Allahs Beautiful Names – How To REMOVE Fears and GAIN Security – Al Mumin

Al Mu'min, the remover of fear.

How many things could have gone terribly wrong

today but didn't? Even a small decision, like

taking your next step, has some element of

doubt. Al Mu'min has two meanings. Linguistically,

the first is to believe.

The brothers of Yusuf, they tell their father,

after they lied to him about a wolf

eating Yusuf,

but you would not believe us even if

we were telling the truth.

You don't believe us. The second meaning is

to grant security. Allah says

and made them safe from their fear in

Surat Quresh recounting the favor over Quresh. And

so the name of Allah subhanahu ta'ala Mu'min

includes 2 things. Number 1, Allah subhanahu ta'ala

is the one who fulfills his promises. Allah

doesn't break his promises.

And we know that Allah promises the believers

with forgiveness and mercy in paradise, and Allah

promises those who do evil that they'll be

punished. Does that mean that every person who

does evil and falls under that threat will

be punished? Or are there some promises that

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala makes that he does

not fulfill? You have to understand that there

are 2 types of promises. There's a promise

of reward, what's called a and a promise

of punishment which is called a. It's always

praiseworthy to fulfill your promises of reward and

it is blameworthy to not fulfill them. However,

fulfilling a promise of punishment

may at times be praiseworthy, and at times

it could be praiseworthy to not fulfill it.

For example, you have a father who has

a son who's not doing well at school,

and he says you're only doing poorly because

you are not applying yourself at all. You're

always wasting your time with this or that.

So this is what I'm gonna do. This

semester,

if you get the marks that I know

you can get, if you get me straight

a's, then I'll take you to that adventure

park that you always wanted to go to.

Right? That's the promise of reward. But if

I even smell the scent of a bee,

not only will you not go to that

adventure park, but you're gonna be grounded, you're

not gonna be able to go anywhere for

a month.

So the father has given both a promise

of reward and a promise of punishment.

Both.

Now, let's say his young son

is motivated

and he's working harder than he's ever worked.

And every time his father sees him, he

sees him exerting more effort than he's ever

exerted before. His nose buried in a book.

He's always working on his homework. And at

the end of the marking period, the boy

comes rushing home

with glee. He's so excited with his report

card. And when he opens it up, his

father looks and he sees a a

a a straight ace.

The child is bouncing off of the walls.

Baba, we're gonna go to adventure park.

And his father

looks at him and goes, just kidding. Sorry.

I was only kidding about the Adventure Park.

He's broken a promise of reward.

Is that praiseworthy or blameworthy?

Obviously, that's brayeworthy. There's no scenario

where breaking a promise of reward is praiseworthy.

But let us reimagine that the boy is

coming back home.

He's super excited and his father opens it

up and he sees

2 A's,

4 B's.

Now the father had swore that if he

smells the scent of a bee, that child

is going to be grounded.

But imagine he looks at his son and

he says to him, you know what? I

know that I promised that you would be

punished, but I just want to let you

know I'm still gonna take you to Adventureland

and I'm proud of you because you worked

harder than you've ever worked before and you

actually applied yourself. He still broke his promise,

but he broke a promise of punishment.

Is he praiseworthy in doing that? Yes, he

might be. So when the law subhanahu ta'ala

promises those who commit sins, when he promises

them punishment, it's a conditional promise that he

may fulfill or he may not, and he's

praiseworthy and not fulfilling it in mercy and

forgiveness.

The secondary meaning of Al Mu'min is the

one who grants

and aman, the one who grants safety and

security.

And so it's a name to be pronounced

on the tongue of anybody who's feeling fear.

Safety is one of the greatest blessings that

people forget to appreciate and pay attention to.

And yet, were it to be removed from

any society would cause massive displacement

and relocation. The prophet

says, whoever of you wakes up safe in

their dwelling, healthy in their body with enough

food for today, then it's as if they

have the world rolled out for them, the

hadithas in Timothy.

So after waking up, the prophet

mentions the blessing of safety.

Everything else that we do, everything that we

gather is useless without safety. War is the

great negator. I am from Sudan. And in

the past year, the city of Khartoum has

been emptied out by war, an image

that in my wildest dreams I could never

have imagined. There was a time in my

life growing up that I thought and I

would have believed 100% and I had reason

to that Khartoum was the safest city in

the world. Giving rights to strangers

in your car in a city that large

was normal behavior. Murders were unheard of. Armed

robbery, almost nonexistent.

But when war breaks out,

everyone leaves.

All of the retirement projects, all of the

assets, all of the homes,

everything that they were building over their lifetimes

or over multiple generations that they hope to

pass to their children or their children's

children becomes erased. And their entire existence, their

dreams, their history, their families, their stories

becomes enveloped by a single word, refugee.

A person who's seeking refuge from violence.

The gift of safety is one of the

greatest gifts that we can experience,

that you can go about your day going

to work or school and not worry about

the people you left at home. Allah says,

Do they not see that we made Makkah

a safe sanctuary

while people are being taken away all around

them? People are being snatched up all around

them? In falsehood do they believe or in

the favor of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala do

they disbelieve?

As we look at much of the Ummah

and we see conflict and occupation and see

proxy wars and see the tension and oppression,

If you and your family are in safety

and security,

then make sure to be grateful. Make sure

to be grateful. Thank Allah

for that blessing. And so finally, how do

we interact with his name? How do we

interact with the name Al Mu'min? Give security

to others. The prophet

says in hadith, it's reported by

He says, By Allah, they don't believe. By

Allah, they don't believe. By Allah, they don't

believe. Three times the prophet

is saying he's negating perfection of iman from

this person. Who is it, You Rasulullah?

He says

He says the one who their neighbor does

not feel he does not

He doesn't feel safe. So the prophet

is using similar wordings, iman and aman. That

person who their neighbor does not feel safe

from their evil.

How can you expect

safety from Allah on the day of judgment

if your neighbor does not feel safe from

you? And so the Muslim neighbor is supposed

to be the best neighbor. I want you

to ask yourself this question. If I were

to survey

the neighbors

of the Muslims, our Masjid, our Islamic centers,

what would they say? Do they feel safe

from our evil? I hope so. I don't

wanna bring up the negative, but a a

memory that always stayed with me growing up

in New York was an elderly Italian woman

who was a neighbor to a masjid that

was just a small house. And so she

lived in the house next door. And every

Friday at 12 o'clock, she would go and

she would guard her driveway

because

Muslims were gonna start parking there as they

tried to get to Jumah. And I remember

one time I was walking to the Masjid,

I was a block away, and I could

see this man because he was rushing to

Jum'ah because the started, he actually blocked her

driveway. And he got out of the car

and he was rushing to the and it

was the moment that she had been preparing

for. So she started screaming and she's like,

hey. Hey. That's my driveway.

And he was like, okay. And then she

said, I'm gonna call the cops.

And then in that moment, he became defiantly

arrogant, and he said, We'll call them then.

And he walked into the masjid.

In that moment,

we failed

to protect our community's neighbor from our evil.

And the prophet

said, that person does not believe whoever's neighbor

is not safe from their evil. So if

you want to experience

security

and a man from Al Mu'min, then make

sure that you grant security

evil.

evil.