The Glorious Names of Allah – Names of creation – Al-Khaliq – The Creator
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The speakers discuss the three names of the creator within a single session, including Ismiter Al Khaliq, Al Khaliq, and Khadija Al Khaliq. They explain the connection between these names and the transformation of the universe. The speakers also discuss the importance of "we" in relation to the deity of the universe and the concept of "we" in relation to the deity of the universe. They emphasize the importance of understanding the natural and organic aspects of life and show respect for their creation. They also mention the importance of finding more resources and resources to make life easier for people to live longer and survive.AI Generated Transcript ©
The creator.
The category now we're coming towards the end
of the month, obviously, so we're coming closer
to the end of these categories.
We covered the attributes of accountability over the
last 2 night or 2 mornings. Sorry. Talking
about
And attributes of creation is what we're going
to be talking about today, and we're gonna
cover 3 names within one session.
And
with it,
we'll talk about
is in the Quran at least 8 times,
if not more. It comes in the form
of it also comes in the form
of it's also in the form of
comes
in the Quran
maybe if you say
3 times
the story of
Musa.
And then the
the verb itself
comes in the Quran a number of times.
The actual name is only once in that
verse in Surah Al Hashal.
And the three names are very much connected.
Ismullah Al Khaliq being the name that everything
kind of falls under
for sure.
Al Khaliq is the one
who creates
in the sense that the one that brings
somethingness from nothingness.
There's nothing.
There's no matter.
It's not that there's space. No. No. There's
nothing. There's no space,
which is not something that we have the
ability to imagine.
Whenever you think of anything, there has to
be
space. We don't comprehend.
We we our brains don't have the ability
to imagine any any situation, any time
without space, just like we don't have the
ability to imagine anything without time in it.
Is the one who brought something from nothing.
That is the main meaning of the word.
It does have other meanings as well.
To create something,
meaning to transform it from one state to
something very different
over time.
That's the meaning of the word
as well. It's it's also usage of the
Arabic language, and it's fine you find that
you find that in the Quran. Now this
name,
unlike maybe the rest of the names that
we've talked about,
is not a name that people usually associate
with any degree of spirituality
or any degree
of closeness even though I think
that's a mistake.
Meaning, when I talk about it,
for example, you have a certain spiritual connection
with that the same way, you know, you
talk about
and so on and so forth. A lot
of these may names have a spiritual connection
for us. But the
seems more mechanical
when it really isn't. It's actually extremely spiritual
because it talks about how this whole story
began, like, where it all came from,
what that means.
And there's really no
connection, in my opinion, that's more powerful
than the connection between a creator and a
creation.
It
it trumps the connection between a father and
a son or a mother and, and her
daughter or her son.
Even though the most intimate connection that will
probably exist or has ever existed or will
ever exist is the connection between
a human being and their offspring.
Because
speaking
biologically, it's the closest thing that we have
to creation.
It's the closest thing
that we have to actual creation,
Even though we don't really create them,
and it's only half of you in them,
they don't carry all of your DNA. They
only carry half of it. The other half
is from the other dude, the other person.
But when we talk about creation, no.
You are
exclusively
from Allah
You come from Allah. There's no no one
had anything else to do with this aside
from Allah
And he literally
literally created you.
He did not
patch you up from different substances that others
made. No. No.
The whole thing
was from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Which in
my opinion is much more it's not just
my opinion. This is the reality of the
matter. It's the connection there is much more
intimate. It's much more meaningful.
So this name
of
was actually very spiritual,
and it's worthy of of contemplation.
The difference between them,
is the one who brings and this is
important because I'm gonna talk about it at
the end.
This
is the one who brings something from nothing.
There's nothing now you have something.
The one who grants life. There's something, but
it's dead.
There's no life in it. Another you can
say as well. Most of the time, it's
It's not
with the hamza. And you can turn change
from hamza hamza to here and that's in
the as well. The one who grants life
to something that has no life.
The one that grants purpose.
Is not just a picture. Means
that now there's
a goal that it's there to do. There's
a function for it. It has a function.
It's a lie, but it also has function.
It has purpose. It knows where it's going
or what to do. It has an idea
of what it should do next.
And that's what
when he gave you he gave you a
a a form,
but that form exists so that there's a
function.
So if it's a purpose, that's why there's
a form, or else there would be no
point of having a form, like, for you
to look a certain way. Though it we
look like this so that we can perform
certain functions so that so we are more
better equipped to do certain things. We're better
equipped the way we are created to get
certain things done. That means there is a
purpose for it. So that's what
means. And those are the three names, and
they kinda come together. Khalak being kind of
the umbrella name,
that encompasses,
the rest of them. He
says, Allah
Allah is the one who created
everything.
Everything.
Everything that we are aware of, everything that
we know is Allah's creation. Everything.
Everything that we can we ever will know
is Allah's
creation.
There is nothing that you and I will
ever come in contact with
in this world
now
or in the future,
except it's Allah
creation. He created he made it. From nothingness,
he brought it forward to to the light
of existence.
Aside himself.
So
indeed to him belongs
and.
And these two things are what
is
Creation is the book of Allah that
is open and spread in front of you,
which is the universe and everything in it.
Everything that the universe contains.
Is is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's book that
is written in
the actual teachings.
He owns both
and they never contradict each other because they
come from the same source.
All come from the same source. So whatever
is written in the book will be
compatible with whatever you're going to see in
front of you within within the universe.
He says
in this long
as he speaks about the,
the embryo,
created the the
the fertilized egg with the sperm,
turned it into a small piece of meat
that's clinging on to the wall of the
uterus, and then it turned into a bigger
piece of meat that looks like it's chewed.
It's
a bit of a curvature.
And then
And then we added to it bones, and
then we added to the bones meat. That's
the the way that the ayah talks about.
And then we turned it into a different
Then we turned it into a different creation.
So this is where the word doesn't always
mean from nothingness to somethingness, but it means
a transformation.
Something that is a transformation that is that
that changes the essence of what the first
thing was into something completely different.
May the barakah of your lord increase the
one who is the best of all creators.
Subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
Oh, people. Worship your lord. The one who
created you and those all those who came
before you so that you may find some
degree of taqwa. He says,
Is the one
is not the one who created the cosmos
and the earth, capable
of bringing them back and creating them again.
Just creating them again. Forget about anything else.
Just bringing them back through creation yet again
as he created them the first time. The
answer is better, of course, he.
And he is
the one who craves a lot.
The creator.
The one who continuously
creates.
Meaning
Allah not only did he create us and
all that which we observe,
but he's also created things that we
have yet to to come
into contact with and things that he is
creating
as we speak.
He is the omniscience. Only him only he
knows what he created.
Imam Bukay narrates to us
that Imran Al Hussein said
Imran Al Hussein with the famous
We came to you so that we may
learn our deen. We ask you about how
did this all begin?
How did this whole matter, you know, start?
There's different narrations to this, hadith, and I'll
choose to you know, I'll I'll I'll narrate
the one that I choose.
There was a law, and there was nothing
else aside from him.
And in additional rate narration, he
it's continued. And
his throne
was upon water,
or at least that what we think is.
That's what we think it is here in
this in this narration.
You see, whenever you take the derivative of
an alif and hamza at the end of
something,
it means the epitome of something or the
pinnacle
of of of any matter. That's why
if something is high, you say
It
went up or elevated. If you want to
talk about the pinnacle of something that is
high, you say.
Cosmo is the highest thing, you know.
To live is.
The pinnacle of that or the epitome of
that is,
which is why that ethic is so important.
So here could also mean that, and this
is a nice
any conclusion or opinion one of my teachers
had.
Because is something,
and is the epitome of something.
Meaning his opinion was it wasn't on water,
rather it was on matter.
The beginning of because he created
he created the first thing he created was
matter, And that's his I mean, his his
control
was over
the concept of matter because there wasn't matter
before
before Allah. They wrote in meaning wrote in
in his records
everything.
Then he created the cosmos
and the earth.
In other
it was Allah
and there's absolutely no one else but Allah.
If we talk about the, the sequence of
his creation
taking it from the sources of the Quran
and the sunnah,
we know for sure
for sure that the human being was not
the first thing that he created.
He says,
Was there a time where that came across
where the human being was not something that
could be mentioned?
Why not something that could be mentioned? You
can't mention something that does not have
precedence of its existence.
Like, you you and I can't talk about
something that has yet to exist because we
have no way to articulate a description for
it because we have not seen it or
heard about it. It's not a concept yet.
Once once it presents itself, then we can
look at it.
If it's edible, we will taste it. If
it's,
transportation, we will ride it. If it's something
we can communicate
with, we'll we'll chat with. We'll figure out
some way to interact with it, and then
we'll describe what we thought. We'll give it
a name, and we'll describe what it is.
Before that, you can't describe anything. So the
human being, there was a time
was not something that could be mentioned
because
we didn't exist.
There was no promise of us yet.
Our existence was not clear to anything that
was that was alive at that point.
He says, subhanahu wa ta'ala, this is
what Jubeir and, hadith is in collection of
also Imam,
Muslim.
Where Jubeir,
Mohammed ibn Zubayr ibn Motaim says that his
father, Jubeir ibn
So I was listening the first time I
was hearing him recite Surah Al Thul. So
I heard him recite or is it a
lot of the, verses in Surah Al Thul,
the second page at least. Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala is questioning why is it that,
Quraysh doesn't want to believe. Is it this?
Is it this? Is it this? So amongst
the first thing, it's called
or is it that they were
created
means nothing.
In slang or in any modern language, we
say
something, and is nothing.
Is not something that it's not a phrase.
I mean, the Arab would never say that.
They would say
they would say
does not work really,
not in the not to explain nothingness at
least. That's not the right way to say
it. We say it all the time, but
that but it's not it's not fulfilling. It's
not appropriate. So
or they created from nothing.
Or did they or or or are they
the ones who brought creation forward?
And he says, my heart almost almost flew
out of my chest.
Other narrations, he almost fainted.
Other narrations say that he was sick for
a week. People came and visited him at
home, and they didn't know what was wrong
with him, and he was ashamed or embarrassed
to tell them what happened.
What is it? You're created from nothing. You
came you came you just you just happened
to appear. That is the that is the
most likely explanation you find. You find that
explanation makes sense to you that you just
appeared.
Nothing. There was no force behind it. There
was nothing. You just you just you just
happened to be here,
or you're the one who did this. It's
neither this
nor or did you create the cosmos and
the earth and everything in it? They
just don't want to actually have certainty.
They just don't want to have they they
they they
prefer to live in that ambiguity.
The hadith that we have is that when
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
the first thing he created after he created
matter,
And then he created the pen,
and it began, and it wrote everything that
would occur until the end of time
because time is a creation as well. So
once time was created,
he doc the documentation
of what was going to happen within this
new creation time was all written and Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
All
of it.
Everything that is
it.
And then he created the
the
the universe as it is with the planets
that are in it.
And then he created
jinn. Jinn came
quite
yeah. Maybe for quite a long time before
us.
They were created way before us.
From a from a smokeless fire.
And then he created the human being.
If you go to the Quran, you find
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala talks about the
creation of the human being. He uses different
phrases.
He uses
and he uses
and he says
and he says
and he says
He used all these phrases to to to
describe the human being.
And all of these phrases are correct, and
it's not contradicting one another.
The reason he uses all of these wordings
is because in the Quran, they're symbolic.
Quran is very
big on symbolizing things, especially when it comes
to stories of creation.
And it's not a book of anthropology,
but it does tell you to go learn
that knowledge.
This is I and
recited
last night. No one paid attention to these
verses. They're looking for the ayat that are
this is the the the most spiritual verses
that I know. He says, go walk the
earth.
And then look around and search.
How how he started creation.
This is commonly to us something that is
almost
by decree unknown.
Most Muslims believe that by decree, this is
not going to be ever known. There's no
point in looking to it.
He is commanding you to go walk this
earth and search
so you can figure out how he began
creation.
That Allah bring people out of their graves
on the day of judgment. He is capable
of all. But he's telling you, go and
figure out how this started.
I I can I can actually figure out
how you started? Yeah. You can figure out.
Of course, you can you can find out
how I did it, how it began.
And he is the one who descended water
from the from the sky,
and from it came the seed of everything.
The seed of everything.
Allah
brought you from the earth plants,
not
He didn't grow you from the earth. No.
No.
As a plant. This is what he's this
is the words of the Quran, the how
the Quran describes creation.
So when he used all of these words
to describe the human being, he is suggesting
the Quran is suggesting there's was some
I mean, there was some
graduality
to his creation.
We just want to understand today. To understand
of how he created things
When he says
or
when he said I create something, what does
that mean to you?
Does
that translate for you immediately?
That he said,
b,
I'm going to create something, so b,
and it's going to be within a second
or
why? Why does it have to be a
second or less than a second or instantaneous?
So so let's say you created the human
being, you said b, and then it took
a month.
You have a problem with the month
if he created the human through a month?
If he created the human being through a
year, is that a problem for you? If
he created the human being through a couple
of years,
a 100 years, a 1000 years, a 1000000
years, a 1000000000 years, 13,800,000,000
years, does it make a difference to you?
Does it make a difference to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala?
He created.
How long it took for creation to come
forward? That's that's his business subhanahu wa ta'ala.
The concept of,
of the deity
being
a bearded man somewhere in the middle of
the sky with
any,
but a wand in his hands zapping things
into creation, giraffe, tree.
That's a medieval understanding of god. It's not
Islamic. Never was.
Muslims never understood Allah
And I think he Muslims never saw god
that way, and they never saw creation to
happen that way. This is this is a
mixture
of what Catholicism came to that what the
church came to conclusion of somewhere in the
midst in medieval times taken from from Greek
and and Indian mythologies and kind of a
this big mix
of of mythology that don't really have any
Islamically, no. No. He creates
and how he creates is what you're going
to figure out,
is what science is going to do for
you. It's gonna show you how it happened.
It's gonna show you the the the method
through all of the through through what through
which creation went through until it came to
be what it is today. And there's a
beauty to that and there's a it's it's
poetic
and it's extremely meaningful to under to know
that we are we are being
asked by Allah
to study and to look and to learn
and to to find out more about our
own creation and the creation of everything,
everything around us.
Do you see that which you produce?
It many which is which is sperm.
He said, do you see that which your
your produce comes out of you? Well, then
this is it was for both men and
women. It's the, the concept of
that which we move forward.
The
the an the immature
and the,
creation. This is not you need it needs
it needs the other half to to exist.
Are you the ones who create this?
Or are we the ones who do this?
And do you do this? Are you able
to to manufacture this
to manufacture these chromosomes
to get the 23 out there in the
way that they are prepared to,
honey, be paired with another 23 to make
the 46. I I do you do that
and then break them down into into what
the human being later on would be?
And he is the one who begins creation,
and then he
does it again.
And the second time,
It's easier than the first time. All of
it is easy, but he's using our logic.
When you just when you refuse resurrection,
he created it the first time around.
Why would he not create with the second
time around? Doing things the sec doing it
the second time is always easier. It's the
first time that's a little bit difficult if
we're gonna talk about difficulty even though all
of it to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
the same.
Or is it that they made with Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Associates who created
creation
similar to his creation? So now they're
confused. Whether it's is this God's creation or
is
it
the Say Allah is creator of everything, and
he is the one, he is the subduer.
The verses that talk about creation in the
Quran are actually I mean, I can go
on for quite some time. The final one
that I'll share with you, this is what
he says
This is the creation of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. So show me. What did the others
create?
Show me what others made.
Let me see what what did others create.
No. It's not the case. It's that those
who are
the oppressors of themselves and others are the
ones in in
complete loss.
Science will never be interested and is not
interested,
and it's not within the realm of science
to study
the concepts of these three names.
Science is very much focused on the observable
universe
and all of the interactions that happen within
it and all of the intricacies of the
methodology of what's going on and how it's
going on. And figuring and understanding what's actually
occurring. That's what science is focused on. The
three questions that these names give are not
within the interest of science. We'll never really
know them because no one's looking into them,
because philosophy looks into them, not science.
Creation taking for there to be nothing and
then there to be something,
science ends
when the bing bang begin began.
Now when the first matter was was there
and that's where science starts looking. Okay.
We start with that first little amount ounce
of matter, and then it explode and it
moved, and and then we're we're focused on
that. Why? How much energy? Where did it
come from? How did how did it work?
But to look at what came before that,
that's not something that is it's not it's
not amongst the, the the
the functionalities
of science itself. It's never going to look
into this because it's just not what it
does.
So that first question and that first
dilemma that we have is where did
matter come from
If it didn't create itself,
which it didn't,
or else it would be speaking to us
and telling us what to do.
Matter itself
is
is lifeless, and we are life full. And
if it created us and we're here, then
we have to assume that whatever created us
is also full of life or else something
dead cannot produce something life
something liable that has life in it. It
doesn't work that way. If we have life
and I can see and I can hear
that whatever brought me here has the same
ability, if not more, or else there's something
logically that it does not all line up.
So going from nothing to something is a
question that will never be answered. That's
Let's put that aside. Let's say, you know,
there are arguments that the universe is infinite,
which is insane, but it's fine. Let's let's
how do you go from something to life?
How do you go from something,
just matter,
molecules, and
elements,
hydrogen and nitrogen,
oxygen, all these other elements. How do you
go from that to something that is alive,
to that first breath?
For the first time, oxygen was used and
the first time, energy was utilized and harnessed,
and then how do you go from something
that is lifeless to something that has life
in it?
We don't look into that either, by the
way. Science just focuses on studying life and
looking at the organism.
I'm the first kind of unicell organism that
exists somewhere in the volcanic,
waters of,
of Mexico or Australia or whatever.
That first organism that was able to utilize
energy,
It became it took a breath.
It took an oxygen for the first time.
Where did it going from life from no
life to life.
We just study life. We barely understand anything
about it, will lie.
We barely understand anything about it. I I
I'm a I work in oncology. I'm an
oncologist. We study cancer. Cancer is very complicated.
It's hard to hard the the idea of
a cure for cancer is insane. It's not
that's not gonna happen.
That just makes you people don't understand.
Cancer is are your own cells
turning against you.
How do we kill your own cells without
killing you?
They're you. They're your own cells.
They just stop listening. They stop following the
regimen of what to do. And just at
point certain point, you have to die.
These cells have to die. These have to
turn off and die. When they don't, decide,
nope. We're not dying.
We're gonna live forever.
And they start taking all of the resources
and they start duplicating, multiplying, and killing everything
around them. How do how do you make
them stop doing that? You have to understand
all the intricacies and all the details of
the human cell.
We're far from that.
We barely understand a couple of pathways.
We all we barely understand a few receptors
that exist on the, surface of the cell
and what it does on the inside.
And if someone comes through with some breakthrough
drug that affects what a a path we've
never heard of before in a way and
it has an effect, it's all trial and
error.
These poor mice,
on floors in hospitals that no one wants
to go to. That's being injected with stuff,
and then we just sat there and see
what happens.
And if it works out, if if it's
an interesting effect, we study it for a
couple of years. If we find out something
that's interesting, then we may oh, we figure
out what the receptor is and then we
try it on a human being. And the
first couple of times on the human being,
they're miserable.
They're miserable human beings who have horrible side
effects before we figure out the dosing and
figure out
because it's very hard to understand
the the idea. It's a kingdom. Like, if
you look up, it's a kingdom that you
can't even begin to to
to to absorb and understand. You you can't
even begin to understand what's out there. But
if you look down, it's the same thing.
And you go down and you take this
one cell, it's a kingdom.
Within it, there are all of these different
devices that are working in complement
complementing other devices, keeping the whole thing running.
We barely understand any of it. How do
you go from no life to life?
That's how.
We go from no life to life with
We don't we don't know. No one's even
looking into this. You've been around for a
long time. You have a lot of tools
and gadgets. Yeah. We're not even looking into
that. We don't care. We just wanna understand
how life works so that we can allow
people to live better, so they have less
disease, so they don't age as quickly, so
they don't have as much pain and suffering.
But we don't care, whoever. We're not trying
to create bring life forward.
The manipulation of, of DNA and the manipulation
of fetuses and or embryos, that's not that's
not, creating life. You already have the code.
You're just playing around with it, which is
obvious obviously, extremely
dangerous when we don't even understand how the
the living
the living organism works for us to play
around with its origin that we don't fully
understand.
And then here's a question for you to
answer.
Why does life
want to continue to live?
Why?
Your life is every living thing is alive
now, but why does it want to live?
To you, this is a mix of course,
they want to live.
That's that's not a question to ask.
Entertain
entertain the idea. Why does life want to
live? Why does life want more energy
and want more, nourishment?
Why does it want to be stronger?
Why does it want to be higher? Why
why does it want to survive longer? What
is that? Why?
It does. That is that is a,
an absolute given within this world. That's how
you and I function. But why?
Who said like, who told it that you
have to that you have to you're alive
now. You must
continue to live. You must continue to find
more sources and more resources, more source of
energy and more resources. You should try to
live longer. You should try to live better.
You should fight for your life. You should
try to fight against going back to the
state of death. Who told it that though?
It has
purpose. It has purpose in it. It's alive,
but you could imagine that it's just alive.
It doesn't care if it stays alive or
if it doesn't stay alive.
Correct? It could be like that. We're alive,
but it doesn't matter to us. Alive, you
take away our life, you give us better
life.
Who cares? Doesn't make a difference, but it
does.
You could you could be 95. You could
be a 105. You could be a 125.
You could be a 100 and 25. You
could be a 1000 years old.
When death sets in, you don't want it.
You fight.
Even if in your mind, you're like, I
accept.
It's time to move on.
It's over, and it's time to move on.
But at that last moment, your biology fights
against it. It doesn't want to die.
You'll hold on. That last one, you'll hold
on to something because it just it you
don't want to die.
Where where did that come where that programming
come from? Where the programming within, I think,
that you want to live?
That's where. We don't care. Science doesn't care
about that.
The three aspects of existence that we don't
really we'll never really fully understand where it
comes from.
We'll set we'll understand. We study everything in
between.
Everything in between.
From somethingness to life, we'll study all that
and learn all about matter. And,
from life
to to purpose, we'll study that. The the
reason of purpose in psychology and
psycho
biological psychology psychology. We'll study all that, but
we don't know where the where those beginnings
because those beginnings
come from
To me, if that's not spiritual, then I
don't know what it is. How do you
live with his
Number 1, respect
his creation.
Show his creation respect,
acknowledge the beauty and acknowledge the profoundness
of his creation
That has to you have to have that
appreciation
of what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made. You
have to look at that and you have
to take it in. The whole Quran tells
you just look at the shams and the
qamar and the najum and
the and the and the and the and
the. He just tells you look and at
least look because this is what I made.
Look.
Can you make this? No. Then look at
it and acknowledge and appreciate. So have that
respect for what he made, subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Walk on earth
with with humbleness because you're walking in you're
walking in in his creation
You yourself you yourself
are a creation of Allah. Your body is
and your
comes from him
We will never understand the way. That's we
don't we don't know what is, but it
also comes from Allah and it's a part
of him. It's it's from him subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
And the second piece, be a caregiver for
his creation.
He puts you as a higher functioning being
amongst his creation, so care for it.
Be a steward. Be a Khalifa.
Take care of that which is around you
because you have the capacity to do so.
Other creations, they just work they just exist
they just exist within the ecosystem they're put
in, within the realm. You have the ability
to beat that.
If you have that ability, then you must
take care. You must show you must be
responsible of the well-being of everything around you.
And I think the is the concept of
and Kalifa comes from his name,
He created and he created you a little
bit more capable
And he put everything at your service, so
Hope that was a benefit you.
Hope that was a benefit you.