
You're gonna find that ridiculous. You can't love
the one you don't know. You can't. You
have to know. The more you know, the
more you'll love. Or the less, depending on
how you look at it. You know? You
can know people and just like them more,
the more you know them. But Allah,
the more you know Allah, the more you
will love. And that's how you achieve love.
You can only achieve love through a no.
Isn't that what is?
You think about it. Where is? How did
he define
it when he was asked this question?
Worship God as if you can see him.
But can't see him. Yeah. But as if
you can.
Okay. But how do I how do I
come to that point where as if I
can? Well, no. Know his
names. And then you'll be
so close that all that's left is for
you to see him. You'll be so close
that all that's left is for you to
see him because you you know everything else
about him
You understand
understand.
But understanding is a big deal.
Not everyone understands that.
This opportunity of life, the fact that we
breathe and walk and
and talk and eat and observe the world,
we're just granted the opportunity to know god.
And every moment that we spend not knowing
Allah, that is a wasted one. That's what
prophets were sent to do. All the prophets
He recites upon them the signs of God.
Why so they can know him?
Why would you obey if you didn't know?
Why would you? Makes no sense.
How would you listen to anything I have
to say if you don't know
who it is that's commanding
Muslim
You're going to see your lord.
We're going to see him with our eyes.
Do you have a problem seeing the sun
in the middle of the day?
You have difficulty seeing the moon in the
middle of the night when there's no clouds.
Full moon.
Then you will not be blocked from seeing
him, just like you're not blocked from seeing
these 2.
My Muslim raised to us that Suhayb al
Rumi
says,
When does the people of Jannah enter Jannah?
He said, oh, people of Jannah, how are
you doing? What can I give you more?
What more can I do for you?
Did you not
you
not give us you not enlighten our faces?
Did you not have us enter your Jannah?
Did you not save us from the hellfire?
We're good. We don't want anything.
Then Allah
removes the barrier.
He removes the
barrier.
And they at that moment,
they had not been given a blessing that
is more beloved to them than the fact
that they were able to see their lord.
This is the This is the extra for
the
When the prophet
talked to us about
those who will be in the lowest
place in Jannah and those who will be
in the highest place in Jannah,
when he told us the story of the
one who will be in lowest place in
Jannah. It was very long. It's a long
story, and it the conclusion of it was
the person who was going to have
sovereignty. You'd be you'd be ruling over over
land,
that would take years, millennia to to cover
all of it, just to see it.
9 fold the earth you this is just
for the person who's at the lowest status
in Jannah.
So they would ask the prophet
So who is it that's going to be
in the highest place in Jannah? What do
they get?
There are people who will be exposed to
their lord. They will look at his beautiful
face in the morning and the evening
twice. They do nothing else.
Between the 2
appointments, a side wait for the next appointment.
That's it.
They have an appointment. They come back, and
they sit and they wait.
Doing a lot of stuff.
They're busy doing a lot of stuff. These
guys aren't busy.
They're just waiting.
Nothing else matters.
To them, they find nothing else
there's no other joy.
The joy that they're exposed to, there's nothing
else that matters. We'll just wait. That's okay.
It's a few hours. That's alright.
You don't wanna come and sit now? No.
You're you're I'm good. Go do your thing.
I'm waiting for the next time. But the
next time is done. For tomorrow, yeah, that's
okay. And they just that's all they want.
They have no imagine seeing seeing the face
of Al Jameel Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Al 'arim,
Al Kareem,
Al Waha, Bil Khaliq.
Look at all this beauty. Think of the
one who created all of it.
You see all of this diversity, all of
this
this innovation, this invention,
this detail,
all of this all that you're you're exposed
to.
Imagine seeing the one who created all of
it.
Of course, you're going to be mesmerized.
Of course, you're going to be completely taken.
It's
gonna be breathtaking. It's gonna be something that
you don't you have the ability to comprehend.
How is it that it's going to happen
if, you know, our eyes only see that
which is in space? Well, your eyes, Yom
Kiyyama, will have some other function.
It'll work some other way, and you'll see
him
And once you do, you'll find nothing that
was more beautiful to you or more meaningful
to you within that moment.
But you don't get to that moment unless
you know Allah
beforehand. Because in dunya, you have
to you have to worship him as if
you could saw as if you saw him.
But I didn't see him. I know you'll
that'll happen later.
It'll come later.
Faces that are beautified looking at their lord.
It will happen, but not not now. It
won't happen now. Now do it as if
as if you could see.
The point of learning all his name,
taking time to know who Allah
who
is.
There's no there's no way for for anyone
to speak about this topic and not,
and do and do his due diligence. It's
impossible. It's impossible.
Allah granted us the ability to speak of
him.
He got me I I got through it,
and,
And I was not removed from this earth
due to the lack of my, the lack
of my and politeness in talking about him
because no one can do this properly. How
do you speak of Allah? How do you
speak of the almighty, of the divine himself?
What words can describe the divine aside from
the words that he used to describe himself?
That's it. You want to know Allah and
then you pick up that book and you
start reading. And Allah will describe himself for
you, and you will listen and you will
learn.
You'll understand who he is
through the words of the Quran.
And they did not revere Allah
the way he deserved to be revered.
And on the day of judgment,
the earth and all the planets will be
in his
fist.
And all the cosmos will be folded in
his right.
Exalted he is and elevated the status of
Allah
upon that which they
associate with him
The reason Ayat al Kursi
is revered as the greatest ayah in the
Quran because it just describes him. That's all.
It the whole ayat, all all it does,
it's just a description of Allah.
10 descriptions.
That's all of it. Just describing Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
The Surah that is the 3rd of the
Quran. The
Surah that we that is considered through the
Quran.
What is it?
That's it. Just describing him
Do you know
Allah will?
Now do you know Allah? Because if you
knew Allah
properly, the name would be would give you
joy. Saying his
saying his name would give you joy. When
Allah is praised and spoken of, you find
something in your heart that's meaningful.
You'll enjoy listening to it. You wanna do
it as much as possible. You'll continuously be
in the state of dua or invocation because
you enjoy just just hearing about him
or or saying his name or hearing someone
else say his name. This is what this
is what it means.
I'm with my servant once he invocates me
and his lips move in my in my
praise. I'm with
do you understand
what that means? Is that something that is
comprehendible?
They say,
If you know the one that's giving,
making the rules or giving the commands, if
you know who it is, then the commands
themselves become easy. That's why we study this.
That's how you learn about Allah
You want his commands and laws to be
easy for you? You want to be able
to follow Allah's teaching with no difficulty? You
wanna find it something that's that's
accessible and that you have the energy to
do, we'll know who gave the command. It's
not about the command itself.
Doesn't matter what the command is. Who's who
gave it? In the
If you know the one who gave the
command,
become easy because who is giving this command?
It's Allah.
That's the one who's giving this command. The
is simple now.
Following it becomes simple because it's not fullan,
well, your parents. No. No.
He's the one who drew this line. He's
the one who told you, I I need
you to do this, perform that. And if
you do, then you know who you're who
it is that how are you going how
do if the person who understands Allah who
knows Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala a little bit
cannot cannot fathom
sin, finds sin insane, finds sin very, very
awkward. How it is how can you sin?
How can you disobey
the almighty?
It's not about the act of disobedience. The
the scholars of, they don't have
when they talk about sin.
It's a I need the
distribution.
They don't talk about
They say everything you do is a kabira
because it's not about the actual act. It's
the one that you it's about who you
disobeyed. It's not about the act of disobedience.
It's not about what active disobedience it was.
It's whom you disobeyed.
That's the problem.
If you disobey me, it doesn't matter what
you what I told you to do because
I'm small and I'm weak and I'm not
worth anything. So it doesn't matter whether you
whether you whether the disobedience
was big or small. It's about the person
that you're disobeying, which is nothing. But when
you're disobeying Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, it doesn't
also it doesn't matter. The smallest disobedience, you're
disobeying the almighty.
It's it's a huge problem
because you're disobeying the almighty himself.
It's not about the the sin. This this,
distribution distinct
this distinguishing things in this manner requires an
understanding of who it is that you're dealing
with. You see people who understand Allah aren't
waiting for others to praise them or thank
them or cooperate or collaborate with them because
they're not actually dealing with people. Like, what
they're doing is not with people. They don't
care who who what people think or do
because they're not actually in a transaction with
them. Their transaction is with Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala and there's no and there's no comparison
at all. There's no comparison between the Abd
and between the Khaliq Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. There's
nothing.
The one day will will be happy with
you, the next day they won't.
Today you'll love someone, tomorrow you'll hate them.
And and it goes back and forth, and
there's no there's no stability
amongst human beings in terms of their emotions
and how they treat one another.
But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
he doesn't he never changes.
And the way he treats you will never
change. His love for you will never change
and his laws and rules will never change.
So deal with him.
Make sure that your your tijuana, your transactions
are with Allah
It's it's just way better for you. Don't
don't depend on people. People people will let
you down. People will forget about you. They
will stab you in the back multiple times.
They will
belittle you. They will
put you aside. They will put their self
interest ahead of you. And if you keep
on doing things for them, you're gonna keep
on getting disappointed and and hurt and upset.
Stop doing that. Do it for Allah
And the known example that we,
the person who brought, who took, sadaqah,
they came
to
the
take. It's not for you. I'm not giving
you. So the other person is also,
Give it to me. It's not from you.
I'm I'm in a I'm I'm giving. It's
not for you. I'm giving it to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. I'm just I I can't
give it to him personally. I'll give it
to him through you because you need it.
And I am receiving my list from Allah
I can't take it from him directly. I'm
taking it through you, so that's why I
take it.
It's understanding that everything you do in this
life is just you're you're you're dealing with
Allah. Why are you doing what you're doing?
You serve people. Why? For the sake of
Allah. What does that mean? That means you
don't care whether they are grateful or ungrateful.
Whether they whether they show you appreciation or
they don't. Whether they acknowledge you or they
don't. Doesn't matter because you're not dealing with
them. Because they you're dealing with Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. You're doing this for Allah.
Whether they like it or they don't like
it, whether it doesn't matter. Take feedback and
improve what you do so you do it
better.
But you're not dealing with them. It's
you're dealing with Allah. You can't do that
if you don't know Allah. If you don't
know him, there's something missing. This is the
the number one investment for your life. You
invest
in knowing Allah
and learning what it is that wants you
to do and understanding who he is. And
you understand who Allah is through those names.
It's those names.
Those names give you clarity on Allah and
they give you clarity on what to do
and how to carry yourself in life. Every
moment in your existence, there'll be a name
of Allah that you can connect yourself to.
You're in need, connect yourself to Al Mujib.
You're scared, connect yourself to Al Mu'min.
You feel worried? Connect yourself to Usmuhu
Salam. You're poor? Connect yourself to Al Razzak.
And this is how we have to live.
We have to live through through these glorious
names and what they teach us and what
they offer us because there's there's nothing else.
Everything else everything is
Everything is going to go. Everything is on
its way out.
Everything is on its way out. Everything. Every
human being's on their way out. They're just,
packing up. They're gone soon. We're all leaving.
Nothing is nothing no one no one gets
that exception to stick around. None of us
stick around. We're all leaving. The only one
that is constant, the only one will will
be forever.
Waju Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. It's it's just
it's just Allah. He he was there before.
He is there now and he'll be there
after. And we are existing
for a very small slither of time,
a couple of laps around the sun. We're
given the opportunity
aside from
almost every other create any other creation to
understand Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala on a level
that no one else really can.
To to comprehend who Allah
is, to develop a connection with Allah is
the most beautiful thing that you'll ever do.
And if you do it, then you'll be
in a state of serenity and solace and
happiness that no one else no one else
has.
What can my enemies do to me?
See, in my garden and my happiness is
in my chest is what, the scholars used
to say. In,
If you give me if you put me
in prison, that's a. I can sit down.
I can, invocate Allah. No one's gonna bother
me.
If you if you remove me of my
from my country, then I go and get
to see what Allah created elsewhere.
If you kill me, then I'll march here
for the sake of Allah subhanahu. It doesn't
matter. You have nothing on me. Understand the
liberty that you get with knowing Allah subhanahu
wa'am wa'am appropriately. That's what tawheed is. The
concept of
is that there's no one worth knowing aside
from him. Aside forget about
worth worshiping. No one's worth knowing aside from
Allah. And once you know Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, that's it. Everything else becomes
what what is everything else? We're all we're
all just as everyone around you is just
as lost as you are.
Don't be fooled by how we carry ourselves
and act like we have it all figured
out. Especially men, they act like they have
do a man thing and act like I
know that. Yeah. Ain't no nothing.
You know nothing.
You're just as scared as the next person.
You are holding on to a raft, trying
not to sink and drown. That's it. Like
everyone else, hold on. Don't care about someone
else's someone else's opinion. They're just they're drowning
like you. They can barely hold on. They're
hoping that they have no idea what's coming.
They're scared of what's coming. They don't they
don't know. Allah is the only one worth
carrying a what does he care? What is
what is his opinion? How does he see
me? Is he is he satisfied? Is he
not? That's what matters. What nothing else matters.
People's opinions don't matter good or bad, positive
or negative. They they matter very little
because what what is what are we?
What are we?
We could not be weaker if we tried.
We could not be weaker as creations if
we tried. And the only strength that you
have is.
It's not that you're weak and no. You
can be strong, but it has to be
through him.
Yeah. It has to be through.
With
you're the strongest.
With you're the weakest.
And he
The one who finds Allah,
what what what did he miss?
Nothing. And the one who missed Allah, what
did they find?
Nothing.
Nothing.
Even if it seems different. Even if it
even if you it may try and fool
you for a couple of years and make
you think it's something else. It's not. It's
not.
We ask him Another
car.
What's wrong with this car? The way
talking to someone. Okay.
I'll be done in a second. So how
let me finish and maybe don't run out
and that we don't have to
for attending. Inshallah, tomorrow with the, will be
a post Ramadan plan or a discussion about,
you know, what's next
for you. Please attend and, and pray Fajr
with us for the night last morning of
Ramadan. May Allah subhanahu accept all of your
good deeds inshallah.
Yes. And if you have a,
a car that's not parked properly, you know,
I think it was
I think it was