Allahs Beautiful Names – How To Make Your Family Blessed – Al Quddoos

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

and bless our nations wherever we are.

and bless our nations wherever we are.