Adnan Rajeh – The Glorious Names of Allah – Names of accountability – Al-Aleem – The Omniscient
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The omniscience
or the all
knowing. This is within the category of accountability.
And I chose a Raqib yesterday and I
chose Raqib today. Raqib is very specific,
and Raqib is extremely,
extremely general.
It's one of those umbrella names that has
with under it under it many other names
that
encompass small pieces of what it actually means,
like a and Alaqif and Al Khabeer and
Al Basir and Al Muhiyb
and Al Raqib. All these names kinda exist
under
the general understanding of Islam.
It's in the Quran a
170 times.
A
170. If you compare that to the numbers
you've heard over the last maybe week or
so or some names are 5 times or
6 times or one time or two times,
A 170 times
tells you that this is one of Allah's
names that are
conclusion. You can you can probably come to
the conclusion of this name even if you'd
you were if you weren't told because it's
a natural understanding of of the deity or
the supreme power or Allah
in general.
It comes in the form of Al Aleem.
It comes in the form of Alam.
It comes in the
form
of the knower of the unseen and the
known. It comes in the form of
the one who knows all that which is
unseen.
These are all the forms
that the name
is is,
exists in within the Quran.
It comes with a lot of other names
or 12 different names. It comes with Al
Hakim and Al Aziz
and and Al Qadeer
and Bikul Lishay
and Lughayb al Shahad,
etcetera, etcetera.
There are many names that it comes with.
It's one of the names that when we
talk about other names,
we point out if Alim comes with it
or not, and then we explain why. Because
Alim will exist beside another name to clarify
a piece of that name. It allows
us to understand
the name that's that is it it is
associated with.
But the name that it comes with the
most in the Quran is is
The highest frequency of of the two names
together is Ismullahal Alima Ismullahal
Hakim.
And the reason that we have those two
names together is because
it's
his knowledge
How is it going to be used?
Knowledge is a
powerful tool.
It can be either beneficial
or it can be harmful.
Unless it is
associated with wisdom,
then there's the potential of it being used
in a harmful way.
But because it
is
the
the all wise,
that's for us to feel a little bit
more calm about it. That Allah knows all
and that knowledge will be used in a
way that is that is filled with wisdom
so that it will be directed in a
beneficial manner, not not the opposite.
He says,
And the keys to the unseen or the
unknown
is owned by him.
He has the keys.
He's the only one who knows them.
And he knows that which is on the
earth or that which is under the sea.
And there is not yet a leaf that
falls except he knows
it nor is there a pebble
in the darkness
of the earth or the sea
nor is there something that is
moist
nor dry anywhere within his creation except he
knows about it. Subhanahu wa ta'ala. And it's
in movie and it's documented
in a clear
record.
He says,
He points out out of 5 things. And
indeed, Allah is the one who has the
knowledge of the hour,
the knowledge of the day of judgment.
And he is the one who descends
rain from the sky. And he knows that
which exists in the wounds and whether
it's decreed
for completion or not.
And
there is no that
knows when or where his provision exists, he
knows. And there is no enough that knows
exactly where on earth and when it's going
to pass away, and he knows. Indeed, Allah
is the omniscience and the Khabeel and the
one who knows the details, subhanahu
He knows most of you.
He's the one who knows the most about
you
as he created you
and have you emerge from the earth,
and he knows about you as you exist
as fetuses inside the wombs of your mothers.
So don't go around talking about your traits.
Don't walk the earth claiming goodness.
He is the one who knows if you
have piety inside your heart or if you
don't.
The
prophet
amongst his,
amongst the that he would make,
He would say,
Or the one who is not seen by
eyes
nor do minds have the ability to describe,
nor nor do tongues have the ability to
describe.
He would speak when he when he did
his he
would speak about it. He said the one
who knows the weight of the mountains,
and he knows the amount of water in
the oceans. The one who knows the number
of leaves on every tree.
The one who knows the number of of
drops of rain that come from the sky,
the one who knows everything
upon which night falls
and the sun rises.
The one who each sky does not hide
the sky behind it from him
nor does any earth
hide the other earth behind it from him.
He knows
what exists at the base of every mountain
and the core of every ocean.
This is how he would do When
Allah
created Adam
in the famous verses at the beginning of
the Quran,
in the sequential
form, not not in the
beginning of its revelation, but in the sequential
when you reopen the book.
Number 30 in Surat Al Baqarah, he says
he says Allah
announced to his to his angels that he
was going to put a caregiver
on earth, a steward, a successor.
So their first
reaction was
They're gonna put on earth yet another creature
that will cause corruption and and
and shed blood.
And we continue to praise you and exalt
you.
I know that which you do not.
And the first thing
the first thing he would do with Adam
was what?
So he taught Adam
He taught Adam the names of things.
He taught Adam how to articulate,
how to describe things,
how to talk about things.
And when he taught Adam and
he brought the back
and he told Adam,
explain. Speak.
When he start to speak and articulate and
describe and talk of things,
their reaction changed.
Malaika are simple
are pure beings.
They respond
purely to whatever they see and they don't
have any malicious intents inside of them. So
unlike the human being who gets jealous and
gets Baraika don't have that. When Baraika said,
they weren't doing it based on envy. They
weren't doing it based on fear. They were
doing it based on a pure reaction of
what they saw before,
of their knowledge of what they had seen
before. So they said, this is what we
we saw. The jinn did before. So
so the reaction when Adam alayhi salaam began
to explain things and he began to articulate
They said, you're the exalted. The only knowledge
we have is whatever knowledge you give us.
Indeed, you are the most knowledgeable, you're the
omniscient, and you are the Hakim.
Because what was
impressive to them about Adam alayhis salaam, what
they saw that was different about Adam alayhis
salaam was whose potential for knowledge,
was his potential to learn.
He learned differently
than anything they had seen before. The malaika
are the perfect group within the story to
exist. Like, this story would mean nothing almost
for us if we didn't have the
as witnesses
because they are the creatures that have no
malicious intent. They have no reason to say
something or say something different. Unlike us, we
always have
some hidden
agenda that only only Allah knows and that
we keep nice and hidden, and then we
try to
get our game through keeping it unknown to
people.
I don't have that. I could just say
purely what they see based on their experiences.
They don't they they when they were told
to prostrate to Adam, they prostate. They don't
have a problem
with this. It doesn't nothing bothers them, because
they are very because they are pure and
they obey Allah
So the fact that they objected when they
heard of the existence of a new creature
was just based on what they had seen
before.
And the fact that this was their
reaction once Adam alayhis salaam began to speak
tells you that what they saw in Adam
alayhis salam was a potential that they had
never seen in anything before him.
They had never witnessed something like this.
They learn,
but Adam learns differently.
Adam alaihis salam was able to process knowledge,
was able to take information, process it, and
then articulate in a way that made sense
to him. And he was able to build
on it and make conclusions from it. He
was able to connect dots and make and
draw parallels.
Alaihi Salam was able to do something with
the knowledge that he was offered from Allah
Something that they
not only could not do themselves,
but had never seen anyone do before.
That's why
Allah says
Quran.
The first thing that Al Rahman does,
he taught the the Quran.
He made the knowledge of the Quran available.
He made sure that it was something that
could could be learnt.
He created the human being.
And he taught him to speak.
He taught him to speak. He's taught him
to articulate. Is to articulate,
to describe, to explain things. The ability to
make sure, to take a piece of information
and allow someone else without actually experiencing it
to understand it.
That's how knowledge is based. If you could
only understand things you experience, then life would
have been very different as human beings.
Only the person who experienced
the chemistry or the physics or the math
would be able to understand it. Only the
person who actually went to the jungle and
saw the biology and the geography could but
no. We can put that in a book
for you, and we can write things about
it, and you can read, and you understand.
That's why the first word that was revealed
to the prophet, alayhi salatu wa sallam, iqraq.
The first word, alayhi salatu wa sallam, would
would would receive from Allah is read. And
read not in this term of of
reciting the written the written letter.
That is
There's a but there's other commands for that
in the Quran and that that's important too.
But is to read as in to comprehend,
as in to understand, to read between the
lines, to read something in an abstract manner,
in a figurative way, need to take to
take a lesson from something.
After witnessing taking the lesson, you use this
term all the time.
When we say read between the lines or
read this situation or
people on the news, what is your reading
into this? He didn't read a book. He
observed
a scenario, and this is what he understood
from it. He's going explain to you what
he believes is the underlying message or the
problem or based on previous experiences, what this
one's going to look like. It's the concept
of, of of the learning.
A number of of,
important points to know about Allah
He says,
Allah
Allah
encompasses everything
with 2 with 2 things, with his with
his compassion, and with his knowledge.
He doesn't use that term
meaning everything falls under his ability to show
compassion and
to have the knowledge of. He doesn't use
any other attributes
within that phrase or that phrasing.
That's
how the praise, dear lord. Oh, our lord,
you have encompassed everything
through your compassion, through your rama, and through
your knowledge. You don't use qudra. You don't
use there's no. They don't use that because
not everything gets the same amount of provision.
Some things their provision ends.
His potency his
is only based on the not
the It has to be stuff that are
that have possibilities to them, not something that
has no possibility to. So encompassing hat only
exists for 2 things. And if you follow
along
the concept of
you find it that it's always
associated with Rahma.
In the Quran is is very,
is something that is repetitive.
You find it at least at least in
12 different, places in the Quran where he
talks about he talks about Rahma. I'll give
you a few examples. At the beginning
of
He knows that which enters the earth and
that was comes out which comes out of
it. He knows that which comes down from
the sky and that which goes back into
it.
The only place in the Quran where Rahim
comes before Ghafoor.
Everyone everyone else is Ghafoor Rahim.
Every other part in the Quran is.
The only time
in this ayah, when he spoke of his
knowledge
of Rahim. When Allah
talks about, in the in the story of
Musa
One of our servants whom we granted our
compassion to and we also taught and gave
him knowledge that he didn't have before.
And so your lord knows that which they
hide in their chest and that which they
make public right after that.
From his compassion, he made the the night
for you a time to sleep and the
day for you a time to stay awake,
etcetera, etcetera. The verses go on and on.
Those who are who have established their knowledge
amongst the dua that they make
grant us from you a mercy. Oh, why?
Why out of all the adriyah? Because knowledge
without mercy is catastrophic.
Because knowledge without mercy is catastrophic.
It's harm. That's all it is.
Yeah.
When you have a lot of knowledge and
you have no mercy, you blow things up.
Right? You drop bombs on large groups of
people and you kill them in the millions.
You have the knowledge. You know how to
put the chemicals together. You know something.
No mercy, you kill a lot of people.
No mercy, you abuse people.
You take the advantage of them. You ruin
the environment.
You enslave them. You treat them like lesser
than yourself. Whatever
doesn't have rahma, it's catastrophic.
We're better off without it.
If it's going to come alone, if it's
not going to come with rahma with it,
then we don't need it. We're better off
not having that piece of knowledge.
If you're going to have that piece of
knowledge, it has to come with rahma or
else there's something missing. That's why all throughout
the Quran, every time he talks about his,
you'll find rahma. Right? Next.
Right
beside it, added to it. So all throughout
the Quran is something interesting for you to
follow if you're interested.
The second piece, that's the first one.
His knowledge
comes with with his compassion at all times.
He encompasses everything with those two things.
2nd piece.
He knows
his knowledge of the future.
This is important.
When we study his name, this is an
important piece that you have to understand. You
have to take time to comprehend.
It is separate
from understanding
his will,
his irada. When you study, you will find
a difference between understanding his his knowledge, and
understanding
his irada, his will.
We have to study them at the same
time because people mix them up a lot.
But they're very much separate
in their in their basic comprehension. They're different.
Allah's will what it what results from it
is under is and
the things that happen to us that we
have no control over at all and the
things that we do that we do have
control over and everything that happens in this
universe under is under his and his we
have no control over,
we have some influence on.
But his
his knowledge is different. Knowledge is not an
impactful
attribute.
Knowledge is not an impactful attribute.
Knowing something or not knowing something does not
affect its existence or the way that it
actually
functions.
Is not impactful.
I know that chickens lay eggs.
If I stop knowing that,
chickens will still lay eggs.
They're not affected by whether I know that
or not.
In general, as a concept, is not something
that impacts existence.
So when he
knows the future,
that does not dictate
the future.
It doesn't dictate it. It doesn't
make it doesn't mean that the future now
is set. It's going to happen in a
specific
way because someone knows about it. No. The
knowing of something does not mean that it's
going to happen that way
against the will of people. It just means
that it's going to happen
with their will.
Now we struggle with that. Human beings, they
struggle with understanding that. The reason we struggle
with that is because the only way we
can understand or know the future is if
the future is programmed.
If it's, I mean, if you if you
if you press the space thing,
on your keyboard and just the algorithm playing,
all everything is played trickles out the way
that there's no choice. The only way I
know the future is if I turn the
little on the car and then I know
I can see the wall and I can
put it right and then let it go
out. I can predict it's gonna slam into
the wall because this poor thing has no
choice. Well, that's my knowledge of the future.
I'm a human being and that's my knowledge.
That's the extent of my knowledge. It's weak.
It's based on trial and error. It's based
on predictability.
It's based on senses.
It's based on the fact that there's no
specific individual choice,
but Allah knowledge is different.
Allah
knows what's going to happen next even though
we fully choose Because time to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is merely a fraction of his
creation.
As he created space, he created time. So
Allah, if I could go to the Quran,
you'll find that Allah talks about
in the past tense.
It's it's coming you know, it's it's already
it's already happened.
To Allah
what's going to happen already it's all the
same. He'll talk about the past and the
future and the present tense. He'll talk about
he'll talk about the, the the past and
the present tense. He'll talk about the future
and the past tense because to Allah, subhanahu
wa ta'ala, a time is just a creation.
He sees time, subhanahu wa ta'ala, in a
way that we that's why when you ask
what came before Allah? That's a silly question.
It's a silly question. What do you mean
what came before him? If he created time,
then the concept of before and after
is something that is new.
It's something that was it's a creation.
My understand you my and your understanding of
everything requiring something before it and something after
it is a fraction of his creation. He
made things that way. That's why my brain
always wants to know what's before something, what's
after something, what's before something, what's after something.
So I can understand stuff. I can't understand
anything outside of
time. Allah
is not a part of time. So saying
what began before you
is
assuming that he's a part of time and
he isn't. So how do you understand? How
do how do you use that phrase? That's
a that's a useless term. It's a term
that has no meaning to it. So when
Allah knows
the future,
it's because to him, this is all the
same.
Because the past and the present and the
future are things that he knows
equally.
If he didn't,
this is why this name is in the
Quran a 170 times because this is a
conclusional name. You come to this conclusion. If
you believe in
then the first the next probably the next
thing you know, he's he's al alim. He's
the omniscient. Because if he wasn't, then he
wasn't he wouldn't be really a god, would
he? Could be a very
strong being, but he wouldn't be god.
It's important. This is just to understand.
If you didn't know what's happening next, then
why would you worship?
Anyone who doesn't know what's going to happen
next
is ignorant of what's coming next.
Anyone who's ignorant of what's coming next,
there's a small possibility, no matter how small
it is, that they can be surprised.
And anything that can be surprised
can be beaten.
Of course, he knows what's coming.
That's because he is Allah That
there there's no other way to understand god.
If he didn't, then you shouldn't be here.
If you have problem with him knowing
knowing past, present, and future equally, if you
have a problem with that, then why why
are you worshiping?
Understanding the future doesn't mean that you have
no choice of it. You have choices
you have your freedom of choice all the
same. His know the nature of his knowledge
is different than the nature of our knowledge.
That's not second piece. The third piece,
knowledge is strength.
This is this is a theme all throughout
history.
Implementable knowledge is strength. It brings power.
The most beautiful thing
that exists in Jannah is what my teacher
used to tell me. Say the most beautiful
thing in Jannah
is your access to knowledge.
He used to tell us that the most
beautiful thing,
he he looks forward to in Jannah is
the access to Allah
The infinite amount of knowledge that he has
and
your access to it.
Your ability to learn,
your ability to expand your mind in Jannah
in a way that you did not have
the access to in this life.
In dunya, you could only learn so much
within the time that you're
given. But in Jannah, you have full access
to it. Yes. We all want the food
and the drink and the relationships and the
sovereignty and
the rest and the relaxation and the
but think about the knowledge.
Think about what you can know, what you
can learn. Think about the dimensions upon dimensions,
the realms upon realms that you know nothing
about, you never heard of, that you have
access to discovering,
understanding.
The human brain
the human brain
finds
more
happiness and more joy
in learning something new and understanding it than
it does
in the highs of food, drink, and *.
In learning, it's the human brain finds more
joy in that. But because we've been conditioned
to a certain degree
through the beautiful institution of school,
Because that amazing institution has conditioned us to
find knowledge boring, to find it something that
is forced upon you, to find it given
to you in a in a packaging that
is that is that is not, Yaniv,
that is not intriguing, it's not interesting, it
does not bring out your curiosity,
we end up wanting to step away from
knowledge even though it is the most beautiful
thing that we have in this world.
And the promise of Jannah is the promise
of
the the promise of access to infinite knowledge
of Allah
This keeps on teaching you and you keep
on learning.
That's the first thing he did for you
because he taught Adam. That's the first thing.
First thing.
The first thing he taught you.
You prove that you have the potential to
learn.
Learn and then come back, and
if you value knowledge, you will continue to
learn. The number 4 the 4th thing,
ignorance is the ultimate enemy.
Put anything with ignorance.
Take ignorance, add something to it.
Ignorance, health,
bullying.
Tear it into bullying,
into arrogance.
Ignorance and
wealth
turns into tabdir, into extravagant
spending,
turns into spending that is not beneficial,
turns into a lifestyle that that is harmful
to thyself and harmful to everyone around you,
and people starve on the other side.
Ignorance
and religion turns into extremism.
So it's the people who don't know how
to behave, those who harm other people, or
those who use their faith in a way
that is that is detrimental.
Take anything.
Take ignorance, power turns into oppression,
persecution.
Harm in this world.
Nothing in the Quran is talked about so
negatively
as Jahil is.
Absolutely.
The thing that is talked about in the
the most most negative manner is is ignorance,
which is why the time before the prophet
was called Jahiliya.
The time of ignorance.
The time of the time where ignorance was
emphasized.
The emphasis of ignorance.
Because there's nothing that's worse than not than
than than ignorance.
That's his name
How do you live with it? It's really
easy. It's a simple name to live with.
Learn.
Seek knowledge.
See value in seeking knowledge and be a
lifelong learner.
Be a knowledge seeker in your life.
The advantage of a scholar over a worshiper
is like the advantage that I have over
the least of the Muslims, the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. He's my.
He's saying, what is the advantage of the
prophet alaihi wa sallam over the person who
is least committed as a Muslim? That's the
difference between a scholar and a worshiper. Someone
who know who prays, doesn't know much versus
someone who has.
Again, that is implementable.
That grants you
the proper understanding of things. He says,
The person who chooses a path in life
where they are constantly and continuously seeking knowledge,
Allah will ease for them a a pathway
to
Jannah.
The will
cushion the footsteps of a knowledge seeker
in appreciation
of what they're doing. To the
this person understands.
This person figured out what's valuable in this
world, what what what has importance in this
world. He's not running after. She's not running
after, Yani status and power and and wealth
and and fame. They're they're after knowledge. They
figured it out. They figured it out.
And even the the whales in the sea
ask Allah for forgiveness for the person who
is seeking knowledge.
See the prophets did not leave wealth behind
them. They didn't leave any money. Their inheritance
is not wealth. It's not money. Their inheritance
is
is knowledge from
an.
The person who takes that knowledge took the
the most valuable thing they'll ever take. Is
taking
this
knowledge. The one who truly reveres Allah is
the scholar, is the scientist, is the one
who understands.
Because the more you understand what Allah did,
the more you understand who Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala is,
the more appreciation you have for Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. The more depth of knowledge that
you have, the more you're in awe of
what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created. And that
brings that brings a degree of reverence, a
degree of of of closeness, of of humbleness
that is unparalleled.
And the second piece is spread knowledge.
Just teach what Allah
grants you in knowledge, offer it to others.
Offer it so that this continues
to spread.
The more knowledge we spread, the, the baseline
of our ummah starts to rise again in
terms of its knowledge. Once the baseline of
this ummah rises again in terms of its
knowledge, we will find our way again. And
as long as the majority of our umrah
is ignorant,
as long as the majority of our umrah
does not understand its own deen, nor is
it properly academically educated. As long as that's
the case, then we will continue to suffer,
and we will continue to struggle. It's actually
one of the Yani it's it's dictatorship 1
01. All of these, Yani, the rulers, they
go to the same class. It's the same
class. Keep people
uninformed.
Keep them uninformed.
Make sure there's a lot of distractions,
a lot of of entertainment sports and a
lot of movie. Keep keep them distracted with
stuff. You don't want them to slow down
and actually learn anything beneficial.
Because if they learn the truth of things,
then they'll start questioning. And if they start
questioning, they'll start finding out the degree and
the extent of the corruption. Once they find
that out, they won't be okay anymore. But
keep them nicely, well, and uninformed.
Keep them nice and ignorant,
and then things will stay, status quo will
stay.
Allah
the first thing he did for you, he
taught you. He wanted you to continue to
learn and to emulate his name.
I hope that was a