The Glorious Names of Allah – Names of correctional control – Al-Qahhar – The Subduer
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The "meditation" category in the Quran is the only one that comes with it, and the "meditation" category is the one where Allah will bring them back from sin or being in a state of Yoth. The use of " q Kicht" in Arabic is used to describe the relationship between a father and his children, and the relationship is based on "we" rather than "weurows." Islam is a way to submit and give oneself to the boss, rather than just doing things. The importance of learning the meaning of Islam and force oneself to be better is emphasized.AI Generated Transcript ©
The subduer
is a very unique name in the Quran
in the, in the amongst the names of
Allah
The category are names of correctional control. There
are 2 categories that are similar to one
another. 1 is called correctional control, and the
other one is called positive control.
It's how Allah
helps us come back from from mistakes,
and it's how he encourages
us
to do better things. So there are 2
categories. I'm gonna take one name from each
even though they're quite rich with names that
are worth of worthy of of, of explanation.
We're running out of time throughout the month,
so I'm gonna choose 1 from each.
Correctional control
is the category where Allah
will bring us back from being in a
state of of sin or a state of
of oblivious, you know, or oblivience or indifference.
And amongst those name, I chose
And it's a name
that is unique and is different from all
the other names.
And we cannot
emulate that name in terms of its actual
function.
Let me there's many names that we'll talk
about amongst his names
who which you are commanded or encouraged or
asked to emulate the names, to take them
upon yourself and and try and, and practice
them.
Like, it's,
for example,
in in Mujeed, these are names you can
take and you can try and and emulate
them for for others. Bilqahaal is not one
of them.
And it's a name that
is there for it to fill the hearts
of of servants with reverence and fear.
And
it allows people to leave sin and and
change their and change their lives.
And
concept of is to subdue, is to compel,
is to overcome,
is to coerce,
is to force,
is to control. That's that's the that's the
meaning of of of the word.
These are these are words that
do not
mix with
our status or status of being servants very
well.
These are not words that a a servant
should be using in terms of their own
behaviors and and and, their own conduct.
As a servant, for me to compel and
to force and to coerce and to overcome
and subdue, It's not my
thing. I'm a servant. That's
his thing. That's
In the Quran, it's around 8 times, I
believe. Yeah.
Six times his name is Qahar and twice
in the form of
He says
On the day
where the earth is is changed
to a different
type of earth and this cosmos are changed
and they're not the same anymore. Everything is
different.
The biggest shock for human beings is that
everything's different. Nothing's the same anymore.
The laws
that used to govern us aren't the same.
The earth that we lived on doesn't look
or behave the same way. The sky above
us doesn't look the same or behave the
same way. Everything is different.
Everything is subdued by him
Everything is compelled to be different.
And everyone is a pair is is exposed
to to the to Allah.
The one and the subduer.
And it's the only name that comes with
the Qahar.
The only name that comes with the Qahar
is
name of Allah Subhanahu Waheda'ala the one. Because
it's
unique. Because there's no name for it to
come in association with that, no. Because he
he's a.
What what can you put what can you
possibly put aside from that or beside it
that will make it? No. There's there's there's
no other name that is similar to it.
It stands alone, which is why the only
name that comes with it is is the
one. There's only one,
There's no other. And there's no other no
one's going to do this. No one's going
to behave like this, and they do, and
that's a big problem. Because is that that's
that's Allah No one else. That's why the
only name that comes with is
There's no other name that comes with
On the day where we will all be
exposed,
nothing is hidden from Allah
on that day and it'll be called amongst
the human
amongst human beings
who is sovereignty for today.
For Allah the one and the subduer.
When
Yusuf alayhi salaam went to jail
when he went to jail and he was
speaking to,
I mean, to to his inmates,
And they had come to him with a
dream and they were asking him the or
the interpretation of the dream.
Before he explained the dream, he gave them
some dawah.
And
he
Oh, oh, oh, friends of jail
are
separate
gods better in terms of
in terms of, what makes sense, in terms
of what or is it Allah
and he used the name of Allah
Because Yusuf alaihi salaam was in jail.
He was in jail. That's where that's probably
one of the moments where the human beings
feels
the most qahr.
In in Arabic, we use the word qahr
where where you're sub where you're compelled, where
you're helpless,
where you're being forced to do something, you're
helpless, you have nothing.
You have no way to defend yourself. You
have no way to you just have you're
you're you're compelled. You you've lost whatever battle
it is that led you or to where
you are at that moment. And that's how
Yusuf alaihi sallam felt because Yusuf alaihi sallam
was in jail
unjustly.
And this was not the first time he
was, you know, thrown thrown into solitary
confinement or thrown into a place alone. This
is the second time. First, his brothers,
his own flesh and blood threw him down
a a well. And now for refusing Fahesha,
he's thrown into jail.
So he feels that
but then he reminds himself,
even as he does
that, no, the one who the is not
my brothers, is not is
not
He is the one who he subdues all.
So when he when he chose a name
for their own doubt because they're in jail
like him, when he chose a name to
remind them, he chose this name and that
is his that is of his wisdom.
Who is the subduer? It's not the people
who are it's not the, the warden of
of this prison or the people who put
you here. It's Allah
He is the.
He can compel people to do whatever he
wishes.
The verses that we that we recited
yesterday in tafsir of Tawrad. Right? Sayyid bin
Allah
in this ayat tells the prophet
to say,
he will uproot the lord of the cosmos
and the earth.
Say it to Allah. And did you did
you choose allies aside from him?
They do not own for themselves any form
of harm or benefit.
Is it equal the status of, of light,
enlightenment, and darkness? Is it equal the status
of the one who can see and the
one who is blind?
Or is it that they,
gave them subhanahu wa ta'ala associates and now
they're confused?
Which creation is of Allah's and which creation
is of the associates? Say Allah created everything
and he is the one and he is
the subduer subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
Say
exclusively, all I am
is someone who brings a warning.
I just bring you a warning of something
that will happen later.
Take it or leave it. Take it or
leave it, but you can't walk away saying
you weren't warned.
You can't come
and say, I didn't know about this. What's
happening? Why am I why am I awake
from my
from
my, dirt slumber?
Who's waking me up,
bringing me back from the mud?
You're warned.
And all you need to know within this
warning,
And there is no god.
There is no form of supreme power except
Allah, the one and the subduer
because
the relationship between a a lord and his
creation
is more intimate than that of a father
and a son.
What is the relationship between a father and
a son? He only carries half of your
chromosomes.
You don't carry him in your belly for
9 months.
Technically, half of them is for someone else.
So it's the only only half of this
person is actually of you.
All of you is from Allah
All of you. There's no he there is
no associate with Allah
in in in in my in my existence.
All of me is Allah's.
My body is owned by him, and my
spirit is owned by him, and my soul
is owned by him.
So what is more intimate?
The the relationship of an or
the relationship of a
Actually, in Arabic, they they they they changed
the hamza to a ra because it's a
it's a it's a more powerful letter
to bring it closer.
So that so it's a close it's a
closer relationship.
So if you wanted to choose a child,
he would have chosen
from his creation, whatever
he wanted.
Subhanah, he's exalted from that.
And he is the subduer
upon all of his creation. He sends upon
you
angels that are
that are given the job to document
and preserve and follow along with you. Until
the day where death finds its way towards
you,
His will
take your soul, and they will not lose
anything about of your existence. They'll hold on
to your spirit and your documentation and your
records and all of it and then you'll
be returned back to your lord the righteous.
Indeed,
he is the one who will give the
ruling and he is the one who quick
who provides the quickest judgment Subhanahu wa
ta'ala. And he is the subduer upon all
of his servants, and he is the all
wise, and he is the knowledgeable.
The concept of quahr is something that you
find all across
the world and in the universe. Everything is
makhur.
Everything is subdued and compelled by him.
Sky is and the earth.
And then Allah
would turn
to the sky as it was still of
smoke, and he would say to it in
all the planets, come to me.
Come to me willingly or unwillingly.
Whatever you want. It's your choice.
They would answer
we come willingly.
He compels the sun and the moon.
And he created the sun and it moves
within its orbit
until a specific point where it where Allah
has decreed that that's where it will end.
He did the same for the moon. Neither
the sun nor the moon will remove themselves
from the orbits that they're in nor will
they ever meet nor will night
defeat day, nor did day defeat night, and
all of them are moving within the orbits
that Allah has decreed for them.
He performs
his with the opposite of things.
Water
is what is water? Water is hydrogen and
oxygen.
You break them off, they burn. Put them
together, they turn into the elixir of life.
And on the day of judgment, he will
compel water to be the opposite of what
it is.
And then the the large bodies of water
will burn
and then the oceans will burn.
Nothing will be added to them. They'll just
they'll just burn because Allah compels them to.
He compels
his enemies with the smallest of creations.
You
not you not see what Allah
did with the people of the field.
Did he not take all of their plotting
and all their scheming and all their plans
and make it completely worthless?
Sent upon them some birds.
Just a few birds. Who looks at birds
in the sky and thinks of death?
Who looks at birds in the sky and
and thinks of demise,
of destruction?
Few birds with small pebbles in their beaks
would cause this whole
whole plot to completely
be dismembered and for it to turn into
nothing because he's
In Namrud, in this known story,
after Ibrahim alayhi salaam
argued with him,
and he decided
to throw
Ibrahim alayhi salam into the fire, which are
two examples of his qahr.
The first one
is that he does qahr.
He does
he compels things to do the opposite of
what their function is.
So when Ibrahim
took the knife to the the
to the neck of his son, He
compelled and subdued the knife and the knife
didn't cut.
And when Nimrooj threw Ibrahim alaihis salam, catapulted
him into a fire that could be seen
from miles away,
He compelled and subdued the fire not to
burn.
And Ibrahim alayhi salaam was sitting in the
fire, and he would walk out days later
unharmed.
And when when Namrud would kick him out,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would subdue and compel
the Namrud, and he would die with a
mosquito.
A mosquito would find its way into his
ear, and it would drive him crazy, and
he would die of insanity.
He would die of of self harm
because he's
For us, there are 3 aspects of that
you should understand.
Number 1,
We are subdued and compelled and overcome with
death.
With death,
we will all die.
You are compelled with that. You will never
find a way around that. You will never
escape it.
It doesn't matter what you do. You cannot
escape death. Death is coming
your way.
Just a matter of time. The clock is
ticking.
The sand clock is running out of
is running out of sand.
And at some point, your life will end.
And that
is
as the scholars would say. It's purified
coercion.
Nothing none of his
is that of oppression or persecution
or hatred as
usually is.
When someone performs
coercion or
within this dunya, their is is is. It's
an act of oppression.
It's harmful. It's hateful,
But not his
His is poetic.
It's a part of our existence.
It is it is the essence of our
relationship with him
We are all compelled by death. We can
wild.
We can do what we want, but that's
not gonna change.
And the and the sooner in your life,
especially if you're young, you understand that the
better you live,
the better you live. You live well.
How long you will live? That's
the
piece. That's the piece.
How long that you can't you can't do
anything about that.
There's nothing you can do. It's whatever
that's when he ends it. The moment will
come and that's where it's going to end.
You can't change that.
And if you accept that that in
the you you compute you're
the subduer. If you decide I'm going to
die at this age, I'm going to die
at that age. I can't. There's nothing I
can do. You accept that. The second piece
of thought, that everything is compelled
to behave exactly the way he wants it
to behave, except you. You get to choose.
You get to choose because that's what that's
what his will was.
You only choose because Allah
meaning the only reason you have will, you
have willpower, you have free will to choose
what you want.
And you only have free will,
because Allah
his will is for you to have will.
His will, is
that you have will. That's what that's his
choice. He chose for you to choose.
He compelled everything to behave exactly the way
it's going to behave. Everything just goes by
either its
pre pre decreed orbit, its pre decreed movement,
or going to live by its instincts that
Allah
inserted within them, except you, you have a
margin of free will.
A margin of freedom in terms of your
choices.
And that's a part of his Because
on the day of judgment, he takes that
back.
Because
that is all taken back. And that which
you had before, you do not have any
longer.
And that margin of free will that you
had once before is no longer there. And
you don't have the ability to make choices.
You don't have the ability to say no.
You don't have the ability to do anything
that he does not command you to do
on the day of judgment. And that peace
hurts people who do not understand it in
duniya and were not prepared for it in
this life. Those who were not prepared for
it in this life will find that very
very painful because they weren't ready for it.
The third piece is that you are compelled
to worship him.
You are compelled.
You're going to worship him. The only question
is when.
That's all. You are going to do it,
whether you do it in Dunia, willingly,
or you do
it unwillingly.
Everyone is making dua.
All creation
is calling upon Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Everyone
is.
Everyone is
is is prostrating.
Everyone is making dua. Everyone is praying. Everyone.
Because you now you're compelled by his by
his grace
magnificence, so you have no choice. So you
pray, but the problem the difference is that
it's worthless.
No one's listening to it. The that record
are not recording it. So your book is
doesn't have those acts of worship in them.
When you open that book to read it,
it's not there. Some people will spend 50000
years
worshiping Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala all through
which
is can you what? A 1000 times their
life span.
800 fold of their lives. They will spend
800 lives
after they die just worshiping Allah, and then
they'll open their book and it's empty.
It ends with their death. There's nothing that
happened after it. You are compelled. We are
compelled to worship him. We are compelled to
be sincere. We are compelled to be loving.
We are compelled to have reverence. It's just
a matter of when. When do you wanna
do it? Wanna do it now and it
counts?
No. You can do it later and it
won't,
but you're going to do it.
Everyone is going to worship Allah
But it's going
to
be Go ahead. Make your dua. It doesn't
matter. No one no one's no one's
as much as you want. It it it
doesn't it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
It's because of his name, al Qahr, subhanahu
wa ta'ala, that we understand the concept of
Islam.
The meaning of Islam is to submit,
is to surrender.
That's what Islam means.
Doesn't mean peace. Salam is peace. It's exists
as a concept in Islam, obviously,
but that's not the meaning of the word.
The meaning
is to submit
or to surrender, to give up that which
you have to submit, to give to give
yourself to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Submission.
That's what we were called. We're called Muslimin
who
was a and called us the the ones
who submit in Muslimin because we submit to
his to his will because he is.
And the reason Ibrahim gave us that name
is because he had to learn what that
meant when he was told take your son
and slaughter your son.
It's qahr. He was compelled to do something
that he had no understanding of. He was
compelled to do something that he did not
comprehend and did not see the wisdom and
he went and did it anyway.
And he took us
you and I,
when we perform Hajj or Umrah, it's it's
remember his name
Because what are you doing?
You go to a piece of land.
You walk around a big rock, and then
you walk between 2 rocks, and you take
small rocks and throw them at a big
rock and then you come back.
You go and do what he he subdued
you.
You'll you'll perform this. Whether you're able to
see the symbolism in it or not, you're
going to go and do this because this
is what Allah
has has
commanded for us to do. It's it's this
submission. It's it's Islam. This is what you
want. This is what we do.
Because because he's
How do you live with this name? There
are 3 three main points to remember when
you're when you're thinking about this name.
Number 1,
have reverence.
It's a beautiful thing to have.
Brings forward
is the
mix of 3 things.
It's his it's fearfulness
of
just punishment, a fair punishment
That's fearfulness.
We don't fear Allah to oppress us. We
fear that he punishes us
fairly based on our our sins.
Added to that rubber add to that respect,
which is where his name Qahar comes in.
When you know when you have hayba of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, when you have respect
or
or Ta'im, when you magnify his status,
because you know he is a
qahar, plus love. Is the mix of these
three things.
Is the mix of
the fearfulness of fair punishments, that respect and
magnification, and love put them all together.
It it brings out
inside the hearts of people. And you know
that he is the one who subdues all
Number 2, do not perform it yourself.
You weren't put on earth to control
this
struggle of power that exists in the world,
everyone is trying to get a little bit
more powerful. Everyone's trying to get a little
bit more pull, a little bit more push,
a little bit more
reach in life. The struggle of power, the
sooner you understand how
futile it is and the sooner you let
go of it, the closer to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala you will be in your life.
Understand that you're not here to perform qadr.
You're not here to control
or to subdue or to compel.
It's not your job. You're a servant. You're
here to serve.
Any power that you gain for your nation
is power that is going to be used
justly to defend the interest of the weak,
to defend the interest of the oppressed, to
make sure that others cannot compel, but not
for you
to
do
it.
As far as the orphan goes, do not
do not don't
don't coerce them. Don't compel them. Don't control
them. Don't do upon them what Allah
is doing upon his creation because you are
not a lord.
You are not a god. You are human
beings. So don't don't do to
a person who is weaker than you because
you have the ability to do it.
And then the 3rd piece,
You wanna compel something? You wanna coerce something?
You wanna subdue something? Subdue yourself.
That's what you were put here to do.
Overcome
the one thing that you have full control
over, the one thing that is yours, the
one thing that you're supposed to control,
the one thing that you're supposed to coerce
and compel and overcome and subdue.
You were put here it was it's your
job,
You're nafs. Subdue that.
Force that. Compel you're nafs to do the
right thing and to have the right intention
and to behave in the right way. That
is your job. That is why you're here.
For you to take that one act of
of compelling and coercion that you're supposed to
do and not perform it on the right
target and to perform it on some other
target,
to perform on something else. That is the
worst thing you can do. That is that
is the misuse of.
Compel and force yourself to be better,
and then others leave the
I hope that was a benefit to you.
I hope that was a benefit to you.