Sulayman Van Ael – The Divine Names 1

Sulayman Van Ael
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The speakers discuss the importance of memorizing names in religion and practicing them to achieve spiritual clarity. They stress the need for everyone to use their own names for reference and emphasize the importance of learning and being honest in order to make a positive impact on one's life. The course is designed to teach the speaker on various names of Islam and how to connect with them. The importance of avoiding embarrassment and finding happiness in life is emphasized.
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Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim.

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Okay, we are going to start inshaAllah.

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And with the will of Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala, we are going to start with

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a journey through the names of Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala.

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And it might seem very strange that we

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are starting with this topic as every Muslim

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is supposed to know Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala.

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But when we look at Sahih Muslim, the

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Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that a

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day will come when no one on the

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earth will say Allah, Allah.

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There will come a day when people on

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the face of the earth will no longer

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say Allah.

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So now we might think like, okay, alhamdulillah,

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this hasn't happened yet.

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Because look at all the Muslims, they still

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say Allah.

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What we should know is that shaitan goes

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gradually.

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He doesn't take very big steps.

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He goes, wa laa tan tabi'u khutuwati

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shaitan.

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And he does not follow the footsteps of

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shaitan.

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He drags you into haram, he drags you

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into ignorance, step by step without you noticing

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it.

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It's like looking at the shadow.

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It moves but you don't see it.

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That's the way shaitan goes with us.

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He drags us slowly, we think we are

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not changing.

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We think we are not far from Allah.

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We think we are far from haram.

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But without knowing it, we are approaching it.

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So now this is the same thing with

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Allah.

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We won't immediately have no one on the

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face of the earth saying Allah, Allah.

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The Messenger of Allah ﷺ even went further

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and said, and people will say Allah, I

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have heard this before.

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My grandparents used to say it, subhanAllah.

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So now if we look at this hadith

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of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on the

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one hand, and on the other hand we

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know that shaitan goes gradually, then we see

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if we look at the discussions amongst Muslims,

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we see that the majority of Muslims no

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longer use the majority of the divine names.

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Not in their discussions and not in their

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dua.

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So it seems as if a lot of

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these names have been erased from the Muslim

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dictionary.

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Like I became a Muslim 24 years ago.

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I don't remember when I sat with someone

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talking about al-Jabbar or al-Latif or

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so many al-Hayyi, al-Quddus, al-Qayyum,

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al-Azim, and let alone people invoking Allah

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by these names.

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And it's a haq, it's Allah's right upon

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us that we invoke Him by all of

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His names.

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وَلِلَّهِ الْأَسْمَاءُ الْحُسْنَةُ فَادْعُوهُ بِهَا And to Allah

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belong the most beautiful names, and this is

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a command from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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فَادْعُو, it's fi'lu amr.

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Allah is commanding us.

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فَادْعُوهُ بِهَا So invoke Allah by these names.

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So it is very important for the Muslim

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to understand that every name of the divine

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names should have an effect on the way

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we think, an effect on the way we

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behave, and an effect on the way we

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look at life.

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You see, all of these names are keys

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to certain rooms, figuratively speaking, that we need

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to open the door to, to understand our

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journey on the face of the earth.

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وَلِلَّهِ الْأَسْمَاءُ الْحُسْنَةُ فَادْعُوهُ بِهَا So now, the

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Messenger ﷺ, on the other hand, like in

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the Sunan of Imam al-Tirmidhi, the Messenger

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ﷺ said Allah has 99 names.

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مِئَةَ إِلَّا وَاحِدَةَ Yani, 100 minus 1.

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مَنْ أَحْصَاهَا دَخَلَ الْجَنَّةَ The one that does

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Ihsa of these names will enter Paradise.

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But what does it mean, Ahsaha?

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I remember when I was a small boy,

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I was 12 years old.

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I visited some Moroccan friends.

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I wasn't a Muslim yet.

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And they had this poster on the wall.

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And it had these 99 squares with beautiful

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names in it.

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I said, what is this?

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They said, these are the names of God.

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I said, is there more than one God?

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They said, no.

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These names, they explain you who God is.

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And I said, oh, that's beautiful.

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And they said, if you memorize these names,

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you go to Paradise.

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I said, this is easy.

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So I went home, and I started memorizing

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these names when I was a non-Muslim.

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I said, if God would exist, because I

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was an atheist, I said, if God would

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exist, I would go to Paradise, because I

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would memorize these names.

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But Allah didn't allow me to memorize all

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these names.

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I memorized 87 names, and then I became

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Muslim.

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Subhanallah, Allah didn't allow me to complete the

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memorization of the 99, until I became a

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Muslim.

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So anyway, I memorized 87 names before I

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became a Muslim.

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So now to come back.

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Ahsaha in this hadith of a Tirmidhi doesn't

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mean memorization.

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When we are going to look at one

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of the first people that wrote a commentary

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on Sahih al-Bukhari, he was a Maliki

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scholar.

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His name was Ibn Battal.

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He said, man ahsaha, ay, man fahimaha, wa

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hafidaha, wa amila bimuqtadaha, wa da'allaha biha.

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Four things.

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He said, man ahsaha will enter Paradise.

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The one that memorizes the names, understands the

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names, lives up to these names, and asks

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and supplicates Allah by these names.

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So he said, these are the four dimensions

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that you need if you want these names

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to take you to Paradise.

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So for me it was very strange to

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see when I embraced Islam and people told

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me, you have to get to know Allah.

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I said, good.

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But then when I grew older and years

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passed, I saw that the majority of Muslims

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didn't memorize the names of Allah.

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Even if I were to ask at university,

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who memorizes the names of Allah?

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They memorize everything.

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Engineers, doctors, whatever.

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But if I ask them, do you memorize

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the names, the 99 names of your Lord?

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The majority will say no.

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This is not the only thing.

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Another principle.

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I'm sharing principles with you.

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So on the one hand, the Messenger of

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Allah said there will come a day that

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people will no longer say Allah, Allah.

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We said that it will go gradually because

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this is the way that shaitan goes about.

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So he's slowly but surely erasing these names.

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From what?

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From our conversations.

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From our dua.

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And even from our teachings.

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If it weren't for the Quran, then a

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lot of the names that we find in

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the Quran, we wouldn't even pronounce them anymore.

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Subhanallah.

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If it weren't for reading the Quran, when

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would we, you know, mention the name Ashakur,

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for example, or Wahab, or Quddus, or Al

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-Barid, or Al-Musawwir?

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We wouldn't maybe even use it.

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This is how far we are away from

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these names.

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So now, he will go gradually.

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Then we said there are four dimensions to

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Ahsaha.

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If you want paradise through these names, memorization,

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understanding, application, and supplication.

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Memorization, understanding, application, and supplication.

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Exactly.

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So that was the last thing we said.

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And then we said Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala has these 99 names.

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But does Allah have more than 99 names?

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Well, in the authentic hadith, the Messenger ﷺ

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said something very, very beautiful.

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He said if you say the following dua,

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Allah will remove all your worries and all

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your sorrows.

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You know what often the problem is with

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us?

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We see that the Messenger ﷺ says something,

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and usually it's the last thing we try.

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Like the Messenger ﷺ gave us the key

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to this, for example.

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It's the last thing we're going to do.

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When all doors are locked, all doors of

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creation said, I'm going to try this hadith.

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Won't work.

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Because you didn't give it its due value.

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These things are so strong that if you

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were to believe in them the way you

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should believe in it, and direct yourself on

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the first moment to these supplications, they would

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work.

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So if they do work, we don't work.

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They do work.

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They're stronger than a paracetamol.

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But when I ask my wife for a

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paracetamol, because I have a headache, the moment

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she brings the paracetamol, I already feel my

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headache going away.

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When she puts it in a glass or

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in my mouth, and if it doesn't work

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after two minutes, I say, it's not working.

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Why is it not working?

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I have yaqeen.

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I have yaqeen that it will work.

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But when it comes down to my Lord

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who promised me, I doubt.

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If our yaqeen in dua and adhkar would

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be with the same strength and conviction as

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we have with the paracetamol, miracles would happen.

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Miracles would happen.

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وَمَنْ أَصْدَقُ مِنَ اللَّهِ أُقِيلًا وَمَنْ أَصْدَقُ مِنَ

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اللَّهِ حَدِيثًا النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم الصادق

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المصدوق يعني who speaks more the truth than

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Allah and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم

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was affirmed to be truthful by the truthful

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سبحانه وتعالى So this is the Messenger صلى

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الله عليه وسلم said, if you say the

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following supplication, following supplication, when you are sad,

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Allah will remove your sadness, will remove your

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sorrows.

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اللهم إني عبدك ابن عبدك ابن أمتك ناصيتي

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بيدك ماض في حكمك عبد في قضاءك أسألك

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بكل اسم هو لك سميت به نفسك أو

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أنزلته في كتابك أو علمته أحدا من خلقك

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أو استغفرت به في علم الغيب عندك I

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will translate it, not the first part and

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then the Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم said,

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Oh Allah, I ask you by every name

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سميت به نفسك that you gave yourself أو

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أنزلته في كتابك or that you have revealed

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in your book أو علمته أحدا من خلقك

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or that you have taught one of your

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creation and they say these are the Prophets

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for example and there's a difference about it

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I'm not going to mention it it's باب

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العقيدة and then أو استغفرت به في علم

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الغيب عندك or these names that you have

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kept for yourself in the unseen in the

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world of the unseen we have the names

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that we need but Allah has more names

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is that clear?

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by all the names that you kept for

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yourself the names we need to develop ourselves

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as Muslims to become better people on the

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outward يعني in our أخلاق our behavior and

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on the inside and in the way we

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think are all in these names that the

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Prophet ﷺ gave us and Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ

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تَعَالَى in the Qur'an so the journey

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through the names of Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى

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is a journey which I call سَفَرُ في

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أَسْمَاءِ اللَّهِ تَعَلُّقًا وَتَخَلُّقًا وَتَحَقُّقًا try to memorize

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it if you can التعلُّق meaning spiritual attachment

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to the name that's التعلُّق التخلُّق is behaving

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in the light of this name sometimes this

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can be by doing exactly what the name

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means الرَّحِمُونَ يَرْحَمُهُمُ الرَّحْمَنُ the ones who have

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mercy the merciful will grant them mercy so

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some of these names we are going to

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apply the way that they are you know

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understood some names we are not allowed to

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put into practice in the way that it's

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understood but by doing what the name wants

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from us like المُتَكَبِّر سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى we are

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not going to say okay now I will

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have Kibr I will say now I will

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have a humility is that clear so Allah

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is الواحِد so I'm not going to be

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egocentric egoistic narcissistic no I'm going to be

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what dependent so some of these names thus

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have a message that we have to put

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into practice and other ones we have to

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live in the light but are not allowed

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to put the name literally into practice like

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المُتَكَبِّر for example or الأحد يَسْتَرِزِمُ مِنَّ الْعُبُدِيَّ

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if these principles are clear so the names

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of Allah سبحانه وتعالى تعلُّقًا spiritual attachment تَخَلُّقًا

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is outward behavior and تَحَقُّقًا this is the

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highest level التحقق what does it mean it

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means that now you you are so aware

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of the names of Allah سبحانه وتعالى that

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you no longer need to go through your

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mind to convince your soul you no longer

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need to go through your mind to convince

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your soul sometimes we are doing the accountancy

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of the divine decisions for example somebody wronged

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me somebody wronged me two years later he's

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in prison what am I going to say

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look what Allah did he wronged me he

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shouldn't have wronged me look look what happened

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to him like if we know what Allah

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سبحانه وتعالى is doing why he is doing

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it what the result of it will be

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so we are at a certain point in

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time we are pretending that we know why

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Allah is doing things the result of things

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only become clear at the end of the

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road it's actually when we are on our

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deathbed that we know why we lived what

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we lived because it brought us to that

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instance and made us the life journey made

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us the person that we are then at

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that particular instance so now to make it

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clear they say is that you do not

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want anything else than that what Allah سبحانه

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وتعالى wants I mean that you turn out

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wanting something else than what Allah سبحانه وتعالى

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made happen in your life we are not

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going to talk about this now تعلق and

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تخلق meaning spiritual attachment and acting in the

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light of the name and this is what

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we are going to do in this journey

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we are going to look at the names

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of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and we want to

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connect to them we want to behave in

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the light of these names and the example

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I gave in the bayan was and I

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am going to give it again is the

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bayan or is the name رزاق سبحانه وتعالى

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to give you one example of تعلق and

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تخلق we all believe Allah سبحانه وتعالى is

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a رزاق we believe it we don't doubt

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it but there is a difference between believing

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and feeling and between feeling and living there

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is a there is a it is like

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between the east and the west so now

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we are the 31st or the 30th I

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think yes so maybe some days ago people

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that have an employer they start counting their

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risk which is not wrong because we need

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to organize ourselves in life so ok how

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much will I have and how much will

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I earn this person will give me some

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money I have to pay this so we

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do the accountancy of the next month but

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that's not the problem Allah wants us to

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be organized with our minds but wants us

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to be connected with our hearts and souls

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so by Allah the one that says I

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know that Allah is a رزاق did you

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ever ask Allah for rizq that comes through

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your employer through your employer I'm not saying

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you're in a problem Ya Rabbi help me

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no at the end of each month you

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go down on your knees you say رزاق

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يا رزاق ارزقني Oh Allah I think I

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spoke too loud no it's not that it's

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this here it's a battery ok can I

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continue ok so the question now is maybe

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it's better to wait Mawlana what do you

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think I continue ok so when you see

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that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he says

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thank you so much thank you for your

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effort talking about Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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consumes a lot of battery ok Bismillah it's

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good so now the question I'm asking is

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what you have through your employer do we

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get down on our knees at the end

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of the month and say Ya Rabbi رزقني

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we are so convinced that rizq comes through

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my employer comes through whatever welfare whatever that

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we even don't ask for our rizq and

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when it comes too late yes from a

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human point of view from an organizational point

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of view I will call my employer excuse

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me usually it's on the 31st or whatever

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and it's too late this is with my

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mind but with my heart I'm somewhere else

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with my heart I ask Allah so this

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connection when you believe in a rizq then

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why didn't we make this connection the only

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thing we see we get mad angry why

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it's too late it's impossible we forget that

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there it's not the system that is providing

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us it's the Lord of the system it's

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like Subhanallah there is an iron sky that

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is built above our heads and we don't

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seem to see it this is dangerous because

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this is actually what weakness of faith means

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and Imam Shafi'i rahimahullah azwajal he said

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in his diwan توكلت في رزقي على الله

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خالقي وإيقنت أن الله لا شد رازقي يعني

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concerning the rizq I put my trust in

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Allah and I don't doubt a single moment

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that Allah will provide for me وما يكون

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رزقي فليس يفوتني ولو كان في قاء البحار

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العوامق and what is has been destined for

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me to be my rizq it will not

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escape me even if it was in the

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deep shallows of the oceans ولو كان في

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قاء البحار العوامق سيأتي به الله العظيم بفضله

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ولو لم يكن مني لسان بناطقي look at

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this Imam you know sometimes when we look

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at this we say oh it's beautiful no

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this were the expressions of their inner feelings

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they were sharing it with us he said

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and what is destined to be my rizq

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Allah will come with it even if I

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were not to ask for it ولو لم

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يكن مني لسان بناطقي ففي أي شيء تذهب

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النفس حسرتا فقد قسم الرحمن رزق الخلائق so

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why are you tying your nafs while you

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know very well that Allah has divided the

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provision and the rizq of his creation so

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yes we have two dimensions dimension of organization

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the rational dimension but then we also have

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the connection with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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and the problem is that the majority of

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Muslims is now just living with this that's

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dangerous because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is

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observing us isn't he so we need that

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was just one example of a ta'alluq

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that you connect to the divine name and

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then you have the ta'alluq the ta

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'alluq the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam كان

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ينفق كالذي لا يخشى عليه من الفقر he

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used to spend like someone for whom one

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doesn't need to fear to become poor like

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if the king of Saudi Arabia would give

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me or you 10,000 pounds would you

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say poor person he will be poor very

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soon you don't fear for him 10,000

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is nothing this is the way the messenger

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam used to spend but

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he didn't have anything sometimes he wouldn't have

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كان خديجة رضي الله عنها said when the

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messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam came back after

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he saw Jibreel she said you are the

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one that gets people what you don't have

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yourself what does this mean the messenger sallallahu

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alayhi wa sallam if you would come to

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him you would ask him for milk and

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he wouldn't have milk then he would buy

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you milk and if wouldn't have the money

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to buy you milk he would borrow money

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to buy you milk and he would pay

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it this is who he was sallallahu alayhi

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wa sallam and this is a تخلق this

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is putting this name into practice our problem

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we don't have a crisis of not knowing

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we have a crisis of not knowing how

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to put what we know into practice it's

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so beautiful to sit here like I'm sitting

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talking about beautiful things but how difficult is

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it to put it into practice when nobody

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sees you visiting the sick when nobody knows

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giving the last of the money you had

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in your pocket you wanted to buy some

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new shoes you buy them for somebody else

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nobody knows this is difficult this is Islam

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talking about Islam it's easy I don't mean

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it's easy you have to learn you have

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to study but on the other hand وَإِذَا

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رَأِيتَهُمْ تَعَجِبُكَ أَجْسَامُهُمْ وَإِن يَقُولُ تَسْمَعْ لِقَوْلِهِمْ Allah

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says about the منافقين when they talk you

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listen to them and when you look at

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them their appearance you are marveled by their

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appearance Ibn Kathir said that this ayah is

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about the منافقين that used to talk before

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the khutbah like they would sit I don't

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mean talking before the khutbah it's like nifaq

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but they wanted to show off they would

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wear their best clothes and talk about Allah

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but they were منافقين so now to come

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back تَعَلُّقَ تَخَلُّق we don't have a crisis

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of not knowing alone but our biggest crisis

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is not knowing how to put our knowledge

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into practice or being afraid to put our

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knowledge into practice so in this journey بِإِذْنِ

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اللَّهِ سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى we want to be transformed

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through these names والله the more we know

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his names the more we will see our

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weaknesses the more we will see his beauty

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and his strength the more we will be

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able to trust in him sometimes we trust

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ourselves more than we trust Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى

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and the only way to change and transform

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is by being honest with ourselves where am

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I who am I on the inside because

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they say أَسَّلَفْ كَانُوا يَسْتَغْفِرُونَ لِمَا يُخْفُونَ مِنْ

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أَعْمَالِهِمْ they used to do istighfar not only

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for what they did but for what they

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felt when they did good like I can

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now sit here and say everybody here I

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go 5 pounds, 50 pounds I start giving

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it everybody will say رَجُولٌ كَرِيمٌ he's a

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very generous man but on the end on

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the inside I feel it that hurts 5

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pounds 20 it's like breaking my heart if

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I could have I wouldn't Allah will judge

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me يَوْمَ تُبْلَ سَرَاجٍ he will judge me

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on what I hide behind what I do

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so now the journey forward is by really

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looking at who we are for Allah and

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who are we for Allah the one we

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know who is inside of this body it's

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usually not the one that we show it's

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the one that he knows of and when

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we admit this when we are humbled and

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crumbled because we know how far we are

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how weak we are that's the moment when

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the journey begins this is the moment when

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you dig deep then the journey will start

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say رَبِّي أَمْدِسْ I'm this, I'm this not

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in front of the people it's in the

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sunnah to dishonor yourself in front of people

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but to pretend in front of Allah he

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knows يَعْلَمُ السِّرَّ وَأَخْذَ he knows the secret

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and that which is more hidden than the

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secret so we are going through all of

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these names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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and we are going to look how do

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they change my behavior how do they change

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the way I connect to Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala you know this is for me

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the practical side of فَفِرُّوا إِلَى اللَّهِ فَفِرُّوا

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إِلَى اللَّهِ يعني flee towards Allah flee towards

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Allah يعني to the knowledge of him and

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to bring into practice this knowledge and to

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live up to its standards ok so these

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are the things inshallah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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that you can expect بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ subhanahu wa

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ta'ala and you know every time when

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you ask a scholar the scholars when they

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write a book in grammar or morphology or

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fiqh or aqeedah or hadith everybody says and

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this is the most noble knowledge Mawlana will

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know this when we read our books say

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yes fiqh is the most noble because it

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shows you this and that a mufasir will

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say this as well but at the end

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it's all about Allah this is the most

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noble knowledge and this is why Imam Abu

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Hanifa rahimahullah azwajal when he spoke about aqeedah

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he named it fiqh al-akbar the greatest

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fiqh the largest fiqh and fiqh in the

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language means correct understanding correct detailed understanding so

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fiqh al-akbar is that we correctly in

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a detailed way understand the names of our

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Lord subhanahu wa ta'ala do you have

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any questions about what has been said until

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now inshallah do you have anything you want

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to add or want to ask then we

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can do this of course we can't

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here this will be a weekly or two

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weekly course so you can already start here

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inshallah step by step yes this will all

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be mentioned in the courses like every week

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or every two weeks I will give you

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like three names explain you how to live

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up to them you will have homework meaning

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that you will live in the light of

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these names and that you are aware of

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these names throughout that week so that will

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be one of the assessments and homework inshallah

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that will be given inshallah and the thing

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is books are good one can read books

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there are beautiful books about the names of

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala like the book

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of Imam Ghazali you have the book of

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Imam Qurtubi of al-Baydawi of al-Isnawi

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I mean you have even of Imam Qushayri

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you have so many books about the names

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of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala but at

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the end a book is there to be

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taught you see because very often when we

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read a book we might have a wrong

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understanding of what we read so when a

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book is explained so I base myself on

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I think 25 different books about the names

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of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so I

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hope in the office of Shaykh Ibn Ajeeba

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Ahmed Zarouk all the other books so inshallah

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khair so that we will do that in

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the evening inshallah the only thing I didn't

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understand yet is how long these classes should

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like how long should they be because last

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time you told me after 25 minutes that

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was finished half an hour is good enough

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how long did we do now half an

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hour yes we did 29 minutes and 19

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seconds okay that's good that's good inshallah I'm

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subjected to the instructions so I don't have

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an opinion excuse me okay

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and people who are I won't say bored

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but people who have something else to do

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they can leave I don't mind at all

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so inshallah khair so bismillah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala we will then in the future inshallah

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we're going to do it 45 minutes bismillah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala is that good ankor

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okay inshallah it's on Tuesdays yes yes inshallah

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the timetable is on the website so you

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can find it there inshallah inshallah it's on

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the website you can see it inshallah inshallah

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do we have any other questions about the

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subject yes yes well

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I really believe that that which we see

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in front of us is a straightforward proof

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that there is a creator I mean if

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I would take a toothpick here you know

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toothpick we say toothpick right and I would

00:32:08 --> 00:32:10

tell people this created itself they wouldn't believe

00:32:10 --> 00:32:12

me you know it's just a toothpick and

00:32:12 --> 00:32:16

I mean so seeing something is the very

00:32:16 --> 00:32:19

proof that there is someone I mean they

00:32:19 --> 00:32:22

say this about everything apart from creation and

00:32:22 --> 00:32:23

nature so how do we get away from

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this I don't think that I think we

00:32:26 --> 00:32:30

are able to harmonize between faith and science

00:32:30 --> 00:32:35

and when science outwardly contradicts faith then it's

00:32:35 --> 00:32:40

either because we have wrong we have wrong

00:32:40 --> 00:32:45

conclusion how do we say made yes or

00:32:45 --> 00:32:50

because science hasn't yet found out what what

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it really is so but I believe that

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science and faith they don't contradict one another

00:32:56 --> 00:32:58

it's just in the way we explain it

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and look at it so Allah I don't

00:33:00 --> 00:33:01

think we need to run away from anything

00:33:01 --> 00:33:04

I think we need to go straight forward

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is there another question no ok Alhamdulillah I

00:33:13 --> 00:33:17

love you so we agree then from next

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week onwards it's 45 minutes I agree that

00:33:21 --> 00:33:26

you come from far you said ok ok

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really Subhana I understand 45 minutes would that

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be sufficient but you know yes but

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actually I wouldn't mind even teach an hour

00:33:45 --> 00:33:48

and a half you see so if people

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don't want to stay until the end they

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can they can go so let us say

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an hour and 20 minutes something like that

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that's what I need to finish this course

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and that's how long I usually teach it

00:34:02 --> 00:34:08

for ok so ok so those who want

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to leave already they can I will continue

00:34:11 --> 00:34:13

a little bit so then they can use

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the break to leave inshallah ok

00:34:24 --> 00:34:26

so I will leave I will wait if

00:34:26 --> 00:34:37

you want to leave ok was

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the content clear for now was it clear

00:34:39 --> 00:34:48

for everybody ok I am just going to

00:34:48 --> 00:34:50

wait 2 minutes and then we will continue

00:34:50 --> 00:34:52

so inshallah we are going to do 1

00:34:52 --> 00:34:54

hour and 20 minutes Q&A included inshallah

00:34:54 --> 00:34:57

ok I mean for me to speak so

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today it will be a big mess Alhamdulillah

00:35:01 --> 00:35:05

do you come from far as well you

00:35:05 --> 00:35:08

we go like all over we go all

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night really mashaAllah that's good inshallah we will

00:35:12 --> 00:35:13

have all night with Allah I had a

00:35:13 --> 00:35:17

heart attack yesterday it's ok no it's good

00:35:17 --> 00:35:20

it's good ok uncle are you alright yeah

00:35:20 --> 00:35:24

ok I am just waiting for some water

00:35:24 --> 00:35:28

and then we will carry on inshallah did

00:35:28 --> 00:35:30

you give literal translation or one word translation

00:35:30 --> 00:35:34

I know you explained ta'alluk yes one

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word translation I know it's hard to ta

00:35:36 --> 00:35:39

'alluk would be connection but we call it

00:35:39 --> 00:35:44

spiritual connection ta'alluk ta'alluk means behaving

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any behaving in the light of the name

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and ta'alluk means realization bismillah so

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if we have understood these principles then it's

00:36:08 --> 00:36:11

very important to know why is it important

00:36:11 --> 00:36:12

to get to know Allah subhana wa ta

00:36:12 --> 00:36:14

'ala and I am going to give you

00:36:14 --> 00:36:18

one reason where there are many and this

00:36:18 --> 00:36:21

is the reason that Ibn Ajeeba rahimahullah azawajal

00:36:21 --> 00:36:24

mentioned in his book Iqab al-himam when

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he rahimahullah azawajal said man dallaka alal amali

00:36:28 --> 00:36:33

faqad at'abak wa man dallaka alal dunya

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faqad ghashak wa man dallaka alallahi faqad nasahak

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meaning the one that advises you or points

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you in the direction of performing deeds good

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deeds has tired you I will explain this

00:36:47 --> 00:36:50

the one that you know guides you into

00:36:50 --> 00:36:55

the dunya has wronged you and he has

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I don't know anyway so let us say

00:37:03 --> 00:37:05

like this and the last thing he said

00:37:05 --> 00:37:06

and the one that shows you to the

00:37:06 --> 00:37:09

way of Allah has truly and sincerely given

00:37:09 --> 00:37:12

you a good advice so what does he

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mean like if we are going to look

00:37:14 --> 00:37:18

at the dawah today we see that very

00:37:18 --> 00:37:23

often the emphasis is on performing deeds which

00:37:23 --> 00:37:27

is good like fast read Quran not fasting

00:37:27 --> 00:37:30

Ramadan I'm talking about extra deeds right fasting

00:37:30 --> 00:37:32

reading Quran visiting the sick crying for Allah

00:37:32 --> 00:37:34

doing this doing that so at the end

00:37:34 --> 00:37:39

it's a lot and very often it's it

00:37:39 --> 00:37:41

takes a lot from us to do all

00:37:41 --> 00:37:44

of these things Ibn Ajeeba says no there

00:37:44 --> 00:37:47

is another way if we point you in

00:37:47 --> 00:37:49

the direction of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:37:49 --> 00:37:53

you will never feel tired serving him you

00:37:53 --> 00:37:55

won't get bored it won't feel too heavy

00:37:55 --> 00:37:58

it won't be too much because when we

00:37:58 --> 00:38:00

look at the angels Allah subhanahu wa ta

00:38:00 --> 00:38:03

'ala describes them as never getting bored and

00:38:03 --> 00:38:06

never being exhausted so if we always remind

00:38:06 --> 00:38:10

people of actions actions actions then at the

00:38:10 --> 00:38:14

end actions become a goal but Allah is

00:38:14 --> 00:38:16

our goal so if we now and this

00:38:16 --> 00:38:19

is what Imam al-Ghazali says in his

00:38:19 --> 00:38:21

book min haj al-abideen ila jannati rabbil

00:38:21 --> 00:38:24

alameen if we show people the way towards

00:38:24 --> 00:38:27

Allah then they will look for ways to

00:38:27 --> 00:38:29

please him you see it's the other way

00:38:29 --> 00:38:32

around so this is when we look at

00:38:32 --> 00:38:35

the period of Mecca we see that the

00:38:35 --> 00:38:38

very first verses were all about Allah all

00:38:38 --> 00:38:43

about qiyamah all about akhira jannah na and

00:38:43 --> 00:38:46

the emphasis was not as much as on

00:38:46 --> 00:38:50

performing deeds only at the end of the

00:38:50 --> 00:38:53

Meccan period period when when the Prophet ﷺ

00:38:53 --> 00:38:56

was ascended with so now you see that

00:38:56 --> 00:38:57

at the very beginning Allah was the focus

00:38:57 --> 00:39:03

and when these people were inspired through their

00:39:03 --> 00:39:06

belief in Allah subhana wa ta'ala then

00:39:06 --> 00:39:09

Allah jalla wa ala put the actions the

00:39:09 --> 00:39:14

commands upon them and they accepted it because

00:39:14 --> 00:39:16

they were sort of ready for it is

00:39:16 --> 00:39:19

that clear so very often when you go

00:39:19 --> 00:39:20

to someone and say no it's haram stop

00:39:20 --> 00:39:22

doing this stop doing that but does he

00:39:22 --> 00:39:24

even know Allah if he would know Allah

00:39:24 --> 00:39:26

he wouldn't do it now if you know

00:39:26 --> 00:39:30

Allah you don't disobey Allah and in harmony

00:39:30 --> 00:39:33

with your knowledge of Allah you will serve

00:39:33 --> 00:39:35

him more and you will fear him more

00:39:36 --> 00:39:38

this is how it works so this is

00:39:38 --> 00:39:40

why Ibn Ajeeba says وَمَن ذَلَّكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ

00:39:40 --> 00:39:43

فَقَلْ مَصَحَكَ the one that shows you the

00:39:43 --> 00:39:46

way to Allah he has given you the

00:39:46 --> 00:39:52

true good only sincere advice this is the

00:39:52 --> 00:39:56

advice so Ibn Qayyim he looks at it

00:39:56 --> 00:40:00

and he says every haram that you do

00:40:00 --> 00:40:03

is out of love and it's due to

00:40:03 --> 00:40:06

a lack of love an excessive love for

00:40:06 --> 00:40:10

pleasing your ego and the lack of love

00:40:10 --> 00:40:15

for pleasing Allah that's it so every haram

00:40:15 --> 00:40:18

is due to an excess of love and

00:40:18 --> 00:40:20

a lack of love the excess of love

00:40:20 --> 00:40:24

for pleasing your ego and the lack of

00:40:24 --> 00:40:27

love for pleasing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:40:27 --> 00:40:30

so even the maasiyah even the sin is

00:40:30 --> 00:40:35

driven by love but a wrong love ok

00:40:35 --> 00:40:38

so this is the first reason we want

00:40:38 --> 00:40:42

to be inspired by our belief in Allah

00:40:42 --> 00:40:44

subhanahu wa ta'ala so that we can

00:40:44 --> 00:40:47

find the energy the ongoing energy to get

00:40:47 --> 00:40:49

to know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala another

00:40:49 --> 00:40:52

thing that I find very interesting when looking

00:40:52 --> 00:40:53

at the names of Allah subhanahu wa ta

00:40:53 --> 00:40:57

'ala is that it's the only ongoing knowledge

00:40:57 --> 00:41:02

that will be everlasting fiqh we don't need

00:41:02 --> 00:41:06

fiqh in Jannah aqidah we don't need to

00:41:06 --> 00:41:10

know the kinds of tawheed and the characteristics

00:41:10 --> 00:41:16

of prophets in Jannah but ihsan knowing Allah

00:41:17 --> 00:41:21

this is why Jannah was created because knowledge

00:41:21 --> 00:41:26

of Allah is endless is limitless it has

00:41:26 --> 00:41:28

no limits because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's

00:41:28 --> 00:41:33

beauty is unlimited so he created a world

00:41:33 --> 00:41:37

that is eternal with people that live therein

00:41:38 --> 00:41:42

eternal lives so that every second and no

00:41:42 --> 00:41:45

seconds in Jannah but at every moment in

00:41:45 --> 00:41:47

time will be a moment in time where

00:41:47 --> 00:41:50

they get to know Allah so the journey

00:41:50 --> 00:41:53

that you start when you learn the names

00:41:53 --> 00:41:55

of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is an

00:41:55 --> 00:41:58

everlasting one is the only knowledge that you

00:41:58 --> 00:42:01

will take with you to Allah even in

00:42:01 --> 00:42:06

your grave first question man rabbuk who is

00:42:06 --> 00:42:10

your lord if you are munafiq the messenger

00:42:10 --> 00:42:12

sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said a hypocrite then

00:42:12 --> 00:42:16

you will say ah ah oh oh la

00:42:16 --> 00:42:20

adri i do not know sami'tun nas yaquluna

00:42:20 --> 00:42:22

shay'an i heard the people say something

00:42:22 --> 00:42:23

why?

00:42:23 --> 00:42:27

because it was not really in your heart

00:42:27 --> 00:42:31

your knowledge of Allah was weak so your

00:42:31 --> 00:42:33

knowledge of Allah you even take it into

00:42:33 --> 00:42:36

your grave and even on your deathbed the

00:42:36 --> 00:42:39

messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said man mata

00:42:39 --> 00:42:44

wakana akhiru kalabihi la ilaha ilallah mukhrisan min

00:42:44 --> 00:42:47

qalbihi dakhalal jannah the one that dies and

00:42:47 --> 00:42:51

whose last words are la ilaha ilallah sincerely

00:42:52 --> 00:42:57

with his heart will enter paradise he didn't

00:42:57 --> 00:42:58

just say the one that says la ilaha

00:42:58 --> 00:43:01

ilallah so the stronger and the vaster your

00:43:01 --> 00:43:04

knowledge is of Allah the stronger your shahada

00:43:04 --> 00:43:07

will be look at this person this man

00:43:07 --> 00:43:09

that came to the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa

00:43:09 --> 00:43:12

sallam while he was resting and he hung

00:43:12 --> 00:43:14

his sword on one of the branches of

00:43:14 --> 00:43:16

a tree and the man came and he

00:43:16 --> 00:43:18

took the sword and he went like Muhammad

00:43:18 --> 00:43:20

who will save you now?

00:43:21 --> 00:43:24

the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam didn't experience

00:43:24 --> 00:43:28

any kind of fear he was who will

00:43:28 --> 00:43:30

save you now from me and my sword?

00:43:30 --> 00:43:33

the messenger said the word the divine name

00:43:33 --> 00:43:39

with this yaqeen certitude with this subhanallah pure

00:43:39 --> 00:43:42

heart and deep understanding of what it means

00:43:42 --> 00:43:48

so he said Allah the way he said

00:43:48 --> 00:43:52

Allah with the belief the strength of this

00:43:52 --> 00:43:55

belief that came through his mouth the man

00:43:55 --> 00:43:59

trembled and the sword he dropped the sword

00:43:59 --> 00:44:01

and then the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

00:44:01 --> 00:44:02

took and he said and who will save

00:44:02 --> 00:44:03

you from me?

00:44:04 --> 00:44:06

he said ya Rasulallah he said ya Muhammad

00:44:06 --> 00:44:09

he said do not kill me I promise

00:44:09 --> 00:44:11

you that I will go back to my

00:44:11 --> 00:44:13

people and tell them that I came from

00:44:13 --> 00:44:15

the best man on earth and I will

00:44:15 --> 00:44:18

never ever fight against you then Muhammad a

00:44:18 --> 00:44:21

.s. let him go the man turned and

00:44:21 --> 00:44:24

after a few steps in another narration the

00:44:24 --> 00:44:27

man came back sat down and said ya

00:44:27 --> 00:44:30

Muhammad teach me what Islam means and when

00:44:30 --> 00:44:32

the sahaba radiallahu anhu they saw this from

00:44:32 --> 00:44:35

far away they came running they came running

00:44:35 --> 00:44:37

and they said what's going on?

00:44:37 --> 00:44:38

they saw a man with a sword pointed

00:44:38 --> 00:44:41

at Rasulallah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and he

00:44:41 --> 00:44:44

said leave him leave him he has accepted

00:44:44 --> 00:44:48

Allah and his prophet this is the strength

00:44:48 --> 00:44:52

of just Allah which we say in every

00:44:52 --> 00:44:56

adhan Allahu Akbar which we say in every

00:44:56 --> 00:45:00

prayer Allahu Akbar which we say in janaza

00:45:00 --> 00:45:03

Allahu Akbar which we say after prayer Allahu

00:45:03 --> 00:45:07

Akbar Allahu Akbar Subhanallah just this saying Allahu

00:45:07 --> 00:45:11

Akbar should inspire our hearts with awe and

00:45:11 --> 00:45:15

fear and humility this is when we understand

00:45:15 --> 00:45:18

what we are saying and the prophet sallallahu

00:45:18 --> 00:45:20

alayhi wa sallam he gave us the example

00:45:20 --> 00:45:23

of what it means to be lost in

00:45:23 --> 00:45:26

the understanding of Allahu Akbar when he said

00:45:26 --> 00:45:29

Allahu Akbar one of the supplications he used

00:45:29 --> 00:45:33

to say وَاسْأَلْلَهُمَا بَاعِدْ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَ خَطَايَا كَمَا

00:45:33 --> 00:45:35

بَاعَدْتَ بَيْنَ الْمَشْرِقِ وَالْمَغْرِبِ like in Bukhari he

00:45:35 --> 00:45:38

said O Allah remove my faults from me

00:45:38 --> 00:45:41

exactly as you have removed the east from

00:45:41 --> 00:45:44

the west the moment you say Allahu Akbar

00:45:44 --> 00:45:47

the east and west is nothing the universe

00:45:47 --> 00:45:53

is nothing the multiverse is nothing nothing O

00:45:53 --> 00:45:58

Allah remove my sins from me as you

00:45:58 --> 00:45:59

have removed the east from the west so

00:45:59 --> 00:46:05

this is why Abu Talib Al-Makki he

00:46:05 --> 00:46:08

said in his book Qutub Qulub he said

00:46:08 --> 00:46:10

do not open your prayer with a lie

00:46:12 --> 00:46:15

do not open your prayer with a lie

00:46:15 --> 00:46:17

they said what do you mean opening your

00:46:17 --> 00:46:19

prayer with a lie he said by saying

00:46:19 --> 00:46:22

Allahu Akbar and thinking about others than Allah

00:46:24 --> 00:46:28

because the lie is not that you say

00:46:28 --> 00:46:30

Allahu Akbar because Allah is most great even

00:46:30 --> 00:46:33

if you don't think about it but outwardly

00:46:33 --> 00:46:35

it's a lie because you're saying something which

00:46:35 --> 00:46:39

you do not experience on the inside so

00:46:39 --> 00:46:41

he said do not open your prayer with

00:46:41 --> 00:46:44

a lie the moment it's Allahu Akbar no

00:46:46 --> 00:46:50

time for me just dedication, submission so now

00:46:50 --> 00:46:54

to come back when we have this strong

00:46:54 --> 00:46:58

belief in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala miracles

00:46:58 --> 00:47:02

happen even for non-prophets like Khalid Ibn

00:47:02 --> 00:47:07

Walid radhiAllahu anhu who walked over the sea

00:47:07 --> 00:47:09

with his horses they would say oh no

00:47:09 --> 00:47:11

I don't believe this this is impossible you

00:47:11 --> 00:47:13

know gravity this that so it's impossible they

00:47:13 --> 00:47:16

should have a certain magic trick no they

00:47:16 --> 00:47:20

didn't you know that when they mentioned the

00:47:20 --> 00:47:22

sea and Khalid Ibn Walid went with the

00:47:22 --> 00:47:24

horses over the water that there was one

00:47:24 --> 00:47:27

man in his pocket how do you call

00:47:27 --> 00:47:30

this a pocket a cup his cup sank

00:47:30 --> 00:47:34

right so everything everybody was walking over water

00:47:34 --> 00:47:35

it was normal and when he arrived he

00:47:35 --> 00:47:37

was crying I said why are you crying

00:47:37 --> 00:47:40

he said I think Allah is angry with

00:47:40 --> 00:47:43

me I said why he said everybody you

00:47:43 --> 00:47:45

know passed the water the river or the

00:47:45 --> 00:47:48

ocean whatever and they didn't lose anything my

00:47:48 --> 00:47:52

cup sank he didn't look at I went

00:47:52 --> 00:47:54

over the water with a horse myself I

00:47:54 --> 00:47:57

didn't sing I didn't drown nothing no this

00:47:58 --> 00:48:00

and then he went and he stood you

00:48:00 --> 00:48:03

know on the beach and he said oh

00:48:03 --> 00:48:05

my lord if you are pleased with me

00:48:05 --> 00:48:08

then please give me back my cup and

00:48:08 --> 00:48:10

then subhanallah a wave brought him the cup

00:48:10 --> 00:48:13

and he was the happiest man this is

00:48:13 --> 00:48:15

how they looked at it they weren't astonished

00:48:16 --> 00:48:19

اقتربت الساعة واشق القمر Prophet S.A.W.

00:48:19 --> 00:48:23

points at the moon moon splits you know

00:48:23 --> 00:48:26

I mean we believe and he was a

00:48:26 --> 00:48:29

Prophet S.A.W. but we believe that

00:48:29 --> 00:48:32

there are miracles but the biggest miracle is

00:48:32 --> 00:48:35

not that you walk on water is not

00:48:35 --> 00:48:37

that you fly through the sky the biggest

00:48:37 --> 00:48:40

miracle is that you attain the climax of

00:48:40 --> 00:48:44

your existence that the small tiny little soul

00:48:45 --> 00:48:49

gets connected to the creator of all this

00:48:49 --> 00:48:54

is the miracle that the connection is made

00:48:54 --> 00:48:57

now it's disturbed like when you take your

00:48:57 --> 00:48:58

antenna and you put it a little bit

00:48:58 --> 00:49:00

like this you have an image but it's

00:49:00 --> 00:49:02

not clear this is what we are having

00:49:02 --> 00:49:04

it's a bit there it's not there I

00:49:04 --> 00:49:07

feel it I don't but the moment that

00:49:07 --> 00:49:10

it's in the right direction you know it

00:49:11 --> 00:49:13

people say how do I know that I

00:49:13 --> 00:49:17

have established this connection the answer is if

00:49:17 --> 00:49:20

you would have you wouldn't ask you would

00:49:20 --> 00:49:24

know it you would know it so the

00:49:24 --> 00:49:29

miracle is that the soul gets connected to

00:49:29 --> 00:49:32

the creator of all and this is why

00:49:32 --> 00:49:36

Imam Ghazali r.a he mentioned also in

00:49:36 --> 00:49:41

Muqaddimah of his Munkhidh and others where he

00:49:41 --> 00:49:43

describes his journey he says when he was

00:49:43 --> 00:49:46

in the minaret of course Palestine or the

00:49:46 --> 00:49:51

Quds and he said I experienced things in

00:49:51 --> 00:49:54

that minaret if I were to tell you

00:49:54 --> 00:49:57

what it was you wouldn't believe and I

00:49:57 --> 00:50:01

wouldn't believe myself he said because every time

00:50:01 --> 00:50:05

I thought that I had you know found

00:50:05 --> 00:50:09

the climax of connection with Allah the next

00:50:09 --> 00:50:12

day there was more next day there was

00:50:12 --> 00:50:14

more and if yesterday you would have told

00:50:14 --> 00:50:15

me that there is more I would say

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no it's impossible subhanallah and this is what

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we want we don't want to go for

00:50:23 --> 00:50:25

silver we want to go for gold we

00:50:25 --> 00:50:26

don't want to go for gold we want

00:50:26 --> 00:50:27

to go for platinum we don't want to

00:50:27 --> 00:50:28

go for that we want to go for

00:50:28 --> 00:50:31

the highest thing which doesn't exist you know

00:50:31 --> 00:50:35

we look at all these sportsmen rich and

00:50:35 --> 00:50:37

so forth subhanallah there is one thing you

00:50:37 --> 00:50:41

cannot pay one thing that's connection with Allah

00:50:41 --> 00:50:45

subhanallah ta'ala it's no longer about how

00:50:45 --> 00:50:46

much are you ready to give it's about

00:50:46 --> 00:50:50

how much are you ready to lose to

00:50:50 --> 00:50:53

give up because the last thing you will

00:50:53 --> 00:50:58

have to give up on is yourself and

00:50:58 --> 00:51:01

that's what we like love most and this

00:51:01 --> 00:51:04

is why imam al-sha'arani rahimahullah azawajal

00:51:04 --> 00:51:06

he said in his book tanbih al-mukhtarreen

00:51:06 --> 00:51:12

he said it's strange to see that someone

00:51:12 --> 00:51:16

thinks that he sees a shortcoming in his

00:51:16 --> 00:51:18

brother or sister a small one a tiny

00:51:18 --> 00:51:23

one and he doesn't like him anymore it's

00:51:23 --> 00:51:25

sufficient for you that somebody doesn't text you

00:51:25 --> 00:51:29

back to hate him I text you three

00:51:29 --> 00:51:31

times I called you five times you didn't

00:51:31 --> 00:51:34

reply Allah calls you five times everyday so

00:51:34 --> 00:51:36

he says like you didn't text me whatever

00:51:37 --> 00:51:39

so you see a small mistake in your

00:51:39 --> 00:51:41

brother or your sister and you become angry

00:51:41 --> 00:51:44

you think you see a mistake shortcoming he

00:51:44 --> 00:51:46

says but when you look into the mirror

00:51:47 --> 00:51:51

you look at someone from whom you know

00:51:51 --> 00:51:56

everything from the past and the present the

00:51:56 --> 00:52:00

heart and the actions the feelings, emotions he

00:52:00 --> 00:52:04

says but you continue to love him how

00:52:04 --> 00:52:06

strange is this when I think I see

00:52:06 --> 00:52:08

a shortcoming I hate someone and I'm sure

00:52:08 --> 00:52:11

about mine but I love myself the last

00:52:11 --> 00:52:16

thing between us and Allah is our own

00:52:16 --> 00:52:20

ego and when we are able to turn

00:52:20 --> 00:52:26

this off there we are there we are

00:52:26 --> 00:52:29

and we will be so happy that we

00:52:29 --> 00:52:30

say if this is the feeling of the

00:52:30 --> 00:52:34

people of paradise that's sufficient if this is

00:52:34 --> 00:52:36

what the people of paradise feel when I'm

00:52:36 --> 00:52:40

this close that this is sufficient but there

00:52:40 --> 00:52:42

is more every time more and more and

00:52:42 --> 00:52:45

more subhanallah so this is why we want

00:52:45 --> 00:52:47

to get to know Allah because we want

00:52:47 --> 00:52:49

to be happy and the happiness that we

00:52:49 --> 00:52:52

are looking for we are looking for it

00:52:53 --> 00:52:56

and there we won't find it like if

00:52:56 --> 00:52:59

I put a polar bear in the desert

00:53:00 --> 00:53:05

it will yearn for ice and cold and

00:53:05 --> 00:53:06

if I put a camel on the north

00:53:06 --> 00:53:09

pole it will cry for desert and the

00:53:09 --> 00:53:10

heat why?

00:53:11 --> 00:53:13

because it's not in the right environment and

00:53:13 --> 00:53:20

we are continuously stopping our souls from being

00:53:20 --> 00:53:22

in the right environment and this is why

00:53:22 --> 00:53:24

we are not as happy as we should

00:53:24 --> 00:53:27

be when we look at everything we have

00:53:27 --> 00:53:28

we should be the happiest people on the

00:53:28 --> 00:53:31

earth if you look at our beds and

00:53:31 --> 00:53:33

our heating and our food this is better

00:53:33 --> 00:53:37

than the kings 300 years ago so we

00:53:37 --> 00:53:39

should be happy right?

00:53:40 --> 00:53:41

but we don't have a horse we have

00:53:41 --> 00:53:46

so much horse power in our cars the

00:53:46 --> 00:53:49

journeys in few hours what they had to

00:53:49 --> 00:53:51

do in a few weeks we should be

00:53:51 --> 00:53:53

the happiest people on earth but we are

00:53:53 --> 00:53:56

not and the Prophet ﷺ this is the

00:53:56 --> 00:53:59

last thing I want to say when Omar

00:53:59 --> 00:54:01

bin Khattab r.a who looked at him

00:54:03 --> 00:54:05

and this is Anas ibn Malik saying this

00:54:06 --> 00:54:08

and he looked at him sleeping on the

00:54:08 --> 00:54:11

ground and he saw the traces of the

00:54:11 --> 00:54:14

palm leaves on his back he said Ya

00:54:14 --> 00:54:15

Rasool Allah do you sleep like this?

00:54:16 --> 00:54:18

while the emperors and leaders of Rome and

00:54:18 --> 00:54:22

Persia they sleep on beds made out of

00:54:22 --> 00:54:26

gold and blankets of silk he said even

00:54:26 --> 00:54:30

you Ya Allah are you saying this?

00:54:30 --> 00:54:32

if somebody else would say it are you

00:54:32 --> 00:54:32

saying this?

00:54:33 --> 00:54:36

don't you want this to be for them

00:54:36 --> 00:54:38

in this life and for us in the

00:54:38 --> 00:54:38

hereafter?

00:54:39 --> 00:54:41

so which doesn't mean we are not allowed

00:54:41 --> 00:54:44

to have luxury but we shouldn't long for

00:54:44 --> 00:54:46

it is the difference clear?

00:54:47 --> 00:54:49

we shouldn't long for it and this is

00:54:49 --> 00:54:52

why Imam Ahmad said when someone asked can

00:54:52 --> 00:54:55

someone possess 100,000 Dinar and still be

00:54:55 --> 00:54:55

a Zahid?

00:54:56 --> 00:54:58

and he's someone who abstains from the dunya

00:54:58 --> 00:55:04

he said no if his wealth is in

00:55:04 --> 00:55:07

his hand and not in his heart how

00:55:07 --> 00:55:10

many people in small huts dream of a

00:55:10 --> 00:55:12

palace and how many people in a palace

00:55:12 --> 00:55:12

dream of Jannah?

00:55:19 --> 00:55:21

they're never content but why are we not

00:55:21 --> 00:55:22

content?

00:55:22 --> 00:55:26

because we haven't satisfied the hunger that we

00:55:26 --> 00:55:29

have there is something an emptiness within us

00:55:29 --> 00:55:34

that cannot be tamed but by connecting to

00:55:34 --> 00:55:37

Allah Subhanallah so as long as we don't

00:55:37 --> 00:55:39

have this we will keep on looking for

00:55:39 --> 00:55:44

this something that will eventually satisfy me but

00:55:44 --> 00:55:50

we are not until we know Allah وَمَا

00:55:50 --> 00:55:54

خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونَ the only reason

00:55:54 --> 00:55:57

why I've created jinn and mankind is لِيَعْبُدُونَ

00:55:57 --> 00:56:00

Imam At-Tabari Rahim Allah he mentions in

00:56:00 --> 00:56:03

his Tafsir that the Sahabi Jalil Ali Radiallahu

00:56:03 --> 00:56:07

Anhu said إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونَ إِلَّا لِيَعْرِفُونَ I have

00:56:07 --> 00:56:11

created jinn and mankind to know me that

00:56:11 --> 00:56:13

the meaning of worshipping that in Arabic it's

00:56:13 --> 00:56:16

used like that worshipping is the result of

00:56:16 --> 00:56:19

knowledge so he has created and knowledge leads

00:56:19 --> 00:56:22

to knowledge sorry, worship leads to knowledge anyway

00:56:22 --> 00:56:24

Allah has created us to know him and

00:56:24 --> 00:56:26

if we know him we will worship him

00:56:26 --> 00:56:29

that's the result of knowledge is that clear?

00:56:29 --> 00:56:32

so these are some of the reasons why

00:56:32 --> 00:56:34

we want to get back to Allah subhanahu

00:56:34 --> 00:56:37

wa ta'ala and the last thing the

00:56:37 --> 00:56:39

very last thing is the closer you get

00:56:39 --> 00:56:46

to Allah the harder it gets subhanallah because

00:56:46 --> 00:56:48

you know it's like you're in an oven

00:56:48 --> 00:56:50

like gold that needs to be cleaned and

00:56:50 --> 00:56:53

purified you know and if you really want

00:56:53 --> 00:56:56

to melt away be that gold you know

00:56:56 --> 00:56:58

then you need to get rid of all

00:56:58 --> 00:57:04

the filth and that can Allah subhanahu wa

00:57:04 --> 00:57:06

ta'ala will then take away everything that

00:57:06 --> 00:57:08

he sees being an obstacle between you and

00:57:08 --> 00:57:12

him might be your honor it might be

00:57:12 --> 00:57:15

your wealth your status your family your children

00:57:15 --> 00:57:19

look at the prophets اِذَا أَحَبَّ اللَّهُ قَوْمًا

00:57:19 --> 00:57:23

يُسِبْنِهُمْ when Allah loves people he will test

00:57:23 --> 00:57:26

them and the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said

00:57:28 --> 00:57:31

when Allah loves someone and this is in

00:57:31 --> 00:57:34

the Jamia of As-Suyuti rahimallah when Allah

00:57:34 --> 00:57:37

loves someone tests will come down upon him

00:57:37 --> 00:57:41

quicker than rain is poured down on the

00:57:41 --> 00:57:45

earth like this when you sleep and you

00:57:45 --> 00:57:48

hear it on the window well that's nothing

00:57:48 --> 00:57:51

compared to you if Allah loves you and

00:57:51 --> 00:57:53

if you love the messenger of Allah a

00:57:53 --> 00:57:55

.s. that what you're hearing on your windows

00:57:55 --> 00:58:00

that is your tests all the time and

00:58:00 --> 00:58:04

we we complain about these tests why they

00:58:04 --> 00:58:06

are proved that Allah loves us why did

00:58:06 --> 00:58:08

this happen why me always me it's always

00:58:08 --> 00:58:11

something look at it not with your aqal

00:58:11 --> 00:58:14

but with your iman and then you will

00:58:14 --> 00:58:18

understand that afflictions may Allah protect us are

00:58:18 --> 00:58:22

a doorway to the divine presence I ask

00:58:22 --> 00:58:23

Allah s.w.t to make that what

00:58:23 --> 00:58:26

has been said beneficial we have had an

00:58:26 --> 00:58:29

hour approximately so starting from next week inshallah

00:58:29 --> 00:58:32

an hour and twenty minutes but then also

00:58:33 --> 00:58:35

there will be time for questions and so

00:58:35 --> 00:58:38

much more inshallah ok so what did you

00:58:38 --> 00:58:40

get out of the class for yourselves so

00:58:40 --> 00:58:42

what what did it inspire you with what

00:58:42 --> 00:58:55

what do you feel what yes no very

00:58:55 --> 00:58:57

good being present in everything you read in

00:58:57 --> 00:58:59

everything you do and so forth very good

00:58:59 --> 00:59:08

what else no the importance of the name

00:59:08 --> 00:59:10

of Allah names of Allah s.w.t

00:59:10 --> 00:59:20

what else be mindful ok what

00:59:20 --> 00:59:28

else yes very nice knowledge knowledge is essential

00:59:28 --> 00:59:40

for understanding anything everything yes something else so

00:59:40 --> 00:59:44

we are a million years far away from

00:59:44 --> 00:59:54

reality subhanAllah Allah Akbar yes subhanAllah

00:59:54 --> 01:00:04

what else yes very

01:00:04 --> 01:00:07

good connection everything try to share this with

01:00:07 --> 01:00:10

people I don't mean the recording your knowledge

01:00:10 --> 01:00:12

what you have learned I am not asking

01:00:12 --> 01:00:13

you to sit in a mosque and teach

01:00:13 --> 01:00:16

everybody but share what you have learned the

01:00:16 --> 01:00:19

importance of the names make a summarized version

01:00:19 --> 01:00:21

for yourself put it on whatever social media

01:00:21 --> 01:00:23

you have and you don't have to attribute

01:00:23 --> 01:00:26

anything to me I mean the important thing

01:00:26 --> 01:00:28

is that it gets out there that you

01:00:28 --> 01:00:31

remind people around you in your environment parents

01:00:31 --> 01:00:36

children neighbors sisters brothers friends what it's all

01:00:36 --> 01:00:38

about and what really matters I ask Allah

01:00:38 --> 01:00:40

s.w.t to make this beneficial and

01:00:40 --> 01:00:42

to accept this from us inshAllah and to

01:00:42 --> 01:00:44

grant us a long life so that we

01:00:44 --> 01:00:46

can go over all of his names and

01:00:46 --> 01:00:49

put them into practice ameen wassalamu alaikum wa

01:00:49 --> 01:00:50

barakatuh

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