Ammar Alshukry – Allahs Beautiful Names #18 Key To Open Every Door Of Success – Al Fattah
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The speaker discusses the meaning of Al Fata', the perpetualbed author of the book Surah Saba, and his use of guidance to unlock people's hearts and opportunities. The speaker also discusses the importance of pursuing the bounty of Islam and not leaving the material world until we reach the bounty of Islam. The speaker also discusses the importance of unlocking people's hearts to achieve their ambitions and achieve their dreams.
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Al Fata' the perpetual opener.
This is a name
that everybody who cares about a person
accepting
Islam should use and call upon. Al Fata'
is the perpetual opener. He's the one who
unlocks our hearts, unlocks our minds, and unlocks
the opportunities in front of us. And it
appears in Surah Saba when Allah says
Our Lord will bring us together, then he
will judge between us in truth, and he
is the knowing judge.
Al Fattah is the one who unlocks guidance.
The first meaning of Al Fattah that I
want you to know is that he is
the one who unlocks guidance. In the hadith
reported by Muslim, the prophet
said that Allah
said,
Oh my servants, all of you are misguided,
except those who I guided. So ask me
for guidance, and I will guide you. The
stories of the conversions of the companions are
too many to count, and the ways where
they were guided were just as varied. There
were those who Islam entered into their hearts
due to hearing the Quran, like.
There were those who accepted Islam because of
rational arguments such
as There were those who accepted Islam because
of
emotion
and protective instinct over their family, like Hamzib
ibn Abdul Muqtareb. Allah is a and he's
the one who opens the hearts to guidance.
So this is a name to be pronounced
on the tongue of anybody who wants guidance
for someone
or for themselves. The mother who worries constantly
about her children, fearing their distance from the
deen, calls out to
unlock their hearts to guidance. The convert who's
tasted the sweetness of faith and wants it
to be sweeter still by having their family
members join them in the truth that they've
discovered. And, yes, the superfan who follows this
athlete or influencer or personality and is so
impressed by them and supports them should realize
that the greatest support they could ever give
them is to ask Allah
to open their hearts to what will give
them happiness in this life and the next.
Is the one who opens up our hearts
to guide us. But number 2, is the
one who opens up the gates of mercy.
And so when you enter into the Masjid,
you say,
oh, Allah open up for me the gates
of your mercy because the masajid are the
the embassies of Jannah. They're the places where
you expect to experience mercy from
And these are the most beloved places to
Allah. And it's not a place that you
enter for any benefit of the dunya. Al
Fata' is the one who opens up the
gates of mercy and messaged our beautiful places
where you experience it. So number 3, Al
Fata' is the one who opens up the
gates of his bounty. And so when you're
actually leaving the Masjid, then you say,
Allah open for me the gates of your
bounty. Because when you're going out into the
world, I've left the masjid, the masjid is
a place of mercy. It's not a place
with the dunya. But when I go out
to the dunya, I wanna conquer the dunya.
I wanna be successful in every avenue of
human endeavor. If I'm a student, I wanna
be incredibly successful in my studies. Whatever realm
of endeavor I am in, I wanna go
out into this world and I wanna be
excellent in it. And so you ask as
you're leaving the Masjid, you say,
and Allah
says
This dichotomy
is very beautifully presented in Surat Al Jumah.
Allah says, when the call for prayer has
been done, then leave the dunya and come
to the remembrance of Allah
But Allah says,
When the prayer has been concluded,
disperse within the land and seek from the
bounty of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And remember Allah
a lot.
That you may be successful. So when you
leave the Masjid, you wanna go out and
you wanna seek the world, wanna seek the
bounty of Allah
and when you're leaving, you say,
or you say,
Oh, Allah, I'm asking you from your bounty
because now you want to go out into
this world. You wanna achieve your ambitions. So
you ask Allah
to grant you that bounty. Number 4, is
the one who opens up the gates of
knowledge and understanding. When you look at some
of the greatest and most prolific scholars in
the history of Islam, we would do well
to recognize that they didn't just rely on
their brilliance, but sought understanding and knowledge from
Allah.
As Shafi'i, he complained to Waqi'i, his teacher
famously, about his weakness of his memory, and
he
was told by Waqiya to leave sins, and
he codified it in poetry. He said,
says, I complained to about the poorness of
my memory, and leaving sins is what he
guided me to address. And he told me
that this knowledge is light, and the light
of Allah is not given to those who
transgress. And Sheikh whose
memory was also incredible,
he didn't rely though on his own intelligence.
And if something was unclear to him, he
would say,
Oh you who taught Adam and Ibrahim, teach
me. And oh you who gave Suleyman understanding,
give me understanding. Because Allah
says,
Allah gave Adam the knowledge of the names.
And Allah
says, we gave Suleyman understanding of an issue.
And so he's
invoking Allah
Like you gave them understanding, give me understanding.
Like you gave them knowledge, give me knowledge.
The point here is that he's sourcing his
knowledge from Allah
He's sourcing knowledge from Al Fata'a. This is
a name to be requested by every writer,
every creative, every artist, every student,
everyone who's standing at the gates of knowledge
or understanding. And finally,
is the one who guides us at the
end. The prophet
says, if Allah desires good for a person,
he sweetens them. He said, how are they
sweetened, You Rasulullah?
He said, Allah opens.
He opens for them an act of goodness
before they pass away, and then he takes
them upon the action. Finally, how does a
person engage with this name?
Number 1, Tuhhid, the prophet
said, there's never a person who sincerely says,
there's nothing worthy of worship except Allah, except
that the doors of the heavens are open
for them until that statement ascends to the
throne as long as they avoid the major
sins. And the hadith is reported by Timothy.
Also number 2, taqwa. Allah
says, if the people of the towns had
belief and taqwa,
we would have opened up for them from
the heavens and the earth. But they denied
the messengers, so he seized them for what
they were earning. And so iman and taqwa
become a means of the opening of the
doors of Allah's
blessings. Allah
opens up blessings from the heavens and the
earth. And so these are 2 ways, but
then there's a third, and that is to
be an unlocker of goodness. Said,
there are some people who are unlockers of
goodness and lockers of evil. And there are
some people who are lockers of goodness
and unlockers of evil. So glad tidings be
for everybody who's an unlocker of goodness and
will be for everybody who's an unlocker of
evil. May Allah
open up our hearts to guidance. May Allah
open up our hearts to understanding. And may
Allah open up for us the doors of
goodness in this life and the next.