Lauren Booth – Heart Soul – Episode 02

			Welcome to heart and soul on Qf radio with me Lauren booth your space to reflect Today we will be
exploring the names of God Almighty how he introduces himself to mankind and his elements and his
attributes. Joining me to explore this is Chef Sajid Ouma. Chef Sajid has a bachelor's degree in
Sharia a master's degree in judiciary, and he's now pursuing his PhD. He is internationally known
for his interaction with communities and his excellent youth work and we welcome you today share
Sajid welcome Salam alaykum
		

			warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu flexuosus, Lauren and I are very honored to be here with you. So let's
address the knowing getting to know God. Let's talk about how do we know the divine? And how did God
introduce himself to the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him? What names? And what attribute? Can we
get to know God by? Oh, that's excellent question. It's a topic which I love, really the names and
attributes of God Almighty, because, you know, I always say to my audiences that, you know, whenever
we learn something new about fellow human beings, and that's a good thing, and a nice thing, we
start loving the most, just natural, sexual, it's a natural thing for human beings. You know, when
		

			you get married, you know, you start learning new things about your spouse, and the more good things
you learn about that, Oh, look, they're charitable. Oh, look, they're so kind and so forgiving. It
causes you to love them. That's what happened. So the more we learn about God Almighty, the more we
love him. And the more we love him, the more inspiring which worshiping and we always love to do
things for the people we love. If we love God, Almighty, or the, you know,
		

			if we love more than will be even more inspired to do things for God Almighty. So God Almighty, He
has taught us about him. In many ways, he's taught us about him from the angle of our natural
disposition. Right, this, this natural disposition that we've been created upon, it's an innate
matter that exists within every human being, the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him for that
every child of,
		

			of Adam,
		

			has been created upon this actual disposition upon this, this the disposition of belief in a god,
and that this God is the only one worthy of worship. Because, you know, something cannot come from
nothing. And if you exist, then you something.
		

			And if you something, then you came from somewhere, it can't be that you came from nothing, because
it's just not logical.
		

			And it's not true to, you know, your innate nature. It's only when this innate nature becomes
corrupted by by this by Satan, then, when we fail to take Satan as an enemy, and we allow him into
our space and into our thoughts and into our beliefs, and then he messes up things, then we come up,
		

			pure nature of, of natural disposition, and then we start having different beliefs. From the outset,
God Almighty has given everyone this special disposition and this natural disposition teaches them
about God Almighty. So that's number one. We learn about God Almighty, from his natural disposition
that God Almighty has created us and number two, we learn about God Almighty by looking at the
creation of God Almighty around us by looking at the clouds looking at the sky, look at the sky, you
know,
		

			you know it's, it's up there without any cracks without any class. And then you have the clouds and
how they move around and how they carry a look at the trees how amazing they are, they grow they
give us oxygen, they give us oxygen and we need oxygen to coexist with these trees. You look at the
mountains and the purpose and function of the mountains you look at water. You look at the different
creations of God Almighty, the different birds, different insects that you know, creations that we
don't even know exists. And we learning about them every day and how they've been shaped and formed
and the colors that they have that you know, you know who has the audacity to give parents the
		

			colors that it has, you know, amazing kind of sweetness together and you know, it's so brave to put
these colors together and these colors together make it so beautiful. So we look at and we look at
ourselves, we look at us as a creation, our bodies our hearts, if you know just hot and cold amazing
it is. It beats without us having to remember a beating. Imagine sister Lauren, you and I had to
remember our heart beating what would happen. We forget
		

			And our heart would stop and we'd be dead.
		

			Over I forgot, because you know the heartbeat. Yes, yes. It says that you're right. The beating
heart, sir is very important that we can't tell ourselves to live another day, I can't say to you,
I'm going to be breathing. And then I'm going to be doing this. And tomorrow I'll do this, we could
we can't say that. And as a woman, I have to say, and the mothers out there will get this. And I'm
sure fathers who who have been close to childbirth as well.
		

			The formation of the baby, knowing that this, this being is growing independently of you, that we do
not make its heartbeat. We don't we can't say oh, we can say I hope it has these eyes, or it'd be
nice if it has a button nose, or we can have these little dreams, but we don't have any say over it.
And it seems as well shake if we look to the natural world, and the Quran tells us and Allah tells
us to do this time and time again, if you want to find God, just look at the system that he's
created. And it is actually not a harsh system. It's not a dog eat dog world. It is benevolent. I'll
give you a quick example. Endorphins, what are endorphins, endorphins aren't actually created from
		

			time immemorial. For us on the treadmill, very, very few of us will ever reach the kind of exertion
where they'll kick in, you know why they're here. They're here. Because when we can't do anymore,
when we've exerted ourselves in the field, when we've given birth, when we are absolutely using our
last reserves of energy, bingo, suddenly, this amazing feeling of joy enters, and we can do another
half day. And we can pick up our baby that we've just given birth to and go back to away from the
fields and we can look after ourselves. And this is a benevolent creation and a benevolent creator.
Yes. So
		

			thank you for that.
		

			You know, we learn about God Almighty by looking at the things around us. And he spoke about the
heart, the heart has four chambers, atria and the ventricles bicuspid valves, and then you got a
otters, you got the arteries, and the arteries carry oxygenated blood to the rest of the body. And
then you've got a system of veins that carry the opposite deoxygenated blood back to the body. It's
such a perfect system, right. And even when we make an exception to the rule, and we say except one
artery and except one vein, which is the pulmonary artery and the pulmonary vein, because, you know,
the pulmonary artery takes blood out of the heart to the lungs to receive the oxygen and the
		

			pulmonary vein brings oxygenated blood back to the heart, just a system if something goes wrong, you
know, you can find one human being working this way. And another human being was that way, the
complete system. So we look at this, and this teaches us about God Almighty, teaches us about God
Almighty. So that's another way. The other way of learning about God Almighty is by looking at
Revelation. Right? Because revelation
		

			complements the mind, in the sense that it brings lessons that the mind cannot fathom,
		

			the mind cannot comprehend. And we look at Revelation and we see God Almighty describing himself in
so many ways.
		

			verse after verse, God Almighty teaches us more and more about him more and more about him. We learn
about him in terms of what he does, we learn about him in terms of how he does it, we learn about
him and God Almighty, actually describing himself or something or telling us that from his beautiful
names or something. And understanding that, you know, God Almighty, his names are void of
attributes, right? So God Almighty says, He says your healing is not void of the attributes of
healing. And all this collectively, you know, looking at our natural disposition, looking at our
environments, deflecting over revelation, all of this collectively, teaches us about God Almighty,
		

			and this entails of loving him more because we learn more amazing things about him. And this entails
after that servitude, and obedience and worship. It's definitely time to listen to some idea of the
Quran, perhaps you can translate some of the pivotal IO where Allah subhanaw taala, God Almighty
introduces himself to the prophet and to mankind. Yeah. So, if we, if we look right at the beginning
of the Quran, the first chapter, the very first best copyright is 111. Praise be to Allah, Lord of
the worlds.
		

			Right, somebody like me, you know, basically to cover like a lot of thoughts of God Almighty
introduces us to a lot of things between him and who uses a lot of power. Right, and the quantity
was what the term load means, which refers to him being the protector that nourishes the Sustainer,
the one who nurtures you to perfection, you know, the the one upon who you rely upon for your
survival, for your protection, right. And this is year two of human being, this concept of surviving
and being protected. So you need to be God Almighty into Jesus to us in such an intimate way, in a
way that
		

			resonates with us, you know,
		

			resonates with us in such a way that we just want to release ourselves to that, okay, you know, I'm
so desperate to survive. I'm so desperate to succeed. I'm so desperate to be protected. And here I
have the King of kings, who is the ultimate protector that every protector relies on as well. So you
surrender yourself to God Almighty. So bottom line right at the beginning, introduces himself to
everybody. Using this attribute of him being the Lord, God Almighty also introduced himself as the
Lord to his messages when Moses, if that is the appointment was first engaged by God Almighty.
		

			God Almighty said,
		

			I am your Lord, I am the Lord. And this was the same with the other prophets of God Almighty. And
then God Almighty goes on in other places to teach us and teach us prophets, about other aspects of
God Almighty. Because obviously, every prophet went on a journey, after they listened to the Lord.
		

			That's what you do when you know that success and all of success lies with my Lord. If he is all of
my protector, then you're going to listen to what your Lord tells you. And
		

			you know, God Almighty commanded the prophets to go and teach the communities about God Almighty
being the only one worthy of worship and everyone who went to breach they received opposition. So
they went on a journey. And as they went on this journey, God Almighty strengthen them, by teaching
the more and more about God Almighty, that don't worry God Almighty, we all are aware of that which
they do, right. So, this this is, you know, I read in the Arabic language we say, God Almighty, God
is omniscient. Right. And and you know, sometimes people throw up against the prophecy the secret
was God Almighty faith that Allah is his hobbies and hobbies. teaches us a God Almighty is the only
		

			aware but you know, to such a certain extent that he is all aware of even the most conspicuous most
prized Maxim's and Chef right we are going to come right back with the all awareness of Allah. And
we're just going to take a very short break and come back to check Sajid on mark with these lovely
gems of knowledge.
		

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			you're listening to heart and soul on Qatar foundation radio with me Lauren booth sharing his gems
of knowledge with us today is Chef Sajid Omer chef Sajid, we were exploring some of the Beautiful
Names of Allah. But unfortunately, we are out of time. And it's such a big topic. I wonder if
perhaps, in the last moments of this program, you could share with us some of the ways that somebody
new to understanding who is good, can access this information through his names. Yeah, I mean,
there's a lot of resources and articles online. But you know, I would say start with yourself, by
yourself and go back to the lesson shared at the beginning of the show in terms of how we learn
		

			about Columbine, that we learn about God Almighty through our natural disposition, connecting with
our universe of guidance, connecting with ourselves, and then looking at our surroundings, you know,
don't just don't just see a beautiful scenery, witness it. You know, don't just hear beautiful
words, listen to it. Don't just learn beautiful things, understand it. That's where that is the key
learning point, in terms of learning about God Almighty, that you witness God Almighty, and
everything that you see that you listen about God Almighty, in everything that you hear, that you
understand God Almighty, and everything that you left, right. So you know, before you start looking
		

			for articles that other people have written.
		

			You know, start with yourself, give yourself a chance. You have the ability, you have the ability to
learn more about God Almighty, just follow the processes that I shared. And last but not least, pick
up a copy of
		

			and give you the read with an open mind that you see God Almighty introducing himself to you in so
many amazingly different ways. Just like a hair. Thank you, chef for those wonderful gems again, and
my peace and understanding descend upon you and keep us all radiant in its light until tomorrow.
Assalamu alaikum the producer for this series is a hab Usha