Allahs Beautiful Names – Why Allah DELAYS Your Punishment – Al Haleem
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Channel: Ammar Alshukry
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The speaker discusses Allah's forbearance, which is a way to show weakness and forbrowsers. They also discuss Allah's forbearance with those who don't do what Allah is forbearance for, and how he gives them comfort until an appointed time. The importance of forbearance and leadership in the Muslim world is emphasized, along with the use of forbearance to increase one's power and increase one's confidence.AI Generated Transcript ©
Al Halim, the forbearing.
There's a divine quality only a very special
group of people demonstrate when someone does something
they don't like. Forbearance is patient self control,
restraint and tolerance. And so Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala named himself Al Halim,
indicates to us that he delays punishing us.
Imam Al Ghazali said, Al Halim is the
one who witnesses you committing a sin, disobeying
him, observing disobedience
to him, yet anger doesn't incite him nor
does wrath seize him, nor do haste and
recklessness move him to rush to take vengeance,
even though he's utterly capable of doing that.
Forbearance is something that is praiseworthy when it's
paired with knowledge. Otherwise, if a person doesn't
have knowledge in their forbearance, that's just being
naive. Allah
appears knowledge with forbearance.
Allah says,
And Allah knows what is in your heart,
and Allah is ever knowing and forbearing. So
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala appears knowledge with forbearance.
He knows what's in our hearts, and he
is forbearance
even while knowing. Forbearance is that you show
restraint with those who are weaker than you.
It's easy to show restraint to those who
are stronger than you. That's why even those
with anger issues show restraint in the face
of a judge or a police officer or
a boss at work. The value though and
virtue is that a person shows that same
restraint and more to their spouse, to their
children, to their students, to their employees,
I e the people that you have power
over. Allah
in the powerful verse he says,
Allah holds the heavens and the earth that
they cease and they would cease if anyone
other than Allah
helped them, and Allah
is
Allah is forbearing and forgiving.
Comments on this verse and he says, this
verse indicates that the heavens and the earth,
they would seek to cease to exist due
to the sins that humanity commits. And Allah
continues to hold them in place due to
his forgiveness
and his forbearance. If anyone else was in
control of the heavens and the earth, we
would have been destroyed by now. We see
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's forbearance with the disbelievers.
The promise
says in Bukhari, no one is more patient
than Allah
with harm that he hears. They ascribe children
to him, and yet he gives them health
and he gives them provision. We see Allah
forbearance with the disobedient. Allah
If Allah
were to punish people for what they had
earned, he would not leave a moving living
creature on the surface of the earth. Everything
would be destroyed, but he gives them respite
until an appointed time. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
gives us all respite until an appointed time.
That is from the forbearance of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. We see Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's
forbearance with those who don't do what Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala commands or encourages. So for
example, on the topic of charity and we're
in the month of charity, Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
says,
Allah says if you loan Allah a goodly
loan, he will multiply it for you and
forgive you, and Allah is shakur
and he is halim.
Allah is shakur. Shakur means to increase. Allah
will increase you, and Allah
is halim. Allah is forbearing. And so Allah
promises
those who give him a goodly loan. He's
inviting us to give him a goodly loan,
and he says that if you do so,
2 things will happen.
Will multiply it and he will forgive you
your sins.
That is an incredible offer from Allah, but
then he ends the verse that's saying he
is shakurun halim. Shakur means the one who
increase. Allah will increase you. But then number
2, Allah
says that he's haleem, he's forbearing.
The offer is on the table
and we are still so hesitant to take
Allah
on that offer. We're sitting there hesitating, should
I donate this money or should I not
donate this money? Should I give this money
or should I not give this money?
Whenever you make someone an incredible offer
and they drag their feet,
it's very easy to get frustrated. In fact,
it's very easy to get angry. Now, I
want you to imagine a kid who got
a full ride scholarship to the best college
in the entire world. The best program. It's
a full ride scholarship.
Everything is paid for. They're not going to
have to want for anything. And his parents
are super excited. They're overwhelmed. They're incredibly grateful
that this child, their child, has has gotten
this opportunity. And I want you to imagine
that they're like, I'm gonna think about it.
I'm not really I don't wanna go.
What do you mean? It's the best program
in the world. People spend 100 of 1,000
of dollars to go. And you're saying, no,
no, I wanna stay I wanna go to
the local university because my friends are going
there. Could you
imagine that child's parents, how they would respond
to that child's hesitation
at taking advantage of that offer? And so
Allah is the highest example.
Allah makes us these offers
of forgiveness. Allah
makes us this offer of multiplication.
And we still hesitate with regards to the
donation of money. And so Allah
ends the verse saying that he is
that Allah will increase and Allah is forbearing.
He is forbearing with our hesitancy
and resistance to separating with our money when
he is making us such an offer. Adorning
ourselves with this attribute of is a really
important element of leadership.
The saying goes
the ignorant person is not a leader amongst
their people, but the leader has to feign
ignorance. You have to overlook. You have to
forget. That is praiseworthy and that's what any
leader must do. And one of the most
successful leaders of the Muslim world was one
of the most forbearance and that was Amirul,
meaning Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan
So ibn Abi Dunya, he narrates that Abdullah
ibn Zubayr sent a very harsh letter to
Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan.
May Allah be pleased with them both.
And Mu'awiya, he shows the letter to Yazid,
his son, and he says, what do you
think? And Yazid says, even if you if
you were equals, you shouldn't have accepted that
language from him. And you're the kareefah.
You're not even his equal. And so that's
even less reason for you to for him
to speak to you that way. So Mahalia
says to him, so what do you think?
And Yazid says, what I think
is that you should send him 40,000 soldiers.
That's what I think. Ma'am, well how many
feedbacks would that need for the horses? And
he says around 40,000.
Each one of them will cost the dirham.
So Ma'am says, okay. So scribe,
come here.
Write to ibn Zubayr that Amir ul Mu'mini,
the commander of the faithful, has written for
you 30,000 dirhams for your needs.
Ibn Zubayr would eventually write him back, they've
reached me, oh, Amirul Mumineen.
May Allah have mercy on you. So, Mohammad
Abu Sufiyad, he calls his son Yazid, and
he says, look, we saved 10,000 feedbacks, Yazid.
Yazid, of course, is had
clashes
actually
happened with Abdul would have ballooned had clashes
actually happened with Abdul Lai bin Zubair. And
even if they didn't, but Muawiyah instead is
suffocating his ego and spending less than that
to keep the peace. And that's a trait
that makes somebody a leader. Muawiyah is
like, okay. You think sending 40,000 soldiers is
what's get the job done? I'll spend less
than that. I'll give 30,000 dirhams
or 30,000 dirhams rather to Abdulai Bismuth as
a gift.
And that will solve the problem that you
had wanted to solve with soldiers.
But the reason why he was able to
do that is because of the incredible
forbearance of Ma'awi ibn B Sufyan. So how
can forbearance be acquired? How does a person
have? Number 1 is by exercising it. The
prophet
said
that knowledge comes by learning it and forbearance
comes by practicing it. It beautifies the one
who adorns themselves with it. And finally, the
last thing that I'll mention is that is
an attribute that beautifies a person. Imam al
Shafi'i, he famously said,
He says, fools speak to me with all
vulgarity.
So I hate to respond likewise in turn.
The increase in their vulgarity, I increase in
my patience.
Like incense that becomes more fragrant when burned.
So may Allah
overlook our faults,
protect us from the harm of our sins,
and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'alaal Halim grant
that He loves.
that He loves.