Hisham Jafar Ali – Names Of Allah And His Attributes #0 Introduction Allah
AI: Summary ©
The speakers discuss the title of the book of Allah and the importance of learning from its names and behavior to deal with others. They also discuss the use of names in the Bible and the use of words in Arabic to describe oneself. The speakers emphasize the importance of understanding the names of Allah's elements and the use of words in Arabic to describe oneself. They also mention the use of words in Arabic to describe oneself and the importance of knowing who Allah is.
AI: Summary ©
Everybody for attending this session and the start
of this series
on one of the greatest topics and the
greatest subjects that anybody could ever study.
And that is the subject of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
And there is no greater thing to study,
there's no greater subject to study, nothing greater
we can understand beyond Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says in the Quran,
and to Allah belong the most beautiful names,
so call him using those names.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
says in the Quran, as was just recited
in Salah.
Oh, believers be conscious of
Allah. And everybody should look at what they
have prepared for the day of judgment and
be conscious of
Allah is all aware of what you do
and then Allah begins a few verses later
to describe his beautiful names from start to
end
And so the topic that we are studying
is one of the greatest topics in the
Quran and one of the topics most frequently
studied.
And if we were to start with a
story,
let us start with the story of Musa,
alayhis salam.
When Musa Alaihi Salam
at the age of around 40 is given
his mission to be a prophet
and is given the very difficult problem of
going and standing up to the tyrant,
the dictator of his time, Firaun.
You can imagine that this man Musa alaihis
salam is very scared
because he's standing against not just a man
but an army
and he's one man.
And how does Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala prepare
him to stand up to Firaun?
When Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala communicates to Musa
for the first time,
and he reveals to Musa for the first
time.
The first thing Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says
to him
is that he introduces himself to Musa.
When Musa alaihis salam sees the burning tree
and he comes close to the tree,
Musa alaihis
salam hears the words of Allah.
As Allah says
The first thing Allah says to Musa,
Musa,
you should know
it is me.
I am Allah.
There's nothing you should reach to in your
times of difficulty except me.
So
be in service of me and establish salah
to remember
me. The first thing the first speech Allah
gives to Musa is I am Allah.
And we won't realize
the weight of this statement
until we understand what does Allah really mean.
This sentence, I am Allah, was enough to
make Musa stand alone in front of an
army.
To make Musa, alayhis salam, stand alone in
front of the most the biggest
dictator and the most fearsome man on the
planet, the statement I am Allah was enough
to motivate him because he knew who he
was doing it for.
Many of us, our lives, we live them
on autopilot
like zombies.
We wake up in the morning
and we go through our routine and we
sleep at night.
And in the day, in the busyness and
the hecticness of the day, there is not
a moment where we remember what are we
doing it all for.
In fact,
according to some scholars,
the core reason Allah made us is to
know Him.
We all know this ayah.
Allah says in the Quran, I only created
humankind and jinnkind
just to worship me. Abdullah ibn Abbas radiAllahu
anhu said,
To worship me, meaning
I created them so they can know me.
Imagine that. That Allah made us and gave
us minds and eyes and ears, so that
we can get to know Allah.
That is the reason he created these faculties.
And we know so much about so many
things in this world. From the trees to
the plants
to the bricks.
But how much do we know about Allah?
We should really be ashamed of ourselves.
And this is why
when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam asked one
of his companions,
Ubayyib Nukab.
He asked him what is the greatest ayah
in the Quran? It's a very difficult question.
The Quran has so many verses and they're
all great verses. How can you choose 1?
In fact, if I take you to a
shop and I ask you to choose a
t shirt, you will take 30 minutes.
But Ubayy ibn Nukhab is asked,
choose the greatest verse in the Quran now.
And Ubayb Nukab says, I don't know. Allah
and his messenger know best. So the prophet
says, no. Tell me. What is the greatest
verse in the Quran?
And then Ubayb
Nukab
says, is it
Allah
The prophet
hit him on the chest
out of happiness,
and he said,
You have destroyed all of knowledge.
You killed it, as we say today. You
smashed it. You've done a brilliant job.
How did he know that this is the
greatest verse in the Quran?
Because this verse
describes
Allah,
and it describes Allah in the most complete
way.
That is why the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
would recite it after every prayer,
and before he slept, and in the morning
and in the evening.
If you count it, the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam would read this verse 8 times every
day
because it describes Allah.
And what better
to move a person's heart and to bring
it back to life than to remember who
it is, all of it is for. What
are we doing it all for?
So now that you know how important this
subject is,
and that this was the core focus of
the Messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam when he taught
his companions the first and the number one
and the most important thing he taught them,
who is their creator.
And he taught it to them in a
way they could relate. One day in Madinah,
a woman lost her child. And back in
the day, they didn't have lost and found.
They didn't have missing persons department. They didn't
have the police. So the child is lost,
the child is lost.
They didn't have GPS location either. Khalas, the
child is gone. And for days weeks, this
mom is looking for her child.
And anybody who knows what their mother is
like or any mother or any female or
sister in the audience knows
what is it like for a mother to
lose her child. Even for 10 minutes, a
mother starts to panic.
But imagine days weeks.
And one moment happened in Medina where this
woman found her child.
And when she found her child she began
running to him and crying
and sobbing,
and she grabbed her child,
and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam turned around
and all of his companions were crying just
watching the incident,
And he said to his
companions, you see this lady?
Can you imagine her burning her child in
a fire? They said,
impossible.
He said to his companions,
Allah
Allah is more merciful to you than this
mother to her child.
You see? You knew Allah was merciful, but
when he gave that example, you understood it
in a different way.
Right? This is how the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam would introduce Allah and emphasize who is
Allah to his companions.
Now coming to this topic,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam says in a
hadith, in Sahih Bukhari, and Muslim, the creme
de la creme of hadith. The most one
of the most authentic a hadith.
Allah has 99 names.
100
minus 1.
Whoever internalizes them,
I will explain this later.
They are guaranteed paradise.
Now,
this hadith with the this wording that I've
given is one of the most is in
the most authentic collections of hadith.
But there are other versions of this hadith.
There are other versions of this report that
are weak.
Meaning they are not strong in authenticity. We
cannot say that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam definitely said these words.
And these other versions of the hadith have
a list of names of Allah.
Many of you have heard the nasheed, the
song.
You've all heard this nasheed, and these 99
names are taken from these other versions of
the hadith. These hadith are all weak, according
to many scholars, including Ibn Hazm, Ibn Hajar
al Asqalani,
Ad Dawoodi, and Ibn al-'arabi al Maliki Muhammad.
So all of these many of these scholars,
they consider
this list of names to be weak. So
how did it get there? How did it
come in the hadith?
They say that this is,
this used to happen is that sometimes somebody
will narrate a hadith,
a narrator, a reporter.
He will say the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
said x y z,
and then he'll say something else from himself.
But the person listening thinks all of that
is the hadith of the prophet They call
this Mudraj. It's like imagine if I said
to you, the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam has
said,
from the goodness of a person is Islam
is
to keep their mind out of what is
not their business.
And we keep our minds in so many
people's business. You see that extra line I
added? That's not the hadith, that's from me.
But somebody could mistakenly write that as part
of the hadith and pass it on. That's
a mistake.
And so this happened.
And so when you look at all of
the narrations,
the 99 names that are written down or
that are passed on by the these narrators,
they are conflicting.
They're different. Different many different versions.
And there are 20 or 30 odd names
that are not in the Quran and not
in the sunnah,
in this list of names.
And so
many scholars said that these 99 names are
not from the hadith, not from the statement
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And so what does that mean?
That means he told us Allah has 99
names whoever internalizes them enters paradise, and that's
it. We have to go look for these
names.
Just like he told us about Laylatul Qadr,
he didn't tell us where is Laylatul Qadr.
We have to go search for Laylatul Qadr.
Similarly, many scholars understood it this way.
And of course many scholars have tried and
derived from the Quran what are these 99
names. But first here's a question.
Does this hadith mean Allah only has exactly
99 names?
Not a 105, not a 103?
How many names does Allah really have?
We'll ask all of you, what do you
think? Does Allah have exactly 99 names or
does he have more or less?
Yes, young man. Sorry?
More. Who thinks this is exactly how many
names Allah has?
Don't be shy.
If anybody gives you eyes, I will deal
with them inshallah. Share your opinion.
Uncle says, if the Prophet says 99, 99.
We follow this one.
Okay. So many scholars, when the scholars looked
at this hadith,
they concluded
Some of them said what our respected uncle
is saying, that Allah has exactly 99 names,
not more, not less.
Other scholars said no.
Because some of the narrations that came have
a 103, a 105 names.
And when some scholars collected all the names
of Allah in the Quran and so on,
they said, oh, this is more than 99.
But also, if I told you
I have a £100,
does that mean I don't have a £1,000
in another bank account?
Right? So it's not does not mean majority
of scholars have come to the conclusion Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala doesn't have exactly 99 names,
He has more. And the most clear evidence
for this is a hadith in which the
Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam used to make
dua to Allah. And he said,
Oh Allah, I ask you with every name
of yours.
Names you have given yourself.
Or names you have revealed in your scripture.
Or names you have taught somebody in your
creation,
or names which nobody knows and you have
kept a secret hidden with yourself in the
unseen.
That means there are some names of Allah
nobody will know.
It is with Allah in the unseen.
And that is the clear evidence to state
there are more names of Allah perhaps, but
we don't know all of them. However,
these 99 are the ones that will help
us enter Jannah.
These are the special 99.
What does it mean?
Whoever
Many translate this hadith to say whoever memorizes
them enters Jannah. So if your child knows
this nasheed, Allah, He
knows all
the golden ticket, VIP ticket to paradise automatically.
That's not how it works.
What does it mean?
In the Quran, Allah used this word in
many different ways.
Allah recorded it. He uses it to mean
the word recording.
He uses this word to mean
your ability,
your actions. And this is why many of
the scholars said this is what it means.
It's not about memorizing his names.
This doesn't have any value.
It's about
can you think of these names,
understand what they mean and act upon that
understanding. This is what will enter you into
jannah.
So if you know Allah is will
you cheat your neighbor in order to get
some little bit of extra money?
If you know Allah is
will you register you and your wife on
different addresses and lie to the government to
get some job seekers allowance? This is what
people do. No. You won't do that. Allah
will provide you. Why do you need to
cheat? Why do you need to steal?
So if you know Allah will provide
and you trust in his providence,
this is what will enter you into jannah.
Not just memorizing the names.
Now,
how do we deal with the names of
Allah?
How can we interact with
them? The names of Allah,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, somebody asked him,
if I'm dressed nicely,
I'm wearing Louis Vuitton and Gucci, and I'm
wearing nice clothes, brand it was looking nice
and smelling nice, does this mean I'm proud
and arrogant?
The prophet
said, no.
Allah is the most beautiful. He
loves to see beauty.
This is the first thing.
When Allah has a name,
he loves to see
his creation
trying to have some of that quality in
their lives.
If Allah is the most beautiful, he loves
to see people trying to be beautiful.
If Allah is the most patient, he loves
to see you trying to be patient
With your husband, with your wife, with your
children, when they irritate you, when they annoy
you, you are patient. Allah loves to see
that.
If Allah
is arraheem,
the most merciful, he loves to see you
being merciful.
To those who wronged you, to those who
hurt you, to those who belittle you, to
forgive them, to be merciful from them. What
does Allah say in the Quran?
Forgive and forget.
Wouldn't you like for Allah to forgive you
as well?
Do to others as you would like Allah
to do to you. So this is the
first way.
We should learn from Allah's names how to
behave with others, and how to be in
this world.
The second thing,
Allah tells us in the Quran,
call upon me using my names, and this
is a skill, and we can learn this
skill, and we will do this every lesson,
we are going to bring a dua of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, or dua
from the Quran, where they use this name
of Allah to speak to him.
Because they use it in the right way.
They use it in the correct way.
I'll give you an example.
The prime minister the queen or the prime
minister, let's say.
The prime minister drives a car. Right?
So it's fair to say the prime minister
is a driver.
Right?
But if you want something from the prime
minister, you're making a request. Would you call
him, hey driver,
can you give me some
you wouldn't. Right?
How would you call him? Your majesty, your
eminent sir, madam, you with respect.
So every name of Allah has
a place and a time to speak to
him with.
Correct?
For example,
my mother.
I can call her mama.
I can call her ummi.
I can call her my beloved.
But usually I will not call her darling.
This is something that usually husbands will call
their wives.
Right? There are certain things the husband would
call his wife and certain things a child
will call their mother. So
same person,
they have multiple names. People know them by
different names.
And so you choose the right name for
the right situation. When my mother is angry
with me, she does not say
Hish, Abu Yusuf. She says Hisham.
Hisham Jafar Ali.
What are you doing? Full name. The full
name comes when I know she's angry with
me, I start to run. Yes? So every
name has the correct situation. This is just
when we give examples in our day to
day life, this is just for us to
understand. Taqrib.
Allah is beyond all of these human interaction.
But it's the same thing.
When Suleyman alayhi salam asks Allah to give
him a gift that he has given nobody
else, he says,
You are the giver of gifts.
And you give gifts
not according to how much is in your
wallet, you give gifts as much as you
want. Allah give me, please.
See, when he wanted something from Allah, he
used the correct
name. He got it.
If you use the correct names of Allah,
it increases your chance of being accepted.
This is the second. So first way is
to when you learn the names of Allah,
bring it into your life practically. And number
2, when you learn the names of Allah,
speak to him with them. And use the
right name, in the right place, in the
right situation.
Now,
before we enter the names of Allah, there
are a few things we need to understand
about Allah's names.
The first,
what is the difference between a name of
Allah
and a description of Allah
and an action of Allah?
For example,
if somebody
drove drove a car
just one time, never again, can I call
them a driver?
No. Who's a driver?
What's a driver? Tell me.
He drives. He drives?
Often.
Very very very common. He's always driving. He
or she is always driving. So you call
this person as a driver.
Right?
So when Allah has a name, in Arabic
names mean something constant, something always there, something
permanent.
An action of Allah is something, it happens
one off or it happens occasionally.
For example, Allah says in the Quran,
They plotted against the Prophet
But Allah was plotting against them.
But Allah plotted against them.
This is a verb. It happened in the
It happened.
You will not call Allah
the plotter.
Right? It's an action of Allah. It's not
necessarily his name. He doesn't call himself as
his This is his name.
This is one important thing to understand. So
the names of Allah are things, are descriptions
that are permanently part of Allah
description. And another thing,
Allah's names,
all of them have descriptions of Allah inside
them. For example, what's your name? Ali.
When I say this man is Ali, does
it tell you anything about him?
Do you know how tall is Ali, how
short is Ali, what color is his skin,
what he just for You don't know anything
about Ali, right? It's just a name.
Mexico.
Mexico is just a name. It doesn't tell
you anything about Mexico.
Now I tell you, tall man.
Now you know something about Ali. This is
a description.
Short man,
intelligent man, handsome man. Now you know about
Ali. These are descriptions.
Allah's names
are all descriptions of him. So when I
say Ar Rahman,
it's the name of Allah. You can call
Allah Ar Rahman,
just like I can call him Ali,
but it also tells you something about him.
It tells you that he is ultimately merciful.
You can call Allah as a name, a
samir, they all hear it, but it tells
you something about him. It describes him. He
can hear every single thing, including the whispers
in your mind.
And so every name of Allah has a
description inside it of Allah.
Yeah.
So this is something important to understand about
the names of Allah. And there's another thing
to important understand about the names of Allah.
Allah says in
the
Quran,
There is nothing
like Allah,
and he is the all hearing and the
all seeing.
Now for
example, when I tell
you mercy,
sometimes a person
can be merciful to another person
to get some benefit from them.
Maybe What's your name, uncle? Fazlikhud.
Sorry? Fazlikhud.
Fazlikhudah.
Masha'Allah, beautiful name. Maybe Ali
wants to marry uncle Fazlikhudah's
daughter.
So he's very merciful to uncle. He carries
his shoes.
Yes? Gives him a back massage. Uncle, you
are the most handsome uncle in the masjid.
This is rahma, this is mercy, but behind
the mercy there is a motivation,
secret motivation.
Yes? If you're laughing, don't worry. InshaAllah, your
names will be next in the examples.
Okay? Don't worry. It's coming as well. It's
coming.
Nobody will be left behind.
So
this is mercy. Human being show mercy, but
they never show mercy. They don't show mercy
in a perfect way. Allah's mercy is perfect.
Allah doesn't need anything from you to show
mercy.
Allah doesn't want anything from you. He has
no motivation, no agenda.
Why
would Allah punish you? He has nothing to
gain from you or to lose from you.
This is just one example.
Allah, when we say Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is the ultimately merciful.
You may know mercy, but Allah's mercy is
something else.
And in these lessons, we will talk about
the differences.
When we say Allah provides,
He doesn't provide like a father provides for
his family. His provision is different. How is
it different? We'll explain.
And like this for every name of Allah.
So you know, He is not like you.
And He is not like other people. And
many people, they leave Islam, they forget Allah,
they become angry with Allah because they feel
like Allah they begin to dislike Allah
because something bad happened in their life, because
they misunderstand
Allah.
When somebody does something wrong in your life
is because he hates you.
Right? Or he dislikes you. He's angry with
you. If you come to my car, I
was parked outside, and you slash my tires.
Means you like me? You're my best friend?
Or you dislike me? You don't like me?
You don't want me to drive home? You
came and you slashed my tires.
But when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives us
difficulty in life, is it because he dislikes
us?
But some people we feel this way.
We lose a child, we lose a parent,
we lose a job, something bad happens to
us, we feel angry with Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
Because we don't understand Allah is different to
humans.
He doesn't give us difficulty because he dislikes
us. He gives us difficulty because he loves
us.
If only we understood him.
It would change our life. And so these
sessions insha'Allah, they will change your life.
Because you will begin to understand really Allah
who he is.
And with these introductions,
so he said,
Allah is not like anybody. We said the
difference between Allah's name and Allah's description and
Allah's action.
And we talked about the importance of knowing
Allah, and that it is the very purpose
we exist is to know who he is,
and it is the greatest thing we can
ever know.
Now let us go to the first name.
The first name of Allah that we will
discuss.
And that is the name
Allah.
Who Allah.
He is Allah.
What does Allah mean?
The Arab linguists, they had a debate.
Because in Arabic,
names,
they come from root letters.
Like when you go to the gold shop,
you see a ring, you see a necklace,
and what else? What other jewelry you see?
Earrings,
rings for
But when you ask what is the price
of this, what's the main way for someone
to know the value of this? It's the
gold.
How many grams of gold?
In the end, all of these things are
different forms, different shapes, but in the end
it comes back to gold.
Like this in Arabic, there are words.
He hit.
He's a beater.
Madrub, someone who was beaten.
So in Arabic the way words work is
not like that in English. You have root
letters and many words come out of that.
Semitic languages are like this Hebrew, Persian, Urdu,
Arabic, they are like this. They have root
letters and many words are coming out of
this.
Think of it like gold, and then you
have rings, and you have bracelets, and you
have necklace, so many different forms. Each one
is beautiful in a different way, but it
has the same source.
Now Allah.
This is one type of word. Words, they
have a source. They come from
specific letters.
There's another type of word in Arabic. It's
a proper name. It's not taken from anything.
Like for example, Manchester.
Does Manchester have some root No. That is
the name of the city.
It wasn't taken from anything else. That is
a proper name of the city, Manchester. Mexico
is the name of the city. It wasn't
derived from Basra in Iraq.
Now Basar means eye.
Does the city of Basra
have anything to do with the eye? No.
There's no relation. There's no link. It's just
a name.
So this is what the scholars, the Arabic,
scholars of the Arabic language, they had a
disagreement.
Allah.
Is that the proper name of Allah?
His actual name?
Or does it come from some root letters?
Al Ilah,
the Ilah. We'll describe what is Ilahal it.
The majority of scholars went to the opinion
that
it is derived. This name comes from Al
Ilah,
Not the proper name of Allah. And they
had a number of evidences for this. But
one interesting evidence that I can share with
you.
Think about it.
The Quran is in Arabic.
The Arabs knew the name Allah before the
Quran came. The Arab poets, the Jahili poets,
before Islam, before the prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam, they were saying the word Allah.
Yes?
But before before before before, didn't Allah reveal
books to other prophets?
What language did Isa alaihi salam speak? Does
anybody know?
Yes.
Arabic. Arabic. Very good. Mashallah, what's your name?
Khudayfa. May Allah make Khudayfa from the scholars.
Say amen. Amen.
This name,
Isa alaihi salam spoke a language called Aramaic,
not Arabic.
And in the oldest
now we don't know really what was in
the Injil that Allah revealed to Isa alaihis
salam because it's been edited by many many
many many editors.
But the best our best guess,
what was the way what was the word
used to call Allah in the Aramaic scripture?
Elohim.
Elohim. Sounds very similar to al ilah,
elohim.
Other other words in the Hebrew bible, they
use the word Yahweh
or Similar
comes from similar root, And
so this is why many scholars, they said
that
Allah
comes from the words.
And when the Aramaic or the Hebrew or
the other people spoke to Allah, they didn't
use the word Allah. They use elohim. They
use they use other words, but it mean
the same thing.
Other scholars in the in Islam, they said
no. Allah is his name, and everybody called
him Allah. And they have the evidences.
We're not going to go into this because
you'll all go to sleep.
But the majority of scholars including
many Arabic language course they said,
Now now we come to this. What does
mean?
So we know what is Allah.
We know in Arabic means what? The.
But what does mean? This is now we
have come to the gold.
We have put took taken the jewelry apart,
we've melted it, we've come to the gold,
the source.
What does mean? Yes.
Sorry?
A God.
Yes.
A God. You were scratching your head, weren't
you? You didn't have your hand up.
So, I guess go on.
The one who's being worthy of worship. Now
all the English translations will tell you
means the one worthy of worship. So Allah
means the one worthy of worship.
No, no, Habibi. The word is much more
deeper than this. The English translation killed it.
It destroyed it.
If I tell you Mexico is a country,
that's it.
Yeah. It's not nothing interesting there. Just it's
just it's a country. Allah
the scholar said it has two possible root
letters.
This is the first possibility,
Which means to be in awe of something.
You know when you say this is awesome,
to be amazed, to
be amazed by something.
So Allah,
he is the most amazing.
The one who makes your jaw drop when
you know who He is.
He fills you with fear and with awe
and with respect.
This is the first meaning of al ilaha,
alihayala.
Then you have another meaning.
In Arabic is used when somebody
is afraid of something and they go and
they hide.
Yes. When you're in war, and you see
the bullets and the bombs, what will you
you go quickly and you dig a tunnel
and you hide.
You have just done.
You have just sought protection on the earth,
which means.
Who is.
When the world pushes you and shoves you
and squeezes you and troubles you,
you go looking for
your source of peace and protection and contentment.
That's what Alillah is.
The one you go to when you are
in trouble.
Your SOS line, your 999,
that is Alillah.
The one you go to for peace, the
one you go to for comfort, the one
you go to for contentment, the one you
go to for help, for protection, this is
Alillah.
How many of us in our lives,
when something bad happens to us, the first
thing we think of is our mother.
Or we think of something to cool us
down, something to put us to sleep, something
to calm us.
When there's a storm,
difficult times, problems in the marriage, financial difficulties,
the petrol rates are going up, the supermarket,
everything is more expensive,
where do you go?
The prophet
fazia ila salah.
When the world got tough for him, he
would run away to salah.
That was his peace. That was his sauna.
That was his steam. That was his happiness.
Salah cooled him. That is what al Ilah,
the one you go to to find peace
and cool when everything gets hot and difficult.
This is just one portion of the meaning
of Ilah.
There's a second.
Some scholars
said comes from
which is intense love.
The one who you love to such an
extent, it makes you forget everything else.
That is In Arabic, there are many words
to use for love. Who can give me
some words for love? Yes.
Give me another one. Mahadba. Mahadba. Same thing.
Go, give me another one.
So, Mawadba. Give me another one.
I'm waiting for one more stronger.
Give me another one.
Now we know that Al Haram, Al Isch
Now these words What's your name? Uh-huh.
Muhammad.
Our brother Muhammad, he's used these words,
These words are only used by whom generally
in Arabic?
Uh-huh.
By the poets, the ones writing the love
stories and the love letters.
Only they use these words. Those who are
Urdu speakers, you know the word ishq.
Right? People don't usually use it for mother
and father or for Allah subhanahu. They use
it only for their beloved.
Right? In
Arabic is one of the highest forms of
love. It is one of the ways it's
used is one is the love of a
mother for her child,
and the love of a child for their
mother.
Al hun, al hanoon.
And so
al ilah
is the one
whom we love
and in the one when we love we
find peace
and we find calmness
and everything else makes sense because of our
love for him.
These are the two meanings of al Ilah.
The one who is most intensely loved.
The one who we go to in times
of difficulty and struggle and pain. The one
who we seek protection and refuge and calm
and peace from.
And the one, this is what some of
you mentioned in the translation,
the one who is worshiped.
The one who we bow our heads down
to. The one whom when he says we
do and we don't ask.
The one who we give our souls for,
we take a bullet for, we sacrifice for,
we do anything for, he is Al Ilah.
These are the three meanings of Al Ilah.
And Al Ilah,
they call it Iddal,
became Allah.
And this is just one name of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And the scholars said that
this is the greatest name of Allah.
Al Ismul A'avam.
The scholars differed because there's a statement of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that Allah
has one name.
The greatest name of Allah.
If he's called by this name, he responds.
And if you ask him using this name,
he gives you.
Scholars differed. Which name is this? Many scholars
said this is like a little qadr. We
don't know, but we have to search using
every name of Allah to see which name
is that one, that golden name. But many
scholars said it is Allah,
Because all of the names
come under this name, and they describe this
name, and this is the ultimate description of
Allah.
And it is narrated in a hadith of
the prophet
that the day of judgement will not come
until there is not a person on this
earth who says Allah, Allah.
When there is on this earth nobody who
says the name of Allah,
the day of judgement is going to come.
So as long as you guys are here,
and the ladies and the gentlemen are here
saying the name of Allah, inshallah,
it's not time yet.
Yes.
He's asking, does it mean only the name
of Allah or all the names of Allah?
Who can tell me an ayah in the
Quran that responds to this question?
Her father her father in Quran.
When we say
the day of judgement will not come
until there's nobody who says Allah,
he's he's asking
Jameel, but not the one I was looking
for. He's saying, is it only the name
of Allah or what about other names of
Allah? So if somebody is saying Ar Rahman,
or Ar Rahim, or Malikur, or Khuddu, does
that mean that your judgment will still come?
Allah says, call him Allah or call him
Ar Rahman.
All of them are his names.
So many scholars deduce that this doesn't mean
you have to say the word Allah, but
any name of Allah,
there's nobody on earth to remember him. That
is when the day of judgment will come.
And this is where
our brother mentioned this ayah.
Allah would never punish them while they are
seeking forgiveness of him.
That the day of judgment will not come
as long as we are remembering Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
And so this is one name of Allah.
And we said
one meaning is the one who is most
intensely loved, and one meaning is the one
we go to in times of difficulty, the
one who protects us, the one who shades
us, the one we find peace and contentment
in.
And we said
is the one who only deserves worship, and
deserves servitude, and deserves
salah and zakah and all of our attention.
Because people can make anything in their life
Is it not true that people love some
things more than Allah?
Straight happens, right? What is Allah saying in
the
Quran?
Have you seen people who made their desires
their
What does that mean? Whenever they difficult time,
painful time, they go straight
to their desire. They fulfill their desires.
They go out for a munch, makes them
feel better.
Yes? They fulfill some of their more haram
desires, makes them feel better. They don't turn
to Allah.
They love those things more than Allah. It
is very dangerous.
And what about those as Allah says in
the Quran?
They have equals to Allah. They love something
else more than Allah. There are people who
love wealth more than Allah.
They love their job more than Allah. They
love their spouse more than Allah.
So if their wife or husband or their
job or money tells them something,
they're willing to throw Allah's laws in the
bin in order to get a bit more
of their wealth,
or a bit more happiness from their wife,
or a bit more recognition from society, because
Allah doesn't matter that much to them.
So when you say,
la ilaha illallah,
that means
there is no one you love more than
Allah.
There is no one who deserves your attention
more than Allah.
There is no one you turn to when
push comes to shove and difficult times come
more than Allah.
There's no one you worship but Allah.
When you cry, you cry for Allah. When
you give up, you give up with your
head on the ground.
When the world pushes you to your knees,
you raise your hands to Allah. This is
what means la ilaha illa Allah. Nothing matters
to you more than Allah.
If somebody is giving you a job and
it displeases Allah, you say no. Because Allah
is more beloved to you. If a woman
is offering herself or a man is offering
himself, and they slide into your direct messages,
and they're tempting you, you throw them in
the bin because you love Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. Not physically, just for disclaimers, I do
not advocate any violence towards anybody,
but you push them aside
because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala comes first. This
is what it means to say, la ilaha
illallah. And that is all we'll cover today,
and inshallah in the coming weeks we'll continue
in our journey to get to know our
creator, Hadar. Is
in 12 minutes.
So inshallah,
remember Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala between salah and
salah. Assalamu alaikum.