Ammar Alshukry – Allahs Beautiful Names – How To Make Your Family Blessed – Al Quddoos
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The holy spirit is praised for purifying actions and worship, increasing goodness, and being recognized as the most famous witness. The speaker discusses the importance of praising actions as a way to increase one's life and personal growth, and emphasizes the need for the most famous witness to be recognized. They share takeaways from the name, including the holy spirit being a choice and the most beautiful things about the name being actions of the people. They emphasize protecting people's rights and ask for the most famous witness to be recognized.
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Al Qudus, the holy, the blessed.
If you want your family to be blessed,
this is a way you have to know.
Al Qudus is the holy, the pure, and
the blessed. The first meaning of is purity.
And so Baytul Maqdis is called the purified
house.
Means to purify or to sanctify. And so
when Allah
is a it indicates that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala is the one who's pure in his
essence, and he's the one who's sanctified by
his creation. When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells
the angels that he's gonna create on this
earth in Surat Al Baqarah A Khalifa, they
said,
Are you gonna create on this earth those
who would create mischief and spill blood?
While we exalt you with praise and
we meaning we sanctify you. And so Bayt
al Maqdis is the purified house and Al
Quds is the purified city and Al Ard
al Muqaddisa is the holy land. And Ruul
Qudus, the angel Jibril, is the holy spirit.
And so this name inspires that we purify
our hearts, that we purify our actions, and
that we purify our worship because Allah
But there's also a second meaning to this.
You know, I'll be honest that when
I learned this second meaning,
went from
one level of rotation to a very high
level of rotation in my dua, because
also means the blessed.
And so
is not just the holy
sanctuary or the sacred house, but the blessed
house. And
says not just the holy land, but it's
the blessed land. And Arruaa Al Qudus is
not just the holy spirit, but the blessed
spirit. And Al Qudsa is not just the
holy city, but it's the blessed city. And
what does blessed mean? What does baraka even
mean? Baraka means
It means an increase of goodness.
And so anytime you want an increase in
goodness, you call upon Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
by his name Al Quddus.
So if I want Baraka in my risk,
I call upon Allah
by his name. If I want barakah in
my relationships, then I call Allah by his
name. You want your lifespan to be blessed,
you ask Allah
by his name.
We want blessings in every aspect of our
lives, and so we should be calling upon
Allah
by his beautiful name.
And so what are some of the takeaways
of this name? The first that I want
you to know, Salman al Farsi and Abu
Darda were paired together by the prophet
and Abu Darda was a scholar from the
onset. He was a jurist. He was a
judge. He was a reciter of the Quran.
And it said that he's one of the
few that memorized the entire Quran during the
night time of the prophet
So him and Salman were incredibly close, and
their interactions and the narrations and the stories
are very beautiful. But one I'm about to
share with you, Abu Darda becomes a judge
in Damascus, and Salman al Farsi is on
the other side of the Muslim frontier. He's
in Iraq. And Abu Darda writes a letter
to Salman saying,
He says come to the holy land. It
makes sense. Right? Like who of us wouldn't
wanna live in one of the cities that
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, one of the lands
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala blessed. But Salman
writes a letter back to him and he
says,
He said land doesn't make anybody holy.
He said, but the thing that makes a
person holy
is their actions.
That's reported by Imam Malik in the Muftah.
So what Salman is reminding Abu Garda and
teaching us is that it's not about where
you live. You know, you can have up
one person who's growing up in the shade
of the Kaaba,
could be living there their whole lives, and
they could be incredibly distant from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. And then you can have another
person who's living in Sin City,
Las Vegas,
and
they could be a walking walli of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. They could be a close
friend of Allah.
Land doesn't make anybody holy. What makes a
person holy is their actions. You know, I
have a a poem that I wrote about
the story of Sedman years ago that goes,
the scent of the city is beloved to
me, my home built on the Silk Road
at the intersection of art and brilliance.
We worship with passion. Our fires are always
kindled, and I am its keeper in a
land of princes, poets, and sages that captured
fantasy for ages, the marvel of mankind, Persia.
And yet beyond the wisdom of philosophers and
the luxury of our carpets and linen and
the beauty of our women that is paradise
on earth,
but places
don't make people holy. And so that paradise
I left, and it was a choice I
would make a 1000 times again as I
wandered the Arabian desert. My diet transformed
to one of dates in discolored water in
a place that has nothing except something that's
worth everything.
My nobility stripped from me, entering a new
life as the most peculiar slave, For the
strangest slave is the one who chooses bondage
to be free,
chooses bondage in a foreign land,
all for the chance of laying wary eyes
on a man if but a glance will
guide me to be free.
And when I see
him and bask in his presence,
it will all be worth it. They say
that my story is of the greatest tales
that has inspired generations of truth seekers. I
tell them,
places don't make people holy.
It is our actions that do. Remember that.
And the last thing that I want you
to know
is what is reported by Ibn Majah. The
prophet when
the Muslims who had migrated to Abyssinia came
back and they came back to Medina. They
had left in Mecca. Years later, they came
back after the prophet
had migrated to Medina.
And asked them a very beautiful question, which
is what was the most amazing thing that
you saw in the land of And so
a man responded to the prophet and he
said,
the most amazing thing that we saw is
there was a nun who was walking by
and she was carrying a vessel of water
on her head.
And a young man from behind her, he
pushed her down
until the vessel broke.
And when the lady got up, she said,
you will come to know, oh traitor, talking
to the young man who pushed her, that
on the day of judgment, when Allah
sets up the
and hands and feet talk about what they
used to earn,
you will come to know about this affair
between me and you very soon.
She's threatening this young man with the day
of judgement. On the day of judgement we're
gonna find out.
We're gonna solve this problem between me and
you on the day of judgement, not now,
on the day of judgement.
And so Raulullah
comments on this, and he says,
She's spoken the truth. She's spoken the truth.
How can Allah
How can Allah purify? How can Allah bless
a people
who their
the weak of them do not have a
mechanism to secure their rights from the strong.
And so the lesson is,
if you want your family to be blessed,
if you want your community to be blessed,
if you want your country to be blessed,
no matter what country you're from, and you
say, God bless this land,
then you have to realize
the prophet is saying, how can Allah bless
a community
where the marginalized,
where the weak
do not have a mechanism to secure their
rights from the strong. So the takeaway that
we have from this name is that if
I want my family to be blessed, I
have to make sure that
the strong in my family
do not override and overrule and overrun those
who are weak. We all have people in
our family. Some are the dominant personalities. Some
are the strong personalities.
We have to make sure that the weak
amongst us also are able to secure their
rights. We all have communities that are stronger
than others in our societies. We have to
make sure that the weak amongst us are
able to secure their rights because otherwise the
prophet says,
how can Allah bless a people
who do not give the weak a mechanism
to secure their rights from the strong? We
ask Allah
to
free Al Quds. We ask Allah
to free Al Quds. And we ask Allah
to bless our lives and bless our families
and bless our nations wherever we are.