Ammar Alshukry – The Five Names of the Prophet Muhammad
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The concept of "naughty names" is discussed, with Houston's h town and Clutch's city being examples. The Arabs had a lot of names for things like h town, space city, and Clutch city, and the name "naughty names" is due to greatness. The speaker discusses various names for Jesus, including Alaysha, Alayshi, Alaysib, Alaysib, Alaysib, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Alaysir, Al
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Number 1, we'll start with the names of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. How many
names does the prophet have?
He has 5.
And there's a concept which the Arabs had,
which is that the more names something has,
it indicates the greatness of something.
The more name something has, it indicates its
greatness. It's just natural. If something is great,
people talk about it a lot. If people
talk about it a lot, they'll come up
with a lot of names for it. So
for example, Houston has
h town and space city
and
Clutch city. Clutch city.
Bayou City. Bayou City. Bayou City. What is
it? That's hallahu,
city.
That's hallahu's in.
Halafu we ended at 4.
And beyond the first two it got shaky
to be honest. Right out of the way.
But I'm sure Houston has more
nicknames than League City for example because Houston
is a major city. Right? You go to
LA, LA has a lot of names. New
York has a lot of names. London has
a lot of names. Like, this this
the Arabs
were no different.
You have a lot of names for the
lion because the lion was the king of
beasts. It's the greatest beast. And so you
have Alaith and Usam and Haydaran,
Qavamfar
and the names go on.
Then you have the Arabs used to have
a lot of names for the sword because
the sword was something that was, you know,
very important in their culture.
Had a lot of names for wine.
Same idea. Right? So if I'm looking at
a culture from the outside, I can kind
of guess what are things that were important
to them just by the amount of names
something has. You find out that for example,
the Eskimos have a lot of names for
snow,
something that dominates their culture.
In the US for example,
money has a lot of names. Give me
some names for money.
Bread.
Bread. Dinero.
Dough, moolah.
Cash.
Greenbacks.
Greenbacks.
Wax.
Lotion. Lotion? Lotion. Motion.
I've never heard some of these before.
Stacks,
Benjamins,
bread, dough, cheese,
cake.
Right? Cake?
No.
What else?
Racks. Yeah. Racks.
Capital.
So you see, like, there's so much
for
money. There's so much for money because it's
something that people are always talking about. They
come up with a lot of names.
Don't don't look at the Arabs funny because
they have a lot of names for swords.
I'm sure we have even more names for
guns in the US.
We have probably as many names for wine
and alcohol as the Arabs of old did.
Same idea. So it's very, very so it
indicates the greatness of something.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because he's the greatest
period, he has an unknown number of names.
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam says in the
hadith that's in Bukhari Muslim.
Allah has 99 names, a 100 except for
1, but there are other evidences that indicate
that Allah has even more than that. Allah
has even more than that.
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam has 5 names.
The day of judgement being that it's the
greatest day has many names.
Like many many many names. Over 50 names
in the Quran for the day of judgement
because it's the greatest day. So I just
wanna I just wanna establish this concept that
having a lot of names indicates greatness. And
so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam mentions,
authentically reported, he says I have 5 names.
He says I have 5 names. Number 1,
the first is my I am Hammed and
I am Hammed.
And both of these come from the concept
of hamt, praise.
Because the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is
the praiseworthy,
and he's the one who praises Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala the most.
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, if he experienced
something that was good, he would say alhamdulillah.
And if he experienced something bad,
unpleasant, disliked, he would say alhamdulillah.
All praise is due to Allah in all
circumstances.
And Rasulullah salallahu alaihi salam's ummah is the
one who praises Allah
the most. We're the ones who you know,
the world right now is looking at and
saying these people are amazing. How are how
are they saying praise be to God even
as they're going through hardship?
But it's the ummah of Muhammad that
does that. That we say when we experience
something great, we say alhamdulillah. When we say
experience something painful we say Alhamdulillah in all
circumstances. All praise is due to Allah always.
So Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wa sallam praises Allah
the most. That's his first and second. Muhammad
and Ahmed the third
is
Al Aqib.
He is Al Aqib.
There is no prophet after him. He's the
final prophet. Aqib is the end of something.
And so your ankles are called your
your
but it's it's the end of a place.
And so the prophet
is an
there is no prophet after him. And he
says I am Al Mahi.
Al Mahi means the one who effaces,
erases,
eviscerates.
And he says, I am the one through
whom Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala effaces disbelief,
wipes out disbelief.
Some considered some scholars considered that that speaking
specifically about the Arabian Peninsula,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala erased
disbelief from the Arabian Peninsula
during the time of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam and after
him. Another position is that this is near
the
rasulullah sallahu alaihi wa sallahu alaihi wa sallam's
message is going to face kufr. Like, before
the end, the prophet
mentioned that this deen will enter everywhere that
the night and day enter, all over the
globe.
Number 5, the 5th name is Al Hashir
Al Hashir,
The one whom everyone will be resurrected at
his feet on the day of judgment.
And so these are the 5 names of
Rasulullah
There are other names, of course, that are
very popular
like Baha, Yaseen.
They're attributed to be names of Rasulullah
but there's no evidence to indicate that Paha
or Yaseen are actually names of Allah. There's
no evidence.
Yaseen and Paha. They're very very popular, probably
of the most popular. And
what's
authentic, however,
is that these are
they are what are called the broken letters
at the beginning of the chapters of the
Quran.
And the.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
begins a number of chapters with broken letters
and that's a different subject of the science
of the Quran, what those broken letters are
considered to be. But they're broken letters
or interrupted letters or however you want to
call them. Maybe broken letters isn't the best
way to translate it, but they're interrupted letters
at the beginning of chapters.
Any questions on this so far?
Yeah. Mahmood and Mustafa. These are all praises.
These are all praises of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, but there's nothing authentically reported
to say that his name is Mustafa or
his name is Mahmood. Mustafa means he's the
one who's chosen. And there are lots of
names by the way that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala uses to describe the prophet. But there
are descriptions of the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
Like these are all, a witness or a
bashir or a nadeer. These are all descriptions
of the prophet
that come in the Quran, but there's nothing
that indicate that it is an actual name
of his.
Yes, Ashar. So is
not a name. It's what's called a a.
It's, a nickname.
So the Arabs had 3 types of names.
They had what's called a. They had a,
and they have a,
they had a.
So you have a name.
Your name is Ahmed, for example. And then
you have a nickname. The nickname is whatever
people call you.
And then you have a, and a is
attributed with Abu or ibn or
or
bint. So you have these types of
these types of names and these were generally
honorific titles.
So you don't call a person by their
first name, for example. Here in the US,
until recently, it used to be calling people
by their last name, mister so and so,
miss so and so, if you wanted to
be more respectful. Right? So they had that
kind of concept. Until today, amongst the Arabs,
it's awkward for you to call somebody by
their first name, especially if they're old or
something. And so using a is something that's
more honorable, something that's more respected
or more more respectable.