Kamil Ahmad – The Beautiful Names of Allah – Class #17

Kamil Ahmad
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What are you saying?

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You don't understand me.

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I am talking about my children.

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Yes, of course.

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Who said that?

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Every time.

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What are you saying?

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Whose?

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Whose privilege is this?

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I am not talking about someone else's children.

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I am talking about my children.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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In the

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name

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of Allah,

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the Gracious, the Merciful Praise be to Allah,

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Lord of the Worlds وَالصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ الْأَتَمَّانِ الْأَكْمَلَانِ

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عَلَىٰ خَيْرِ الْخَلْقِ اللَّهِ أَجْمَعِينَ وَعَلَىٰ آلِهِ وَصَحْبِهِ

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وَمَنِ احْتَدَىٰ بِهَدْيَهِ وَاسْتَنَّ بِسُنَّتِهِ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ الْدِينِ

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اللهم علمنا ما ينفعنا وانفعنا بما علمتنا وزدنا

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علمة وأرنا الحق حقا وارزقنا اتباعه وأرنا الباطل

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باطلا وارزقنا اجتنابه واجعلنا ممن يستمعون القول فيتبعون

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احسانه وبعد السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته We

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continue with our series on the most beautiful

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names of Allah and today we move on

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to several other names again like we mentioned

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last week these names are not related to

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each other some of them they do come

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together in the Qur'an but in terms

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of their meanings they are completely different meanings

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and so we have four names that we

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have today These are As

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for Al-Ghani this name of Allah has

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been mentioned in the Qur'an many times

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It's been mentioned 18 times in the Qur

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'an and most of the time which name

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is it mentioned with most of the time?

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Al-Hameed When

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Musa said to his people if all of

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you disbelieve and everyone on earth with you

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disbelieve then indeed Allah is Ghani and he

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is Hameed and Hameed is a name that

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we already spoke about previously As

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for Al-Wasi' it's also been mentioned several

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times in the Qur'an 9 times it

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has been mentioned in the Qur'an and

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most of those times mentioned with which name?

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Wasi'un Alim Allah

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gives his kingdom, his kingship to whomever he

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wills Allah is Wasi'un Alim Allah gives

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his kingdom, his kingship to whomever he wills

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Allah is Wasi'un Alim As for Al

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-Samad Al-Samad, how many times has it

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been mentioned in the Qur'an?

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Yes, just once and that is in Surah

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Al-Ikhlas Allahu Al-Samad Allah Al-Samad

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As for Al-Sayyid how many times has

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it been mentioned in the Qur'an?

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It has not been mentioned in the Qur

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'an but rather in the Sunnah and this

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is the hadith of Mutarrif Ibn Abdillah Ibn

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Shikhir رضي الله عنه collected by Abu Dawood

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and Imam Ahmed Mutarrif رضي الله عنه says

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My father said I went in the delegation

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of Banu Amir to the Prophet صلى الله

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عليه وسلم So they said, meaning his people

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who went in this delegation to meet the

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Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم They said You

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are our Sayyid They said to the Prophet

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صلى الله عليه وسلم You are our Sayyid

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So the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said

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As-Sayyid Huwa Allah As-Sayyid Huwa Allah

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Allah is the Sayyid So then they said

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Then you are the best of us in

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Fadl, in excellence and the greatest of us

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in generosity So basically they wanted to praise

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the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم They wanted

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to praise him and give him the best

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of names So then the Prophet صلى الله

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عليه وسلم said Say whatever you want but

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do not let Shaytan to provoke you So

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this is where As-Sayyid is mentioned as

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a name of Allah So what do these

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names mean?

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As for Al-Ghani Al-Ghani It means

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that Allah is the one who is self

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-sufficient without need of anything Al-Ghani is

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the one who has everything, he doesn't need

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anything So Allah is the one who transcends

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all needs The one who his entire existence

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does not depend on anything or anyone No

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help, no aid of any sort Yet He

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is the one who is needed by everyone

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else And so Allah is the one upon

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whose wealth and riches everyone else depends Allah

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is the one whose wealth and his riches

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everyone else depends on And so that is

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the meaning of Al-Ghani That is the

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meaning of Al-Ghani As for Al-Wasi'

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Al-Wasi' means the one who is vast

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without any limit As Allah describes his Kursi

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as being very vast Wasi' His Kursi which

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is not his Arsh It's not his throne

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The throne is even mightier and greater But

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yet Allah says his Kursi extends over the

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heavens and the earth That's how vast it

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is So how about Allah whose vastness doesn't

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have any limit whose vastness does not have

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any limit And that vastness of Allah also

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includes his power, his knowledge his mercy, his

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generosity All of his attributes are vast and

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boundless without any limit As for Al-Samad

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Al-Samad is a name that is very

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difficult to translate into English And so it

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means the one who is absolute perfect complete

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self-sufficient and sufficient to meet the needs

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of all of his creation So he is

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the one who is constantly needed and sought

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after The creation depend on him and they

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turn to him They seek him Subhanahu wa

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ta'ala And that's why Ibn Abbas He

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says He defined Al-Samad He said Al

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-Samad is the master who is perfect in

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his mastery the honorable who is perfect in

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his honor the great who is perfect in

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his greatness and the forbearing who is perfect

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in his forbearance the self-sufficient who is

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perfect in his self-sufficiency the compeller who

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is perfect in his compulsion the knower who

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is perfect in his knowledge the wise who

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is perfect in his wisdom He is the

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one who is perfect in every form of

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honor and mastery He is Allah the glorified

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This is his inherent quality which should only

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be attributed to him So these are the

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words of Abdullah Ibn Abbas So the idea

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that we get from Allah's name Al-Samad

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is the idea that he is sought for

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his unique perfection If we want to summarize

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it we can say Al-Samad is the

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one who is sought for his unique perfection

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That's why they say it comes from the

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word Yasmudu Basically the entire creation The

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entire creation seeks Allah So he is sought

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for his unique perfection And that is his

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distinct nature that makes him who he is

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And that's why Allah mentions it in Surah

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Al-Ikhlas In Surah Al-Ikhlas So he

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is the one who is sought after Therefore

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it doesn't make sense for you to be

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worshipping others It doesn't make any sense for

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you to be seeking whatever you seek from

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others besides Allah As for Al-Sayyid it

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means the master and the sovereign of the

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universe of the creation And so the entire

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creation is enslaved to Allah And so they

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need Allah in the absolute sense No created

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being is independent of Allah If he did

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not create them they would not exist And

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if he did not sustain them after creating

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them they would not survive If he did

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not help them through all the difficulties that

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they face they would have no help besides

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him And so Allah is Al-Sayyid the

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master And we are his slaves And

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so these names we learn the following among

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the lessons that we learn from these names

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First of all Allah's name Al-Ghani teaches

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us that Allah does not benefit from us

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in any way whatsoever Our worship our obedience

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does not benefit him in the least Nor

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does our disobedience harm Allah at all And

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so if everyone on earth was to believe

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and obey Allah it would not increase him

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in perfection And if everyone on earth disbelieved

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and disobeyed Allah it would not make him

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deficient in the least Basically our ibadah of

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Allah and our obedience to Allah does not

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affect Allah It doesn't change Allah Subhanahu wa

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ta'ala in any way And that's why

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Allah uses this name in this context in

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the Qur'an as we mentioned وَقَالَ مُوسَىٰ

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إِن تَكْفُرُوا أَنْتُمْ وَمَنْ فِي الْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا فَإِنَّ

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اللَّهَ لَغَنِيٌّ حَمِيدٌ Musa said if all of

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you were to disbelieve and everyone on earth

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was to disbelieve then indeed Allah is Ghani

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the self-sufficient and Hamid And so that's

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the secret behind why Al-Hamid is commonly

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mentioned with Al-Ghani because Ghani is the

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one who is self-sufficient You believe, you

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don't believe your iman and your ibadah doesn't

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increase Allah He's self-sufficient He doesn't need

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your ibadah but he is Hamid He has

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all attributes of perfection He is the praiseworthy

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one whether you worship him or you don't

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And it's mentioned elsewhere as well وَمَنْ شَكَرَ

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فَإِنَّمَا يَشْكُرُ لِنَفْسِهِ Whoever is grateful meaning to

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Allah his gratitude is for himself When you

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are grateful to someone for what they did

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to you you thank them you give them

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something they benefit from that gratitude but not

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Allah That's why Allah says here وَمَنْ شَكَرَ

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فَإِنَّمَا يَشْكُرُ لِنَفْسِهِ Whoever is grateful, he's doing

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it for himself And then Allah says وَمَنْ

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كَفَرَ فَإِنَّ رَبِّي غَنِيٌّ كَرِيمٌ And whoever disbelieves

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or is ungrateful then indeed my Rab is

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Ghani and Kareem وَمَنْ جَاهَدَ فَإِنَّمَا يُجَاهِدُ لِنَفْسِهِ

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Whoever struggles, strives hard he's doing it for

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himself إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَغَنِيٌّ عَنِ الْعَالَمِينَ Allah is

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Ghani He's not in need of the entire

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world all the worlds وَمَنْ يَبْخَلُ فَإِنَّمَا يَبْخَلُ

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عَنْ نَفْسِهِ Whoever is stingy and greedy he's

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doing it to himself وَاللَّهُ الْغَنِيُّ وَأَنْتُمُ الْفُقَرَاءُ

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Allah is Ghani and you are the ones

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who are in need So all of these

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ayat show us that that whatever Allah has

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commanded us with it's for our own good

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Allah doesn't need it He doesn't need our

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عبادة He doesn't need our obedience and we

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have the famous حديث حديث قدسي where Allah

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says يَا عِبَادِي لَوْ أَنَّ أَوَّلَكُمْ وَآخِرَكُمْ وَإِنْسَكُمْ

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وَجِنَّكُمْ يَا عِبَادِي لَوْ أَنَّ أَوَّلَكُمْ وَآخِرَكُمْ وَإِنْسَكُمْ

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وَجِنَّكُمْ مَا أَتْقَى قَلْبِ رَجُلٍ مِنْكُمْ مَا زَادَ

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ذَلِكَ فِي مُلْكِ شَيْئَةٍ Allah says My servants,

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if the first of you and the last

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of you the humans of you and the

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jinn of you were to be upon the

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most pious heart among you like the most

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religious person among us if all of us

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were like that it would not increase in

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the dominion of Allah anything because Allah is

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not in need of any of that, it

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doesn't affect Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so

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basically in the end it is for our

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own selves when we command others to do

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things and we give instructions to others and

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we expect them to follow our instructions we

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get something out of it we get something

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out of it I mean if you are

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a father and you tell your son go

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get me a glass of water you're giving

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him a command he has to obey you

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there's something in it for him and that's

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the ajr but there's also something in it

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for you likewise a master if he's to

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command his slave all of these relationships where

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people command others and they expect obedience they're

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getting something out of it but not Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala and that's the meaning

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of Allah being Al-Ghani Al-Ghani also

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teaches us that Allah is free of needing

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a partner or a son Allah is free

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Allah is free of needing a partner or

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a son and that's why Allah mentions this

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name the

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second and that's why the Prophet ﷺ teaches

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us a dua to say ya hayyu ya

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qayyum bi rahmatika astaghif fala takilni ila nafsi

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tarfata ayn you know oh Allah Al-Qayyum

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I ask you by your mercy do not

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leave me on my own for even the

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blink of an eye for even the blink

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of an eye so we cannot survive without

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for even a

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second and that shows us how much we

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are in need of Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala and we learn this also from Allah's

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name Al-Samad the same thing that we

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have mentioned now concerning Al-Ghani the same

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thing we learn from Allah's name Al-Samad

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Allah's name Al-Wasir teaches us to never

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despair and lose hope when life takes an

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unexpected turn when things go bad in our

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lives because when the believer reminds himself of

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the vast nature of Allah's mercy and bounty

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he will never despair and never lose hope

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and he will be certain that Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala will open up ways for

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him but in reality who is it that

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causes us to despair?

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Shaytan what does Allah say?

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الشيطان يعيدكم الفقرة ويأمركم بالفحشاء Shaytan promises you

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or threatens you with poverty and he commands

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you to do immoral things والله يعيدكم مغفرة

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منه وفضل while Allah commands you or promises

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you forgiveness from him and fadl and bounty

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and then how does Allah in the ayah

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والله واسع العليم والله واسع العليم and Allah

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is واسع the all-encompassing the vast and

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the knowing so what's the relationship with this

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name and the ayah basically everything is in

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the hands of Allah and رزق is in

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the hands of Allah so Shaytan is threatening

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you that you're gonna become poor while Allah

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is reminding you that his riches are vast

00:30:36 --> 00:30:40

his mercy is vast and he's also knowledgeable

00:30:45 --> 00:30:49

الصمد teaches us to turn to Allah for

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all of our needs since Allah alone is

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the one whom the entire creation turn to

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for their needs as we said that is

00:31:00 --> 00:31:05

the meaning of الصمد the one to whom

00:31:06 --> 00:31:08

the entire creation turns to for their needs

00:31:11 --> 00:31:14

and the fact that this name although it's

00:31:14 --> 00:31:18

very important was only mentioned once in the

00:31:18 --> 00:31:22

Quran and in which context in the context

00:31:22 --> 00:31:28

of defining who Allah is right and who

00:31:28 --> 00:31:31

he isn't who Allah is and who he

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isn't what is سورة الإخلاص from beginning to

00:31:35 --> 00:31:41

end what is it who Allah is there's

00:31:41 --> 00:31:44

not a single حكم from the أحكام of

00:31:44 --> 00:31:48

Islam there there's no stories like in other

00:31:48 --> 00:31:53

surahs there's no mention of hellfire and Jannah

00:31:53 --> 00:31:57

none of that and that's why the Prophet

00:31:57 --> 00:32:01

what did he say about this surah تَعَدِلُ

00:32:02 --> 00:32:08

ثُلُثُ الْقُرْآنِ it is equivalent to a third

00:32:08 --> 00:32:14

of the Quran because the scholars say that

00:32:15 --> 00:32:18

if we were to divide the Quran into

00:32:18 --> 00:32:21

themes we can divide it into three main

00:32:21 --> 00:32:27

themes everything about Allah his names his attributes

00:32:27 --> 00:32:35

who Allah is number two the stories right

00:32:35 --> 00:32:37

of the past nations the Quran is filled

00:32:37 --> 00:32:42

with stories and number three أحكام the do's

00:32:42 --> 00:32:50

the don'ts the حلال حرام etc no that

00:32:50 --> 00:32:55

would come under belief in Allah so here

00:32:57 --> 00:33:00

this surah is equivalent to a third of

00:33:00 --> 00:33:02

the Quran in that sense because it just

00:33:02 --> 00:33:08

talks about Allah so the fact that Allah's

00:33:08 --> 00:33:14

name is mentioned here in this context is

00:33:14 --> 00:33:18

indicating the fact that recognizing Allah as such

00:33:21 --> 00:33:24

as is something universal and from the fitrah

00:33:25 --> 00:33:29

it is an integral part of every human's

00:33:29 --> 00:33:35

nature to recognize Allah and to seek everything

00:33:35 --> 00:33:39

from Allah in that we don't rely on

00:33:39 --> 00:33:45

ourselves so it's part of our nature it's

00:33:45 --> 00:33:47

not something that we needed Allah to tell

00:33:47 --> 00:33:53

us that's the meaning of you know belief

00:33:53 --> 00:33:57

in Allah being from the fitrah that if

00:33:57 --> 00:34:00

you were to leave a person let's say

00:34:00 --> 00:34:04

on an island to grow up without any

00:34:04 --> 00:34:11

external factors you know changing his thought process

00:34:11 --> 00:34:15

and his ideology he'll grow up recognizing Allah

00:34:16 --> 00:34:18

he'll grow up recognizing that all of my

00:34:18 --> 00:34:22

needs I should seek from Allah alone that

00:34:22 --> 00:34:24

is the meaning of the fitrah that is

00:34:24 --> 00:34:30

the meaning of the fitrah and that's why

00:34:30 --> 00:34:36

Allah mentions this name in this surah Allah

00:34:36 --> 00:34:40

being a Sayyid teaches us to single out

00:34:40 --> 00:34:48

Allah in worship so the Prophet forbade that

00:34:48 --> 00:34:54

he be referred by this name we mentioned

00:34:54 --> 00:34:59

the hadith these people came and said oh

00:34:59 --> 00:35:02

Muhammad you are our Sayyid so the Prophet

00:35:02 --> 00:35:09

forbade them even though linguistically speaking there is

00:35:09 --> 00:35:14

nothing wrong with it right linguistically speaking there

00:35:14 --> 00:35:16

is nothing wrong with it and it's true

00:35:16 --> 00:35:21

Muhammad ﷺ is our master he is our

00:35:21 --> 00:35:25

Sayyid in the sense of being our leader

00:35:26 --> 00:35:31

because in the Arabic language Sayyid not only

00:35:31 --> 00:35:37

does it mean a master right in a

00:35:37 --> 00:35:43

master-slave relationship but it also means the

00:35:43 --> 00:35:48

leader of a people right so why did

00:35:48 --> 00:35:53

the Prophet ﷺ forbid them then it shows

00:35:53 --> 00:35:56

us how the Prophet ﷺ gave special attention

00:35:56 --> 00:36:01

to preserving the right of Allah and basically

00:36:01 --> 00:36:04

closing any doors that could lead to shirk

00:36:04 --> 00:36:09

and so he wanted to leave a clear

00:36:09 --> 00:36:13

message for his ummah after him that he

00:36:13 --> 00:36:16

was simply a servant of Allah and a

00:36:16 --> 00:36:19

messenger of Allah and that he wasn't interested

00:36:19 --> 00:36:25

in any other title right so that's why

00:36:25 --> 00:36:27

we should refer to the Prophet ﷺ as

00:36:27 --> 00:36:32

our Prophet our messenger right we should not

00:36:32 --> 00:36:36

refer to him as our Sayyid as our

00:36:36 --> 00:36:45

Sayyid it's better to avoid the scholars have

00:36:45 --> 00:36:51

spoken about this because it's become common to

00:36:51 --> 00:36:55

refer to the Prophet ﷺ as Sayyiduna Sayyiduna

00:36:55 --> 00:37:01

Muhammad ﷺ and so the scholars say that

00:37:01 --> 00:37:03

it's better to avoid they don't say it's

00:37:03 --> 00:37:06

haram but they say it is better to

00:37:06 --> 00:37:09

avoid using that and instead say Nabiyuna ﷺ

00:37:11 --> 00:37:14

our Prophet ﷺ but if someone was to

00:37:15 --> 00:37:21

use it we cannot denounce them so these

00:37:21 --> 00:37:23

are the lessons we learn from these names

00:37:23 --> 00:37:31

we move on to four more names and

00:37:31 --> 00:37:41

these four names are related and they are

00:37:41 --> 00:37:46

examples of names of Allah that cannot be

00:37:46 --> 00:37:51

separated when mentioned they cannot be mentioned on

00:37:51 --> 00:37:56

their own so they are pairs that must

00:37:56 --> 00:38:01

be mentioned together they are pairs that must

00:38:01 --> 00:38:04

be mentioned together and these four names are

00:38:04 --> 00:38:11

Al-Qabid Al-Basit and Al-Muqaddim and

00:38:11 --> 00:38:17

Al-Muakhir Al-Qabid Al-Basit Al-Muqaddim

00:38:18 --> 00:38:23

Al-Muakhir and it should be noted here

00:38:23 --> 00:38:29

that these are the only authentically established names

00:38:29 --> 00:38:39

of this kind where you have pairs there

00:38:39 --> 00:38:42

are other similar pairs that have been mentioned

00:38:43 --> 00:38:47

among the names of Allah however none of

00:38:47 --> 00:38:52

them are authentically established in authentic ahadith so

00:38:52 --> 00:38:55

for example who can mention examples of this

00:38:55 --> 00:39:05

nature other than these four hmm similar

00:39:05 --> 00:39:08

names to these where they are mentioned together

00:39:08 --> 00:39:11

two names are mentioned together but as I

00:39:11 --> 00:39:16

said these names are the only authentic ones

00:39:16 --> 00:39:19

where there are pairs that are mentioned together

00:39:23 --> 00:39:24

no you can mention it on its own

00:39:24 --> 00:39:26

Al-awwal you can mention it on its

00:39:26 --> 00:39:28

own Al-akhir you can mention it on

00:39:28 --> 00:39:32

its own no that also each one can

00:39:32 --> 00:39:36

be mentioned on its own yes Al-Khafid

00:39:36 --> 00:39:44

Al-Rafi' it is not authentically established that

00:39:44 --> 00:39:47

these are names of Allah Al-Khafid Al

00:39:47 --> 00:39:54

-Rafi' what else Al-Mu'ti Al-Mani' Al

00:39:54 --> 00:39:56

-Mu'ti is a name of Allah we mentioned

00:39:56 --> 00:39:59

it previously among Allah's names but Al-Mani'

00:39:59 --> 00:40:03

is not but people mention it Al-Mu'ti

00:40:03 --> 00:40:07

and Al-Mani' also Al-Nafi' Al-Dhar

00:40:08 --> 00:40:14

Al-Nafi' Al-Dhar also Al-Mu'izz

00:40:14 --> 00:40:22

Al-Muthil Al-Mu'izz Al-Muthil now

00:40:26 --> 00:40:28

where do these names come from people they

00:40:28 --> 00:40:32

take them from the Qur'an they take

00:40:32 --> 00:40:34

them from the Qur'an where they have

00:40:34 --> 00:40:36

not been mentioned as names but rather as

00:40:36 --> 00:40:39

verbs they have been mentioned in the Qur

00:40:39 --> 00:40:48

'an as verbs in the verb form but

00:40:48 --> 00:40:50

if you recall in the very beginning when

00:40:50 --> 00:40:53

we spoke about rules concerning Allah's names we

00:40:53 --> 00:40:57

mentioned a fundamental rule and that is that

00:40:57 --> 00:41:00

we do not extract a name of Allah

00:41:00 --> 00:41:05

from a verb it has to be mentioned

00:41:05 --> 00:41:08

as a name of Allah because Asma'ullah

00:41:08 --> 00:41:13

Tawqifiya the names of Allah we have to

00:41:13 --> 00:41:15

restrict them to how they have been mentioned

00:41:15 --> 00:41:16

in the Qur'an and in the Sunnah

00:41:24 --> 00:41:31

Al-Hadi and Al-Muthil Al-Hadi is

00:41:31 --> 00:41:32

a name of Allah, we mentioned it already

00:41:32 --> 00:41:43

but not Muthil alright so

00:41:43 --> 00:41:45

these four names that we have they are

00:41:45 --> 00:41:48

authentically established but they have not been mentioned

00:41:48 --> 00:41:51

in the Qur'an rather they have been

00:41:51 --> 00:41:54

mentioned in the Sunnah they have been mentioned

00:41:54 --> 00:41:58

in the Sunnah so Al-Qabid and Al

00:41:58 --> 00:42:02

-Basid Al-Qabid and Al-Basid these two

00:42:02 --> 00:42:04

names were mentioned in the Hadith of Anas

00:42:05 --> 00:42:10

found in Sunan Abi Dawood and Al-Tirmidhi

00:42:10 --> 00:42:13

and it's been graded as Sahih by Sheikh

00:42:13 --> 00:42:19

Al-Albani and others so Anas says that

00:42:19 --> 00:42:23

the people came to the Prophet complaining Ya

00:42:23 --> 00:42:28

Rasulullah the prices have shot up market prices

00:42:28 --> 00:42:32

have shot up so fix the prices for

00:42:32 --> 00:42:38

us fix the prices for us so the

00:42:38 --> 00:42:44

Prophet said Allah is the one who fixes

00:42:45 --> 00:42:50

prices Al-Qabid Al-Basid Al-Qabid Al

00:42:50 --> 00:42:55

-Basid Al-Qabid is the one who withholds

00:42:55 --> 00:42:57

and Al-Basid is the one who you

00:42:57 --> 00:43:03

know gives lavishly and provides so he said

00:43:03 --> 00:43:08

Al-Qabid Al-Basid Al-Razaq and the

00:43:08 --> 00:43:18

one who provides and

00:43:18 --> 00:43:21

I hope that when I meet Allah none

00:43:21 --> 00:43:24

of you will have any claim on me

00:43:24 --> 00:43:28

for an injustice regarding blood or money basically

00:43:28 --> 00:43:31

the Prophet was saying that I'm not going

00:43:31 --> 00:43:34

to interfere in these market prices because I

00:43:34 --> 00:43:38

may be doing injustice to someone so Allah

00:43:38 --> 00:43:47

is the one who fixes the prices now

00:43:47 --> 00:43:50

these two names have also been mentioned in

00:43:50 --> 00:43:54

the Quran but in the verb form right,

00:43:54 --> 00:43:55

they have been mentioned in the verb form

00:43:56 --> 00:43:58

what does Allah say in Surah Al-Baqarah

00:44:18 --> 00:44:20

who will lend to Allah a good loan

00:44:21 --> 00:44:24

which Allah will multiply you know many times

00:44:24 --> 00:44:28

over it is Allah alone who withholds who

00:44:28 --> 00:44:36

withholds and grants in abundance and to him

00:44:36 --> 00:44:40

you will all be returning as for Al

00:44:40 --> 00:44:47

-Muqaddim and Al-Muakhir these two names these

00:44:47 --> 00:44:53

two names were mentioned in a number of

00:44:53 --> 00:45:00

duas that the Prophet would make like the

00:45:00 --> 00:45:05

Hadith of Ali in Sahih Muslim he says

00:45:05 --> 00:45:08

when the Prophet would stand in Salah he

00:45:08 --> 00:45:12

would say at the end between the Tashahud

00:45:12 --> 00:45:25

and the Salam Anta

00:45:25 --> 00:45:28

Al-Muqaddim Wa Anta Al-Muakhir La Ilaha

00:45:28 --> 00:45:32

Illa Ant O Allah forgive my former and

00:45:32 --> 00:45:36

latter sins which I have done secretly and

00:45:36 --> 00:45:40

those which I have done openly and those

00:45:40 --> 00:45:44

sins in which I wronged others and those

00:45:44 --> 00:45:48

sins of mine about only which you have

00:45:48 --> 00:45:53

better knowledge than me and then you alone

00:45:53 --> 00:45:58

are Al-Muqaddim and you alone are Al

00:45:58 --> 00:46:05

-Muakhir La Ilaha Illa Ant so what do

00:46:05 --> 00:46:09

these names mean as for Al-Qabid and

00:46:09 --> 00:46:11

Al-Basit as we said they refer to

00:46:11 --> 00:46:15

Allah being the one who gives and also

00:46:15 --> 00:46:19

withholds from giving so Al-Qabid Al-Qabid

00:46:21 --> 00:46:25

is the one who withholds and restricts from

00:46:25 --> 00:46:33

giving while Al-Basit is not just the

00:46:33 --> 00:46:37

one who gives but who gives abundantly abundantly

00:46:41 --> 00:46:43

as Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said when

00:46:44 --> 00:46:46

the Jews claimed that Allah's hands are tied

00:46:46 --> 00:46:51

up Wa Qanat Al-Yahudu Yadullah Maghlulah Bal

00:46:51 --> 00:47:00

Yadahu Mabsootatani Yunfeeku Rather his two hands are

00:47:00 --> 00:47:05

widely open giving abundantly to whomever he rows

00:47:06 --> 00:47:08

and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned these

00:47:08 --> 00:47:13

two names in the context of inflation that

00:47:13 --> 00:47:18

occurred in his time that the companions they

00:47:18 --> 00:47:24

complained about asking him to asking him to

00:47:24 --> 00:47:29

you know to fix the prices at a

00:47:29 --> 00:47:34

fixed rate so he answered by mentioning these

00:47:34 --> 00:47:36

names these two names of Allah to prove

00:47:36 --> 00:47:39

that these matters did not go back to

00:47:39 --> 00:47:42

him but rather they go back to Allah

00:47:42 --> 00:47:46

alone he alone opens the gates of Rizq

00:47:46 --> 00:47:49

and he alone closes them and all of

00:47:49 --> 00:47:52

that is according to his wisdom and his

00:47:52 --> 00:48:10

knowledge as Allah says if

00:48:10 --> 00:48:16

Allah was to give abundantly again from that

00:48:16 --> 00:48:20

same name of Basit If Allah was to

00:48:20 --> 00:48:27

give abundantly to his servants then they would

00:48:27 --> 00:48:33

certainly transgress throughout the land meaning look at

00:48:33 --> 00:48:39

how when Allah gives some people look at

00:48:39 --> 00:48:44

what they do they transgress like the previous

00:48:44 --> 00:48:50

nations like Fir'aun, like Qarun right and

00:48:50 --> 00:48:55

like people today and like nations today and

00:48:55 --> 00:48:57

then Allah says that he sends down whatever

00:48:57 --> 00:49:02

he wills in perfect measure he sends down

00:49:02 --> 00:49:07

whatever he wills in perfect measure so as

00:49:07 --> 00:49:11

for Al-Muqaddim and Al-Muakhir these two

00:49:11 --> 00:49:20

names Al-Muqaddim means the one who sends

00:49:20 --> 00:49:25

forth and Al-Muakhir means the one who

00:49:25 --> 00:49:34

pulls back so Qaddamashay means to send something

00:49:34 --> 00:49:40

forward and Akhara means to bring something back

00:49:40 --> 00:49:44

to pull something back so what does that

00:49:44 --> 00:49:48

mean regarding Allah, what it means is that

00:49:48 --> 00:49:52

Allah, it means several things, among that which

00:49:52 --> 00:49:55

it means is that Allah puts forward some

00:49:55 --> 00:50:02

people over others he allows some people to

00:50:02 --> 00:50:08

excel over others in knowledge, in Iman in

00:50:09 --> 00:50:14

Akhara, these were the qualities on the other

00:50:14 --> 00:50:19

hand he pulls others back, not allowing them

00:50:19 --> 00:50:25

to advance in these qualities all of that

00:50:25 --> 00:50:28

according to his wisdom and so he advances

00:50:28 --> 00:50:31

certain people through his favor and his bounty

00:50:32 --> 00:50:35

while he pulls back others and delays them

00:50:35 --> 00:50:40

through his wisdom and his knowledge and so

00:50:40 --> 00:50:42

all of this proves that Allah alone is

00:50:42 --> 00:50:44

in control of what?

00:50:45 --> 00:50:50

of the hearts and the guidance of the

00:50:50 --> 00:50:55

hearts and so if anyone is guided it

00:50:55 --> 00:50:59

is because Allah guided them if anyone remains

00:50:59 --> 00:51:03

steadfast upon the guidance then it is because

00:51:03 --> 00:51:08

Allah made him steadfast if anyone excels in

00:51:08 --> 00:51:11

his Iman, in his good deeds then it's

00:51:11 --> 00:51:15

because Allah allowed him to excel and pushed

00:51:15 --> 00:51:18

him forward basically, the likes of Abu Bakr

00:51:18 --> 00:51:22

and these great companions and others throughout throughout

00:51:22 --> 00:51:29

our Islamic history and vice versa if anyone

00:51:29 --> 00:51:33

goes astray it is because Allah turned him

00:51:33 --> 00:51:36

away from the guidance he kept him back

00:51:36 --> 00:51:41

he pulled him back from the guidance and

00:51:41 --> 00:51:44

that's why the Prophet ﷺ used to frequently

00:51:44 --> 00:51:51

make the dua يا مقلب القلوب ثبت قلبي

00:51:51 --> 00:51:55

على دينك O turner of the hearts, keep

00:51:55 --> 00:51:58

my heart firm upon your Deen and before

00:51:58 --> 00:52:02

that he said the hearts are in the

00:52:02 --> 00:52:06

two fingers of Ar-Rahman He turns them

00:52:06 --> 00:52:08

as he wishes, meaning from Iman to Kufr

00:52:08 --> 00:52:12

and from Kufr to Iman and then he

00:52:12 --> 00:52:14

said this dua, O turner of the hearts,

00:52:14 --> 00:52:17

keep my heart firm upon your Deen, and

00:52:17 --> 00:52:19

so this shows us the importance of asking

00:52:19 --> 00:52:22

Allah for Hidayah, because Hidayah is in the

00:52:22 --> 00:52:26

hands of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Alright,

00:52:27 --> 00:52:30

we move on to the lessons that we

00:52:30 --> 00:52:32

learned from these four names of Allah Now,

00:52:36 --> 00:52:41

the first lesson that we learned as we

00:52:41 --> 00:52:43

mentioned earlier is that these names are examples

00:52:43 --> 00:52:48

of names that cannot be separated from one

00:52:48 --> 00:52:53

another when mentioned they are pairs that must

00:52:53 --> 00:52:59

be mentioned together because mentioning one alone on

00:52:59 --> 00:53:05

its own is not suitable and in fact

00:53:05 --> 00:53:11

it is deficiency and it gives an incomplete

00:53:11 --> 00:53:15

picture, so you cannot say Allah is Al

00:53:15 --> 00:53:23

-Qabid period that Allah He restricts the provision

00:53:24 --> 00:53:28

He withholds from giving you cannot say that

00:53:28 --> 00:53:33

regarding Allah Yes, it's true but you have

00:53:33 --> 00:53:38

to mention the opposite of that and the

00:53:38 --> 00:53:41

same thing with Al-Muakhir we cannot say

00:53:41 --> 00:53:45

Allah is Al-Muakhir period that He keeps

00:53:45 --> 00:53:50

people behind He pulls people back because you're

00:53:50 --> 00:53:59

giving an incomplete picture which one?

00:54:02 --> 00:54:05

Yeah, you could say that on its own

00:54:05 --> 00:54:10

Al-Muqaddim and Al-Basid as Allah has

00:54:10 --> 00:54:15

mentioned regarding Al-Basid in the Qur'an

00:54:15 --> 00:54:17

the ayat that we mentioned in the verb

00:54:17 --> 00:54:24

form Allah mentioned that without mentioning Al-Qabid

00:54:26 --> 00:54:29

but when we mention, when we pair these

00:54:29 --> 00:54:32

names together then it gives the it shows

00:54:32 --> 00:54:34

the perfection of Allah it shows the perfection

00:54:34 --> 00:55:05

of Allah Al-Muqaddim I

00:55:05 --> 00:55:09

mean, Yaqdir is as we mentioned in the

00:55:09 --> 00:55:11

ayah, similar to the ayah that we mentioned

00:55:11 --> 00:55:17

that وَلَكِن يُنَزِّلُ بِقَدَرٍ مَّا يَشَاءُ He sends

00:55:18 --> 00:55:28

down you know a set measure so

00:55:28 --> 00:55:31

when Allah gives, He gives according to a

00:55:31 --> 00:55:36

set measure not not more than what we

00:55:36 --> 00:55:40

need nor less right and if He was

00:55:40 --> 00:55:44

to just open up His Rizq, then the

00:55:44 --> 00:55:49

people will transgress right so that's the relationship

00:55:49 --> 00:55:53

between the two between Al-Basid and Al

00:55:53 --> 00:55:59

-Qadir the second lesson that we learned here,

00:56:00 --> 00:56:02

and that is from Al-Qabid and Al

00:56:02 --> 00:56:07

-Basid these two names, they teach us that

00:56:07 --> 00:56:09

we should put our trust in Allah and

00:56:09 --> 00:56:12

turn to Him alone for our Rizq as

00:56:12 --> 00:56:15

there is no one who can give what

00:56:15 --> 00:56:18

Allah has withheld and there is no one

00:56:18 --> 00:56:21

who can withhold what Allah has decided to

00:56:21 --> 00:56:27

give and that is part of the dua

00:56:27 --> 00:56:30

of the Prophet ﷺ in one dua, the

00:56:30 --> 00:56:41

Prophet ﷺ would say O

00:56:41 --> 00:56:43

Allah, there is no one who can withhold

00:56:43 --> 00:56:48

what you have you know abundantly decided to

00:56:48 --> 00:56:52

give nor is there anyone to give what

00:56:52 --> 00:56:55

you have decided to withhold the third lesson

00:56:55 --> 00:57:00

that we learned is being content and satisfied

00:57:00 --> 00:57:03

with what Allah has given to us of

00:57:03 --> 00:57:07

Rizq whether it be little or a lot

00:57:08 --> 00:57:13

and so your Rizq your satisfaction is a

00:57:13 --> 00:57:16

sign of your Iman in these two names

00:57:16 --> 00:57:20

of Allah ﷻ and also a sign of

00:57:20 --> 00:57:24

your knowledge that whatever you have or you

00:57:24 --> 00:57:27

don't have it is as a result of

00:57:27 --> 00:57:31

what Allah has either given or withheld the

00:57:33 --> 00:57:36

next lesson that we learned is that we

00:57:36 --> 00:57:39

have to believe that whatever Allah either gives

00:57:39 --> 00:57:44

or withholds is as a result of His

00:57:44 --> 00:57:50

wisdom and it is not proof that those

00:57:50 --> 00:57:54

who Allah gives that He loves them that

00:57:54 --> 00:57:57

He is pleased with them and that's why

00:57:57 --> 00:57:59

He gives them and those who Allah does

00:57:59 --> 00:58:02

not give, He withholds from giving it's because

00:58:02 --> 00:58:05

He doesn't like them or He is displeased

00:58:05 --> 00:58:09

with them right it doesn't mean any of

00:58:09 --> 00:58:14

that so who Allah decides to give abundantly

00:58:14 --> 00:58:17

and who Allah decides to withhold from giving

00:58:17 --> 00:58:22

of material wealth in the dunya it has

00:58:22 --> 00:58:25

nothing to do with Allah's pleasure with these

00:58:25 --> 00:58:29

people or displeasure because if that was the

00:58:29 --> 00:58:31

case then we know that the prophets and

00:58:31 --> 00:58:36

the messengers had the least they had the

00:58:36 --> 00:58:39

least our Prophet ﷺ what did he leave

00:58:39 --> 00:58:41

the dunya with when he left the dunya

00:58:41 --> 00:58:45

did he leave behind you know a massive

00:58:45 --> 00:58:50

fortune and wealth he didn't leave anything behind

00:58:50 --> 00:58:56

right he left behind one mule and some

00:58:56 --> 00:59:01

weapons and a land which was for sadaqah

00:59:01 --> 00:59:05

that's all he left behind right does that

00:59:05 --> 00:59:10

mean that Allah did not like Rasulullah ﷺ

00:59:10 --> 00:59:11

and that's why He did not give him,

00:59:12 --> 00:59:15

no and so we need to pay attention

00:59:15 --> 00:59:16

to this because a lot of people they

00:59:16 --> 00:59:19

think along those lines they think along those

00:59:19 --> 00:59:26

lines also they have a world based on

00:59:26 --> 00:59:29

the dunya that is based on the dunya

00:59:30 --> 00:59:35

that success is success in the dunya and

00:59:35 --> 00:59:37

if I have a lot then you know

00:59:37 --> 00:59:41

it's because Allah is pleased with me and

00:59:41 --> 00:59:43

those who Allah is not giving then it's

00:59:43 --> 00:59:48

because He is not happy with them the

00:59:48 --> 00:59:52

next lesson that we learn is that just

00:59:52 --> 00:59:56

because Allah is Al-Qabid and Al-Basid

00:59:56 --> 01:00:00

it does not mean that we don't have

01:00:00 --> 01:00:03

the means by which we can increase our

01:00:03 --> 01:00:08

rizq and so these names teach us that

01:00:08 --> 01:00:10

rizq is in the hands of Allah yes

01:00:10 --> 01:00:16

but the means of attaining that rizq Allah

01:00:16 --> 01:00:21

has put it in our hands as an

01:00:21 --> 01:00:29

example the prophet said whoever desires ample rizq

01:00:29 --> 01:00:32

and for his life to be prolonged what

01:00:32 --> 01:00:33

should he do?

01:00:35 --> 01:00:40

he should maintain good relations with his relatives

01:00:41 --> 01:00:47

so this proves that we can do something

01:00:47 --> 01:00:51

to increase our rizq and all the other

01:00:51 --> 01:00:54

means that we have right?

01:00:55 --> 01:00:57

just because we believe that Allah is the

01:00:57 --> 01:01:02

one who provides abundantly and he also withholds

01:01:02 --> 01:01:04

from providing it doesn't mean now I'm going

01:01:04 --> 01:01:07

to sit at home and just you know

01:01:07 --> 01:01:09

not do anything no we take the means

01:01:09 --> 01:01:12

so the means of attaining rizq is in

01:01:12 --> 01:01:15

our hands right?

01:01:18 --> 01:01:24

the next lesson is from Allah's names these

01:01:26 --> 01:01:30

two names teach us to attach our hearts

01:01:30 --> 01:01:34

with Allah alone and so no matter how

01:01:34 --> 01:01:39

much we try to advance something forward if

01:01:39 --> 01:01:41

Allah has not willed for it it will

01:01:41 --> 01:01:46

never move forward and no matter how much

01:01:46 --> 01:01:49

we may try to delay something if Allah

01:01:49 --> 01:01:52

has not willed for it it will never

01:01:52 --> 01:01:58

be delayed it will never be delayed Allah

01:01:58 --> 01:02:01

is Al-Muqaddim the one who makes things

01:02:01 --> 01:02:04

move forward and he is Al-Muakhir the

01:02:04 --> 01:02:07

one who delays things you know stops things

01:02:07 --> 01:02:11

from moving forward a perfect example of this

01:02:11 --> 01:02:13

is life and death right?

01:02:13 --> 01:02:20

life and death there are people who try

01:02:20 --> 01:02:25

for years to have children but Allah does

01:02:25 --> 01:02:30

not give them a child there are people

01:02:30 --> 01:02:33

who try to avoid death they delay it

01:02:41 --> 01:02:45

delay it so all of this shows us

01:02:45 --> 01:02:48

that Allah is Al-Muqaddim and Al-Muakhir

01:02:48 --> 01:02:51

and therefore we should attach our hearts to

01:02:51 --> 01:02:57

Allah alone the next lesson again from these

01:02:57 --> 01:03:01

two names is believing that anything or anyone

01:03:01 --> 01:03:09

who advanced in anything or anyone who is

01:03:09 --> 01:03:12

pulled back or delayed from anything it is

01:03:12 --> 01:03:15

all based on the wisdom of Allah who

01:03:15 --> 01:03:18

made it to happen that way so therefore

01:03:18 --> 01:03:23

we should never object but rather submit and

01:03:23 --> 01:03:26

be satisfied with how Allah decreed it with

01:03:26 --> 01:03:33

how Allah decreed it and so people who

01:03:33 --> 01:03:37

have hasad in their hearts envy when they

01:03:37 --> 01:03:41

see you know the blessings of Allah on

01:03:41 --> 01:03:47

certain people they don't realize that it is

01:03:47 --> 01:03:49

Allah who gave those blessings to those people

01:03:50 --> 01:03:52

and so when you understand that Allah is

01:03:52 --> 01:03:58

Al-Muqaddim and Al-Muakhir you know you

01:03:58 --> 01:04:02

should be satisfied with Allah's decree you should

01:04:02 --> 01:04:05

be satisfied with the decree of Allah and

01:04:05 --> 01:04:14

not object and not object and that's why

01:04:14 --> 01:04:22

we have the famous hadith of Musa and

01:04:22 --> 01:04:32

Adam when Musa met Adam he complained

01:04:32 --> 01:04:36

to Adam he said oh Adam it's because

01:04:36 --> 01:04:38

of you that we were kicked out of

01:04:38 --> 01:04:46

Jannah so Adam said in response how can

01:04:46 --> 01:04:49

you blame me for something that was decreed

01:04:49 --> 01:04:59

by Allah the Prophet said that Adam basically

01:04:59 --> 01:05:05

refuted and destroyed the argument of Musa so

01:05:06 --> 01:05:09

everything is by the decree of Allah right

01:05:09 --> 01:05:12

everything is by the decree of Allah whatever

01:05:12 --> 01:05:15

happens, good or bad good or bad so

01:05:15 --> 01:05:19

we should be satisfied we should be satisfied

01:05:19 --> 01:05:22

obviously that doesn't mean here that Adam was

01:05:22 --> 01:05:27

justifying what he did we know that it

01:05:27 --> 01:05:29

was as a result of this of him

01:05:29 --> 01:05:32

eating from the tree that we ended up

01:05:33 --> 01:05:38

leaving Jannah but Adam was not justifying right

01:05:38 --> 01:05:42

he wasn't justifying but rather he was simply

01:05:42 --> 01:05:45

saying that this was the Qadr of Allah

01:05:45 --> 01:05:46

so you don't blame me for it basically

01:05:46 --> 01:05:54

right the next lesson that we learn again

01:05:54 --> 01:05:58

from Al-Muqaddim and Al-Muakhir is that

01:05:58 --> 01:06:04

although Allah is described as advancing things and

01:06:04 --> 01:06:09

pulling things back he has also attributed that

01:06:09 --> 01:06:13

to us he has also attributed that to

01:06:13 --> 01:06:13

us where?

01:06:15 --> 01:06:20

in the Qur'an in the verb form

01:06:23 --> 01:06:32

لمن شاء منكم أن يتقدم أو يتأخر لمن

01:06:32 --> 01:06:38

شاء منكم أن يتقدم أو يتأخر whoever of

01:06:38 --> 01:06:42

you chooses to advance to take the lead

01:06:44 --> 01:06:48

or whoever among you chooses to lag behind

01:06:48 --> 01:06:54

to stay behind and so moving forward is

01:06:54 --> 01:06:55

by doing what?

01:06:55 --> 01:06:58

good deeds that's what Allah is saying here

01:06:58 --> 01:07:03

whoever among you, the choice is yours advance

01:07:03 --> 01:07:06

meaning by doing good deeds or stay behind

01:07:07 --> 01:07:09

and that is by committing sins and not

01:07:09 --> 01:07:15

obeying Allah so Allah says here that although

01:07:15 --> 01:07:18

he is the one who causes certain people

01:07:18 --> 01:07:21

to excel and others to remain behind at

01:07:21 --> 01:07:25

the same time he has also attributed that

01:07:25 --> 01:07:30

to us similar to what Allah says similar

01:07:30 --> 01:07:36

to what Allah says وَمَا تَشَاءُونَ إِلَّا أَن

01:07:36 --> 01:07:40

يَشَاءُ اللَّهُ رَبُّ الْعَالَمِينَ إِلَّا أَن يَشَاءُ اللَّهُ

01:07:40 --> 01:07:44

رَبُّ الْعَالَمِينَ except that Allah wills it so

01:07:44 --> 01:07:44

what does that mean?

01:07:45 --> 01:07:48

that means that Allah has a will but

01:07:48 --> 01:07:51

he has also given us a will he

01:07:51 --> 01:07:54

decrees things based on his will and he

01:07:54 --> 01:07:58

has also given us free will so no

01:07:58 --> 01:08:01

one should say that Allah is المقدم and

01:08:01 --> 01:08:05

المؤخر therefore there is no point of me

01:08:05 --> 01:08:09

doing anything right Allah is the one who

01:08:09 --> 01:08:11

causes certain people to excel in their Iman,

01:08:12 --> 01:08:15

in their guidance in their good deeds and

01:08:15 --> 01:08:17

he pulls back others so I should just

01:08:17 --> 01:08:19

sit and do nothing about it because the

01:08:19 --> 01:08:22

Prophet ﷺ said when some of the companions

01:08:22 --> 01:08:25

asked him about this they said Ya Rasulullah

01:08:25 --> 01:08:27

if everything has been decreed then what's the

01:08:27 --> 01:08:30

point of us doing anything so what did

01:08:30 --> 01:08:35

the Prophet ﷺ say اِعْمَلُوا فَكُلٌّ مُيَسَّرٌ لِمَا

01:08:35 --> 01:08:52

خُلِقَ لَهُ and one last

01:08:52 --> 01:09:07

mention is that the Prophet

01:09:07 --> 01:09:10

ﷺ in a Du'a right and that

01:09:10 --> 01:09:11

Du'a was a Du'a of forgiveness

01:09:12 --> 01:09:18

right you're seeking forgiveness from Allah right that

01:09:18 --> 01:09:22

Du'a was a Du'a of seeking

01:09:22 --> 01:09:25

forgiveness where the Prophet ﷺ said اللهم اغفر

01:09:25 --> 01:09:31

لي مَا قَدَّمت وَمَا أَخَرْت وَمَا أَسْرَرْت وَمَا

01:09:31 --> 01:09:34

أَعْلَنْت وَمَا أَسْرَفْت وَمَا أَنْتَ عَلَمْ بِهِ مِنِّي

01:09:34 --> 01:09:39

أَنتَ الْمُقَدِّم وَأَنتَ الْمُؤَخِّر so it's a Du

01:09:39 --> 01:09:42

'a in which you're asking Allah for forgiveness

01:09:42 --> 01:09:49

and so what this indicates is that sins

01:09:49 --> 01:09:53

they pull us back and they delay us

01:09:54 --> 01:09:57

on our journey to Allah subhanahu wa ta

01:09:57 --> 01:10:04

'ala sins they pull us back and they

01:10:04 --> 01:10:06

delay us on our path to Allah subhanahu

01:10:06 --> 01:10:09

wa ta'ala and that Allah forgiving us

01:10:09 --> 01:10:14

Allah forgiving us is a means of bringing

01:10:14 --> 01:10:19

us forward and advancing our rank in the

01:10:19 --> 01:10:22

sight of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so

01:10:22 --> 01:10:24

again it comes back to that idea of

01:10:25 --> 01:10:30

us taking the initiative and advancing or lagging

01:10:30 --> 01:10:35

behind either advancing or lagging behind and Allah

01:10:35 --> 01:10:38

subhanahu wa ta'ala has compared many things

01:10:39 --> 01:10:43

in the Akhirah to the Dunya many things

01:10:43 --> 01:10:46

are compared to the Dunya like for example

01:10:46 --> 01:10:51

the straight path the Sirat Al Mustaqeem it's

01:10:51 --> 01:10:53

a straight path in this Dunya and it

01:10:53 --> 01:10:58

will also be a path, a Sirat in

01:10:58 --> 01:11:00

the Akhirah and that is leading to Jannah

01:11:01 --> 01:11:05

right Allah has mentioned that Iman is light

01:11:06 --> 01:11:09

this light guides us in the Dunya to

01:11:09 --> 01:11:11

the straight path also on that day He

01:11:11 --> 01:11:14

will give light to some people to cross

01:11:14 --> 01:11:21

that Sirat right likewise likewise in this Dunya

01:11:21 --> 01:11:25

some people they advance, excel in their Iman

01:11:25 --> 01:11:27

and doing good deeds and striving hard to

01:11:27 --> 01:11:32

please Allah others they lag behind likewise in

01:11:32 --> 01:11:35

the Akhirah some are going to be racing

01:11:35 --> 01:11:39

to the gates of Jannah and excelling in

01:11:39 --> 01:11:42

the ranks in the levels of Jannah while

01:11:42 --> 01:11:45

others are going to be lagging behind others

01:11:45 --> 01:11:48

are going to be lagging behind slow to

01:11:48 --> 01:11:52

move right so when we think about it

01:11:52 --> 01:11:56

many things in the Dunya you know they

01:11:56 --> 01:11:58

will be or we will be in the

01:11:58 --> 01:12:01

Akhirah how we were in the Dunya we

01:12:01 --> 01:12:04

will be in the Akhirah how we were

01:12:04 --> 01:12:07

in the Dunya so this should basically wake

01:12:07 --> 01:12:10

us up and make us realize that you

01:12:10 --> 01:12:12

know if we want to be advancing in

01:12:12 --> 01:12:15

the Akhirah then that is by doing good

01:12:15 --> 01:12:19

deeds advancing and doing good deeds and if

01:12:19 --> 01:12:20

we are going to be lagging in the

01:12:20 --> 01:12:22

Akhirah it's going to be because of our

01:12:22 --> 01:12:24

sins and so we need to pay attention

01:12:24 --> 01:12:26

to that so this is where we will

01:12:26 --> 01:12:29

stop Insha'Allah and we have covered most

01:12:29 --> 01:12:33

of the names of Allah that are authentically

01:12:33 --> 01:12:34

mentioned in the Qur'an and in the

01:12:34 --> 01:12:37

Sunnah and next week Insha'Allah we will

01:12:37 --> 01:12:41

be concluding with a few more names and

01:12:41 --> 01:12:42

that will be next week will be our

01:12:42 --> 01:12:48

last session for the most beautiful names of

01:12:48 --> 01:12:53

Allah if there is any questions we can

01:12:53 --> 01:13:17

take maybe two questions before we conclude yeah

01:13:17 --> 01:13:20

the same thing can be said the question

01:13:20 --> 01:13:27

was you know can our sins because we

01:13:27 --> 01:13:30

said sins cause us to lag behind can

01:13:30 --> 01:13:32

that also affect us in the Dunya?

01:13:32 --> 01:13:36

yes and Ibn Qayyim in his book Al

01:13:36 --> 01:13:42

-Dawah he you know mentions a long list

01:13:42 --> 01:13:47

of the harmful effects of sins and most

01:13:47 --> 01:13:49

of these harmful effects are related to the

01:13:49 --> 01:13:51

Dunya our life in the Dunya the harmful

01:13:52 --> 01:13:58

the harmful effects of sins you know they

01:13:58 --> 01:14:01

affect us in terms of our heart our

01:14:01 --> 01:14:06

spirituality our life in the Dunya they bring

01:14:06 --> 01:14:12

misery to us they basically lessen our Rizq

01:14:12 --> 01:14:16

as well and so many other things that

01:14:16 --> 01:14:32

he mentions Allahu A'la so

01:14:32 --> 01:14:35

Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says

01:14:35 --> 01:14:40

in the Ayah وَمَن يَبْخَلُ فَإِنَّمَا يَبْخَلُ عَن

01:14:40 --> 01:14:45

نَفْسِهِ whoever is stingy he is only bringing

01:14:45 --> 01:14:50

stinginess and greed to himself meaning the harm

01:14:50 --> 01:14:53

of that is going to be for him

01:14:53 --> 01:14:55

he is not going to be harming anyone

01:14:55 --> 01:15:00

else he is only harming himself right and

01:15:00 --> 01:15:03

then Allah says he is Al-Ghani the

01:15:03 --> 01:15:06

rich so this is perhaps to tell people

01:15:06 --> 01:15:10

who think that if I give you know

01:15:11 --> 01:15:16

I'm doing a favor to Allah right if

01:15:16 --> 01:15:18

I give I'm doing a favor to Allah,

01:15:18 --> 01:15:23

so Allah is saying no right you not

01:15:23 --> 01:15:25

giving is bringing harm to yourself and Allah

01:15:25 --> 01:15:28

is Al-Ghani the one who is self

01:15:28 --> 01:15:31

-sufficient and he doesn't need anything Allahu A

01:15:31 --> 01:15:46

'la sorry

01:15:48 --> 01:15:57

yes so the question is

01:15:57 --> 01:16:01

if someone wrongs someone else he oppresses him

01:16:01 --> 01:16:03

and he says this was the Qadr of

01:16:03 --> 01:16:07

Allah we respond in the same way that

01:16:07 --> 01:16:10

we mentioned and that is you cannot use

01:16:10 --> 01:16:13

the Qadr of Allah to justify doing evil

01:16:15 --> 01:16:20

yes Allah decrees everything but he has also

01:16:20 --> 01:16:22

given us the free will and the choice

01:16:22 --> 01:16:25

we do what we do based on our

01:16:25 --> 01:16:28

free will we do what we do based

01:16:28 --> 01:16:31

on our free will yes Allah decreed it

01:16:31 --> 01:16:34

but that doesn't mean you did it while

01:16:34 --> 01:16:37

Allah forced you to do it no right

01:16:37 --> 01:16:41

and that's why there is accountability that's why

01:16:41 --> 01:16:47

Allah has made accountability he has told us

01:16:47 --> 01:16:49

that those who do such and such they

01:16:49 --> 01:16:52

will have such and such in the Akhirah

01:16:52 --> 01:16:57

right of reward or punishment if we were

01:16:57 --> 01:16:58

forced to do what we do and we

01:16:58 --> 01:17:00

had no free will on our own part

01:17:01 --> 01:17:03

then that doesn't make any sense it doesn't

01:17:03 --> 01:17:06

make sense that there should be accountability for

01:17:06 --> 01:17:08

our deeds good or bad in the Akhirah

01:17:08 --> 01:17:11

right it doesn't make sense because we are

01:17:11 --> 01:17:15

forced and that's why certain people in the

01:17:15 --> 01:17:19

Dunya they will not have accountability such as

01:17:20 --> 01:17:23

the one who is insane the one who

01:17:23 --> 01:17:28

is sleeping the one who goes unconscious the

01:17:28 --> 01:17:30

young child why because they don't act on

01:17:30 --> 01:17:33

their own free will none of these people

01:17:34 --> 01:17:37

do what they do based on an informed

01:17:37 --> 01:17:40

decision and based on a free will so

01:17:40 --> 01:17:44

that's why there is no accountability right but

01:17:44 --> 01:17:49

all everyone else the actions that we commit

01:17:49 --> 01:17:51

are based on our choice and that's why

01:17:51 --> 01:17:52

there will be accountability so that's how we

01:17:52 --> 01:17:56

answer you can't use Qadr to justify wronging

01:17:56 --> 01:18:00

others right you did it and you will

01:18:00 --> 01:18:02

be held accountable for it ...

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