Omar Suleiman – 99 gods vs 99 names of one God

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			So tonight, what I wanted to reflect on was this concept of 99 Names of Allah subhanaw, taala 99
names of one god versus 99 gods, and I'll tell you why that's very important. The first thing is
that, if you were to take the 99 Names of Allah and interact with them in isolation, then they would
not connect you ultimately to a loss of Hannah Montana. But to connect with Alana is to connect with
her or him to connect with her for us to connect with her dude, to connect with Allah, Zack is to
connect with Albuquerque, right? If you really pay attention, one of the blessings of having the 99
Names of Allah subhanaw taala is that if you connect with any one of them, ultimately, you're
		

			connecting with the same God. And all of that brings you closer to a loss of autonomy. So connecting
with all 99 of them, is a means of connecting you to one, right and it's important for us then to
think about how proportionally connected we are to Allah subhanaw taala because when the prophets I
seldom said that Allah has 99 names, when I saw whoever perfects them, completes them, solidifies
them, ascertains them affirms them definite agenda will enter Paradise, what that means is that the
more you connect to the 99 names of a lot, the more you connect to a lot. And the less that you
connect with some names of Allah, the less to connect with a lot, the less you connect with God
		

			Himself. And it's important for us to find a way to make sure that we're connecting with each one of
those names of a loss of Hannah Montana and to find them around us and everything that's happening
around us. So why is this so significant to us right now, Allah mentions in the book and really like
the smell has nothing to do, he'll be happy, that to alarm to God belong the most beautiful of
names. So call him using those names. Call a lot with all of his different names. And if you think
about right away off the bat, your your supplication, your prayer, how many names of Allah Do you
use in your prayer? Right? Are you only connecting with Allah? Are you connecting with the most
		

			compassionate, the Most Merciful?
		

			Are you connecting with others? Are you connecting with all of those different Beautiful Names of
Allah? subhanaw taala? Or do you only use the name a lot, and use a few, a few of the last names,
the ones that are most familiar to you and most common to you? And so the first thing you have to
ask yourself, when you see that I have that versus how much am I making? How much am I supplicating?
And then how can I bring all of the names of Allah into my life in my supplication? How do I call
upon Allah subhanaw taala using all of his names in my supplication, so that I'm connecting to Allah
from all of these different angles, because at the end of the day, to bring all of the 99 back
		

			together in our hearts and our minds and our thoughts on our tongues, is to completely overwhelm
ourselves, right with with with the contemplation of Allah, who he is, and how we connect with him.
And so I should be thinking to myself very intentionally, how do I start to bring about all of the
names of Allah into my supplication? Now, here's the thing with that, usually, you don't connect to
a different name of Allah subhanaw taala, because you read it in the Quran, or you came across it or
you thought about it, usually you connect to a different name of Allah, because your circumstances
have changed, right? And so I had no reason to think about, or I thought I had no reason to think
		

			about this name of Allah, until something happened to me. And so for example, if I had never worried
about my sustenance before,
		

			if, you know, I was very comfortable financially, then I was the Sustainer was not that was not was
not so much at the front of my of my mind, it wasn't, it wasn't something that was occupied by
thoughts because it was not something sustenance was not something that I was worrying about. But
now that things are happening, the way that they're happening,
		

			and I'm not as comfortable maybe in my finances now, I'm going to constantly be reminded of list and
the concept of sustenance. And so I really need to have not just the wholesome understanding of
that, but I need to have a regular mention of Azov mentioned of the Sustainer in my prayers, right
and really connect with that name in a very wholesome way. And so the circumstances around you
change, and then it's like, Okay, well, what does this name mean, and how does this name Connect,
right? And that's one of the blessings of the shifting circumstance.
		

			answers of our lives is that it forces us to connect to a lot of different way. And so you call upon
a lot differently when you're in hardship than you do when you're in ease. You call upon a lot
differently when you're in fear, rather than when you're comfortable, right, you call upon a lot
differently in all of these different circumstances, even if you're not necessarily using a
different name of Allah. Usually, you're calling upon a lot of different way the nature of your, the
nature of your supplication is changing. And so how do you infuse the names of a loss of hundreds
out of the names of God into your prayers into your supplications, intentionally in a way that
		

			you're connecting with a loss of 100 data as a result of, or through all of these different ways,
and then add another layer to that, what you want to get to, is that when you look around you, no
matter how you're looking around, what you're seeing everything around, you should start to connect
to one of the names of the last time. So you see an act of generosity, immediately. allocating the
most generous comes to your mind, you see, an act of love immediately comes to mind, you see an act,
or you see something that's fashion beautifully, immediately and saw what comes to mind. You see the
the vastness of the creation, immediately a harlot comes to mind, you see something where you've
		

			been entrusted or someone else has been entrusted to no one, but their Lord immediately allocated
comes to mind, right, so all of these names, start to immediately come to mind as a second nature
for you, with everything that's changing around you, okay, so in your, in your supplications, and
your prayers, you are purposefully intentionally
		

			using all of the names of Allah subhanaw taala. And you could start right now with your wizard
figure, for example, you could start with, you know, after every prayer, studying one of the names
of Allah subhanaw taala, if you go to Europeans website, you'll find that we had a series Sheikh
Mohammed shonali, myself did a program mostly him I just did the introduction to know Him is to love
him. And Sheikh Mohammed has been doing a beautiful breakdown of the names of Allah subhanaw taala,
because it's always been my belief that if we had a proper understanding of the name, Names of
Allah, then the issues of faith that have been made primary will be rendered secondary, they'll be
		

			turned into peripheral issues, because you have such a trust and have faith in the name of a loss of
habitat in the names of Allah and the attributes of Allah subhanaw taala. And so the first thing
again, is how do I intentionally bring about all of those names in mind, it's not enough to memorize
them in a sheet, okay? If my dog is missing some names of a lot, then that could be an aspect of my
life that I'm not connecting to God. Okay, so if I'm not using those names of God, either in my
supplications, or connecting them to the circumstances, there is a void, and there's an absence then
a disconnect, in those things that are happening around me, and, and God, and the idea is to connect
		

			all areas of my life to Allah subhanaw, taala to God, and I can't connect all areas of my life to
Allah, unless I connect to all of the names of Allah. Right, so all of the names of Allah are
relevant. The question is whether we've made them relevant or not, and whether they immediately are
triggered in our minds and in our hearts and reified when we see things happening around us. So the
first thing again, as an assignment as a takeaway, just, you know, ask yourself, every night
everyone should be praying with it, right, trying to pray with it. How do I bring about a new set of
names of a lot into my, into my prayers and my supplication? So I connect with a lot that way? And
		

			then the second thing is, how do I connect the circumstances around me to those different names of
Allah? So when things are happening and unfolding in my life, how do I immediately say that reminds
me of a lot L, Allah V, and then think about that name. And then the third thing, as I mentioned, in
the very beginning, the difference between 99 gods, and 99 names of one God is that the more I
connect to a man, the more I connect to it,
		

			the more I connect to each one of these names of a lot, it brings me in a wholesome way closer to
Allah subhanaw taala. And the greatest blessing, the greatest blessing, anything that can be given
to us of, of the stole or of deprivation, right of hardship, or of ease, is a deeper connection to a
loss of time. And that is one of the blessings of unique circumstances because unique circumstances
force us to reflect and to reconsider how we have embraced or neglected some elements of our faith.
And the first place to start when you're reconsidering how you may have neglected some element of
your faith is whether you've neglected an aspect of god that was relevant to your life but that you
		

			have been ignoring. And so let's make it a point in sha Allah to Allah to connect to each one of
those names of Allah subhanho wa Taala what he learned as Martin has no further will be her. Last
thing I should have mentioned this in the beginning actually is
		

			Last thing, the greatest way to connect to those names then after you supplicate with them, after
you reflect on them with the changing circumstances, is to manifest the human, the human component
of any of those attributes when they are presence, okay? So for example a lot is allocating a lot is
the most generous, I can't be allocating and allows generosity is unlike the generosity of a human
being, but I can be generous. And the more I connect to lkt, the most generous or the more I connect
to generosity in my life, tomorrow connected Kitty,
		

			I can be merciful, my mercy will never be like Allah's mercy. But if I am merciful, then I will
undoubtedly be connected more connected to the Most Merciful. So every element of Allah has names
that has a human
		

			because nothing of a last names are human, but there's a human companion, right to that Divine Name
and divine attribute. I should be manifesting that in my life and if I'm not, then I'm failing in
that regard and I need to find a way to bring it in my life inshallah Tada. So, whether it's justice
or generosity or love or mercy, I need to be a part of that in Charlottetown and manifest that
whatever way that I possibly can, and that's why a lot of the prophets I said it'll hammelmann fill
out your Himachal Memphis center, be merciful to those on earth, and the one in the heavens will be
merciful to you. So we have lost parents, Allah bless all of you and allow us to connect to him in
		

			every way possible to connect to all of his names, and ultimately to connect to him and to and to
fall deeper in love with him in these moments alone. I mean, just like a lot of female Santa Monica
are handled right here.