Adnan Rajeh – The Glorious Names of Allah – Names of positive control – Al-Hadi – The Grantor of Guidance
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The importance of guidance is discussed in Islam, including the need for personal growth and success. The speaker emphasizes the need for guidance to achieve goals and avoid confusion and loss. The importance of guidance is emphasized in actions such as rehearsing a song and rehearsing with a help from a lady. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of guidance and offers advice for family members to avoid knocking on doors. The importance of guidance is emphasized for individuals and actions, including providing guidance to others and being a good Muslim to make a difference.
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Connection with amongst all of his names.
The name that we have the most connection
with amongst all of them is his name,
And
the category is the category of
attributes of positive control.
And the category from yesterday, which is which
is the attributes of,
correctional control
and the category of positive control.
They're the categories where the names that have
opposite meanings exist. So
is positive control and is correctional control.
Positive control and correctional control. So when you
look at these names, you find that this
is this is how we break it down.
Does this work? No. It doesn't work.
Okay. That's fine. When you go back to
the slide that has the, the categories, you'll
find that negative
correctional control and positive control
These are the names that have yep. Sorry.
There they go.
So you'll have you'll have the the the
opposites from both sides.
Etcetera.
So when you study these names, you study
them usually together.
If you're to study one of these names,
most of the time, you study them when
they come to you have to put them
together when you study them so you understand
them. But this is how they're categorized.
I chose within each category a name that
doesn't have a an opposite to it, or
if it does, it's less known. So Allah's
name and
the on the other side,
So usually if you're just if you're going
to study them, you're gonna study them together
so that you understand both sides of the,
of the name. One of them, positive control
that offers
something that nudges us towards
and the other one, which is the one
that takes us back from from difficulty or
the one
that reminds us when we're in a state
of sin.
I chose al Hadid because it's an easier
one to understand. It doesn't require too much
too much explanation.
In the Quran, it's only a couple of
times.
Whoever Allah
misguides
or deviates or sends him in a
in a path of deviation away from his
path, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, you will not find
someone who will guide him. You find out,
a number of times in the Quran. He
says
to every nation, to every group of people,
there is one who would grant them guidance
with
And Allah
say speaks the truth,
and he guides the way.
So al Hari is the one
who guides his creation, who guides his
servants
to that which is what which within their
best interest,
Where he guides them to that which will
allow them to be functional or that which
will benefit them within their lives. Whether that
might might be general guidance or whether it's
talking about
guidance
of knowledge
or guidance of his faith either
or apply.
Let's talk about 4 different types
of guidance.
Number 1, the general guidance.
The one who granted everything, a specific portion,
this precise amount in this life,
and guided it to what its function is
going to be.
And and when
Musa answered,
My lord is the one that gave each
and everything
its creation,
its form, and then he guided it.
That goes to every living thing.
Birds.
Your t cells and b cells inside of
your body, your immune system
that somehow knows which way to go and
what to take out,
what to devour and send into your colon
on its way out of your body. I
want to leave alone.
In the moment it makes a mistake, you
end up with something called autoimmune diseases, and
you spend the rest of your life going
back and forth to doctor, taking steroids, and
trying to figure out how you're going to
function properly.
Everything in this world is guided to do
its function. The moment it doesn't do its
function, it's very obvious and it's very clear.
The moment anything that he had guided
to perform its job as it should, doesn't
find its way or forgets or makes a
mistake, it becomes painfully
obvious.
It becomes painfully obvious to the world that
there's something wrong. It causes complete dysfunction
from ants
that somehow know how to build their colonies
and their hills and continue to function in
a way that is within their best interest
to the ecosystem
and every mammal within it. This is the
general guidance of Allah
Every living thing
wakes up to this life and just figures
out what the next step is.
It's actually quite
intriguing and beautiful to watch.
Every living thing within a couple of minutes
after it's born
figures out its function
and gets into the group that it's a
part of and does its thing. It just
moves like everything else,
serving the purpose for what it which was
it it was guided to serve.
The only one out of all of that
is the human being that needs a little
bit of coaching.
Takes us longer than everyone else to figure
out what we're going to do. That's the
first level, the general guidance that Allah offers
everything. 2nd level of guidance, the guidance of
iman.
When Allah offers us the guidance of iman.
Iman.
Indeed, Allah
the one who bestows his bounty upon you.
For the fact that he guided you
to iman. If you're truly if you're true
about your faith, then you will see yourself
guided to iman.
You'll see iman not as an achievement of
your own, but rather as an act of
guidance from Allah
within your life.
When he takes an oath by the everything
that goes into his creation,
and he inspired it
for it to choose
and know it's guided to what is good
and and what is bad.
Indeed, the human being
has insight upon himself.
The human being knows that which is beneficial
and that which is harmful, that which is
good. You can ask whatever whatever if I
tell what you want.
At the end, everybody knows deep down inside
what is what is what the right choice
is.
From Adam alayhis salam his
This is figurative. Allah
took from Adam alayhis salam
all of his offspring.
He showed Adam alayhis salam all of his
offspring,
and he spoke to the subconsciousness of all
of his offspring
The concept here is symbolic and is figurative.
And you will say to them,
am I not your lord?
They'll say, yes, indeed you are.
We bear witness to that.
And he
says, this is so so that you don't
come on the day of judgment and say
that we were indifferent and oblivious and we've
never heard of this before.
Or that our parents or the people who
became before us, they chose associates and we
were lost because they were lost before us.
When you're when you're granted guidance
when you're granted guidance, it will
waken up or awaken within you that which
you always knew was the truth.
Indeed, this Quran guides people to that which
is best for them,
which will allow them to function better.
That's the second level of Hidayah,
iman. General and then iman. Number 2, he
increases
guidance to those who already have it.
He'll increase those who have already received guidance.
He will increase them in their guidance.
When he speaks
in
about
the indeed, they are people. There are youth
who accepted who found iman in their lord.
And we increased them in in, in their
guidance. And you find that in the Quran
number of times, the increase in guidance.
And the number 4, he guides he guides
to Jannah
The people who enter Jannah, the first thing
that comes out of their mouths.
The one who guided us to this and
we would have never been guided to this
how he not guided us
That's their first conclusion.
The first the first thing that comes out
of their mouths when they enter Jannah is
He guided us to this. This is this
is his guidance.
Say any of your associates that you believe
they guide to righteousness.
Say Allah guides to that which is righteous.
Say which is more
worthy of being followed? The one who guides
to righteousness, drives to that which is correct
or the one who cannot find guidance.
Means
The one who cannot find guidance
except if they are guided themselves.
What is wrong with you? Why don't you
see this?
How when we look at how Allah
guided us,
each and every one of us sitting here
has a story of guidance that is unique
and different than the person beside them.
Every person
that finds their way to a masjid to
sit and pray salat al fayr and listen
to a,
something being said, that requires a degree of
guidance.
For you to hear there's a level of
guidance that was required in order for you
to actually do this. What's the story of
that guidance?
You know the only person who knows the
story of that guidance is you. You're the
only one who knows
what actually occurred throughout your throughout your life
that landed you in the seat that you're
in right
now. Because the seat that I am in
and you are in, we are here because
Allah
grant granted us levels of guidance one after
the other throughout the entirety of our lives,
and that's why we sit here. It's through
his guidance
We can't offer that to others.
That's not something that we can afford.
You cannot you cannot guide the blind
from their deviation and from their loss and
aimlessness.
You can just grant
the person the person who's looking for something,
something for Tahir.
You can just grant the one who is
looking for iman something for them to listen
to, something that they can use for themselves.
You can't.
Okay?
Forest guidance on someone you love because you
love them.
That's probably the most difficult thing in the
world.
Probably one of the most difficult things in
the in the world is to watch someone
you love lack guidance
and
and go astray
and be misguided from his path, subhanahu wa
ta'ala. And the thing you want the most
is for them to find guidance, but you
can't guide the ones you love.
When you study when you study his life,
regardless of what, you know, the end of
Abu Talib's life was, and there is difference
of opinion on this matter, by the way,
that I'm not going I'm not interested in
getting into. But what we do know is
that the prophet,
as far as you could tell, Abu Talib
didn't pass away in the way that he
wanted him to.
And this was a pain in his heart,
that he lived
with for the majority of his life. This
is something that that pain that that brought
him a lot of agony, a lot of
upset that he could not he could not
get his uncle to to say for him.
He couldn't. He tried. He pushed as much
as possible. He would tell him, just say
it and I'll take care of you. Just
say it. Just say it and it's on
me. I'll I'll I'll carry everything. You just
you'll you'll be fine. And he wouldn't give
him the word.
Alaihis salatu wa sallam
watched his uncle pass away and
he it was painful because there's nothing it's
it's a it's a different type of pain
for you to lose someone
off the the rails of ima, someone who
just wouldn't it's hard,
but you don't guide the ones you love.
Allah
chooses whom he wants to guide.
Some people are guided gradually.
Sometimes guidance comes gradually,
like the story of Sayyidina Umar al Bukhta
When
he tells the story, it was it took
years
it took years, 5, 6 years before he
found guidance. When he was asked to tell
the story of his guidance, he would point
out a moment in his life where he
was
he had a a young girl who served
in the house, and she accepted Islam. So
he persecuted her and her and she persevered,
and she showed more grit than he thought
was possible for someone that age.
And he and he, yeah, he asked her
why are you doing this?
And he she said
made you tired of me,
because of my because of this. And I
and and he has granted me strength to
persevere as you go ahead and and you
push me out of this and I'm not
budging.
So he said in my mind, I thought,
what what is this, Yani? What did you
find that's so that's worth all of the
all all of this that I'm doing to
her? And she doesn't want to
leave? And then he would make the tawaf
of a year later around the Kaaba and
hear the prophet alayhi salatu wa sama recite
reciting the Quran. And it would be the
2nd time the Quran would, yeah, honey, would
would touch his heart. And then he would
see a lady with her with her infant
walking out of Makkah, and he would ask
her, where are you going? And she would
say, I'm running out, taking my deen and
leaving, running away from people like you.
And he felt that that that whatever he
had done to cause this must have been
yeah. And he he he didn't agree with
the consequence of his own behaviors.
It took him a while. And then he
finally decided to actually take the prophet
life to end all of this firkall, this
division. So he goes, but on his way,
he's diverted by Ibn Mas'ud. And Ibn Mas'ud
tells him, go. Before you go kill the
prophet, go take care of your sister. He's
been Muslim for years. You're gonna go and
harm someone. Go look at your family. So
he diverted. He goes to his sister's house.
He pounds on the door. She she had
a a scroll. She had written on it
to some Quran. So she hid it first
and opened the door. He knew they were
reading something on the inside. He could hear
their voices.
He asked for where the scroll is, and
she refuses to show him anything. So he
hits her.
She hits he hits her. She falls down.
There's a little bit of blood out of
he feels bad. He sits down. He quiets
down.
He says, I just wanna see what it
is that you're reading. So she told him,
you're you're just you're you're not good you're
go go take a shower and then come
and I'll give you something to read. So
he did. He went and he came back.
And he she
gave him
But it took him time. It took him
6 years to find this. Some people find
guidance
with just a a moment.
With just a look
just a look from the from the eye,
a man called the Husayn ibn Salam,
later on to be known as Abdullah ibn
Salam. He was one of the.
He was one of the, scholars of the
of the Al Kitab tribes.
And when the prophet
made it to Madinah, he spent with his
son
a few nights rehearsing
how they were going to expose the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam. How they were going to
expose that he was not the prophet, that
he make is making it all up Because
he knew all the questions that needed to
be asked from the kolib book, from the
from the Torah. And he did he and
his son rehearsed. They would do a rehearsal.
I'll ask this, and then you'll say that,
and then you'll say this, and then I'll
say that. It'll expose him to all people
that he has no idea what he's talking
about, and we can end this whole saga,
and this whole story can be done with.
We don't have to continue to deal with
this guy. So they spent, they rehearsed all
night, and then they went and they knew
he would you know, the prophet, alayhis salaam,
would have for fajal. So they went early
in the morning so they can they can,
do this so they had enough time. So
we'll get and knock on his
right after Faisal. They are ready. They rehearse.
They knock on the door. He opens up
and he looks at them, Abdullah bin
looks
at
him
with a with a look from the prophet
alayhi salatu alayhi salatu alayhi salatu alayhi salatu
alayhi salaam's eyes. Some people find guidance like
that. Some people find guidance with the word.
Bumad al Azdi was a man who was
a, and he was a person
at that time as they are today, honestly,
for most of them.
The concept of needing to go to someone
for is not
this has to be removed. This is a
jahidi thing. This happened back before the prophet,
alayhi, wasalam, was like. They had someone who
did this as a job, who would go
around and act like they had the ability
to remove any
spirits and take care this didn't have there
was no after the prophet
became a prophet. Like, no one none of
us had picked up picked this up as
a as a way to make a living.
This is not you wanna you have someone
who needs. Everyone in your house needs. You
and all of your family members. Who does
for them? You're gonna go pay someone to
come and do this. No. You do this
yourself. Family members do it to one another.
All you have to do is you know.
You're good. You have a 90% of what
a is. You have with you. There's a
few idea that you make and then a
few verses that are that are known. You
recite them on people. You sit there, recite,
you make draw for them. That's your that
you offer your family members. Do it all
the time. Stop going and knocking on your
doors and asking them for, can you come
and do
I don't like your family members more than
you do, so it will work better coming
from your mouth than it will ever come
from me or anyone else,
aside from bringing them big jugs of water
for them to recite
and then take it home and then do
something with it. This is all
this is not we have to stop this.
Like, we have we have to put a
maybe hit the brakes here and turn off
the car and get get out of the
do it okay for yourself. Anyways,
he said he would come someone who came
to the come and so he came he
was told the prophet was someone who had
lost his mind.
So he came to him and he started
telling him,
If
there's jinn in you or if there's in
you or if you're sick or something wrong
with you, I can offer it. And he's
sitting down and he's telling the prophet to
his
son this utter nonsense.
This nonsense. And the prophet is listening to
him. When he's done,
And Dumat said, say that again, please. So
he said,
So he said it one more time.
I have listened I've heard I have walked
I have walked the earth.
I've and I've I've went all around the
earth. I've made it to the middle of
the sea. I've heard the words of poets.
I've heard the words of, of sorceries. I've
heard the words of magicians.
What you're saying right now is nothing none
of all none of that.
Put your hand out and and let me
let me enter to whatever it is that
you're calling for.
And your people as well.
Yeah. I'll take care of my people.
And he would take himself. They can go
and spend time with his people. And later
on as the sayyidina Khaled, when he was
cleaning up Arabia after Surat At Tova, he
came upon Bumad al Azdi's people and he
took from them a. Like, you would say,
he,
he found a, any,
is basically a a container of water that
they used to
use. Where you get this is hadith Muslim.
Where you get this from?
That's the people of Dumat.
Take it back to them. And he had
guided his people Some people will will accept
this will find guidance through a word. Everyone's
different.
Your story is your story. Your story of
guidance is unique to you.
You say this 17 times a day minimum.
You say this 17 times a day minimum.
In Ramadan, well, it's way more than that.
In Ramadan, depending on how many alakaz you're
praying goes up to 30 or or more.
Anyone anyone who's,
putting a microphone
to your mouth
and recording your words, who does not know
you,
and then takes a scrolling
takes a transcription of everything that you said
all day
and analyzes it, you know, just to see
what you said, what what came out of
your mouth for 24 hours, will conclude that
this this dude seems to really care about
guidance.
This person seems to be very to be
obsessed with guidance.
I have here
I have here 17 times.
He he seems to turn to to to
to God and ask God for guidance. Every
day you do this.
You do this every day till the day
you die. You keep on asking
him. You would think at some point, maybe
you graduate and move on to another another
request within the Quran. Every day is the
same thing that you ask because there's no
end to how guided you can be just
like there's no end to how misguided you
can be. There is no end. This is
not an accomplishment. Hidayah is not a point
in in time or space that you reach.
Hidayah is a path that you keep on
walking.
The beauty of closeness to Allah is that
there's no limit to it. 2 physical things,
they can only get so close before they
are on top of each other or there's
the same point.
Two points in space can become close, only
so close to the point where they'll become
the same point. But Allah
is not physical space.
So there's no end to how close you
can be to Allah
You could always be you could always have
more guidance.
The amount of guidance that you can receive
in this world is infinite.
It's infinite. There's no end to how much
guidance you can have, and that is what
you want.
Apparently, that's what you want. That's what you
ask for every day. Time and time again,
guide us. Allow us to find the the
proper way. Allow us to walk this path
a little bit better. Allow us to make
sure that we're walking
a little bit more
focused. Make sure that we're perfectly straight right
in the middle. No ref, no right.
You continue to ask for this. And since
you're asking for it, make sure that your
behaviors in your life reflect the fact that
this is how much you want it.
Or else you're saying something and then you're
living differently and it makes no sense.
How do we live with his name?
Number 1, be very grateful
be very grateful that he got.
No will find iman except through the will
of Allah.
Doesn't mean that you're forced.
Doesn't mean that you have no choice. No.
He grants
you guidance
He grants you the ability to get closer
to guidance. He opens your heart to guidance
based on your willingness.
Based on your willingness.
Based on how much you want it.
Based on what you show Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala from yourself, the sincerity and the honesty
and the truthfulness of wanting something, he'll grant
you close closer and closer. But without Allah's
guidance, you can't get there. It's impossible.
So be grateful.
Do not ever use your guidance as a
way or means to be arrogant or to
look down or condescend towards people or to
categorize people in a in a way that
is negative.
When using something that he granted you as
the ultimate gift in this existence is life.
A close second is Hidaya.
A really close second is Hidaya.
Some scholars will flip them and say, no.
Hidayah is the ultimate gift because there's no
value to your life if you don't have
guidance in it. It's a it's a reasonable
it's a reasonable argument as well. So be
very grateful that he got granted you guidance.
The second thing you do is offer others
guidance. Be the door through in which Allah
grants his servants guidance.
Be the means of guidance that Allah Allah
grants guidance. How does he grant guidance?
Yeah. Does he not grant it through people?
The majority of time is through human beings.
It's through others.
Be the tool through which Allah Allah This
is what the prophets were.
The prophets works for Allah
They were the door.
They were the method through which Allah
guided his people. Be that.
Be someone who does that. That's the best
thing you can be.
There's nothing better that you can be in
your in this life
rather than than being the tool that Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala will use to grant others
guidance. It doesn't mean they have to sit
on a place like this and and run
your mouth every day.
Who's better in this world? Who's better
Who who will say anything better than the
person who who calls to Allah? And then
they live life appropriately.
They do the things that Allah asked them
to do, and then they say we're a
Muslim.
They say they do it as as they
are Muslim.
Your your actions will guide better. Your actions
are are better are a better source of
guidance than your words.
If you live life to its fullest, if
you are successful, if you do a lot
of good things as a Muslim, that will
guide people more than sitting here and speaking
for an eternity.
Been sitting here and talking
last year
I think it was last year or the
year before. I can't remember.
You were do you were I was doing
tafsir of this ayah specifically. It was a
weekend in Sur Sur Tulsa of Masan al
Khola. So I tried to
make this point I tried to make this
point clear.
So I said so I said or or
amongst the things I was saying. I was
saying that sometimes, like,
specific actions will mean more to people from
a guidance perspective than
years years of. And I and I and
I use the example of the the punch
that, Yaniyah Khabib landed back a few years
before. That one punch seemed to have more
of And then someone took the,
one of the brothers here who,
they took the, that's what I was told.
I don't know. I didn't see it. I
don't have the, the social media
app that that that that it's on. But
I was told that they they broke it.
They tried to take this down and and
make it into a, like, a a short
video,
and it I think the way that it
sounded didn't sound very good. It ended up
sounding like something not what I was trying
to say, and it caused a lot of
controversy in a a portion. I think I
I think I caused more controversy with saying
that than than guidance for sure. But this
is but this is something that I still
believe is true. Is that your actions will
speak louder than your words by far. And
this is not something that I'm I I
have to defend. This is common knowledge.
You want to grant people guidance? Your actions
will speak louder.
Don't worry if you don't have the capacity
to go on a minbar and give a.
Really really the the the limitation
of of of these things is, is quite
clear. Like, the capacity for which how many
people actually benefit from that is not but
what you do does. What you do what
you do goes everywhere.
You're and if you are someone who is
successful, someone who leaves an impact on earth,
and you are a Muslim, and you're a
good Muslim as you do it, that will
that will that changes the world. That really
does.
That that has way more impact than than
a lot of the things that that we
say.
He says,
For Allah, subhanahu, to guide one person for
you, through you. One person is better for
you than for you to own all of
the riches of the world. For you to
be the richest person on the world in
the world, no. If Allah subhanahu wa'ala just
guides 1 person through you, then that's better
for you than all the riches.
The most and beloved
servant of mine is someone who brings back
someone who is misguided.
It's as if you're saying to Allah, I'll
take care of it. I'll bring them back
to
you. I'll take upon myself the I'll I'll
bring them back. This is your servant. You
love your servant and your servant has gone
astray. I'll take care of it. I'll take
care of him for you. I will go
after him and make sure he finds his
way back to you, you Arab, because I
know you love him. I know you want
them back to. I know you want them
to find their way back to you. I
want them to find guidance. I will make
sure that I'm I'm that I stick with
it that I stick with it and I
continue to help them until they find their
way back
to you. There's nothing in this world that
is more beautiful and more poetic than doing
that. And for you to find a way
to offer someone else guidance,
And it's something to, you know, to think
about. I hope that was a benefit to
you.