The Glorious Names of Allah – Names of tenderness and compassion – Al-Shakoor
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The importance of shiny behavior and shaping behavior is discussed, emphasizing the need for everyone to be aware of their behavior and avoiding small deeds. The Prophetals use various deeds, including knocking on doors and sending aid, to signal a need for behavior. The importance of honoring deeds and showing appreciation for them is emphasized, as well as showing gratitude and appreciation to others. The concept of sh flights is discussed, emphasizing the need to show gratitude and appreciation to others and to show gratitude and appreciation to people.AI Generated Transcript ©
The appreciative subhanahu wa ta'ala.
The same is in the Quran a number
of times, around 6 times in total.
It comes in the form of a shakir
and it comes in the form of a
shakur.
And the difference
is frequency.
A shakir is the one who
shows appreciation
for a good deed that is done.
He shows a high degree of appreciation
for a small deed that is done.
A shakur
is the one who constantly
will show appreciation
through large amounts of reward
for small amounts of deeds.
The one who gives the ultimate amount of
reward for small deeds. That's what it means
to be. A sheikh or a shakur.
And this of course if you understand the
name
and you understand what it's supposed to mean
for us in terms of our personal, yaniyah,
behaviors.
I'm going to share with you a few
stories. Go ahead.
The man was walking in the desert on
a very hot day,
and he got very thirsty and he came
by a,
a well. So he goes down and he
drinks the water. He comes up and he
finds a dog that is
biting down
on the sand. He is so thirsty.
Sometimes that that's a degree of thirst that
is right before death.
When you're looking for some moisture in the
sand, anything, just some degree of moisture.
He went down. He filled his,
his boot with water.
And he and he gave the dog something
to drink.
And Allah performed shukr,
and he Allah showed appreciation to his deed,
and he forgave his sin.
Memorize those 5 words. For
an each
is a, moist liver.
That's the literal translation. It's symbolic.
It means a living soul, something that is
alive. So,
within the service of every living thing, there
is
That a lady from Bani Israel,
Baghi,
she performed
actions for money.
And she would drink from a well and
she would find an animal
that was thirsty so she would fill her
boot with water and give it to him
to drink. So Allah
showed her appreciation and he forgave her sin.
He forgave
this type of behavior.
And another narration,
and he granted her
That a person was walking down the street
and he saw a ghusl, a branch of
shok that had a yani, thorns in it.
So he removed it from
the path. So Allah
showed appreciation
for him and he forgave his sin. The
same hadith with a different narration in the
collection of Imam Muslim where it goes a
little bit different. It's a little bit different
and it goes like this.
That the man a man walks by a,
a thorn filled branch. He said to himself,
I swear I'm going to remove this out
of the way of the Muslims so that
it doesn't harm anyone. So Allah showed
him appreciation
and he made them from the people of
Jannah.
SubhanAllah.
Abu Sufyan, Sakhar ibn Harb, who is the
known
character within the seal of the prophet alayhis
salatu wa sallam for many many years opposed
opposed him alayhis salatu wa sallam. There are
two stories
that exist in the seerah that have the
following commentary by Ibn Abbas, and I'm gonna
share them with you.
The first one is that
on the day of his hijrah
Abu Jahl came knocking and pounding on the
door of the Prophet alaihis salatu wasalam, looking
for him,
didn't find him, and he ended up slapping
his daughter,
Sayida Faflima, Zaghraa
And she got upset
and she asked what to do so she
was given the khabar from the prophet alaihis
salatu waslam, he sent back to her and
go to Abu Sufyan.
So she goes alaihis salam to Abu Sufyan
and he tells him, this is what Abu
Jahal does. This is what Abu Jhal Sahid
did to me.
So, Abu Sufyan would take Fatima. He was
kafir, he was mushrik at the time. He
would go and he would knock on the
door of Abu Jahl. This book this story
is in the seerah of bin Hisham.
And he would open the door, and Abu
Shafi'ani would say,
Slap him as he slapped you.
So she did.
Waqara salallahu alaihi wa sallam, Allahummadakirha
liabi sufyan. O Allah, keep it for Abu
Sufyan, hold on to it for Abu Sufyan.
Another story,
during the Khisar I Sherb, a few years
before, when they were
being boycotted within
the area of Bani Hashim,
a man called Hisham ibn Amril aamirim. This
gentleman
would load a camel with food and then
send it into the into the shay'a for
people to eat because they were starving to
death.
How similar today is to yesterday.
They were starving, so this man would send
in aid and they got caught a few
times and the rule was you're not allowed
to send an aid, so they beat him
once or twice. The third time they beat
him beat him a little bit too severely,
say, wuzafyan
who accepted Islam, but at that point he
wasn't Muslim yet. He would intervene,
and he would say,
I don't ruin all of our ethics. The
man was sending an aid, you're gonna beat
him for that, it doesn't make any sense.
Hold on to keep your problem,
None of us have the slightest amount of
doubt that Abu Sufyan accepted Islam in his
life later
except it was for because of the dua
of the prophet alaihi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
for those two things.
Those two small deeds of khair that he
did. Fashakar Allahu lahu fahada.
Fashakar Allahu lahu. Allah showed an appreciation.
And He guided him. Sometimes you don't realize
that a part of his shukr, Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, is that He guides you.
Whoever
takes care of someone who is elderly,
due to the fact that they're elderly, like
they see someone who is in need of
help because they're old, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
will make sure when he is old someone
is there to carry him as well, as
an act of shukr from Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala for doing it.
He said, Allah subhaddar only accepts enough sadaqa
that comes from rizkhalal tayyib.
So when the servant gives sadaqa,
fa inallaha
yahuduha
biyaneehin
Allah
accepts that sadaqa with his right hand, and
this is a symbol which Allah jairolillah, we
do not
you any
similarise Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to anything and
it's
a figure of speech that we understand only
as He wills us or wants us to
understand it, Subhanahu wa ta'ala. It's a simple
barakah.
And then he will raise it for the
the person who gave the sadaqah as you
will raise a
a colt or a
Yes, a colt. A young a young horse.
Isn't that what a colt is? Yeah.
It's a wrong time of the day to
to lose my vocabulary. Yeah. As one of
you would raise a colt into a horse,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will take your sadaqa
and he'll raise it.
As
he says Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. He
he does riba subhanahu wa ta'ala for sadaqat.
Riba is haram except when you give a
sadaqah and Allah performs riba. He gives you
he gives it back to you with interest.
Why? Because he is a shukur That's
why.
He's he's a concept of shukur.
In the hadith of kudsing where, the prophet
alaihis salaam tells that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says,
Every single deed that the human being does,
there's a specific amount of reward that is
awaiting for it.
A certain amount of reward is awaiting you
for the deed that you do, except fasting.
Except fasting. But there's no reward? No. Fasting
is specific.
It is personal. It's for Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala because there's no one involved in this.
No one technically is actually involved in fasting
aside you and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because
you can do whatever you want. You can
act like you're fasting all day, you can
continue to eat sandwiches and drink water and
have a good No one really has the
ability to know, no one can hold you
accountable. So when you actually fast throughout the
day and you don't eat, you don't drink,
this is something between you and Allah Subhanahu
wa Ta'ala. It's so specific and it's so
special, so sincere that he says it's mine,
meaning this is my business, I don't assign
this number. And I
will personally
give back the ajil for it on the
day of judgment
Because Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he is a shakur.
It comes in the Quran with a number
of names. It comes with the name Al
Halim,
It comes with the name Al Ghafoor. It
comes with the name Al Alim.
He says, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and you find
that the usage of this name comes with
certain types of deeds. So one of them,
one of them is, the Quran,
Indeed those who recite this book,
and they perform establish their prayers, and they
give from their sadaqah. They are in they're
engaging or investing in a transaction that will
not lose. He will not only serve them
that which they deserve on the day of
judgement, but he will increase them from his
own bounty because subhanahu wa ta'ala indeed, he
is the most forgiving and he is the
shakur. It comes with the name shakur, gafoor.
It comes with that name because
most of our deeds are not perfect, and
most of our deeds have flaws in them,
have problems and mistakes.
So it's hard to understand the name the
appreciative when your deeds aren't perfect,
there's so many problems with them. So Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala puts these names together to
say that first, I'll forgive the flaw within
your good deed and then I will show
you appreciation for the what's left of it
and I'll make sure that I times it
by many fold. That's why it comes together.
Because the first thing comes to mind, well,
you can be appreciative to a deed, but
my deeds aren't that great to begin with.
That's why it's rafiz rafoor. He'll forgive the
the the flaws that exist.
The people in Jannah, they will turn and
say, All praise be to Allah. The one
who took away from us all pain and
all sorrow.
He took away from us. Inna rabbana lagafoorun
shakur. Indeed, our Lord is the most forgiving
and he is depreciative.
Jalajirullah.
If you offer Allah a
loan,
a good loan, He
will times it for you manyfold.
And He will forgive any sin that is
left.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is the appreciative
and He's the Haleem. It comes with name
Halim.
The patient one. Allah Subhanahu
Wa
Ta'ala is shakur but he's not in a
hurry for it. He's patient even if it
takes you a while to figure out what
you're supposed to be doing.
So he doesn't make a deadline for it.
That if you don't do it now then
you don't get appreciated. No. Whenever you decide
to do it, he will show whenever you
decide to do a good deed, he will
show he will be shakur for
it He will grant you the reward beyond
what you actually deserved for the actual act
even if it's late because he's haleem.
He says, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
and those who perform a hasara,
nazidillahu
feeha husna. We will increase and add to
it excellence even though it may not be
like that in its nature.
Maybe the action itself does not have a
lot of ursin, does not have a lot
of excellence or goodness in it, you just
do it and we will increase.
Because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is the forgiving
and He's the appreciative Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
He says,
and Ayat that talk about
Those who perform Hajj or Umrah, and then
they perform safa, sai'i Anyone who moves tawwah,
tawwah does something extra.
Anyone who decides to do something just a
little bit extra for the sake of Allah,
then indeed Allah is appreciative. He'll pay you
He knows what you're doing. Nothing goes See,
how is he going to be appreciative if
he does not know? If he's not omniscient
subhanahu wa ta'ala that he's aware of every
deed that you are doing, then then you'll
be like, well, what if this goes unnoticed?
It doesn't matter. Nothing goes unnoticed. He notices
everything, subhanahu wa ta'ala. So don't worry, any
deed, no matter how small it is, he
notices it and he will perform shukr for
it subhanahu wa ta'ala.
What will Allah
do with your punishment
if you show appreciation
and you have belief?
This is a rhetorical question to say, You'll
get rid of it. It'll be completely removed.
There's no need for it. We don't need
it. We never did.
Why would he hold on to it? Why
would he keep it? There's no point of
keeping it. He's
not out to get you.
If you show some appreciation for that which
you have, and you have iman,
shaykhiranalima.
And indeed Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala was he's
the Shekha, and he's the one who shows
appreciation, and he is the Omniscient Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
There's a difference between his name Al Hamid
and his name Al Shakur. They're a little
bit different.
Al Hamid is the one who is worthy
of praise.
There's no reason for it.
You don't need a reason. You don't need
something to happen in order for you to
to show to praise Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
He is really a praise by nature. It's
not a name that we're going to have
the any opportunity to talk about this month
because we're we run out of days before
I can get get to it. There's a
couple of names that I wish we had,
I don't know, I mean, Ramadan was a
bit longer to get through them. But Al
Hamid is the one who is worthy of
praise, by your nature
So that's what he gets from you. He
gets the fact that you continue to praise.
Regardless of it, the fact that he is
Allah, he's worthy of praise.
Before he offered anything, before he created or
did anything subhanahu wa ta'ala, just by the
nature of him being Allahi is Al Hamid,
he's worthy of praise. If
offers you,
Hamid is what he gets from you. You
say Alhamdulillah.
Shukur is how he treats you.
So it's a two way road. You show
praise and he will show you Shukur.
And the more you praise, the more he
will do shukr
The
only way,
absolutely,
the only way for you to understand
the concept of Jannah is through his name
Ishakur.
There is no other way for you to
comprehend it.
Because there is no deed within this world
that can be equated
in terms of reward,
It makes no sense.
It makes zero sense for this whole story
to exist in the way that it does,
except if you understand that his name is
Al Shirkur
It's it. It's the only way for you
to make sense of it. Because how is
it that He creates us
from nothingness?
He owns not only our bodies, but our
spirits and our souls as well. And we
have nothing in our lives that we can
do, that will reach him in any way,
nothing that we offer good or bad will
affect him
good or bad.
Nothing that we do reaches him or affects
him in a good or bad manner at
all.
Whether you praise Allah
or you don't praise Allah
He is the praiseworthy,
and it makes no difference to him. Whether
you obey or you don't, whether you have
iman or you don't, It touches him in
no way subhanahu wa ta'ala at all. It
does not increase in his moat, nor does
it decrease in his sovereignty subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And yet,
he is going to reward you for doing
things that are not only not going to
benefit him, but they're actually designed to benefit
you
in both lives, in the life that you're
living right now and later.
He's telling you to do something that is
strictly beneficial for you, and he's telling you
to stay away from things that are strictly
harmful for you,
and if you do that, which is selfishly
helpful for you,
and you if you stay away from things
that are selfishly harmful for you and you
end up doing that,
he will grant you eternity
in pleasure.
Explain to me how that makes the slightest
amounts of sense.
Explain to me how that deal, Nani,
How does that deal work?
What type of deal is that?
He's a shukur. That's how.
The answer is one word. Allahu shukwu.
He is the one who gives
immense amount
of of reward for the smallest amount of
deeds.
So we do something that is
that's not worth anything.
It's nothing.
Nothing.
You take care of somebody. You do something
nice. You say something nice.
You move a
you move a shawkh from people's way and
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala yashqurulaq
and he will show you shukr. He will
show you appreciation for the fact that you
did this and He will forgive
your sin, impart in you and elevate your
status and put you in Jannah
For this thing, yes.
It's hard to to know his name is
shakur and not love him subhanahu wa ta'ala.
It's very hard. You need a very a
very, rigid heart
to hear to understand his name is shakur
and not love the fact that that's that's
that's his nature, subhanahu wa ta'ala. There are
3 ways to live with this name. I
think the most important part of understanding his
name is shakur. I think there's a lot
of verses in the Quran that talk about
this so it's not difficult to keep on
going, but I think it's really worth kind
of thinking about the piece of what we
should do. Since he does so much for
us, Subhanu wa Ta'ala, maybe we'll talk about
The first one
is being appreciative of yourself.
Praise is just the concept, it's just the
conceptualization
of shukr. It's really not the action. Shukr
is a larger word. Hamd is a part
of it. Hamd is the mental intellectual one,
where you feel that he is worthy of
praise, you see it. You acknowledge it, you
recognize it. So you say, Alhamdulillah.
It's the part of every
it's how the Quran begins. Alhamd, you praise.
Our Prophet Muhammad, he is the one who's
praised the most, before that he was Ahmed
the most praising. He carries the Ummul Qiyamah,
the banner of Alhamd
His ummah is called Alhammadun.
He prostrates under the arsh on the day
of judgment.
He prays
at that moment, and for that your begins.
The concept
of You want to jannah, the first thing
they say,
This is how we this is the mentality,
this is the attitude. But then shukr is
the actual behaviors,
It's showing it through your actions, it's proving
it through the way you live. And he
says and regarding that he says,
There's very few people who will perform shukur.
It rolls off the tongue. Yeah. Alhamdulillah.
Then I talk to someone else.
How are you doing? Because I'm.
Then I see you after a few minutes.
Hey. Doing well. Yes. Alhamdulillah. It
just it just rolls off the tongue. Yeah.
It's a beautiful part of, bhayaniyah, of our
our culture as an ummah. It's easy. Alhamdulillah.
Praise all praise to be. All praise be
to Allah. All praise to be to Allah
in all times. But shirkuh that's different.
So that requires you to actually take that
which you will
go.
You're given the nirma and then you use
it. Then you
and show propitiation to Allah. If you truly
worship him and serve him, show it by
serving others, giving it to someone who needs
it, making sure it reaches the mouth and
the hand of someone who requires it.
Said, Na'ul Gukbab,
one of his adriya was saying, Allahum Majalim
Al Kalil. And the sahab and some people
and his students will say,
make me from that kaleel.
He's stating that very few people show shukr.
Very few.
Think about that.
This is a statement.
It's a it's a divine statement
that very few people are capable of being
appreciative
for what they have and grateful and actually
using it in a way that's meaningful. Very
few. Make sure you're amongst the few.
Make sure you're amongst that few. That small
amount of people that truly feel the appreciation
for what they've got for the deal that
they've been offered, and then they actually show
it through their behaviors.
That's number 1. Number 2,
show gratitude and appreciation to people.
He says
The peep the one who does not have
show appreciation to people does not show appreciation
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. He said,
Anyone who does something good to you
or does a for
you. Meaning pay them back. Pay them back.
This is how he was
by the way. His his character you wanna
know a part of his character, like a
a central part of his character. Anytime we
do something good for you
any Sorry. Anytime anytime you did something nice
or kind to him,
he would never forget it. Every time he
saw you he'd remind you of it and
he would continue
to reward you for it. Like time and
time again until you,
you know, start begging him to stop doing
it. Like it was just one thing I
did. Yep. And whatever good he did for
you would never come up again in a
conversation.
Ever.
Not directly with you nor with someone else.
Never. Whatever good he did for you that
would it would end right there.
He was not interested in ever this, in
this ever coming up again in another conversation.
But if you did something for him, every
time he saw you, he would remind you
of the good thing you did for him
and he would thank you for it. You'd
make sure that whenever he has something, he
would send it over to you as a
gift for the time that you did that
one thing for him. Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
It's a part of his character. Why? Because
his lord is shakur, so he's shakur as
well alaihi wa sallam.
And that's how we're supposed to be in
our lives. We're supposed to show that shukur,
have that ability to not focus on the
good that we're doing for others, but the
good that others are doing for us and
they're showing appreciation. If you do that, if
you perform shukr in yourself and your life,
then Allah
will most definitely perform shukr for you.
If you show Allah if you show Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala the amount of shukr that
you are showing people that you're dealing with,
then he will do the same for you.
And Allah says, I would never accept that
his servant performs more shukr than he does.
You'll never accept that. You will always perform
more shukr than you will. So you show
shukr, he'll show you more.
And the final piece
is be sincere in what you do
because
it's almost it's borderline
rude not to.
If he's going to take your deed,
look at it, it's full of flaws and
there's a lot of problems within it. He's
going to remove all the flaws and forgive
it
and then he'll take the deed itself.
He's going to
emphasize it and multiply it and then give
you 10 or 50 or a 100 or
700 fold of reward for it,
should there not be a little bit of
sincerity in it.
If that's what he's doing for you, he's
not paying you back 1 per 1 or
1 per 10. He's doing way more than
that, jalehzair. Every single time we do a
good deed, is it not worth at least
that that deed
come as an initiative? Something that you do
from yourself. You don't have to be dragged
to do it. You don't have to be
forced to do it. You don't have to
feel. Don't make it seem as if you're
you didn't die. This is just another burden
that you're carrying. It doesn't look very nice.
When he's giving this much bat for it
Any other deal in dunya, you would be
much happier. In dunya, if you were being
given this type of deal, then you would
be happy to give this No problem. All
smiles and all enthusiasm. Because you're getting so
much back for the small investment that you're
giving. Allah subhanahu wa'ala is doing that all
the time, and yet we show him these
actions, and these
these rituals,
and these acts of obedience that that are
filled with flaw, that lack sincerity, that lack
any form of enthusiasm
and desire.
Yet he's telling I'm going to multiply
by many folds. I'm going to perform shukr
for you if you do it. So it's
and taking initiative
and taking initiative