Kamil Ahmad – The Beautiful Names of Allah #04
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We continue with our series on the,
most beautiful names of Allah,
Asma'ualla
al Husna.
And so far, we've covered some of the
most important
names of Allah,
and we continue
we continue on to,
tonight to discuss other important,
names of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And as I mentioned previously, the way we're
gonna do it is
we're gonna try to bring together,
those names that,
revolve around the same,
meaning.
And obviously mentioning the differences between those names.
But in general, we're gonna try to bring
together
those names that have similar meanings and discuss
them
as,
you know,
1 attribute of Allah
because they all refer to the same,
the same attribute.
And so today, we have 2
sets of names that we're gonna talk about.
The first
are 4 names that we have.
These 4 names,
they all refer to
Allah being the Creator.
Al Khalak,
Al Khalak,
Al Bari,
and Al Musawir.
And so Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
has identified
himself as being the creator
Numerous times
in the Quran throughout the Quran.
Whether he's a creator of us human beings
or
the creator of
the creation in general.
As for 3 of these names,
3 of these names,
they come together in 1 ayah.
Who knows that ayah?
They're mentioned 1 after the other in the
same ayah. Do you know Surat Al Hashut?
Yeah. In Surat Al Hashut.
So in Surat Al Hashud, the very end
of Surat Al Hashud, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
he
lists several of His names, about 17.
And among them are these 3 names. Allah
says,
He is Allah
Al Khalik the creator.
Al Bari
the 1 who invents
and Al Musawir
the 1 who
fashions or
shapes.
And we're gonna talk about the differences between
these names later on.
As for Al Khalaq,
then it has been mentioned twice in the
Quran.
And that is first of all in Surat
Al Hajjur.
Surah Al Hajjur verse
86.
Allah says that
your Lord
is indeed
Al Khalaq,
the creator
and Al Alim, the all knowing.
And the other place Al Khalak is mentioned
is in Surah
Yaseem.
Surah Yaseem,
towards the end verse 81.
Can the 1 who created the heavens and
the earth
not easily,
you know,
recreate these people?
Alalim.
Yes. For he is
the creator of Khalak and
the most knowing.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is the creator
of everything
without exception.
And there is no creator besides him.
There is no creator besides Allah.
And so we have Allah
and we have his creation.
Everything besides Allah is his creation.
Everything besides Allah, his very being
and that includes
his names and his attributes.
Everything besides that is his creation.
But anything related to Allah like his attributes,
we do not say any of that is
created.
As opposed to some of the sects of
the past who said
that no.
For example, the speech of Allah which is
an attribute of His,
They said that the Quran is
created.
It is the created word of Allah. Allah
created it.
But the point is that everything besides Allah
and His attributes is His creation.
But Allah Himself and His attributes are uncreated.
And the evidence for this is pretty clear
throughout the Quran. For example, Allah says, Allahu
khalikukulishay.
Allah created everything.
Everything.
That that means without any exception.
If that is the case, that Allah is
the creator,
then the question is
can
Al Khalq or creation
be attributed
to anyone besides Allah?
So can we say
I created,
you know, whatever
this product, for example.
Can we attribute creation to ourselves or not?
What? It means like
crushing something from something else?
Okay. Anyone else?
Can we attribute
creation to anyone besides Allah? Because we've just
explained right now that Allah is the sole
creator.
Right? So the answer is no.
Okay.
In the Quran,
Allah refers to himself as
Allah says
He said this after He
mentioned
how he created us from a sperm.
And then how,
you know, the stages of
our creation in the wombs of our mothers.
So blessed is Allah.
What is Asanu Khaliqin mean? The best of
creators.
The best
of creators.
So here
what Allah is saying is that he is
the best of those who create, meaning
that we can attribute creation to others.
But here we have to understand what
we mean. And so,
creation can mean 1 of 2 things as
the brother mentioned.
Creation can mean 1 of 2 things.
Number 1,
to bring something into existence
from nothing and to invent it without any
president.
To create something
from nothing
and to invent something
without precedent. Meaning,
there's nothing like it
prior to you creating it.
And this is only Allah.
This is only attributed to Allah.
The second
meaning of creation is
creating and invented things, inventing things,
out of other things that already exist.
So,
you know, what do we create?
What do we, human beings,
invent and manufacture?
We make things out of material that already
exists
from metal, from wood
and so on and so forth.
You know, even the materials that we have
today
Like, let's say plastic,
right? Even that is
molded from
from natural resources.
And all of those natural resources are created
by Allah.
Right?
So,
we can attribute creation to
ourselves. However,
we need to understand the difference between these
2 kinds
of creation.
So the ultimate creator is none but Allah
subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
So now what is the difference between these
4 names
that we have mentioned?
Al Khalikh, Al Khalak,
Al Bari, and Al Musawir.
Al Khaliq
is the creator.
The 1 who
decrees
existence for his creation before bringing them
into existence.
He had decreed
already
before he created you.
He already decreed
and wrote it that you're gonna be created.
And that is based on his knowledge and
his wisdom.
So Al Khalikh is the creator.
And this is, you know, in in in
Arabic
on the scale of Tharib,
which means the doer.
As for Al Khalaq, it is on the
scale of Thaal,
which is And we've mentioned this previously.
What is al fa'al?
What is the connotation there that is given?
It's not just the doer, but
Yeah. Someone who is
described as
continuously doing the thing or,
he he
he's gone to the max in that particular
attribute.
So
Al Khalaq is the 1 who
constantly creates to no end.
Al Khalaq
is the 1 who constantly creates
to no end.
As for Albari,
then Al Bari means
the inventor
who brings his creation into existence from nothing.
The inventor
who
brings
His creation into existence
from nothing.
And prior to existing.
K. And and this is the difference between
what we mentioned,
where we can be attributed with creation,
and that it is different than the creation
of Allah. This is the difference.
This is the difference.
Only Allah is the 1 who creates from
nothing.
As for us, whatever we create, whatever we
make, whatever we manufacture,
it is created from things that
we did not create. Right?
All he has to do is say, kun
faya kun.
You know, it's not a process for Allah,
where he has to sit down and plan,
you know, how he's gonna create something.
He just has to say be and there
it is.
Right?
And that's 1 of the arguments that Allah
uses in the Quran
to refute
the
christians who claim that,
the A'isa
was the son of Allah because they couldn't
fathom the idea that a person can exist
without a father.
So Allah refutes them
by mentioning that 'Isa alayhis salam
was
the word of Allah. That's the meaning of
'Isa alayhis salam being the word of Allah.
Kalima Tim Minhu,
and that
Kalima, that word is Kun,
Be and there he was in the womb
of his mother, Mariam.
As for Al
Musawir,
then that is the fashioner
who gives
every creation its particular distinct unique
shape or form.
As opposed to us when we manufacture things,
they're pretty much identical.
But Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, look at how,
look at how He creates.
Where,
you know, science
has taught us a lot of things about
our own creation today,
And that is that every single human being
has
a unique fingerprint.
And there are no 2 fingers and 2
fingerprints that are identical.
And here we're talking about
not just a few people,
not just a couple of a 100 or
a couple of 1, 000. We're talking about
in the 1, 000, 000, 000 and trillions
from Adam alaihis salam until the day of
judgment.
Every human being is different than the other.
And that is the meaning of Allah being
the Musawear.
He fashions. He gives you a particular unique,
distinct,
form
and shape.
Even 2 twins
who even if we were to say they're
identical twins,
to us they seem to be identical,
but they have a lot of things that
are different
that makes each unique.
And so this is al Muzawir.
What do they what do these 4 names
teach us?
First of all,
Allah
is
the creator
who brought this creation into existence
from nothing.
And this is something that is recognized by
everyone.
This is something that
practically
everyone
it's part of their fitra, their innate nature
to recognize it,
to acknowledge it.
And that's why throughout the Quran,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala uses this attribute of
his,
of Halk,
to disprove
worshiping others.
To disprove
the worship of others.
And so for example, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says,
Allah
Allah asks a very simple question here,
is there a creator other than Allah who
provides
for you from the heavens and the earth?
So here's the question.
Is there any creator
besides Allah who gives to you, who provides
for you?
From the heavens and the earth. What does
Allah say right after that?
La ilaha illa,
There is none except Him.
There is no God, deity who deserves to
be worshiped
except Him.
And,
you know, similar ayat in the Quran. We
have many similar ayat in the Quran.
The point here
is that everyone recognizes
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is the sole creator
No matter what religion they follow,
even if they are idol worshipers and they're,
you know, they're
not monotheists,
they have some form of belief in a
greater being,
the greater God
who created everything.
And
even the Quraysh
and the Arabs of Jahilia,
they recognized
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the only
sole creator.
And when we look back at,
you know,
human civilization,
We find that
You know, throughout time, no 1 really denied
that there is a creator.
It was only in our present time
where you have atheists
who
deny their existence of a creator.
But historically,
this has been an agreed upon belief.
No 1 denied it. There were rare cases,
rare individuals throughout history who may have
been what you can call an atheist.
But was it something widespread? No.
And that's why
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala did not send the
prophets and the messengers
to tell the people
about who he is and that he exists.
Right?
Why?
Because it was a common belief.
Right?
So why did Allah send the prophets and
the messengers?
To basically
tell the people
that this God that you recognize, that you
know, this creator that you recognize, that you
believe
in, he alone deserves to be worshiped.
Right?
He alone deserves to be worshiped.
That's why Allah says about the messengers, what
did they say to their people? Surat Ibrahiem.
The messenger said to their people, is there
any doubt
about Allah,
the creator of the heavens and earth?
Right? It's not something that the people doubted
or denied.
And so atheism as we find it today
is a new phenomenon
that never existed in the past.
The point here
is that everyone recognizes this
and so coming to the the second point
here
to follow-up on the first point,
we say that believing in Allah as the
sole creator
which we said is a common belief.
It necessitates
believing in Him as
the only 1 who deserves to be worshipped
And this is something we mentioned previously,
when we spoke about which name of Allah?
Arrub.
Right?
Because,
Al Khalk,
creation is an attribute of Rububiya.
Right? We mentioned when we spoke about Allah's
name Arrab
that it means
several things.
It means that Allah is the creator
and the provider
and the 1 who controls
his creation, etcetera.
So we mentioned then
that if you believe
in
1 Rabb
who created everything, who provides for you etcetera,
then that belief necessitates
logically, it necessitates
that you believe that only 1
God and that being him deserves to be
worshipped.
Again, this is something that Allah uses in
the Quran to refute.
The Mushrikoon
who recognize him
as being the sole creator,
but then they worship others
who
cannot create,
who cannot provide,
who cannot give life, who cannot
cause death, etcetera.
As Allah says,
Do they associate partners with Allah?
These gods, these idols
which cannot create anything
and they themselves are created?
You know, look at the argument here. Look
at how powerful it is.
Look at how simple it is.
Look at how logical it is.
Do these people associate partners with Allah?
Idols which cannot create anything?
Which cannot create anything.
And yet they themselves are created.
You
know, not only
can they not create which is an essential
attribute
of the Lord,
the Rab.
And not only that, but they themselves are
created by
that Rab.
And this is in Surah Al Arab.
Surah Al Arab verse 191.
And in many other places in the Quran.
Many places in the Quran, Allah says
If you were to ask them who created
the heavens and the earth? Who did such
and such? Who did such and such? They
will say Allah. They will say
Allah.
And so even the Mushrikoon
who, you know, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
was sent to.
They recognize
that
Allah is a sole creator
but their problem was
they did not believe that He alone deserves
to be worshipped.
However,
Allah uses
their belief.
Right? He uses their belief against them.
He uses their belief
in Allah as being the creator
to prove them wrong,
to prove to them
that
it only logically makes sense
that if you believe there's only 1 creator
that you worship that 1 creator.
And so that's what we mean when we
say
that belief in these names of Allah
necessitates
belief in Allah's Uluhiya.
Uluhiya means
that Allah alone deserves
to be worshipped.
Moving on to the next point,
Believing in Allah as the creator
means that you believe
he created everything,
and due to a wisdom and a reason
and a purpose.
And not that his creation
is without purpose.
Why?
Why is it necessary to believe that?
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is in Surah Al Anbiya.
We do not create the heavens and the
earth
and everything in between
for mere play.
Okay? But if you want to convince
a deist
who says I believe there is a God
but I don't believe
that he created us for a purpose.
How are you gonna convince him?
How are you gonna convince him that no,
believing in the creator
necessitates
that you believe that he created us
and he created this world
due to a wisdom, due to a reason,
for a purpose.
Mhmm. Yeah.
He believes in God.
Yeah. But he doesn't believe he just believes
that God created us and left us without
purpose. So we live and die and that's
it. Oh,
then you have it. Yeah. So basically Yeah.
Yeah.
So basically
yeah.
Okay.
Mhmm.
So the brother is saying that.
Alhamdulillah
that Allah guides us.
Yeah.
Yeah.
As Allah says about the, the people of
Firaun,
They knew deep down inside,
that Musa 'alayhi wa sallam was,
the Prophet.
Mhmm.
Mhmm.
Okay.
Okay.
K. But here you're you're mentioning
a specific purpose.
We haven't gotten to that yet.
We're just trying to convince him that there
is a purpose. He's saying there's no
purpose. So basically,
very simply put,
the Creator,
right?
The creator, the 1 who is
identified
as
this being, who created what we see around
us, this
who created what we see around us, this
massive creation,
this complex design that we see around us,
whether in the universe or within our own
selves.
It's a necessary
attribute of his
that
he is intelligent, he is wise.
Right?
Because someone who is not wise could not
have created all of this,
that we see around us.
Impossible.
Right? Wisdom
is
a necessary attribute of his.
Therefore,
you know, once we agree on that, therefore,
what does a wise person do?
Or what does a wise person What does
he not do?
He doesn't just make things for no reason.
Right? Someone who is wise,
whatever he does, he does
for a reason,
for a wisdom. Right?
And so it's not possible to believe
that this creator who created us and you
believe that, you know, there is a creator,
it's not possible for you to believe that
he simply created us and especially us human
beings who are so different than other living
beings
around us
with the intelligence that we have,
with
the emotions that we have etcetera.
We're completely different.
Is it possible to believe that we were
created by this wise
supreme being
to just live and die like animals?
No.
Right?
It just doesn't add up.
Right?
So this is the point here that I
mentioned here. The creator creates everything with wisdom
and
and reason.
With wisdom
and reason as Allah says in the ayah
and elsewhere,
Allah says in Surah
Do you think that we created you without
purpose
and then you would not be returned to
us?
And so Allah has mentioned it in the
Quran.
Moving on to the next point.
The creation
that we see around us
is the clearest proof
for the existence of the creator.
The
creation around us that we see
is the clearest proof
for
the existence
of a creator.
And
that's why 1 of the
proofs
that we
use to prove the existence of Allah
is the origin of creation.
And that is that
whatever exists,
whatever,
you know, material thing that exists,
it could not have just existed on its
own
without having a cause.
What is known as the causality argument
for
the existence of God.
And this is 1 of the most simplest,
easiest arguments to prove to an atheist
that Allah exists.
Very simple.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
in Surat
Or were they created by nothing?
Or were they the creator
the creators of themselves?
Or did they create the heavens and the
earth?
Right. Here Allah gives several possibilities.
The first,
were they created from nothing?
Is it
logically possible for something to just pop out
of nowhere from nothing?
Logically speaking, it's not possible.
The second possibility, or were they the creators
of themselves?
Meaning,
did we create our own selves?
Again, that's not logically possible either.
Or
did we create
the heavens and the earth?
And so
the answer is no, but rather Allah Subhanahu
wa Ta'ala created everything and that's why
Sheikh al Islam ibn Taymiyyah he says,
how can evidence
be required
to prove the existence
of that which everything
in existence is evidence of.
You know, he was asking
how could you possibly ask for evidence for
this?
It is 1 of the most obvious of
facts.
It is what we can call a self
evident truth.
It doesn't require evidence.
He says, how could evidence be asked to
prove
the existence of that which everything in existence
is evidence of? Look around you.
Everything that you see
proves and points to the existence of
a creator.
The second,
the next
point here is similar to this
and that is that the perfection
of the creation around us is yet another
proof
of the existence of a perfect wise creator.
Now what's the difference between this and point
number 4?
So the previous point that we mentioned, the
creation is the clearest proof for the existence
of the creator.
Meaning the origin of creation.
Okay. Going back to the origin of creation,
the beginning of creation.
Where did we come from? Where did this
world come from?
Right?
So we're looking at creation from the perspective
of its origin.
This now point that we're talking about here,
we're looking at creation, but from a different
perspective, and that is
from how we see it before us, not
its origin. How we see it before our
eyes.
Right?
What do we see
in this creation?
You see
marvels.
Let's start with your own
human being, your own human body
with its massive and intricate
control systems.
You have
a nervous system.
Your brain,
look at how it works, how it functions,
how it analyzes,
stores information,
retrieves information,
then distinguishes it and categorizes
it.
How quickly?
They say in a millionth of a second.
Right?
And not just once or twice, but does
this constantly.
Then look at your heart,
How it pumps blood continuously
for
70, 80 years if you live that long.
Intaking,
discharging blood,
you know, throughout your body
and maintaining a steady precision.
Well that's the amazing part about it. Maintaining
a steady precision
throughout your life that if that precision was
to be changed, that's it. You'd have a
heart attack.
Your your heart would not no longer be
steady
And look at, you know, all your other
systems in your body.
Now look at
the world around you.
Look at the oceans, look at the fish,
the insects,
the birds.
Look at what we're discovering today, bacteria
and chemical elements
that have not even
been discovered yet.
Right?
And all of these
All of these different creations has laws that
govern them
and they work in total
synchronization and harmony.
And now let's, you know, go to the
cosmos. Look
at the universe around us.
Look at
earth
and how
it orbits around the sun and how we
are at a perfect
distance from the sun.
That if we were just slightly,
you know, far away from it,
it would be too cold to here to
to live here. If we were just slightly
closer to the sun, it will be too
hard too hot.
Right?
And then look at how our planet is
1 planet,
is only 1
in our solar system and how our solar
system
is only 1 of
so many in the galaxy that we were
in and how this 1 galaxy is only
1 of
so many.
And then, you know, go further out.
Right?
And then think about how all of these,
you know, celestial bodies, the planets, the stars,
etcetera.
Think about how they're not colliding with 1
another.
Everyone has every single 1 of it has
an orbit that it goes around as Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala says.
Every single 1 of them is
is, you know, orbiting
is orbiting in its own orbit.
And,
you know, all of this shows how
not only were we we created
but
who created all of this?
Someone who is attributed with wisdom
and intelligence
to
the max.
Right? And this is also what is known
as,
what they call today the fine tuning of
the universe.
The fine tuning of the universe.
This is what non muslims
use to prove the existence of Allah
and we say it's already in our Quran.
Throughout the Quran, Allah refers to
his perfect design
in his creation.
And so they say this fine tuning of
the universe where it's finely tuned,
Where
the numbers, if they were just changed by
a few decimals,
that's it. Life would not be possible.
Right? Life would not be possible and not
just any life but complex life like our
life.
Moving on to the next lesson
and this we take from Allah's name Al
Musawwir.
Believing in Allah as Musawwir means
that
you are happy, you're satisfied, you're content with
Allah
creating you how He created you.
Not only you but also how He created
others around you.
You're happy, you're content
in how Allah created you because He is
the 1 who shaped you.
He is the 1 who gave you your
shape and your form.
Right?
So the true believer does not object
and say, why am I why do I
look
ugly? Or why do I, you know, why
am
I tall? Why am I short? Why, you
know, why have why do I stand out?
Or, you know, why don't I look like
so and so?
Right?
And the true believer also doesn't look down
on others.
Right?
When you see someone who
doesn't have the kind of shape and form
that Allah has given to you and bless
you with.
You don't look down on others and say,
you know,
I'm better than them.
Right?
Allah is al Musawwir.
And that was a mistake that Iblis fell
into.
Right?
When Allah When Allah created Adam alaihis salam
And we know that Allah shaped Adam with
his 2 hands.
And that was exactly what Allah used to
refute
Iblis.
When he ordered him to prostrate
and Iblis said,
you know, you created me from fire and
you created him from clay, I'm better than
him.
Allah says,
I created with my 2 hands?
And so Allah being Al Musawr means
that you are content.
You're content that this is how Allah created
you. And
you should be praising Allah for that.
You should be praising Allah for that instead
of being ungrateful.
That Allah has given you something that He
hasn't given to others.
He created the heavens and the earth,
and the earth,
for
a purpose with with the truth. And he
shaped you, meaning in the wounds of your
mothers, perfecting your shape and your form.
Finally, the last lesson that we'll mention here,
it is not possible for us or it
is not permissible for us
it is not permissible for us
to rival a lot in creating and shaping
and giving form.
And so the prophet
says in this regard,
in Those who are gonna have 1 of
the most painful
punishments in the akira
are
those who
basically
draw images
or
carve images
and the reason for that is because they
are trying to rival Allah.
And so Allah
is the 1 who created living beings. And
this is something that is
And this is something
unique to Allah.
We create things and we spoke about this
earlier.
We do make things and manufacture things but
not things that have life in them.
Living beings,
this is only the creation of Allah.
And so if you try to make something
that resembles a living being,
then what you're doing is you're rivaling Allah.
And that's why the punishment is severe.
In the other hadith, the prophet
says
It will be said to those who make
these images
on the day of judgment,
or they will be punished on the day
of judgment, and it will be said to
them, give life
to what you created.
Give
life to
what you created.
Alright. So these are the 4 names, Al
Khalak, Al Khalaq,
Al Badri, and Al Musawir.
We move on to
the next set of names.
And these are in relation
to Allah's attribute of Al Mulk.
And these are 3,
Al Malik,
Al Malik,
and Al Malik.
Al Malik,
Al Malik, and Al Malik.
And so these 3 names, they highlight
Allah's
mulk, which is his dominion,
his kingdom,
his power,
and complete control over his creation. His complete
control
over
His creation.
So we notice all 3 names
malik, al malik, and malik, they're all taken
from the same root word
of almulk.
So,
you know, Al Mulk refers to the dominion,
the universe.
And
Al Mulk is 1 of
the attributes of Allah
that come under his Again,
that come under his rububiyah.
So just like Al Khalk
falls under the rububiyah of Allah,
the same thing with
Al Mulk.
And
Allah has referred
to himself with this attribute throughout the Qur'a.
In in the form of his names, these
3 names, as well as in the 4
in the verb form,
right, in the verb form,
as well as
in the noun form of Al Mulk. Lahu
Mulkus Sanahuat Yawal comes in many different places
in the Quran.
To him belongs the Mulk, the dominion
of the heavens and the earth.
And this is 1 of the greatest of
Allah's attributes
as it
combines several,
you know,
several qualities of Allah such as
His power,
His ability,
his dominion, his his glory,
his control,
his pride and so on and so forth.
Okay. So
these names, where have they been mentioned in
the Quran?
First of all,
has been mentioned 5 times in the Quran.
And it would be 6 if you consider
the other
of Surah Al Fatiha
and that is
instead of Maliki Umidi.
But besides that it's been mentioned 5 times.
So we have in Surah Al Hashr that
we mentioned earlier.
Those
17 odd names that Allah mentions at the
end of Surah Al Hashr. Allah begins with
Also
in Surat
Allah says
Allah says
exalted is Allah
the true Malik
and this is repeated. The same
verse is repeated in surah
Surah Taha. Fata'aalAllahuul
Malikul haqq.
So it comes in Surah Al Mu'minoon as
well as Surah Taha.
And
we also have
Surat Anas
Surat Anas Malikinas.
Right?
Alright? As for Al Malik,
it has been mentioned only twice.
So the first is And
where else has it been mentioned?
Ali Imran.
As for
Al Malik,
it's only been mentioned once in the Quran.
Al Malik
has only been mentioned once in the Quran.
Where is that?
Surat Al Qamar.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
Indeed the righteous will be
amid gardens
and rivers.
At the seat of honor,
in the presence of,
and Al Malik,
the most
powerful sovereign. Muqtadir,
powerful.
Al Malik,
the sovereign.
And
it's mentioned that,
you know, Sheikh Alassam Ibn Taymiyyah,
we know that he was imprisoned
several times in his life
and
towards the end of his life, he actually
died in prison.
He actually died in prison
and
he was reading the Quran
and these were the last ayat that he
had read
and then he passed
away.
The believers, the
will be amid gardens and rivers.
They will be at the seat of honor
in the presence of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
the 1 who is attributed with these attributes
of Malik and Muqtadir.
Alright.
So what is the difference between
these names?
What is the difference between these names? As
we mentioned previously,
if Allah mentions
different names of His that go back to
the same
meaning,
there has to be a difference between them.
It cannot be that each is synonymous in
every way.
In general, they refer to Allah's dominion
and His you know, Him being
Him owning everything etc.
But there are subtle differences.
So
the difference between
Malik and Malik
the difference between Malik and Malik
is a difference that we also use in
the Arabic language in general.
So
although they both come from the same root
word, there is a difference.
Malik, you say
to refer to the owner of something.
K?
So you say,
the owner of the house,
Malik Adar or Malik Albayt
or Malik Asayara,
the owner of the car.
But you don't say that with respect to
Melek. You don't use Melek for that.
Melek refers to a king or
a sovereign
who has a kingdom under his control.
So his ownership is more than just
The ownership of,
you know, you owning your car or your
house. Right? Your ownership is limited
to only a few things.
The Malik, his ownership is wider.
As for Al Malik,
then they say it covers both meanings.
Al Malik covers both both meanings here.
So Allah being
Al Malik,
Al Malik and Al Malik, basically
we can summarize it to say it
means 1 of 2 things.
It means 1 of 2 things.
The first is
that to Him alone belongs
the mulk,
the dominion, the power and
control over Allah's creation. It belongs to him
alone.
So everything belongs to Allah
and everything is in need of Allah.
Nothing is outside of his
dominion, ownership,
and authority.
And that's why in the Quran,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to encourage us to
give sadaqah.
He says, Give from that which We have
put in your hands.
That
which We have given to you. Don't think
that this wealth that you own, that you
possess,
that you
own it and possess it and you
know, you are the sole owner of it.
No.
Allah owns it
and He put it in your hands.
So now give what Allah has given to
you. Give from what Allah has given to
you. It doesn't belong to you.
It belongs to Allah.
So spend of it
in,
you know, in how Allah is commanding you
to spend it.
The second meaning
is
that Allah has the supreme
rule and sovereignty over his creation.
So only
Allah's commands and laws are executed,
And only he has the right to, like,
legislate.
Alright? Only Allah has that right.
And here we can say that
Allah legislates,
when Allah legislates or,
you know,
he he gives commands. The scholars say there
are 3 kinds.
So
we have Ekam, Kadariya,
Those
rulings which are
based on the Qadr of Allah. So Allah
decreed everything. Right?
Everything must happen
how Allah has decreed.
So this is Allah's
As if, you know, Allah's law
being executed.
Right?
The second is Akam Sharaiyah.
Allah has legislated
certain rulings.
Pray 5 times a day.
Do this,
don't do this, etcetera.
These are known as akham sharayyah.
Who has the right to legislate them? Only
Allah.
And what also falls under that are
the
penal code in Islam in the Sharia
which is
the Hudood,
the punishments for crimes.
Again, who has the sole right to legislate
that? Only Allah.
So
what is the punishment for for stealing? To
cut off the hand. What is the punishment
for, murder?
To cut off the
hand. What is the punishment for
murder?
The capital punishment, etcetera.
Right? Who has the right to legislate these
laws? Allah and Allah alone.
And thirdly, Al aqamal jazaiyah
are those
regarding
the akhirah, the jaza,
the
compensation in the akhirah.
What reward are you gonna get?
That is
Allah's right to give you what He will
give you in the akhirah. Whether it be
reward or punishment.
Alright?
So,
basically,
Allah being
Al Malik, Al Malik, Al Malik, it means
these 2 things in general.
Allah is the sole owner
and everything belongs to Him.
And he controls
the entire creation.
And that includes us human beings
and what happens to us, etcetera, and Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
He has sovereignty over his creation,
and no 1 should rival Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala in that.
Alright. We move on to the lessons that
we learned from these
3 names.
First of
all, the first lesson is similar to
what we mentioned regarding
Allah being Al Khaliq.
Yeah.
Mhmm.
But it could be that,
the question was regarding,
in Surat al Fatih, we have a different
Does that happen in the other ayat?
We mentioned that
Malik,
besides this has only been mentioned 1 in
1 other place and that is Surah Al
Imran.
So
we should go back to see
what the other
would be. Allah knows best.
Alright. So
the first lesson that we have is similar
to
the previous names
with respect to Allah being the Creator.
Believing in Allah as
the
malik
or malik,
as the King, the ruler,
the sovereign,
the owner of everything necessitates
believing in Him as the only 1 who
deserves to be worshipped. Believing in his Uluhiya.
This is why throughout the Quran
Allah uses this attribute of his to disprove
the worship of others who do not possess
anything.
Right? Who do not possess anything. Just like
we mentioned regarding Al Khalq.
Allah uses that particular attribute
to disprove
that these idols
deserve to be worshipped.
Right? The same thing with Al Mulk.
The same thing with Al Mulk. Allah
says,
in Surah Satur,
Fatir. That is Allah your Lord.
Al Mulk belongs to Him. All authority belongs
to Him. Then what does Allah
say?
And those who you
call upon besides Him
do not own, do not possess
even something as small
as Al Qutmeer. What is Qutmeer?
Qutmir
is
not just a date,
but
the date
has a seed, not just a seed.
They don't even possess as much as
you know what,
is?
It is that
very thin
cover of the date seal.
It's like the skin of the date seed.
You can peel it off. It's like a
very small
thin layer.
Allah says here, those you call upon besides
him do not even possess something as small
as that.
Right? Why does Allah say
this?
To say that if you're gonna worship someone,
worship someone who has mulk.
Someone who has
possession of something, who owns something, who has
a dominion.
Right? Instead of these idols who don't even
own that much.
And Allah says, elsewhere in Surat Al Ma'idah,
walanafi'a. Say, how can you worship besides Allah
those who neither have
the power to harm you or benefit you?
They don't possess
that ability
to harm you or to benefit you. So
how can you worship them? They don't have
that power. They don't have
that in their ability.
And so
this is how Allah disproves,
the worship of of others besides him.
The second lesson that we learn
is that to Allah belongs the dominion and
the sovereignty of his entire creation. Right?
His entire
universe.
As such,
whatever
sovereignty
or, you
know,
kingship exists
in the hands of human beings
like kings and rulers.
None of it is
real kingdom.
None of it is real
dominion and sovereignty.
None of it is real milk.
Why?
Why?
Okay. Because Allah is the 1 who gives
that mulk
and He takes it away from whomever He
wills.
But I'm asking why is
it not real mulk?
Mhmm.
So basically,
it's incomplete.
Their that they have
is
incomplete.
Not encompassing
everything in the creation.
Right?
In fact, there has never been
a time when there was a king of
the world.
Right?
Yes, there were kings who
had vast empires.
Their empires stretched,
you know,
very far and wide.
However,
while they were alive, there were other kings
who had control of other parts of the
world.
And so whoever has mulk, it is incomplete.
Whether we look at it from the angle
of
land or time.
As you mentioned, once they die, that's it.
Whereas
the mulk of Allah
is complete and it is the real dominion
that will never go away.
Yeah, exactly.
Even his own life, he does not own.
He does not possess.
It's in the possession of Allah
And that's why Allah says when He says
Fata'aal Allah
Al Malikul Haqq.
Right? Allah is superior.
There's no 1 more superior to Him
and that's why
the
Abbasi Khalifa,
Harun
ibn Al Maqasan.
He was on his deathbed and he put
his cheek on the ground
and he
said,
O
Allah the 1 whose kingdom will never vanish,
have mercy upon the 1 whose kingdom
is gone
whose kingdom is gone. Basically he was dying.
And so
the point here is
that, you know, the true
kingdom and dominion
is that of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. Alright. The next point that we'll mention,
is
we notice
in the Quran
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions not only
that he
is the king and the ruler of the
dunya
but specifically the akhir. The question is,
why does Allah mention that?
Why does Allah mention specifically that he is
the,
as he says in in in, Surat Al
Fatiha,
he is
the Malik of Yawmidin, the day of judgment.
Why does he mention it? Specifically, the Akhir.
Why?
Exactly.
What all you guys said is is is
right.
Because basically
the reality of Allah's control
and you know over his dominion,
it will be seen on that day,
Right?
When all of the creation is brought before
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to stand before him.
Everyone.
Right?
And not a single
soul on that day will have any authority.
No 1 will have any authority.
In this world, there are kings.
Right? There are tyrants.
Their command is obeyed.
Right? To the point where you had someone
like Nimrut
who
said no, you know, I have complete control.
So
Allah mentioned the debate that Ibrahim had with
him.
Right?
And you had the likes of Firaun.
On that day,
no 1 will have any authority, not even
the likes of these individuals.
And then,
you know, forget about that extreme,
come down to the level of,
the common
the common person.
We all have some kind of authority.
Right?
You as a man in the home have
authority over
over your household.
The mother has authority over her children.
Each of us, we possess things. We own
things.
Again, all of that will vanish on the
day of judgement.
No 1 will have even
even a small authority on that day.
Right? You won't be able to benefit anyone
on that day. Why? Because you won't possess
any authority to do so.
And so on that day,
the authority
will be seen
belonging to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And that's
why Allah says
in Surat
before Allah. Nothing about them will be hidden
from Him and He will ask
to who does all
authority belong on this day?
To who does a mulk belong on this
day?
And the answer will be to Allah.
The 1, the Supreme.
And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says
that Allah will fold the heavens on the
day of judgement
and then He will place them on His
right hand and He will say
He'll say, I am the malik.
Where are the tyrants?
Where are the proud today?
And then he'll fold up the earth, placing
it in his left hand and he will
say,
I am the Malik. Where are
the tyrants? Where are the proud on this
day?
And so when we read, you know, Surah
Al Fatiha
and we read Malikiyaum
Midin.
Now we have
a meaning that perhaps we never thought about
before.
And this is the benefit of learning about
the names of Allah and also the benefit
of
doing tadabbur of the Quran, reflecting over the
Quran.
You know, we shouldn't just read the meanings
and just suffice with that. We should really
delve into the meanings
and understand why is Allah saying what he's
saying?
Why is Allah saying what he's saying?
Finally, the last lesson that we can mention
is that these names should make us turn
to Allah and
seek all of our needs
of the dunya and the akhirah from him
alone as He is the only owner who
owns everything.
Even what is in the hands of others,
right? It actually belongs to Allah as we
mentioned earlier
and
only He can take it out of their
hands and force it to give it to
you.
Right?
So don't humiliate yourself
by begging from the creation,
rather beg the Creator in whose hands belongs
everything.
If you
need something from someone,
yes, you know, Islam doesn't say go and
ask people for help
Or, you know, if you need something from
someone
to ask for it from him.
However,
don't forget
that you could ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Right? You can ask a lot to to
make this person to help you.
Right? When you do that you have this
in mind.
You have these names in mind,
right? When you do that you have these
names in mind.
Al Malik, Al Malik, Al Malik
And that's why the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
says in the Hadith of Al Nuzul,
the hadith
of where he mentions that Allah descends to
the lower heavens
in the last 3rd of every night,
In 1 narration, in 1 wording of that
hadith,
the Prophet
says, Allah descends every night to the lowest
heavens
in the last 3rd of the night and
he says Okay. And this is a wording
that many people perhaps have not heard.
He says, * Malik.
* Malik. I am the Malik.
Who is there who is calling upon me
so that I can answer him? Who is
there begging of me for something that I
could grant him? Who is there seeking my
forgiveness so that I could forgive him? And
this continues until,
until dawn, until fajr. And this wording is
in Sahih Muslim.
It is in Sahih Muslim.
And so what this hadith shows us
is Look at how Allah says, * Malik.
Again, what's the,
wisdom behind that?
To encourage us
to turn to Allah
because everything is in in his hands.
So ask him for your needs.
Right? Ask him for your needs rather than
asking the creation.
And so that's what will suffice with. If
there's any questions, we can perhaps take them.
Okay.
So,
you know, if there's questions, you can ask
after them.
We'll just take 1 question.
Go
ahead.
So the question is on that day, on
the day of judgment,
if you're hungry
and you don't have any money and you
don't have anything because we said no one's
going to have anything on that day, right?
You're not going to have any authority, you're
not going to have anything. So what are
you going to do? Basically
Your current plan? Oh, it Normally now. Oh,
okay. Okay. You mean now if you,
so what was the question? Repeat it. Said
that that day,
he was hungry. Mhmm.
Can you?
Steel food.
Yeah.
Yeah. Basically,
you know, someone who is in desperate need
and if he does,
basically
Islam teaches us that you can't punish the
person for that. And it happened. It happened
in the time of Umar ibn Khattab when
he was a Khalifa.
He stopped chopping off people's hands for stealing.
The reason for that was that there was
a lot of poverty, there was a famine,
there was a drought, there was no food.
And,
you know, he said,
you know, if people are doing this, then
it makes sense. They're going hungry.
Right? So he he didn't punish them for
that.