Sulayman Van Ael – Divine Names 8d Invoking the 99 names of Allah in your daily life
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We are going like a bullet train, very
quickly, and I am just going to say
a bit of what is going to be
necessary with regards to the name of Allah
swt.
We have had three sisters.
One who is ten years old, twelve years
old, and then two others who have already
recited the name of Allah swt, all of
them, without mistake, to me.
But I have not had one single brother
that came to me to read the name
of Allah swt.
So who amongst the brothers has memorised the
names of Allah, all of them?
If the sisters would see how many, then
they would be surprised.
Was that a hand?
You think?
I don't check, I listen.
Okay, so anyway, I can see his hand.
He is shy.
The brothers have shyness.
Who will read it with me as well,
so we already have four, and no man.
It doesn't really make a difference, any four
Muslims, of so many.
So please, memorise them, come to me, if
you do so, I write down your ijazah,
you have your sanad to Rasool Allah swt.
I mean, you have a sanad in the
names of Allah.
I mean, do you know how big of
a thing it is?
To be connected to Allah swt, to Allah
swt's names through the Prophet, so memorise these
names, read them with me, and you have
your sanad and ijazah to pass it on.
So what the sisters need to do now,
those who have read it with me, the
moment they receive their ijazah, they are allowed
to pass on these names.
This is how big of a thing it
is.
So your daughter for example, she can just
pass it on.
It doesn't need to be through me.
The only thing is, why people would do
it with me is not because I listen
better than they would, it's because my sanad
is shorter, so there are less people between
me and the Prophet than those who read
it with me.
But I don't think this should really make
a very big of a difference.
So read with them, read with me, and
like this inshallah, spread the names of Allah
swt, and then tell your family, when you
have this ijazah and this sanad, you tell
your mother or your father to read with
you.
You say, come on, let us revive the
names of Allah, so that they will be
revived in our lives inshallah.
A'udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem, Bismillahir Rahmanir
Raheem, Wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallam ala Sayyidina
Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi, Al-Majid
subhanahu wa ta'ala is the same, it's
one of these majestic names of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, that we had explained before,
but the name Al-Wahid, Al-Wahid subhanahu
wa ta'ala means he is unique.
He is unique, he is alone, meaning when
we say Allah is alone, it means that
nobody shares time or space with him, because
he is not in need of space and
time.
He has created space and time, and has
always existed, even before space and time were
created.
And this is an aqeedah issue, which we
are not going to tread into detail inshallah,
and I would like one day to have
an aqeedah class of four hours, and it's
just about the oneness of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala in names and attributes, which we
might be doing sometime soon or not.
Yes, okay, so that might even be somewhere
in the week, for example.
Anyway, so let us be in the last
part, not to go into too much detail,
but when you know that Allah is the
One, you should direct everybody to the One
and not to yourself.
So when you are on the internet, on
your fake book or whatever, then you are
going to direct people to Allah through everything
you have.
We should stop inviting people towards ourselves, or
towards our food, towards our new shoes.
Here I am, look, the last Nike Air
Jordans.
Any Air Jordan will die one day.
But a lot of Air Jordan won't.
Not meaning that Michael Air Jordan is bad,
you know, that's what I'm trying to say.
He was a good basketball player.
But use your life to direct people to
Allah.
Because don't be afraid.
Others will guide them to other things.
The minority of people guide people to Allah.
That's what's happening today.
So be you of this minority of people
who remind others of how important Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is.
So Al-Wahid also inspires you with Ikhlas,
meaning doing things for Allah alone.
And also remind you that you will be
with Allah alone.
Like the Prophet ﷺ said, or like Allah
said, وَلَقَدْ جِئْتُمُونَ فُرَادًا كَمَا خَلَقَنَاكُمْ أَوَّلَ مَرًّا
You have come to us alone.
Meaning you will be with Al-Wahid.
Meaning you have come to us alone, like
the very day we created you.
And Allah says ذَرْنِي وَمَنْ خَلَقْتُهُ وَحِيدًا Leave
me alone with the one whom I have
created as...
Do we say a loner?
Someone who's alone?
Yeah.
Anyway.
So Al-Wahid.
So knowing that Allah will be the only
one you have, you better have him as
a friend.
Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So then you have As-Samad.
As-Samad.
Al-Wahid and As-Samad are very interlinked,
if we can say it like that.
As-Samad is the one who is in
need of nothing and everybody is in need
of him.
That's what it means.
So no need to really explain this in
too much detail.
So As-Samad also means the one who
is not in need of food, not in
need of drink, not in need of sleep,
not in need of supporters, not in need
of bodyguards, not in need of light, not
in need of obscurity.
He's free of all needs.
Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Then you have Al-Qadil Al-Muqtadir.
Al-Qadil Al-Muqtadir is the one who
can do everything.
The one, subhanahu wa ta'ala, who can
do everything.
What this inspires us with as Muslims is
that we never come to a point of
despair.
We never despair.
Because the only reason why you despair is
because you have limited Allah to your imagination
and understanding of what is possible.
But all is possible for Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
So Allah can do everything.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has the power
to do everything and anything.
And this is why sometimes when we read
some stories, like after my khutbah, somebody came
to me and said, you should only mention
what is in the Qur'an.
You tell too much stories.
I said, barakallahu feek.
And he tried to convince me like for
five minutes.
And then I said, what does Allah do
in the Qur'an?
نحن نقص عليك أحسن القصص.
We narrate to you the most beautiful of
stories.
So what are you going to tell Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala?
Anyway, إِنَّ هَذَا لَهُوَ الْقَصَصُ الْحَقُّ.
And this is the most beautiful story.
And Allah says, these are the prophets.
Some of them نقصهم عليك.
We have narrated to you and some of
their stories not.
So anyway, at the end he just left.
So when we know that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala is the Qalb al-Muqtadir, when
you read these stories in the books, like
there was a man, he believed in Allah
jalla wa ala, like Ibn Rajab rahim Allah
azawajal mentioned in احفظ الله يحفظك.
He mentioned a man who was captured by
a woman.
And it was a beautiful man and a
alim.
And she wanted to do haram with this
man.
So while he was walking on the street,
Ibn Rajab mentions this.
She pulled him into her house.
And she said, you will do with me
what I want or I will scream and
say that you have abused me.
So now the man said, can I just
wash my hands, use the bathroom.
She said yes.
So he went to the bathroom.
And the bathroom is not a toilet.
The toilets back in the days, they were
outside of the house.
We are one of the first generations who
beautified their houses by making a toilet even
more beautiful than their bedroom.
People put like most of their money in
a bathroom.
But before that was just one place where
they knew that shaitan would reside.
So they said, why am I going to
beautify any shaitan's house.
But anyway.
So now he went to that bathroom.
And then he said, Ya Rabb, you said
in your book, وَمَن يَتَقِي اللَّهَ يَجْعَلْ لَهُمْ
مَخْرَجًا And if you fear Allah, Allah will
give you a way out.
So Ya Rabbi said, this is my taqwa.
I closed the door behind me.
He said, but what is my way out?
And they said that the wall opened.
And now when people read this, 700 years
ago where people still believed in stories.
The biggest story that you believe in which
seems to be incredible is that the Prophet
ﷺ rode on a special horse to the
highest skies.
Everything can happen.
So then the wall opened.
The man went out.
Went to the mosque.
The lady was looking for the man.
She didn't find him.
She told her slave, go and look for
him.
The man came back.
The lady said, did you find him?
He said, yes.
She said, where did you find him?
In the mosque.
What was he doing?
He said he was teaching a verse from
the Qur'an which says, وَمَن يَتَقِي اللَّهَ
يَجَعَلَهُ مَخْرَجًا And he who fears Allah, Allah
will give him a way out.
So when you read these things, Wallahi they
exist and they can happen.
They can.
Okay.
So anyway, like for example, if you were
to fall out of a plane, you will
die.
Usually you die.
Some of people survived it.
They say this is impossible.
Allah sometimes makes some things happen, which usually
don't happen to show you that He can
do whatever He wants.
Is that clear?
Okay.
Like for example, that little girl in Turkey.
After an earthquake, she was under the soil
and under the building for, I don't know,
5-6 days.
And when they took her out, she was
alive.
And they were astonished.
What happened?
Well, there was like a small tube and
it was raining back then.
And that tube just reached her mouth.
And the water, she was a tiny baby.
The water kept on dripping into her mouth.
So she stayed alive and she didn't fracture
a single bone.
So sometimes Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does
things to show us, I verily can do
whatever I want.
Usually things are kind of predictable, because this
is the way that Allah created the face
of the earth.
Otherwise life would be impossible.
We need to be able to predict and
think how things might go.
But sometimes Allah does something else.
And this is عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٍ Never
give up, never despair.
Everything is possible.
Like that lady that came, and I'm sorry,
I keep on talking about this one.
InshaAllah we will finish the names.
Like that lady, she came, she was 69
years old.
And she went to a Qur'an school.
And she told the teacher, I want to
memorize the Qur'an.
The teacher said, went to the teacher and
said, where should we put the lady?
She said, with the beginners.
So and then they put her in the
classroom, and she was holding the Qur'an
like this.
Do you see what happens?
And the other way around.
And they said, what are you doing?
She said, I'm holding the Qur'an, I
want to learn Qur'an.
They said, then you will first need to
learn how to read.
So she was 69, learned how to read,
and 7 years later she was Hafidh.
This was in Saudi Arabia.
Meaning, when she was 75 or 77, I
forgot, she memorized the entire Qur'an.
إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلَى كُلِ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ It is
only you, very often, having not enough confidence
in Allah, and reflecting this on yourself, like,
I can't do it.
That's true, you can't.
I'm too old now to go to university.
No, you are not.
I'm too old now when I'm 45 or
50 or 30, I need to be stronger
than when I was 20.
No, you are not.
You are really not.
It is because you limit yourself, and by
doing this you have limited in your mind
what Allah can do.
So don't do that.
Everything is possible.
And I'm not Anthony Robbins, not Tony Robinson,
that's another one.
Anthony Robbins is the motivator.
So I'm not trying to do like, everything
is possible, be the giant.
No, no, it's true.
You are very powerful with Allah SWT, and
weak on yourself.
Allah is المقدّم المؤخّر.
المقدّم means, He can do things now which
you would like to see delayed, and He
can delay things which you would like to
see now.
When He wants something now, you can't delay
it, and when He wants something tomorrow, you
can't make it happen now.
And this is why Umar ibn Abdulaziz RA
said, like Ibn al-Jawzi RA said in
his book, Umar ibn Khattab, he said that,
sorry, Umar ibn Abdulaziz, he said, I didn't
find peace of mind, and tranquility in my
heart, until Allah SWT, until Allah SWT, until
I made the dua, Allahumma, oh Allah, I
ask you not to delay things.
Is everything alright?
Okay.
I ask Allah SWT not to make me
love His decree, until I don't want to
see delayed what you want to make happen
now, and not make happen now until you,
what?
I forgot the dua.
Okay.
So, are there any questions about what has
been said until now?
Yes.
مقدّم, as I said, is the one that
makes things happen now, and you can't delay
them, and the مؤخّل is the one that
wants to make things happen later, but you
can't make them happen now.
Is that clear?
Well, like Umar ibn Abdulaziz RA said, I
didn't find peace of mind until I said,
Ya Rabbi, when you want to make something
happen tomorrow, then don't let me want it
now.
And when you want to make something happen
now, don't let me want it to happen
tomorrow.
So, it is like submission to Allah SWT,
because very often we try to fight what
Allah SWT wants, and that's impossible.
Like, why did that happen now?
Well, because there is a reason for it.
And this is the most difficult thing, because
it is really about submitting your will to
Allah SWT.
So, المقدّم المؤخّل.
الأول والآخر has all to do with Allah
SWT as being the Lord, being the first
and the last.
Now, please.
Yes, in the book of Ibn Al-Jawzi.
But if you want, I can share it.
If Khayyam reminds me, I can share this
inshallah with him.
Okay, الظاهر والباطن, even though that Allah SWT
is unseen, الباطن, He is hidden for the
eye, He is nevertheless the ظاهر, meaning that
He is apparent.
In which way is He apparent?
Through everything that He has created, He has
established the fact that He is there.
Is that clear?
So, He is a ظاهر, meaning that we
can see that He is powerful through His
creation.
We can see that He is beautiful through
His creation.
Through the life surrounding us, He is actually
showing us who He is.
Is that clear?
Has anybody got any questions?
Because I feel that I'm rushing it.
الباطن is the one who is like hidden.
And الظاهر is like the one who is
obvious.
And we say Allah is not veiled, we
are veiled.
And we don't say Allah is veiled from
us, we are veiled from Allah.
Because there is nothing big enough to veil
Him.
If you are veiled, that means that that
which veils you is at least as big
as you are.
So, there is nothing which veils Him, but
we are veiled.
Is that clear?
So, that's الظاهر and الباطن.
Then we have الوالي, الوالي is the one
who takes responsibility.
المتعالي, you can explain that in the light
of المتكبر.
The one who is elevated above all flaws,
elevated above all shortcomings, elevated above all these
things.
البر is the one who keeps His promises,
and who will do good for those who
respect and cherish Him.
That is البر.
We would say that you would ask Allah
by His name if you want Him to
make you بار, meaning for your parents.
Because one of the biggest reasons why someone
will go to hellfire is because he is
bad to his parents.
So, that's why we say بِرُّ الوَالِدَيْن.
بِرُّ الوَالِدَيْن.
So, البر, subhanahu wa ta'ala, البر actually
means being loyal to those who are good
to you.
Does that make sense?
Can you give me two minutes, inshaAllah?
I feel too well.
And that's also why my explanation of the
last names wasn't that concentrated.
I'm very sorry.
Okay, so let's go back, inshaAllah.
So, الظاهر is the one who is obvious
while being hidden.
And الباطن is the one who is hidden
while being obvious.
He's that, and His being is hidden for
us.
But His deeds are obvious.
But His deeds are obvious to us.
So, this is الظاهر الباطن, subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
And then we had الوالي, المتعالي, البر, and
التواب.
What I'm going to explain about التواب is
very often what you don't hear.
Very often التواب is the one who accepts
the repentance.
But التواب means so much more.
التواب actually is الفعل.
Meaning the one who does something.
Not the one who responds to something.
So التواب is the one reminding you to
repent.
To then accept your repentance.
Is that clear?
So التواب is not just the one, you
repent and then he accepts.
No, it is rather, he reminds you to
repent, and then he forgives you.
SubhanAllah.
So when you repent, you have actually seen
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's manifestation of mercy
in your own life.
So when you repent, it's not, wow, I
repented.
No.
It's like, Allahu Akbar.
Allah wanted to draw me closer to Him
by reminding me of my sins, and then
to repent for these sins.
So that is التواب, subhanahu wa ta'ala.
المنتقم, Allah.
المنتقم is the one who takes revenge.
But they say He doesn't take revenge for
Hisself.
He takes revenge on behalf of those who
have been wronged.
Because revenge, when it comes down to a
human being, revenge is very often a sign
of weakness.
Meaning, oh, I have been wronged, so now
it becomes like hatred and envy.
Like within your heart.
This is not what Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala has.
So when we say that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala takes revenge, it means on behalf
of those who can't stand up for themselves.
Like a lot of people in Syria being
killed and bombarded and so much more.
Like they can't stand up for themselves.
The only thing they can do now is
flee away and try to survive together with
their children.
And nobody stands up for them.
No one.
And those who pretend to stand up for
them are very often people who commit these
evil acts in the name of Islam.
So they don't stand up for them at
all.
So if we are going to have a
look, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when He
takes revenge, it's on behalf of the weak.
How are we going to put this name
into practice?
That we are going to stand up for
the rights of people.
And whatever their race or nationality may be.
Like if we were to be Muslims, non
-black Muslims in Africa or South Africa, then
we would have stood up for people, for
black people to get their rights.
Even though that they might not be Muslim.
But we don't care.
It's about this right.
And this is how we are going to
understand the name of Muntaqim then.
We are going to stand up always within
the framework of the law.
We are going to stand up and look
for a way to help these people who
are being transgressed against.
Like we have now people in Kashmir for
example.
Nobody seems to care.
The atrocities there are indescribable and horrifying and
terrifying.
But the news doesn't just seem to care.
When Boris Johnson has a headache, everybody knows.
But when people in Kashmir are being killed
and exterminated, nobody seems to care.
So we are going, as I said, within
the framework of that which is legal.
We are going to help people who can't
stand up for themselves.
As I said, being Muslims or non-Muslims.
Like these little girls in Africa for example,
that need to walk everyday 4 hours just
to get some water.
When they are 10 years old, they quit
school because now they are strong enough to
carry a gallon of water or two.
Well, we want to stand up for them
as well.
So this is what being Muslim is about.
It's not about being there for your community.
It's about being there for the world.
So we help Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
So the name al-Muntaqim, you want to
oppress people, well we are going to help
them.
You want to oppress people, well then we
are going to help them.
And sometimes people who aren't Muslim do a
lot with their money.
As I said last time with Ronaldo, you
got a rapper who is called Akin, who
helped more than 600 million Africans.
How is that possible?
So you've got people helping people.
Like Zinedine Zidane, when there was a flood
in Algeria, he spent millions on these people.
So anyway, this is al-Muntaqim subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
Also when you are transgressed against and you
can't stand up for yourself, because the transgressor
is too strong and too big, then you
are going to say Ya Muntaqim.
One of the things that the Prophet ﷺ
used to say against these transgressors and oppressors,
he would say Allahumma inna na'udhu bika
min sharrihim wa na ja'aluka fee nuhurihim
or nahrihim.
Which would say, O Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala, we seek refuge with you against their
evil and we place them in their necks.
Meaning, we ask you to break them.
We ask you to bring them down.
Okay, anyway.
Al-Muntaqim.
Al-'afoo inna al-ra'oof, I remember that
we explained what it meant, al-'afoo, and we
spoke about forgiving and forgetting, and not forgetting
and forgiving.
So I don't need to explain that either.
So al-'afoo al-ra'oof, we spoke about
Malik al-Mulk, same thing as al-Malik.
Subhanahu wa ta'ala the Possessor, we spoke
about that in detail.
Dhul-Jalali wal-Ikram, I will come back
to that one later.
Al-Muqsit, we spoke about al-Qist, remember?
Al-'adl and al-Qist.
So I don't need to mention this either.
Then we have al-Jami'a.
Did we speak about al-Jami'a?
No.
Al-Jami'a is the one who gathers.
And this for a lot of people refers
to the Day of Judgment, where Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala will gather everybody within his
own group.
Meaning, hypocrites with hypocrites, liars with liars, truthful
people with truthful people.
And that day you will be organized.
Yani, you will be placed in these groups.
And the thing is, when you want to
leave that particular group, you can't.
So you see yourself being in the group
of liars.
You say, oh, I don't want to be
here, let me go there.
But if you were a liar, you will
stick to that group and you can't escape.
And you will also be gathered with your
flag.
People will be given flags on the Day
of Judgment.
And like the flag of betrayal, for example.
The Prophet ﷺ said, everybody will be given
a flag.
And if someone betrayed, he will be given
the flag of betrayal.
So he will be walking like you have
these people on Hajj, right?
And this is why they say that Hajj
resembles the Day of Judgment.
Everybody gathers and everybody's walking around, there's chaos
and so much more.
So people will have these flags and you
will say, oh, I didn't expect him to
be a liar, or a cheat, or whatever,
a thief.
But it will be said then.
So everybody will have a flag defining what
his core characteristic was in the dunya.
Okay?
So this is al-jam'i.
You will be gathered with your troops, with
your groups, with your heroes.
Prophet ﷺ said, al-mar'u ma'mal ahab.
You will be with the one you love.
So if you love that singer, well, ya'mu
qiyamah, you're with that singer.
If you love that, I don't know, this
Bollywood star, well then you can go with
that Bollywood star.
But there are no trees there to dance
behind.
So you will be gathered with everybody.
That day, no trees, no mountains, nothing.
So what are you going to do then?
So you need to make up your mind
and decide with whom you want to be
that day.
With whom are you going to be that
day?
Because you will be gathered with the one
you look up to, and the one you
love, the one you talk about, the one
you cherish.
Who is it?
You see?
So this is al-jam'i, subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
And al-jam'i will also bring back
people with their families in paradise.
وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَاتَّبَعَتْهُمْ ذُرِيَّتُهُمْ بِإِيمَانٍ
أَلْحَقْنَا بِهِمْ ذُرِيَّتَهُمْ وَمَا أَلَتْنَاهُمْ
مِنْ عَمَلِهِمْ مِنْ شَيْءٍ كُلُّ امْرِئٍ بِمَا كَسَبَ
رَهِيمٍ You see?
This is why it's nice to memorize the
Quran.
You see?
It's nice, huh?
Okay, who would like to memorize the Quran?
What is the reason that you don't do
it?
What is the true reason that you don't?
Share it with me, and then we continue.
Memorizing with errors, okay.
Taking care of the errors doesn't take as
long as memorizing the Quran, so start with
it.
So that's one.
Somebody else?
Are there some people who say, it's not
for me, I don't think I can do
it?
Who thinks that?
One.
My nephew.
Somebody else?
You?
Okay, good.
I don't mean good, but...
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant all
of us memorization of the Quran.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, and
those who believe and were followed by their
family in belief, we will join them, we
will gather them together in paradise, but as
their deeds will be different, كُلُّ أُمْرِئٍ بِمَا
كِثَبَ رَهِيمٍ and everybody will have his own
degree in paradise, even though being gathered.
So this is the last thing I want
to mention, this is strange.
Like families will be together, but everybody will
have his own level.
How does that work?
Well, you yourself will see things in the
same environment, which the others can't see.
And you will eat what the others don't
eat, but they don't see it as something
different.
But you will see it as something different.
You will smell something different.
You will hear something different.
But nevertheless you are all together.
And this is what this ayah means.
They will be together in paradise, but everybody
according to their own level.
Yes, salam.
Isn't this beautiful?
Like people in a cinema room, for example,
they are looking at the same movie, but
they have different chairs.
One is premium, the other is not premium,
the other is down, the other is up.
But they are exactly looking at the same
thing.
But here it is different.
The thing you will be looking at is
different, but the space where you are is
the same.
See that?
So subhanAllah, Allah is incredible.
الجامع الغني Al-Ghani subhanahu wa ta'ala
is the one who possesses everything and is
rich, but not rich because he possesses, but
rich because he is rich as he is.
What do I mean?
What makes us rich?
Our possessions.
Allah is rich without possession.
And he possesses everything, but that's not what
makes him rich.
He is rich.
Is that clear?
Meaning that he is not in need to
possess anything to be rich, because he is
rich in all these beautiful attributes and names,
in his power, in his knowledge, in everything.
So he is not in need of anything.
He is not in need of being reminded.
He is not in need of being protected.
He is not in need of being guided.
He is not in need of being shown
anything or neither of being informed, because he
is rich.
From the moment you need something to do
something for you, then you are poor.
And this is as I have said before,
the richer you become in dunya, actually the
more it shows that you are poor.
Because when you are rich, you need a
driver, you need a pilot, you need a
secretary, somebody to take care of your shoes,
somebody to cook for you.
So the richer you are, the more dependent
you become in this life.
Ajeeb.
And this is how Allah shows that nobody
is really rich.
The richer you get, the poorer you are.
Subhanallah.
And this is why we are rich with
Allah.
This is the true richness, the richness of
heart.
Excuse me.
The best way to use the name is
to ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala not
to make you emotionally dependent on people.
Because being emotionally dependent turns us into beggars
for attention.
And we only beg Allah.
So when you are emotionally dependent, you are
really a slave of people's reactions.
And people, they change all the time.
Today they are happy, tomorrow they are not.
Today they love you, tomorrow they hate you.
So when you are emotionally dependent on people,
your life will be a roller coaster.
But when you depend on Allah jalla wa
ala, your life is only going upwards, never
downwards.
So you ask Allah Al-Ghani, Please Ya
Rabbi, this is the most difficult thing Ya
Rabbi, subhanallah.
Don't make me emotionally dependent.
Just let me understand that you suffice for
me.
You are sufficient.
Al-Ghani subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And Al-Mughni is then the one who
gives you this richness.
The richness of soul that you then ask
for.
It's like Al-Ghani is the state and
Al-Mughni is the action.
Then Ad-Dar ila Al-Nafi.
Ad-Dar is the one who harms.
But this seems to be very strange.
Does Allah harm?
Well, no He doesn't.
He doesn't.
But according to what is in our eyes,
something can be of benefit, and something can
be harmful.
So they say Ad-Dar and Al-Nafi
should be mentioned together.
Meaning that He didn't only send down the
affliction, but also the solution.
Not only the disease, but also the cure.
Not only, for example, the fierce animal, but
also the knowledge how to capture it.
So He's Dar Al-Nafi.
Is that clear?
And this is why the Prophet s.a
.w. said, مَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ دَاءً إِلَّا وَأَنزَلَ
مَعَهُ الشِّفَاءِ Even in Hadith you memorize Asim.
So Asim, we refer to him when he
memorizes the Qur'an, because that was one
of the Qur'an.
And in Hadith, how should we call him
then?
One of the Muhaddithin.
Excuse me?
Okay.
Asim.
Asim Al-Kawthari.
Is that good?
Okay.
So we have the Prophet s.a.w.
saying, that there isn't any disease or Allah
has descended for you the cure.
This is Al-Nafi and Al-Dar.
You see?
And Al-Nafi Al-Dar is also the
one that puts the cure in the disease.
Like for example, the venom of snakes can
kill you, but it can also save you.
This is Al-Nafi Al-Dar.
The solutions are in the problem, the cure
is in the pain.
No pain, no?
Allah Akbar.
Which Hadith was that?
So, do you understand what I mean?
Like the cure is very often in the
disease, and the solution is in the problem.
And the strength is within the weakness.
And the trust will be found in the
well of despair.
And this is Al-Nafi Al-Dar.
And this is what our scholars say, these
names should always be mentioned together.
Because if you just say Al-Dar, that
might be considered to be negative, when no
names of Allah are negative.
So Al-Nafi Al-Dar.
And then we have Al-Nur Al-Hadi,
which go together.
Al-Nur Al-Hadi.
Allah s.w.t is Al-Nur.
When we say Nur, we don't mean physical
light.
Don't understand it like that.
Yes?
Al-Nur, like Abdullah ibn Abbas r.a
mentioned, like Imam At-Tabari r.a mentioned
in his Tafsir, when Allah says, Allahu Nuru
Al-Samawati Al-Ard, Abdullah ibn Abbas said,
Ay Allahu Hadi Al-Samawati Al-Ard.
Allah is Nur, Allah is the guide, guidance.
And this is one of the ways that
the Arabs used to refer to guidance, is
light.
Guidance is light.
Guidance is light.
So Allah s.w.t is the guide.
And it's obvious.
But He's also the grantor of light.
On the Day of Judgment, it will be
dark.
And the only light that you will have
will be the light that will be given
in exchange for your good deeds.
Rabbana Atmim Lana Noorana O Allah perfect our
light.
And about the Munafiqin, what does He say?
Kullama Adha'alahum Mashaw Feehi Wa Itha Adhlama
Alayhim Qamu And about the Munafiqin, their light,
because they were doubters in this life, a
bit of Iman and a bit of Kufr,
both of them.
So Allah s.w.t says, every time
their light goes on, their body will be
enlightened.
They what?
They start walking.
Wa Itha Adhlama Alayhim Qamu And when their
light goes away and they're in the obscurity,
they stop.
Then Allah resembles it to a lightning.
The lightning, and then there's light, and then
they're without light again.
So this is Allah s.w.t will
provide for light.
And this is what we ask when we
go to the mosque.
Allahumma Ja'al Fee Qalbi Noora Wa Fee
Basari Noora Wa Sami'i Noora Wa Basari
Noora O Allah give me light in my
hearing, my sight, my heart, my grave, my
actions.
So you ask Allah s.w.t always
for this light.
And then Al-Badeer, we spoke about that.
Al-Baqi is the only one who remains
when everything perishes.
So stick to the one who never perishes,
and you will always exist.
Insha'Allah, thanks to his grace s.w
.t. Al-Warith is the one who will
inherit everything, and he's the only, do we
say inheritor?
We say it like that?
Inheritor?
So Allah s.w.t is the only
inheritor.
Allah will inherit the earth and everything which
is on the earth.
Because everything belongs to him, yes.
Exactly.
But that means that everything will come back
to you.
He's the only one who inherits what he
possesses, because it only belongs to him.
So that's actually a metaphor, if we can
say it like that.
Everything he will inherit it.
Everything is his and will come back to
him.
That's what it means.
Then we have Al-Rashid.
Al-Rashid is the one who always makes
the right decisions.
We don't say Allah makes decisions.
Allah just does and commands.
Making a decision is not after pondering it
over, thinking it over.
Allah s.w.t just does.
But we believe that Allah s.w.t
is Al-Rashid, and we ask Allah for
Rushd and Rashad.
Rushd is not just doing good, it is
doing the best.
So this is why when you do something,
you ask Allah s.w.t. When you
know that something is good, ask Allah whether
this is best.
Because you always have choices.
And Shaytan, when you can do two things
which are good, he will always lead you
to doing the lesser of two goods, where
the least hasanat are present.
And the last one, and then we are
done, Alhamdulilah Rabbil Alameen, and the last one
is As-Saboor.
And As-Saboor, we already spoke about Sabr,
and about the degrees of Sabr.
We said there is a Tasakhut, there is
a Sabr, there is a Ridha and a
Shukr.
We've mentioned them already in the classes, so
I don't need to explain this either.
And it's also obvious what we ask Allah
s.w.t. by His name.
We ask Allah s.w.t. by all
of His names.
The first name of them and the last
name we have mentioned.
We ask by the power and the beauty
behind each of these names to give us
the beauty which hides behind all of these
names in our lives.
We ask Allah s.w.t. by His
beautiful names and His high attributes to have
mercy on us, to protect us, to make
our day a good day, to inspire us
to be righteous, to make us patient, to
take us by our hands to what is
better, more powerful, more righteous and more right.
There is no god but You.
O Lord, we ask You by every name
to bless Your Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his family as
You blessed Abraham and his family.
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his family as
You blessed Abraham and his family.
You are the Praiseworthy, the Glorious.
And all praise is due to Allah, Lord
of the worlds.