Mustafa Khattab – 25 Allahs Attributes AlWadud I
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When I was a student at the Latar
very young,
I met,
a minister
from a particular faith, and I was talking
to them because I wanted to, you know,
to know about their faith, and,
so he was,
you know, a Christian minister. I met him
in Egypt, and I was talking to him,
and he said, you know, in Islam,
your God has so many names,
99 or more, and he is a Jabal,
he is in Montaqim, he is in Mudil,
he is this and that,
but in my faith,
his faith, he said that God is love,
but God in your faith has so many
names, and none of them is about love.
I didn't know I was young, and later
when I studied the names of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, and I found one name of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that means the All
Loving One, the one about love, and that
is Al Wadud.
The name of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, Al
Wadood means the All Loving One. He loves
everyone.
And the love of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
the Wud, there are 2 types. There's general
Wud, general love for everyone or compassion,
and there is specific compassion.
The general one, and this is for everyone
in His creation.
Muslim, non Muslim, it doesn't really matter. Allah
has compassion towards His creation,
and He says in the Quran
Allah
is gracious to everyone,
because He created them.
Whether they worship Him or worship someone else,
He created them, so He provides for them,
He takes care of them.
So Allah
says in the Quran that I subjected the
Sun and the Moon for everyone, Muslims, non
Muslims.
I send rizq down and rain for everyone,
Muslim, non Muslim.
The air they breathe, the water they drink,
the food they eat, He gave them the
capacity to hear, see, reason, and so on
and so forth, and this is for everyone.
But when it comes to the specific type
of love and wut of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, it is not for everyone.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is telling us
in the Quran about the people He loves,
and the people He doesn't like.
So for example,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala does not like Avwalimun,
He
says it very clear in the Quran, the
people who commit Zul, He doesn't like them.
He doesn't like the people who commit Kufr,
and Kufr in the Arabic language could mean
disbelief
or ingratitude.
Like, He gives you, gives you, gives you,
and you thank someone else, you thank Aissa,
you thank Buddha,
other Gods of your own making.
La'yuhb ul Mustaqbiri, he doesn't like the arrogant
people.
La'yuhb ul Musliffin, he doesn't like the people
who waste,
Because wasting is a sign of
disrespect to Allah Subh'anaHu Waqqai. He's giving you
the nama, and you don't show appreciation to
this nama.
Now the people that Allah Subh'anaHu Waqqai
loves,
He gives us specific criteria in the Quran
for the people He loves Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala He
loves the people who do good
and we hope that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
will make a manir
Wa Yohi buhul muttaqeen
He loves the people of Taqwa
Wayuhib Bas Sabireen He loves the people of
Sabri, we ask Allah to make us among
them
and even if it is difficult for us
to be among the people of that Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala loves because
it might be difficult for you to have
Taqwa,
to have Ihsan,
to have Sabr. He also loves Al MuqSatin,
the people who are just, the people who
exercise justice, and sometimes
it is sometimes it's difficult, it's challenging to
have Taqwa, to have Sabr, to have Ihsan,
to have Khisd, which is justice,
but there is one quality that Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala loves
that everyone can afford.
Yuhibut
Tawwa Abin. He loves those who, when they
make sins or commit a mistake,
they turn to him and say Allah I
made a mistake forgive me. And this is
everyone can afford, so don't say like I
can't do it because you can't.
You say Allah forgive me, and this is
a quality that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala loves.
Quality of would, when Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala
loves someone, He would put their love in
the hearts of people
Inna laveena aamanu waabilussa'alihati
saiyajahalahu
murrahmanuwuda
Those who are believers and they do good
deeds, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala would bless them
with genuine love,
and SubhanAllah you see it very
in many cases, you see someone for the
first time, and SubhanAllah, you're you're attached to
them. Although this is your first time to
see them, you love them innocently.
And there are some people, SubhanAllah, you meet.
Yeah. I think I obviously deal with kafya.
And there are some people you want you
feel like you want to choke them. There's
no this connection is not there. So this
type of love, this wood between the believers
is something that Allah puts in our hearts.
To illustrate
and sum up everything I mentioned, I will
give 2 examples in Khas.
Everyone hates the people who commit Zulm Al
Walimi Allah hates them and even people hate
them no one likes them
our rulers back home
I'm not going to talk politics but some
of them are unjust, they come here boldly,
and they are the very reason why everyone
here is here. Because if they were just,
if they were treating us with dignity,
why would you come here?
30 minus in the wintertime,
13% in tax.
It's crazy, man.
But they are the this is the the
favor they have done to all of us
is that they gathered us together here.
Right? So this is a favor from Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So one of those talents back home, and
the good thing SubhanAllah,
as I've mentioned the first talk I gave
here about the names of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. Why the name of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala is blessed. Tabarakas Murab, because the name
fits him. If Allah is Kareem, he is
Kareem there is no one who can stop
him from being Kareem
if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is just, he
is just all the way if Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is as His Raheem, His but
as I mentioned the first time in Ramadan
I said some people are called Saeed
and they're old like this like they're unhappy
the name Saeed means happy they call themselves
Karim and SubhanAllah they they don't want to
give anyone anything the name doesn't doesn't fit
them. Right?
And now when you look at some of
those rulers, you see Musharraf, where is the
sharraf? I don't know. Mubarak, where is the
baraka? I don't know.
Zayil Abineel? I don't know. Salih? I don't
know. I don't know where they get these
names from, because I said before the names
are for free. You don't pay taxes, so
you can't just give your kids whatever name
you want, even if the name doesn't fit
them.
But the names of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
they fit him perfectly. So one of those
rulers back home,
he was kidnapped.
Right? It's a fictional fictional story, right? So
one of those
rulers, tyrants back home he was kidnapped
and people didn't know where he was, so
everyone was dancing in the street, everyone was
happy. So the kidnappers, they called a random
person, they opened the, the, this book, the
phone book, they called a random citizen,
you know, and they said we have you
a president.
Right?
If you don't pay $5,000,000
we're gonna put gas on him and burn
him, you know, sit him on fire. Are
you gonna pay the 5,000,000?
So that's
citizen said no, I would pay for the
gas.
Just burn
him, because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala did not
bless them with wood, with love because of
justice, injustice. Allahuhibbo
Wali mean.
The second example of the people that Allah
Subhanahu
from what we have seen, has given love
this word.
A brother, I'm not sure if I mentioned
him last year,
a brother by the name of Tom. I
met him a few years ago in Hamilton.
He lives in Kitchener,
and SubhanAllah, he's a new Muslim.
He had been Muslim for 2 years at
the time,
and,
after 2 years of being Muslim, he found
out that he had,
cancer,
and it was very late, and the doctor
told him you only have 2 years to
live.
And he was married, he had 2 kids,
one of them like 2 years old, one
was 1 year old,
and and SubhanAllah, his life was was very
amazing.
So when I met him in Hamilton, and
he was giving a talk about his life,
I I noticed one thing about him, because
everyone in here, if you put yourself in
his shoes, they'll tell you, after you took
Shahada, now you have 2 years to live,
you will leave your wife, he just got
married to a sister 2 3 years earlier,
and he has 2 kids 1 or 2
years old, this beautiful age, and you're gonna
die and leave everything behind. Of course, you'll
be pulling your hair off, you'll be stressed
out, you can't sleep, you can't eat, your
life would be miserable. Right? Just put yourself
in his shoes.
But this brother, SubhanAllah, when he was giving
the talk about his life, he was all
smiles,
and he was saying Alhamdulillah all the time,
so I came to him after the talk,
and I said, you man, like,
why are you smiling? Why are you saying
Alhamdulillah? Because your life is difficult, man. And
he said, I'm saying Alhamdulillah because now I'm
dying after I took Shahada. Now imagine if
I died before I became Muslim, where would
I be?
And I said, okay, now okay, now you're
Muslim, you're going to Jannah InshaAllah, but aren't
you concerned and worried about your wife and
the 2 kids? They're 1 or 2 years
old. He said, I'm leaving them for Allah,
and Allah will take better care of them
than I would ever do. Right? So this
type
of taqwa in his heart, and and the
smile in his face, and this yaqeen,
it gives us hope in life. This is
the type of people that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala has put wood for them.
This brother, brother Tom, he passed away about
7 8 months ago,
after his, fight with cancer, but we always
make Dua every time we remember him, and
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, his Janazah,
intentional
work, was one of the biggest probably in
Canada. Although many people didn't know him,
by just hear hearing about his story, and
how optimistic he was, and all the inspiration
that he gave to people around him, people
came to Hijanazah without even seeing him or
knowing him. This is the type of wood,
love that Allah
puts on earth for the people. We'll continue
tomorrow inshallah.
So the question for last night
was,
is that Allah
who takes our souls when we die? Allah
wih taf alamfusahaina
mawtihah This is an ayah in the Quran,
or is the Angel of death? Koliyatawafakum
malakum mutilavi wakilabiq? Who does the taking of
the soul? And the answer is Allah
is the one who gives the order, and
the Malaika,
they do it, they carry it out.
Like say for example, Wa Alai Mathir Al,
I'm just giving you an example,
the Muslim ban in the US,
it was
dictated by Trump, he's the one who took
the decision, but who is applying it?
The officers on the borders! So if you
say Trump did it, yes. If you say
the officers are doing it, you're right! Because
he's giving the order and they are applying
it. Not sure if the winner is here
tonight, Tawfiq Baba, is he here?
Tawfiq Baba, he's not here. So we'll give
it to him tomorrow to him inshaAllah tomorrow.
The last question inshaAllah for this Ramadan, the
last question,
Inna Anzannahu fi Laylatul Qadr. The Quran was
revealed on Laylatul Qadr.
But we really know that the Quran, it
took the Quran 23 years to be revealed.
Right? 23 years, 13 in Makkah until in
Madinah. Was it revealed on 1 night, Laila
del Khat, or over 23
years? How do you explain this? If you
know the answer, email may be before tomorrow,
us at Anatolia,
imamustafat Anatoliacentral.zaajazaqullafina.