Sulayman Van Ael – Divine Names 6a AlKhaliq AlBari AlMusawwir
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The speakers discuss the importance of witnessing in the holy Qiosm and the holy Book of the Here withdrawing. They also talk about the holy Book of the Here withdrawing, the importance of understanding the holy Book of the Here withdrawing, and the importance of creating a clear eye and effort to bring one's eyes down. They also discuss the evolution of Islam and the importance of ethics and religion in society. Finally, they give a recap of their day and encourage viewers to write down some reflections of their thoughts.
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They don't know how to connect to them,
how to understand them, how to live them,
and how to supplicate.
So today, Insha'Allah, I would like to
have a look at names of creation and
recreating, which I find to be very interesting.
Today we are going to have a look
at Al-Khaliq, Al-Bari, and Al-Musawwir.
Al-Khaliq, Al-Bari, and Al-Musawwir.
These names are very, very personal names.
Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, when He
creates, He creates everything with a lot of
care, a lot of love, and a lot
of wisdom.
And the name Al-Khaliq, Al-Bari, and
Al-Musawwir are one of these names you
can never escape.
And the people of the soul say that
you can get to a point, to a
level, where we speak of Mushahada.
Mushahada being witnessing.
Witnessing meaning that you witness Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala all the time.
And this is why Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala said in the Holy Qur'an, شَهِدَ
اللَّهُ أَنَّهُ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ وَالْمَلَائِكَةُ وَأُولُّ
الْعِلْمِ قَائِمًا بِالْقِسْطَةِ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ الْعَزِيزُ
الْحَكِيمُ This is a very important verse in
Surah Al-Imran.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, and Allah
testifies, witnesses.
Allah does witness together with the angels and
with the people of knowledge that there is
la ilaha illallah.
So this is the importance which Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala gave to ulul ilm, meaning
to the people of knowledge.
But the knowledge we are talking about here
is not knowledge like intellectual knowledge.
It's spiritual knowledge.
And this is why Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala in the Qur'an, He mentions people
who fear Allah, who pray during the night,
and at the end He says, قُلْ هَلْ
يَسْتَوِي الَّذِينَ يَعْلَمُونَ وَالَّذِينَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ Are those
who know and those who don't know, are
they equal?
Meaning here, it is not about those who
we call Fuqaha, not about those who we
call Mufassireen, people with knowledge of the interpretation
of the Qur'an, not of the people
that we call Muhadditheen, because there are people
who have knowledge of the Qur'an, but
they are not pious.
They are not good human beings.
So when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
Are those who know and those who don't,
similar?
Are they the same?
After having mentioned Qiyam al-Layl, praying during
the night and so much more, then we
know that Allah speaks about knowledge of Allah.
And this is the transformative knowledge.
Knowledge which does not transform you, tackles you.
Knowledge which does not transform you, knocks you
out, in a bad way.
So this is why, when you know the
names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, at
a certain point, you will attain a level
which is called al-Mushahada, witnessing.
Remember the ayah?
Allah witnesses together with the angels and the
possessors of knowledge.
And what the beauty is here in the
Arabic language, is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
didn't say, شَهِدَ اللَّهُ أَنَّهُ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا
اللَّهُ وَالْمَلَائِكَةُ وَأُولُّ الْعِلْمِ Meaning, Allah witnesses that
La ilaha illa Allah, and so do the
angels and the people of knowledge.
He witnessed together with them.
Allah witnesses together with the angels and the
people of knowledge.
So this Mushahada, it's a program, the Mushahada
program, which I have developed, which was in
Belgium.
I've never delivered it here.
But it is in everything, and it starts
at a very low base.
It starts really low, where you are going
to use the Dunya, where you are going
to use everything you see in Dunya, to
connect to the Akhira.
That's the first step.
Your last step is straight connection, witnessing Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
But the other one is, for example, you
see a wall in front of you.
So what are you going to think about
now?
Surah Al-Hadeed.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, فَضُرِبَ بَيْنَهُمْ
بِسُورٍ لَهُ بَابٍ And between them there is
a wall, and in that wall there is
a door.
بَاطِنُهُ فِيهِ الرَّحْمَةِ On the inside of the
wall there is mercy, and on the outside
there is عَذَاب, punishment.
You see a stop sign.
You say, ah, you think about the verse,
وَقِفُوهُمْ إِنَّهُمْ مَسْؤُلُونَ Stop them, because certainly, definitely
they will be asked.
So you are now, everything you see, you
are going to connect it, to the Hereafter,
to Jannah, to Naar, and all the other
things.
And this is why I'm creating a dictionary.
I'm writing a dictionary of, the dictionary of
the Hereafter.
Meaning that I'm going to help the reader
to think about the Hereafter through the Dunya.
You see this?
You go under a bridge, all of a
sudden you think about the bridge of what?
Over Jahannam.
Everything you see in this life has been
created to bring you back to Allah, not
to take you away from Him.
And this is why Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala says in the Qur'an, أَفَرَأَيْتُمُ النَّارَ
الَّتِي تُورُونَ Do you see the fire that
you light?
أَأَنْتُمْ أَنْشَأْتُمْ شَجَرَتَهَا أَمْ نَحْنُ الْمُنْشِئُونَ Are you
the ones that created the trees or are
we?
But then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
نَحْمُ جَعَلْنَاهَا تَذْكِرَةً وَمَتَاعًا لِلْمُقْوِينَ We made it
as a reminder.
Yani we created the fire as a reminder,
and as a protector for the Muqween.
And the Muqween is the Musafir, the traveller.
Traveller to the Hereafter and the traveller in
Dunya.
So Allah says, look at this fire.
Yani it what?
It has been created as a reminder.
And this is why some of the Sahaba
radhiAllahu anhum, they would lose their consciousness.
And they would just fall down just by
looking at fire.
So unlike this, there are more than a
thousand things in this Dunya that you can
look at which will remind you of the
Hereafter.
Either of Jannah or Naar or Yawm al
-Qiyamah.
Is that clear?
So I'm writing this dictionary, and then you
just go, you look at something, you have
it with you InshaAllah on a nap, right?
And then you're sitting on the bus and
you look at, I don't know, a bird.
So now you go for bird.
And then everything which this bird should remind
you of, will be right in front of
you.
And at the end, Dunya will not take
you away from Allah, Dunya will take you
to Allah.
Is that clear?
And this is why when the Prophet sallAllahu
alayhi wa sallam, when someone came back from
Sham, he said, Ya RasoolAllah, I only saw
evil things.
I saw music and wine and these kind
of things.
The Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam has said,
Sadaqta, you spoke the truth.
Another man came and he said, Ya RasoolAllah,
what a beautiful place.
I've only seen people praying and pious people.
He said, Sadaqta, you will find what you
are looking for.
You will see what you are looking for.
Some people come back from the market, and
their heart is heavy.
Market, Dunya, this, it took me away from
Allah.
I never go to the market again.
And somebody comes back and subhanAllah, he's filled
with energy and positivity.
It all depends on how you look at
things.
Abdullah ibn Umar r.a, like Imam Bukhari
r.a mentioned in his book Al-Adab
Al-Mufrad, he used to go to the
market, stand at the gates of the market
just to give salam to people.
He would go to the market, and then
he turned a marketplace into one of the
best places on the face of the earth.
Just by turning it into a place of
giving salam and returning salam.
You see this?
So this is the lowest level.
But in our times, this is already a
very high level, isn't it?
That you can connect to the Hereafter through
the Dunya.
This has not been given to the majority
of people.
So this is why we want to revive
this.
It is not given to me either.
This is why I'm in need of writing
a book to remind me.
So I'm trying to think about it.
Like when you stop in front of your
red light, You stop.
But when there is haram, the red light
from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we just
go on.
You see?
So all of these things, they remind us
of, like Ibn Abid Dunya r.a said
that a man came out of the bathroom,
with tears in his eyes.
And his son said, what's going on with
you?
He said, when I was inside of this,
I was reminded of the verse, They will
be imprisoned by pillars of iron and fire.
He said, so when I was in that
place, I said, if I were to be
locked up for an eternity in the bathroom,
this would have been sufficient as a punishment.
So what about, So you see that our
scholars used to do this.
So this is why Imam Al-Ghazali, he
speaks about the concept, but he didn't develop
it further.
So he gave it away.
Everything Imam Al-Ghazali did is so much.
So sometimes he just said, and this and
that.
I think that he hoped that people would
come, that would then later on develop a
system, or create a system around his thoughts.
Wallahu subhanahu wa ta'ala alam.
So we have this as a first level,
and then we go higher.
We go through the prophets, through the angels,
through everything.
We try to connect to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
And then we have the highest level, which
is that you recognize Allah's names, and Allah's
characteristics in everything you see around you.
Because one of the scholars said, Allah knew
that pious people wouldn't be able to wait
before seeing Allah, so he created for them
things that remind them of him.
And in all of his being, that's separate,
but of his love, of his power, of
his patience, of his wisdom, of his, you
know, all these things.
So he knew that pious people wouldn't be
patient enough to see him.
And some people, they just died because they
wanted to meet Allah.
They said, I can't take this anymore.
You know, the heart is there, the soul
is there, everything is there.
And this is why at the moment when
you die, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala himself
says, يَا إِيَّتُهَا النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَئِنَّ إِرْجِعِيْ O soul
that came at rest, come back.
And she just wants to come back to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So some people, they couldn't really take it
anymore.
They said, I feel too much love and
desire to go back to him.
Like this man, when his sons were crying
next to him when he was on his
deathbed, and then they were crying, they said,
are you going to leave us?
What is going to happen to you?
And then he sat straight on his bed
and he lifted his hands to the sky.
But before that he said, my sons, don't
you worry.
I have been preparing myself for this moment
all my life.
And then he lifted his hands to the
sky and he said, رَبِّ خُذْنِي إِلَيْكَ فَإِنِّي
إِلَيْكَ لَمُشْتَقِ O Allah, take my soul because
I long being with you.
And then he died.
But for those, like us inshaAllah, we are
maybe not yet at that level.
But we try to see Allah.
And when I say see Allah, I mean
his names.
I never mean his entity.
Because Allah does not resemble creation and creation
doesn't resemble Allah.
Allah is not in his creation and creation
can never become one with Allah.
Is that clear?
So there is no wahdat, unifying with Allah
physically.
That is impossible.
And someone who believes this becomes a kafir
through that.
We can't be Allah and Allah can't be
us.
Okay.
So now to carry on.
So, the highest level is recognizing Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala in everything.
His names in everything.
And the name Al-Khaliq Al-Bari Al
-Musawwir are one of these powerful names that
you can really use in your life and
recognize all the time.
All the time.
Al-Khaliq Al-Bari Al-Musawwir.
Look, when you build a building, you are
first in need of the fundamentals of an
architect designing it.
Then someone building the rough, you know, how
do you call that?
The foundations.
And then you have the designer.
And then you have the in-house architect.
You see?
Okay.
So there are four things.
First you have the architect designing it.
Then you have something, you know, this rough
structure.
Then you have someone doing the finishing touch.
And then you also have an in-house
architect, right?
If you're very rich.
So he's going to, in-house designer, tell
you how everything is done.
So now Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we're
not going to say he's an architect.
Why?
Because that's not one of the names of
Allah.
But when Allah says he's Al-Khaliq, he's
the creator, we mean, خَلَقَ النَّاسَ مِنْ غَيْرِ
مِثَالٍ سَابِقٍ أو خَلَقَ الْأَشْيَاءَ مِنْ غَيْرِ مِثَالٍ
سَابِقٍ Meaning, that Allah has created everything without
any previous example being set.
Okay?
Like now people, when Mercedes for example, they
make cars.
And then BMW makes cars, and Volvo makes
cars, and their SUVs are almost exactly the
same.
It's a big thing.
But the outward design and inward design is
a bit different.
Okay?
But, they all base their new creation between
brackets, on something which already existed.
And this is what the human beings have
done.
Since the very beginning when they started inventing
trains and planes, and this is what we
call biomimicry.
Biomimicry, meaning that the people are going to
base their designs, and they are inspired by
nature to build things.
Like now for example, the bullet train, which
has been invented.
The bullet train is the fastest train, and
it goes like this in front.
Not like this, but like this.
That has been based on a bird.
A bird which dives into the water to
hunt for fish.
And its beak is created in such a
way that there is no water resistance.
Almost no water resistance.
And that bird, its beak is like this.
So they said, if this is good against
the water resistance, then it might also be
good when it comes down to aerodynamics and
so forth.
So they created the train based on a
bird.
The same with Velcro for example.
The same with the solar system that the
whales use.
And so much more.
So the airplanes, you name it.
Even, how do you call it?
I forgot.
Anyway, so many different things that creation has
built, or has been inspired through what?
Through creation.
So even the birds we make, the planes
we make, everything.
And one day I was driving back home
from university, when I was in Holland, lecturing
in Holland, and I came back and the
wind was very strong.
A very strong wind.
It was a storm.
And the airplanes had to stay on the
ground, because the storm was too severe.
So they did this.
It was incredible.
So anyway, this is biomimicry.
Look it up.
It is so beautiful.
You can find everything we have based on
nature.
So we are not creators.
But when Allah SWT says, تَبَارَكَ اللَّهُ أَحْسَنُ
الْخَالِقِينَ Blessed is Allah, the best of all
creators.
Then when He refers to others as creators,
He refers to them as being creators, but
not creating something out of nothing.
Someone who wants to create something out of
nothing, doesn't exist and will never exist.
Meaning, that you are not allowed to use
anything which already exists.
Ya Allah, nobody can do this.
If you want to make something, you have
to use creation.
So you are not a true creator.
Do you see this?
So now they say, look at what they
can do now.
They are creating human beings.
No, they are not.
They are always using a part.
They are creating human beings.
No, they are not.
They are always using a part of the
human being.
If they wouldn't, they couldn't.
Is that clear?
So okay, create a human being now.
Out of nothing.
Don't use anything Allah has created.
They can't.
So when we say Allah is Al-Khaliq,
we mean that He is the one who
designed it.
Without having anybody before Him doing it.
So that is Al-Khaliq subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
Now Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in
the Qur'an, Wallahu khalaqakum.
Allah created you.
Wa ma ta'malun.
And what you do.
Allah has created you and He has created
what you do.
How are we going to understand this?
Because we are not, you know, with regards
to to the actions of the human beings.
The sects are divided into three categories.
We have on the one hand the Jabari.
Now you say in front of television, you
know, everything I did was thanks to my
father, or thanks to my mother.
You know, it's actually, if I was playing,
you know, then actually they were.
Because everything I did was thanks to them.
So this is what we say.
Allah created us and what we do.
We always know that whatever we do was
only made possible thanks to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala either giving us the energy, or
giving us the inspiration, or giving us the
power, or the possibility to do it.
Wallahu khalaqakum wa ma ta'malun.
This is the way that we should understand
this verse.
Is that clear?
Because sometimes it seems to be misunderstood by
many people.
They say, okay, if Allah created what I
do, well then what's the point of me,
you know.
No, no, this is what it means.
So wallahu khalaqakum wa ma ta'malun.
So Allah is Al-Khaliq, Al-Bari, and
Al-Musawwir.
Al-Musawwir is the one that designed every
little tiny part and made you who you
are.
So we say, like for example, you have
the rough construction, but then you also have
the design which makes the house different from
other houses.
Very often this is not the case in
England.
All the houses look alike.
It's incredible.
It's only when you are very rich that
you have a different house.
But all the other houses are the same.
This is not in Belgium.
In Belgium every house is different.
When I came here I said, it's strange,
it's like you are in a movie, a
strange movie.
What, 1985?
They were all created in 1985?
Yeah, the book 1984, I know.
Really?
Big Brother thing and these kind of things?
Okay, let's continue.
So then that's only happening in England because
in Belgium, the 1984 has not yet happened
to the houses.
So anyway, normally when you have a house,
the construction, the fundamentals are the same, but
the design is different.
And that is which makes you different.
So now when you are going to have
a look, barakallahu fikum, look at yourself.
Your structure, the basic structure is the same,
usually.
Everybody has the same structure.
But then we come to the design.
Your eyes are different.
Your nose is different.
Your ears are different.
And if your eyes look the same, at
least the iris is not the same, never
ever.
We say iris, right?
It's never the same.
This is why now when you go through
security, they scan your eyes.
Nobody has the same iris at all.
Even identical twins, they don't have this.
This is what we mean when we say
al-musawwir.
He gave you these typical things which are
only yours, showing that creation is not by
chance but by choice.
Because if we were just a mass production
from an explosion, then we would all at
least have some things which are identically the
same, but we are exactly the opposite.
So this can never be by chance.
Being unique as you are, shows that someone
is taking care of you.
That he left the biggest proof that he
exists right there, and it is you.
And this is why Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala says, Ya ayyuhal-insan, O human being,
ma gharraka bil-rabbikal-karim, what has distracted
you from your generous Lord?
And then how?
Allathee khalaqaka, the one that created you.
Allathee khalaqaka and then?
Fasawwaka fa-adalak.
Yani sawwaka means he completed you.
Fa-adalak, in correct proportions.
And then?
Fee ayyi soora, that's the musawwir.
In any shape or form, he so wanted,
he constructed you.
So Allah says, how can you, even when
you go, and you want your car, you
say I want a Mercedes ML for example.
You say you know these big ones?
Yeah, you want one like that.
And you say, okay but I want this
color, and on the inside I want the
thread, I want it to be red, and
on the back I want my name.
They are going to design it especially for
you.
It's tailor made for you.
So if you know that it is just
about small things that make the difference, then
what about you?
And the thing is, Allah says, how can
you be distracted from your Lord when your
body is showing you that your Lord exists.
That he loves you and that he took
care of you.
You understand?
So this is very important to see.
Like, allathee khalaqaka, fasawwaka, fa-adalak, fee ayyi
sooratin, mashaa'a rakabak.
So when you look, even the tambr, we
say in French, of your voice.
You know, the sound of your voice.
You know, a child knows the voice of
the mother.
You know that penguins, when they come to
the island, because they are left alone, they
come out of their eggs, they come, there
are millions of penguins, they find their mother
through the noise she makes.
Millions of penguins, all crying out, and the
little tiny, I was just born, you know,
cute penguin, just walks to his mother.
How does this happen?
This is incredible.
Because it all comes from the same thing,
a throat.
How can the voice be so different?
This is incredible.
Like, if you just think about the voice.
We all use the same instrument, but nevertheless,
it has a unique, yani, a unique sound,
that if you hear it, you know, okay,
that's my husband.
Oh, that's my mother.
Otherwise, it would be difficult.
Somebody calling you, and you say, Hi, how
are you?
I'm your mother.
Prove it.
When was I born?
Okay, everybody knows.
What was my, you know, you need to
check all the time whether someone, so Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala made it easy, no
checking, no checking, just talking, people will recognize
you.
You see this?
So we are unique.
Even the fingerprint, yani, Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala said, قادرين على أن نسوي بنانا Yani,
weren't we capable, all capable of creating His
fingertips, yani, fingerprints.
How did the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
know back in the days that fingerprints were
unique?
He didn't, Allah knew.
And this is the very proof that He
put on your body to say, I am
there.
Not like in prison, you come in number
7,355.
They give you numbers so that you forget
your identity.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala didn't give us
numbers.
He gave us a beautiful design.
How can more than 2 billion people, sorry,
7 billion people, be different on this space?
A surface this small.
If you ask all the designers and drawers
of the world to draw a different drawing
on this surface, with how much would they
come up?
7 billion different designs?
Impossible.
But Allah nevertheless did.
Out of love.
Because He cares.
Because He wants to remind you.
So this is the importance of Al-Khaliq
subhanahu wa ta'ala in knowing that name,
that you're so different.
Look, look at your hands.
I want you to take both of your
hands in front of you.
Does anybody know how you write an 8
and a 1 in Arabic?
Does everybody know 8 and 1?
Okay.
What do you see in your right hand?
1 and 8.
Okay, it can be a bit less clear
or more clear, but usually everybody has it.
What do you see in your left hand?
8 and 1.
8 and 1 and 1 and 8, how
much is that?
99 names.
So that you would invoke Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala with these hands on which He
left this trace.
I have 99 names.
Supplicate.
Everybody usually has it.
You see?
1 and 8 and 8 and 1.
And if you don't know what it looks
like, then ask people.
Okay.
Like it's very clear.
At least here it is very clear.
Maybe I'm just making this up.
No, no, I'm not.
So if you look, barakallahu feekum, did you
find it?
Did you find it as well?
You found it?
And it's not something imaginary, is it?
It's there.
So the majority of people have this.
This is one of the signs that Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala wants you to raise
your hands to the sky.
And you say, Allah, I ask you by
your 99 names.
SubhanAllah.
This is how connected He wants us to
be to Him.
You see this?
It's ajeeb.
It's incredible.
So now, let's continue.
I will get back to your hands afterwards,
inshaAllah.
So if you're going to have a look,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, how can
it be that you forgot about Him, that
you got distracted?
Everything is perfect.
If you just look at a giraffe, for
example, it's always with its neck upwards.
Isn't it true?
That must be tiring, isn't it?
Because she goes down as well.
Well, when she goes down, she goes against
her muscle.
Meaning, she needs to put effort to bring
her neck down, because her muscle is up.
So she doesn't have to think about keeping
her neck up.
She has to think about bringing her neck
down.
And from the moment she quenched her thirst
or whatever, neck goes up straight away.
You see this?
So the same with an elephant.
An elephant hasn't got a neck, has it?
Its head is on its body.
Because for such a big head, you would
need like a very strong, large, disturbing neck.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave it,
what, how do you call this?
Trunk.
Gave it a trunk which is long enough
to get to the point where she could
have gone with a normal neck.
So how would she go down?
An elephant so big would be quite exhausting.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave her
the trunk so that she can even bring
it to her mouth.
And like this, everything has been created in
a perfect way.
Everything around us shows us that Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is the perfect creator.
Even the bees know which flowers to go
to and which flowers not to go to.
You know that there is a wasp in
Africa and its babies, I will just call
it like this, right?
Its larvae or whatever.
They only eat from living animals.
So meaning that if there is a corpse
in front of them of, how do you
call these animals again?
Subhanallah.
No.
It looks like a *.
No.
That what we are allowed to eat, the
insect we are allowed to eat.
Is it locust?
Okay.
Sometimes there is a plague of them, right?
Okay.
Yes.
Imam Suyuti wrote a book about them, this
big.
He said locust in Qur'an and Sunnah.
Because one of the plagues, right?
So anyway, so they only eat it when
it's still alive.
The problem is when she stings the locust.
Al-jarad.
I'm going to call it al-jarad, okay?
When she stings the jarad, right?
Then if she gives a bit too much,
it will die.
But it needs to be sufficient for her
to be unconscious for two weeks.
Because that's the amount of time that her
babies need to eat and then they can
go hunt for themselves.
So she injects the jarad with exactly the
amount of venom which is needed for her
to be unconscious for two weeks.
And on a certain place between the wings,
that's the only place where it works.
It goes, it stings, brings it to the
babies, they eat from it, then it wakes
up after two weeks.
Either it's dead, either it wakes up and
dies because of the injuries or either it's
safe because they just ate a non-vital
part and it goes away.
Who taught this?
You know when they are going to SubhanAllah
How do you call it when you put
someone to sleep?
Yes.
There is an expert, isn't it?
That comes, how much do you weigh?
How much this?
How much that?
Or for example, during labor when you get
this epidural for example, they really calculated, you
know.
Doctors that have studied for years, a bit
too much can kill someone or paralyze someone.
So they come and they are very you
know, cautious.
This is need of study.
How does the little, small, tiny wasp know
how much it should give?
Not too much so that it doesn't die
and not too less so that it would
fly away.
Two weeks exact.
This is the Khaliq.
This is the Khaliq.
And this is why Allah says about the
bee that, وَأَوْحَى رَبُّكَ إِلَى النَّحْلِ Allah inspired
the bee.
And how to, to which flowers to go,
how to turn it into honey and so
much more.
So in everything we see, you know what
I find the most incredible thing and sometimes
I think like a Bedouin and I don't
want to look at signs all the time.
When I look for example at blue flowers,
red flowers, yellow flowers.
When I take the seeds in front of
me, they look alike.
When I open it, there is no color.
There is no color.
But when it grows, it gets a color.
Who paints it?
It would be like, I think when I
look at flowers, it's normal.
But next time when I come here and
the ceiling has been painted red, I say,
who did this?
When somebody tells me, well no one, I
wouldn't believe it.
So why do we believe it with flowers?
Why don't we see this as Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala between brackets, painting each flower
separately?
Because this is what it is.
It's not painting.
It's creating.
It's attention.
It is care.
It is love for us to see.
Not for him.
He's in need of nothing.
It's an expression of the beauty that he
loves so much for us.
وَلَقَدَ زَيَّنَّ السَّمَاءَ الدُّنْيَا Allah says, we have
beautified the skies.
Subhanallah.
When Allah speaks about the oceans in the
Quran, what did He say?
Listen carefully.
He said, so that you could take flesh,
fresh flesh out of the oceans, which is
fish.
But then He added something, وَزِينَ So that
you can take beautiful things out of the
oceans, like coral and all the pearls which
are used in jewels.
Who wear these jewels?
Men?
Women.
So one of the reasons why oceans were
created is because Allah wanted the woman to
beautify herself within certain frameworks of course.
But this was the love He had for
that creation.
He created the oceans so that, one of
the reasons, women could wear pearls.
So that we could beautify our houses.
Subhanallah.
And Allah speaks about the donkeys, and then
He speaks about the horses and the camels.
And then He says, and as a beauty
for the eye to see.
And Allah says, the day that you harvest
your fruit, He said, look at it.
And Allah says, فَلْيَنظُرِي الْإِنسَانُ إِلَىٰ طَعَامِي He
says, let the human being look at his
food.
Don't just eat, hop, hop, hop.
It has been designed, created.
We believe in a Khaliq.
The form, the shape, the smell, the taste,
has all been created for you.
Is that clear?
So the name of Khaliq is a very
personal name.
You know when your child is born, that
small, tiny, little puppet has been created and
designed for you.
That's His gift to you.
And this is why He says, يَهَبُنِي مَن
يَشَهَرِ He bestows upon whomsoever He wills, a
girl or a boy.
And the way it looks, the way it
walks, the way it talks, until it leaves
your house, has been designed for you to
love and cherish and look at and be
happy.
Even its little voice, the way it sounds,
especially for you, for him or her as
well, but for you as well to hear.
It's hajib.
All of this is incredible.
You cannot even force your child to walk.
For example, Laith started walking only a month
ago, when he was a year and five
months old.
Some children walk when they are 10 months
old, but that's not good for their legs.
Some walk when they are 12 months old.
Everybody is different.
If we would be, as I said, a
mass production from a big bang, then we
would all be identical.
But now we are all different.
If the evolution within our species is already
visible to the eye while we live, you
know, then, anyway, I want to go to
the evolution theory and leave it.
It's rubbish.
So, we see that all of this is
not by chance.
It is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala taking
care of us, loving us, and doing so
much more.
I can't be thrown in jail, right, when
I say that evolution theory is rubbish.
When I say this at secondary school, I
can.
I will be thrown out of school at
least, right?
Alhamdulillah, here I can say what I want.
We live in dangerous times where you are
not even allowed to think what you like
without being called, you know, an extremist or
a madman or woman.
It's a strange time where law says what
you should or should not think.
Because a lot of these things have to
do with ethics, and usually that's not where
governments mix with people.
And it also has to do with religion.
And religion and state are supposed to be
separated.
You see?
So, you see that a lot of things
are happening, and this is why I think
it's important for Muslims to know how to
express themselves.
Like you can say, for example, I do
not agree, or, for example, homosexuality is a
sin.
It's a sin.
I don't mind saying this.
It's a sin according to Jesus.
It's a sin according to Moses.
And it's a sin according to Muhammad ﷺ.
But, and we already spoke about this in
the past, this doesn't mean that I will
beat these people up, that I will not
give them their rights, that I will lie
and cheat on them, or that I will
not protect them when someone attacks them.
You know, there are different things.
But I should be allowed to say, no,
it is a sin.
It's something which Allah doesn't like.
And according to me, it goes against nature.
Because when we look at the male and
the female body, we see that they were
created for one another, and not for the
same, you know, and so forth.
So we should be allowed to say these
things.
The problem is today, when you say these
things, you are attacked.
And this is why we should say them.
Because now you are verbally attacked, but there
is not yet an imprisonment or a physical
action that is being taken.
But when we are afraid to go against
the stream, then I think in 10 years
it will be normal for everybody.
Nobody will say anything anymore.
And they are normalizing it on television as
well.
Like in each series, in each movie, there
has to be someone who represents that way
of thinking.
And we as Muslims, we say that this
is not a correct way of life.
But we respect the human within them, we
respect their rights and so much more.
And their rights as human beings, we respect
them.
Okay, anyway, that's enough.
So, did you see the name of Khaliq
and Al-Bari and Al-Musawwir?
Al-Musawwir is the one that shapes everything.
Okay?
So now I'm giving you 5 minutes to
write down some reflections of yourself with regards
to the name Al-Musawwir.
The one that gives shape.
I want to help you with one thing.
Everything in nature has been shaped by Allah
SWT.
There is no coincidence.
Think in the light of what I've just
said and give me some of the examples
that you now will look at differently.
Okay?
5 minutes.
Bismillah.
So think about the name Al-Musawwir and
think about nature or think about anything and
then you share this with us.
About what?
Let us talk about that another time if
you like.
Inshallah.
Yes, please.
What did you find for yourself?
Share with us.
Yes, please.
Yes, please.
Alhamdulillah.
SubhanAllah.
Yes.
Mashallah, beautiful.
Very good.
Somebody else?
Yes.
SubhanAllah.
Mashallah, beautiful.
Very beautiful.
Yes.
They can be longer.
Each bond has a 45-degree angle, 120
-degree angle.
If they were one degree more, the molecule
would break.
And it wouldn't exist.
And then the other one is the human
body.
So you've got the human cell.
And we just know as if you have
to study biology, human cells and so on.
But if you look deeper inside, you've got,
it's like a whole world inside the cell
where you've got like a chain.
You've got Amazon delivery person delivering a parcel.
You've got a protein carrier which carries its
molecules like a Amazon delivery person going along,
rolling along, and delivering and going back again.
And that's really cool.
And the last one was colors.
Because objects reflect colors they can't absorb.
And we see objects that are beautiful.
If you see a reality object, for example,
green isn't green.
That object will not be green in the
future if you look at the true colors.
And Allah has made it so our eyes
see the effect of light and see beauty
in the world.
And if you see the reality of the
actual colors, you'll be like, oh, I'm learning
fashion.
I'm learning about it.
Yes.
SubhanAllah.
Yes.
That last one is quite amazing, isn't it?
Somebody else?
Yes.
Yes.
SubhanAllah.
Yes.
SubhanAllah.
Yes.
SubhanAllah.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
So as she said, exactly, is when you
look at...
When we all look at the clouds, then
everybody sees it a bit different because the
angle from which you are looking at the
clouds is different.
So it won't be 100% the same.
Because otherwise this person has to stand exactly
where you stand and look at it exactly
from where you are looking.
So these shapes are not by chance.
The shapes of the clouds are God-made.
The colours you will see when you come
out, the grey and a bit of blue,
and in the morning a bit of yellow
and orange, are God-made.
So when you know this, and sometimes a
child is three or four years old, you
can say you are living in Allah's painting.
This is a portrait which Allah has created
for you.
The same with the trees, as you said,
when you look at a tree and there
is a leaf and here isn't, this is
Allah's drawing for you.
This is for you.
And when the rain comes down and you
are driving your car and the light goes
through these raindrops, the shape you see at
that particular moment was for you only meant
to be seen.
Because some of the things, it is only
you who see it.
Ya Rabbi, in all the entire planet and
universe, you are the only one seeing that
particular thing at that particular moment.
This is ajeeb.
Then you feel like honoured and you feel
like ajeeb.
Even when a leaf falls, وَمَا تَسْكُتُ مِنْ
وَرَقَةٍ إِلَّا يَعْلَمُهَا and there is not a
leaf which falls from a tree, or he
knows it, why does it fall when you
see it?
Well, because he wants you to see this
beautiful design.
So all the time when the birds fly
in a certain formation, in a certain shape,
they are dancing and flying for you.
When the leaves are moved by the wind,
the shape and the noise they make was
for you.
So everything which you have no control over
and which is happening is Allah doing that
for you.
مَا غَرَّتَ بِرَبِّكَ الْكَرِيمِ What made you ignorant
of your generous Lord?
And this is what it means when Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala says, كُلَّ يَوْمٍ هُوَ
فِي شَأْنٍ In surat al-Rahman, every day
He does something new.
Every day, other leaves, other colours, other smells,
other everything.
So this is al-Khaliq subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
And so the advice I give sometimes to
people who say, yeah I find it difficult
to lower my gaze.
I say, well, imagine yourself sitting on the
train, in a train, and you're looking at
your cell phone, and then somebody goes like
that.
What do you do?
You feel uncomfortable, right?
And he does it again.
You're not going to say, can you please
stop looking at my phone?
That's how we do it in Belgium.
In Belgium, we're not as discreet.
We say, can you please look at your
own phone or sit somewhere else because it
is dirty?
That's the Belgian way.
If you do that here, people think that
you're about to kill them.
Anyway, so what are you going to do?
You're going to hold your phone a bit
more like this.
And then he goes like that again.
You go like this, or you just put
it in your pocket.
Why?
Because it's yours.
You don't want people to look at that
which you don't allow them to look at.
Why should it be any different with Allah's
creation?
When He says, lower your gaze for that
because it's mine.
I allow you to look at this and
not to look at that.
This is also a part of believing in
a Musawwir.
That you do not look at things that
He doesn't allow you to look at.
Because they are His and He sets the
rules.
So for our own selves, it's clear.
Not allowed, like this.
But when it's for Allah, with our phone,
we go like this.
Because people try to look at what is
ours.
But with our eyes, we don't go like
this.
Not to look at something which is someone
else's.
You see?
So, Al-Khaliq, Al-Bari, *, Al-Musawwir
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala One of the beautiful
things as well is that the Tasweer He
did is all in harmony with our needs.
Like for example, you're drinking a Red Bull,
right?
The Red Bull is, can you see the
color of the Red Bull?
No.
Do you think that if it were to
be in a glass, a transparent glass, would
it be as attractive, do you think?
No, it wouldn't, right?
These Red Bull colors are cool.
You see them everywhere.
The sportsmen are wearing it, soccer teams, people
flying through the air, riding motorbikes and doing
crazy things.
So we look at it and that is
what we feel like.
Like, this is Red Bull.
By the way, I'm not saying you're doing
anything wrong.
So, but, why am I giving this example?
Well, I am drinking pure, nice water.
But the Khaliq, that's not what I mean.
That's not what I mean.
I'm trying to make a comparison that it
wouldn't be as nice to the eye if
it were to be in a glass, right?
So, now, why am I saying this?
Like now, this is pure, nice, healthy water
without too much sugar and no caffeine, for
example.
So now, but in it are a lot
of things we can't see with the naked
eye.
If they were to be enlarged, I wouldn't
enjoy drinking this.
I would see little tiny faces with little
eyes.
I would see so many different things in
this that I wouldn't be, you know, drinking
it.
But Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, the Creator,
didn't allow our eyes to see the details
of everything because then we would be disgusted
from some things we are not disgusted from
now.
Is that clear?
So this is also a Khaliq who proportioned
everything.
He created everything in a correct proportion.
Is that clear?
So that's the same thing here.
So that's the same thing with you.
So a Khaliq is not just the one
creating, he is also creating everything in the
correct proportions.
Like the example I always give is our
nose is here, our mouth is here.
If it would be the other way around,
my nose would be here, my eyes would
be here, and my mouth would be here.
That would not only be very beautiful, but,
wait, I'm just about to smell my food.
So here you are, you can't see anything
anymore, you're smelling your food.
So now everything is perfect.
You go like this, oh, that's it.
It doesn't smell good, doesn't smell right.
Which is very strange because we have the
same nose made out of the same material
and that which smells good for some doesn't
smell good for others.
Isn't that crazy?
Like when you taste food, some of the
things you just don't like and other things
you do, it's the same tongue, same material.
And people say that which you don't like
is usually that which you don't need.
I'm not talking about the child who wants
lollipops and doesn't want to eat some at
one time.
But anyway.
So Allah created everything perfectly.