Suhaib Webb – The Masses Creed 7 God in Islam
AI: Summary ©
AI: Transcript ©
Muhammad
everybody.
We have been talking about the obligatory
qualities due to Allah and those that we
have to deny as well. And we have
been talking about something called.
I want you to remember this that as
we go through these qualities, they're going to
have different designations, but in general, their opposites
are
considered an obligation to deny.
The first attribute that we took right or
quality is a better word for Allah.
The Sheikh he mentions Allah exist. It's opposite
would be that he doesn't exist.
And he has no beginning
means he has no ending the opposite would
would be birth and death.
The 4th is that he is an opposition
to creation in his essence, his attributes, and
his actions.
And then these are the last 2 that
we took. Right?
And. We said that it's opposite will be.
Right? Means the one who's all powerful.
Allah
says
Allah
is in control over all things independently.
He does not have any needs
or anyone to help him do something
And then the next is
Right?
The one who's completely rich.
Right he provides
he's not provided for
so some actually called this attribute
right Allah who's in
is the one who
the one who provides but is not provided
for.
And that takes us to the last in
the series of
and I want you to remember that these
attributes, I'm gonna put that that that right
there, that parenthesis so you can see where
it stops.
That these attributes are meant to affirm Allah's
transcendence,
to bring us into a state of
to Allah
and
to help us with our servitude in the
taste and beauty of our worship and our
life,
as well as to increase sincerity.
And the last quality that we'll talk about
from these is.
So the Sheikh he says right here you
can see it. Waheedon
Ulema called this Wahdaniya.
Wa
And
means
that
is
1,
That he's 1. And it's a little different
than other religions. Right?
Because oftentimes we go to MSA events, we
go to interfaith events, and we all say
God is 1, and that's great and he
generally to affirm that. But Islamically, we differ
with others in the conceptuality
of Allah's oneness,
And it goes back to the same understanding
that we had with opposition.
So we say that number 1, he's 1
in his essence.
What does that mean? That's explained by one
of our teachers, great scholar from Esar who
lived around 200 years ago, that Allah
does not have
taqleef. He's not united with something else, brought
together with something else.
Walal Aqsaem, he doesn't have parts. He's not
divided like 1 and 2, 3, right, like
the trinity, for example.
He's only 1
So those are some examples of what we
mean when we say
that he's not also in his creation, like
idolatry,
and the opposite of that will be shirk.
Shirk be that. I want you to remember
that. So shirk.
Okay?
In his actions,
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
in his punishing, in his rewarding, in his
guiding,
no one shares with him in that,
and and no one can equal him in
that. So that would be shirk.
Right? To say that for example someone has
the power to forgive like God, or someone
has the power to punishment punish or guide
like God.
That will be shirk,
shirk
in his.
The last is
his qualities
so to say that you know someone has
one of the qualities of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
that they share in those qualities with him
or to divide those qualities into multiple gods
right that would also be.
With him so his existence his actions
like forgiveness right, he's forgiving
he's guiding, he's punishing,
his qualities meaning his,
like his knowledge. No one knows like god.
Right? And God doesn't need anyone to help
him know nor is his knowledge divided into
parts.
So these are three aspects of shirk, which
unfortunately sometimes,
Muslims don't learn about because we tend to
focus only on shirk in Ibadah, in worship.
But when you only study shirk and Ibadah,
right, you're only getting 1 fourth of.
Whereas, it's actually four aspects,
his existence,
his actions, his qualities,
and
Ibadah, 4 things. Now, what is the proof
for this? And I said, it's always cool
how classical scholars started with logic before they
started with sacred text, and that's because they
wanted to prepare us for public life. People
who don't believe in the Quran and Sunnah
are not going to start out with the
Quran and Sunnah. You need to bring some
kind of logic, and we talked about how
Sayedna Ibrahim did that in the 6th chapter
of the Quran, Sayedna Muhammad
and others. But here's an evidence and like
you should learn this dua. It's really cool
and the next lesson. I'm gonna teach you
how to read
the seven qualities that we took today in
text, but this beautiful dua
of the prophet Allah.
Oh Allah indeed, I ask you because you
are God you are Allah.
There is no God truly worship but you.
And there's the proof for
also in the Quran, Allah says.
Say that your lord is one right and
the Dua continues.
I
had right. Oh Oh, Allah, I ask you
because you indeed are Allah, the one, the
independent who has no child
and was not born
or has no offspring. Right? And was not
born and who has no likeness.
We'll stop here
but let's quickly review
the first
really six qualities that we've taken, right?
Number 1 is that Allah
exists,
the opposite is here, he does not exist.
He has no beginning, the opposite of that
is birth, he has no ending, the opposite
of that is death.
He is an opposition to his creation,
so the opposite of that would be shirk.
Right?
Actually, a better example would be tashbi and
tamthir.
Right?
Specifically something
emulating him partially or completely, and this actually
is 6 and 7, 5 and 6. Sorry.
And this is 7. My bad.
Independence and richness richness would be like coercion
or weakness,
and poverty would be the opposites. And then
oneness
in his essence, in his attributes, in his
actions,
and his worship, and the opposite of that
is shirk. So these seven important qualities are
meant to help us,
affirm Allah's
transcendence and deny idolatry or associating partners with
him. We will
continue next time talking about how you can
read these seven qualities back into Quranic texts
is what is hadith, and that's why I
said earlier,
in classical classical
madrasas,
is taught before and
before hadith. Because if someone were to read
hadith literally or hadith literally without understanding the
interpretive mechanisms
founded and rooted in our theology,
they may actually misinterpret sacred texts. We ask
Allah
by all of his names and attributes to
bless you and bless us
Please feel free to ask questions and comment
below.