Sulayman Van Ael – The Divine Names 12
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I seek refuge with Allah from the accursed
Satan.
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,
the Most Merciful.
May Allah's peace and blessings be upon our
Master Muhammad and his family and companions.
We ask Allah, the Most High, to make
us among those who listen to the speech
and follow it, and to make what we
say and hear a proof for us and
not a burden on us on the Day
of Judgment.
Peace be upon you.
To start with, inshallah, I was very happy
to hear that someone told me that he
was benefiting from the classes online, and that
apparently a lot of people are following it
online even though they are not physically present
in the mosque.
And this is the way that the Awliya,
they said, would be.
Their bodies would be here and with their
minds they would be going around the Kaaba.
So maybe they're sitting here, I don't know.
But as for me, that's far away from
my little tiny weak spiritual world where I'm
here with my mind and my body and
my soul.
So Alhamdulillah, as we said last time, we
are going over the Divine Names once again,
one by one, and we are not going
to elaborate too much on every single name,
but rather give you the keys that you
need in order for you to know what
to do with the names.
Because my problem between brackets is that I
like to talk a lot about one name.
And the reason why is because the meanings
of his names are limitless.
There is no limit to how we explain
these names or how these names can be
explained.
So in very brief, what I want to
do now, InshaAllah, is read from my book.
I have written a book in Dutch, which
is called...
The title in English doesn't sound good, but
anyway.
So it's not the title, it's a description.
So why is it important to know God?
Why is it important to know Allah?
So why knowing Allah is important?
So I'm going to read from it, but
it's in Dutch, it's not in English.
And I have grouped the names, the Divine
Names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
I have divided them into different groups.
I was not the first one to do
this.
People before me have done it, like Imam
Qurtubi rahimahullah azwajal and so much more.
A lot of scholars have done this.
Why?
Because it's easier to explain the name when
you gather these names under one title.
So for example, I have the names of
Kingdom, the names of His Majesty and Rulership.
The name of Patience, the name of Purity,
the names of Guidance, the names of Greatness,
the names of Divine Gifts, the names of
Love, the names of Uniqueness, the names of
Divine Decisions, the names of Creating, the names
of God Consciousness.
Names that should lead to God Consciousness.
So this is in brief the categories that
I have.
So inshallah, this is what we will look
at as well, bi-idhnillah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
So we are going to start now by
reading a bit from the book, and then
I will explain.
And inshallah, I hope, my wife is working
on translating the Divine Names or Why Knowing
Allah is Important into English.
Then we need to edit it.
So I don't know if someone amongst you
is strong at English.
You will be stronger than I am anyway.
And wants to have a look at it
and edit it, then you can go yes.
Yes?
Yes.
Okay.
Yes, yes?
Okay, good.
Alhamdulillah, that's good.
BarakAllahu feekum.
So I will then need your emails, and
then my wife, every time that she translates
a bit, she can then send it to
you and to you, if that's good for
you.
You read it, and then you're a test
reader, you can adapt it and so forth.
And the goal would be then later on
to have our own book.
What would be good then is when we
read from the book, is that you then
write the comments, which my students used to
do back in Belgium.
So I would write my own book, then
I would teach from it, and then the
students would take notes, and then they would
write these notes on the document that I
gave them, and then it would become a
book.
You see?
So I think this is a very good
way to do it.
InshaAllah Jalla wa Ala.
Okay.
Alhamdulillah.
I'm going to give you something today.
If you can write, please write.
Okay?
If you can write, please write.
But write it in your own way.
It will be recorded as well.
If you can write, write.
Okay?
But listen very carefully.
My Shaykh Tawfiq Ibrahim Damrah told me that
his Shaykh Yusuf Al-Atoum said that his
Shaykh Abu Al-Ma'ali Al-Murrakoshi said
that his Shaykh Al-Allama Sayyid Abdul Qadir
Al-Dimashqi said that his Shaykh Mustafa Al
-Rahmati said that his Shaykh Abdul Ghani Al
-Nabulsi said It doesn't matter.
It will be recorded.
Okay?
So I'm going to repeat it again.
If you don't write, no problem.
I'm going to give you a sanad.
I'm about to connect you to the Messenger
of Allah, through my Shaykh and his Shaykh
and his Shaykh, until the Prophet.
So this is the hadith that I'm going
to share with you and then you will
be a part of the sanad.
Then later when you can give me your
names, I will then write a sanad for
you.
But with the condition that you read the
hadith in Arabic with me, from your memorization.
It's a very short hadith.
Okay, so I'm going to say it again.
So this is my sanad to the Prophet
Muhammad Alayhi Salatu Wasalam.
So my Shaykh Tawfiq Ibrahim Damra said that
Shaykh Yusuf Ibn Mahmood Omar Al-Atum said
that his Shaykh Al-Muhaddith Abu Al-Ma
'ali Al-Murrakushi said that his Shaykh Al
-Allama Al-Sayyid Abdul Qadir Al-Dimashqi said
that his Shaykh Mustafa Al-Rahmati said that
his Shaykh Abdul Ghani Al-Nabulsi said that
his Shaykh Najmuddin Al-Ghazi said that his
Shaykh Badruddin Al-Amiri Al-Dimashqi said that
his Shaykh Abu Yahya Zakaria Al-Ansari said
that his Shaykh Al-Hafid Ibn Hajar said
that his Shaykh As-Salah Ibn Abi Omar
said that his Shaykh Al-Fakhr Al-Bukhari
said that Abu Hafs Al-Baghdadi said that
his Shaykh Abu Al-Fath Abdul Malik Al
-Karrukhi said that his Shaykh Al-Qadi Abu
Amr Mahmood Al-Qasim Al-Azdi said that
his Shaykh Abdul Jabbar Muhammad Ibn Abu Al
-Jarrah said that his Shaykh Al-Abbas Ibn
Mahbub said that his Shaykh Abu Isa Al
-Tirmidhi said that Ibrahim Ibn Yaqub Al-Juzajani
said that Safwan Ibn Saleh said that Al
-Walid Ibn Muslim said that Shu'aib Ibn
Abi Hamza said via Abi Zinad that Abu
Huraira Radiallahu Anhu said that the Messenger of
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said Allah has 100
names 99 names This is 100 minus 1
So now you see the Senad The chain
of narration is actually preserved until today And
this is not only the case with Hadith
This is also the case with Fiqh books
This is the case with Hadith books Aqeedah
books, Tajweed books Our community is a community
of Senad Without Senad there is no Deen
Why?
Our Deen was narrated through people, isn't it?
And this is the difference between ourselves and
other religious communities where they don't have a
Senad There is no Senad for the Bible
There is no Senad for the Torah There
is no Senad for the sayings of Musa
Alayhi Salaam and Isa Alayhi Salaam So this
is in brief So I'm going to share
with you So if you can give me
later on your email addresses and your name
the way it's written then I'm going to
send it to you and I'm going to
read it for you You will have a
recording from me and the next time when
you come you come with that paper you
print it because I'm not going to sign
it until I hear you you take it
with you and I listen to you when
you read it correctly by memory then I
will sign it put my stamp on it
and you have your Senad to the Messenger
of Allah Ok?
Is that a good bargain?
A bargain has always two sides What is
the other side?
Well, you can check it Ok Alhamdulillahi Rabbil
Alameen So the Messenger of Allah He said
Allah has 99 names This is 100 minus
1 Then he said Now the first thing
we need to know He said The one
that does Ihsa of these names will enter
Paradise When your faith is strong and you
hear that the one who never lies says
if you do this you will enter Paradise
then you hold on to it You don't
let go ever You see?
So this is where our crisis lives Where?
Between knowing and feeling and between feeling and
doing There is a malfunction It doesn't Like
there is an obstruction It doesn't pass I
know but I don't feel That's what the
majority of Muslims are experiencing I truly believe
that Allah is my provider I believe that
He can provide all the birds in the
sky all the fish in the ocean But
the moment that I check my bank account
and see that I am minus 5 and
that I have a bill to pay of
300 pounds I panic Then all of a
sudden my connection to with my heart to
what I know is gone See this?
So we are a community that truly believes
but that are very often not able to
make this connection So from knowing to feeling
and then from feeling to acting putting knowledge
into practice So we either don't experience our
knowledge emotionally or we do not live up
to it from a practical point of view
You see?
Because the Messenger of Allah was surprised when
he woke up one night and he looked
at the people and they were sleeping and
he said I've never seen something as strange
as * How can people who want to
flee away from * sleep during the night?
And he said I have not seen anything
as astonishing as paradise How can people that
who want to enter paradise sleep during the
night?
He wasn't able to to understand how these
two go together Exactly as you wouldn't understand
when your son tells you you know when
your daughter or son turns 16, 17 years
old they think they rule the world Like
when I'm when I'm going to grow up
I will have this car and I'm going
to university and I'm going to do this
and that and such and such and they
think life is easy Why?
Because they're still under your roof because they're
still protected So but now if your son
says Dad, I'm going to become an engineer
And you look at him and you say
Son, if you want to become an engineer
then you need to go to university You
need to study He said no, I will
I will You will tell him these two
don't go together You can't be lazy not
studying and wanting to become an engineer You
need to go through these tests So now
we say I want to go to paradise
Where are the actions?
Where is the proof for what you say?
I'm not meaning you because you are all
perfect as perfect as you can be But
we're talking in general about the Muslims Like
there is a problem Like when now for
example you hear the wall collapse the roof
next door and you see it coming collapsing,
collapsing Will you just stay like this?
No This is strange Or will you run
away?
You will run away You're going to save
your life Now Qiyamah is coming Now Jannah,
Nar is coming But the noise has been
made We hear it in the Qur'an
It's true But on the other hand it
doesn't move me Jannah I don't see a
smile on my heart Nar I don't see
a tear on my heart I believe but
I don't feel And when we can't make
the connection between believing and feeling we will
not be able to make the connection between
feeling and doing Because it starts there It's
when you feel that you will do And
this is why very often we stop doing
This is why we very often are not
able to continue with our good deeds You
know Because why?
Because we don't feel it Because it's all
here But when it's here then you can't
stop yourself Brother, why don't you stop doing
dhikr?
I love Allah Brother, why are you so
pale?
Why are you trembling in your prayer?
Why do you keep on going to the
mosque at the time of Fajr when everybody
is sleeping I want to save myself from
* This is when you feel And this
is why Mu'adha She was the wife
of Sila Like Imam Al-Dhahabi mentioned in
Sira Alam Al-Bala And she would pray
at night She would pray at night And
then she would look at the people sleeping
Who remembers her name?
What was her name?
Do you remember her name?
Mu'adha The wife of?
Very good So she would pray And then
after her night prayer She would look around
at people sleeping And she said like How
can people close their eyes And sleep in
this life While they know that they will
be Laid down in their grave for centuries
Isn't it enough for you That you will
have to lay down in your grave for
centuries That now you are going to sleep
during the night?
So she was astonished Like how can this
happen?
And Uwais Al-Qarni Also mentioned by Imam
Al-Dhahabi in Sira Alam Al-Bala Uwais
Al-Qarni would enter into the night And
he would say this is the night of
Sujood And then he would say Allahu Akbar
He would pray And when he would come
into his first Sujood That's all he would
do during the rest of the night Until
right before Fajr He would finish his prayer
And then he would say this is the
night of Ruku' And then he would pray
When he was in Ruku' That was the
only thing he would do He would stay
in Ruku' For the rest of the night
And when one of the scholars Was praying
during the night And he was asked why
do you pray so long?
He said لَقَدْ بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ مَنْ طَالَ الْقِيَامِ
خُفِّفَ خَفَّفَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ يَوْمُ الْقِيَامَةِ He said
because it has been narrated to me that
When someone stands up in prayer For a
long period of time Then Allah will make
standing up for him On the Day of
Judgement easy So the more you stand up
here for Allah The easier he will make
it for you To keep standing up straight
On the Day of Judgement So anyway We
have to prepare Knowing is feeling Otherwise it's
not knowledge Even a parrot can say I
believe in God A parrot can say لا
إله إلا الله True Put him next to
you There on that thing here Five weeks
And every day you say لا إله إلا
الله One day you come in and he
says لا إله إلا الله This didn't turn
him into a mu'min or a Muslim Into
a parrot Which he already was So now
what we need to do And that's our
biggest challenge It's Building a connection between Knowledge
and feeling And feeling and doing We need
to establish this So how are we going
to establish this Through knowledge about Deep knowledge
Deep grounded rooted knowledge Of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala That's the only way If the
Qur'an Can't change you And your Belief
in the Divine Names can't Nothing will And
what we very often have You know we
hear Durus Classes about Hellfire and Paradise We
go home we feel it For a day
Like when you cut yourself The first day
is The second day is The third day
is Four days gone That's what classes are
now It are these Painkillers They put us
into a certain Numbness Like for a day
or two Oh this was good And then
we're gone Then we're back To the old
same me We want to be transformed Through
knowledge We don't want Knowledge Very often to
Be equal to Watching a movie When you
go through a movie Everything you see in
front of you is a lie True or
not It's a Unless it's a true story
But even then It are not the real
people So it's a lie And these lies
Subhanallah They move your emotions More than the
truth in the Quran This is ajib You
know when The victim is being Followed by
By a mad man Who wants to Kill
him or her They are Oh Allah Oh
It's nothing It's a lie How can your
emotions be played By the violin of lies
Subhanallah How Nevertheless your emotions are there And
you Even when you look at These people
climbing on the Mount Everest You're almost Go
give me the blanket Yes You know Your
state changes Everything changes It's a lie Then
we open the Quran Nar Jannah Rasul Malaika
Everything Nothing Has the lie Did the lie
Find its way To our hearts While the
truth Hasn't This is a problem And this
is why Nasir bin Saadi Rahimahullah azawajal He
said About the verse وَلَقَدَ يَسَّرْنَا الْقُرْآنَ لِلذِّكْرِ
فَهَلْ مِن مُّذَّكِرٍ We have made the Quran
Easy to be understood And so And to
ponder over And so forth Isn't there anybody
seeking assistance Any help From Allah to do
this And he said If Nasheed He wasn't
even talking about music If Nasheed Moves your
heart And Quran doesn't Then know that your
heart is dead You wanna be in a
nice state While you are driving your car
during the summer You put on a Nasheed
All of a sudden the world changes in
front of you The world is exactly the
same But you put on the music And
there you feel Oh nice There I am
with the butterflies and the bees I'm so
happy Flower of power Muslim And when you
turn off the music You're feeling It's like
you turn off your emotion It's ajib wallah
They say there is nothing From a scientific
point of view There is nothing as difficult
To the brain As trying to give the
correct interpretation Of music Because there are so
many different things going on At the same
time Your brain needs to Gather it all
And You know And make from it One
thing Because when you listen to music There
are so many things going on Bells Drums
Sounds Echoes But the art of your brain
Is Looking at it as A whole one
thing A complete one thing So And this
is what happens When people walk on the
street Young guys And they cross the road
And during the summer And somebody puts on
Turns on his music Rap music All of
a sudden they start walking differently People with
With these Dr. Dre beats on their Ears
They think that they walk in a movie
They think everybody is looking at them Here
I am Yes The movie star So you
see that music really Like Ibn Qayyim said
Is the sihr of shaytan And yes now
we can say Oh you are too dramatic
No Look at what it does with your
emotions Why does music do to you What
the Qur'an doesn't I remember when I
just Embraced Islam I was 18 then And
I worked at a bakery In a bakery
And a man came in and he spoke
to me And he was talking about And
he said yesterday You know somebody read a
verse And it really made me cry I
said okay which verse was that He said
a verse about It was inheritance And I
said Myself I said how can this make
you cry But I was too dumb I
wasn't smart enough To see that okay Everything
is from Allah It's Qur'an Even if
it would be about a rock It could
make you cry This is why one of
my sheikhs said Like Nooruddin Sarroukh Sarroukh is
a very strange name in Arabic But it's
a beautiful man It means rocket So Nooruddin
Sarroukh He told me If you want to
see if your heart is alive Then read
Chapter al-janaza In a fiqh book There
where they explain How to watch the dead
How to bury them and so forth He
said read it And if you don't cry
Know that your heart is dead So why
am I saying this I don't want to
discourage anybody Because the cure can only happen
When the sickness Or the illness Has been
described And if we now Maybe you don't
But some amongst us Know okay there is
a problem Then we shouldn't be like Oh
who am I?
I am such a bad Muslim What's happening
to me?
No Now that I know I have to
do something about it Like people who have
a disease Go to the doctor, take their
medication, done Same thing The moment you know
And you know the cure, that's the moment
you should be happy Not that you should
feel down So what is the cure?
One, the Qur'an And two, the names
of Allah If they don't do it, nothing
will That's also what I tell people When
they do Ruqya You know Ruqya?
Ruqya is really a problem Not Ruqya But
Muslims today, they call upon Ruqya For everything
Like they don't get along together Man and
woman Husband and wife They say I think
we have sihr I think we have the
evil eye From the moment something goes wrong
It's sihr, it's evil eye They forget that
they are human That we need to work
That we need to change That we need
to live up to a marriage Anyway, so
that's what I tell people with Ruqya Some
people do strange things And I say if
Qur'an doesn't do it Nothing will So
they come with all these creams and these
perfumes And good Yeah the jinns, they don't
like this perfume Okay But if the Qur
'an Doesn't do it And the hadith The
dua of the Prophet A.S. doesn't do
it Nothing will That's it Just sit and
don't start shouting Then you start doing Just
read Qur'an Sit down, you don't have
to yell The jinn can't stand Qur'an
If they are evil and bad So anyway
What we are going to do Is we
want to look for the cure To what?
In Qur'an And the names of Allah
As for the Qur'an I'm explaining the
Tafsir of Imam Al-Razi In Kingston mosque
Every Friday evening That is also live streamed
And it's also recorded So if you want
to listen to it It's on Kingston mosque
YouTube And there it's for about an hour
So each week an hour Tafsir Al-Qur
'an I just started last week And this
week will be Tafsir Surat Al-Fatiha Ok
So now let's go back to The words
of the messenger Where he said The one
that does Ihsa of the names These 99
names Will enter paradise Who remembers what Ahsa
means A lot of people translate it As
the one who memorizes these names That's not
true, that wouldn't be easy No Ibn Battal
and others Said The
one that Understands these names Two Memorizes these
names Three Puts these names into practice Four
Invokes Allah by these names Will enter paradise
So you need to one Understand the meaning
of the name Two Memorize the name Three
Bring the name into practice Four Ask Allah
by these names And it's very peculiar to
see that In Surat Taha Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala said SubhanAllah To Allah belong the
most beautiful names So ask Allah by His
names And now as I said before Is
We don't know these names anymore The majority
of Muslims Don't know the names of the
one They worship, this is problematic Like I
think that 70 to 80 Maybe more percent
of the Muslims Do not memorize These 99
names and If they do memorize them They
might not understand them If they understand them,
they don't know how to put them into
practice And if they put them into practice
Then definitely they don't ask Allah by the
99 names So When is the last time
that we said Latif for example, maybe we
have Al-Kareem maybe we have But what
about Al-Rafi, Al-Khafid, Al-Mu'izz,
Al-Muthil And so much more So you
see that As I said last time We
are living Islam Very often without Living it
for the Lord of Islam You see we
are so Concentrated on the Fiqh That we
forgot about The one whom we are Doing
the Fiqh for Allah And this is when
Fiqh becomes dry When you say Fiqh Okay
gonna learn some Fiqh today You are actually
being taught How to worship Allah That's what
Fiqh is about But if you disconnect Fiqh
From the reason Why you are doing Fiqh
Or studying Fiqh Then you will most likely
Not live up to the Fiqh You will
just learn it And it will be an
intellectual baggage That you have and it doesn't
change anything in your life Okay So to
come back 1.
Memorize the names 2.
Understand the names 3.
Practice the names And 4.
Invoke Allah's names Can I ask you a
question?
It's a bit hot here Am I the
only one?
Allah Okay So that are the 4 things
We need to do So we are going
back to the structure we spoke about at
the very beginning What does it mean Understand
the names That's the first question we are
going to ask What is understanding the name
of Allah?
Well we mean 1.
Understanding The linguistic meaning of the name Because
very often Names are very wrongly And badly
translated A lot of the divine names When
you are going to look at their real
meaning They will say no Like Al-Latif
Some translate it as The gentle one The
one that is gentle for example And Al
-Jabbar They very often translate it as the
healer This might be true But it's definitely
not sufficient So people translate it In so
many different ways Not only in the ways
that I have just mentioned So we want
to How are we going to understand these
names?
By going back to the root letters Going
back to the root letters That's the only
way That you are going to understand the
Arabic language And the Arabic language Is a
language connected Or rather Derived from root letters
Which can be turned into verbs Which can
be turned into names And so much more
And there is no such a thing And
I like this one There is no such
a thing as an Arabic word Without a
real meaning Well Now you might be thinking,
what do you mean?
Well, I call this table Right?
I could have called it wable I could
have called it snable Or clable Right?
Wall, I could have called it stroll I
could have called it knoll But do you
understand what I am trying to say?
Chair, it has not really a meaning It's
just chair It could be care, it could
be lair But then there are some words
In the English language Which have a meaning
For example Eyebrow A brow is in the
language Comes from something which is shaped like
this Right?
An eye, so the brow above your eye
For example Teeth doesn't mean anything, beard doesn't
mean anything So now in the Arabic language
That's not true It's always referring to A
true meaning For example How do I call
teeth in Arabic?
Sin, one, or asnan How do you say
Many years Or years Sineen Or senawat So
when you look at someone's teeth You can
see usually How old that person Is approximately
So Asnan means actually The object showing how
old someone is How do I call the
eyebrows?
Hajiban The two hajibs, one is hajib Well,
what are the root letters for hajib?
The same as?
Hijab Hajaba Hajaba means covering Veiling The eyebrows
are called The veilers Why?
Because they stop sweat From your forehead Of
coming into your eyes And if this were
to happen Then your eyes would truly burn
When you sweat a lot and it comes
into your eyes It burns, it's not You
know, a nice feeling And I had a
brother who had a disease And he didn't
have eyebrows He didn't have any hair growth
And he would wear his cap Like this
Until here Because otherwise his eyes would be
hurting all times Because he didn't have eyebrows
You see?
Another one, beard How do you say beard
in Arabic?
Lihya, right?
How do we call these bones here?
In English Cheekbones, right?
Okay In Arabic Yeah, okay So this here
So we have lihya We call that beard
But because it grows on the lihyayn On
the jaws, right?
So it means the hair that grows on
the jaws And this is why some of
the Fuqaha said It's only this You can
shave this Because this is Hair that is
on your cheek And not on the bone
The same with this here So they would
remove this But not this Because this is
the lihya You understand?
So another one, for example I would say
I'm not going to say tawila Maktab, for
example What is maktab?
Every word with a meme Masjid, maktab, musalla
Is a place where you do something So
the maktab means The object on which I
place books Kitab, kataba, maktab Maktaba What?
Library, and so much more So you see
that In Arabic There isn't a word Without
a meaning Is that clear?
So nafida Nafida means letting something through So
I will call a window Nafida Because it's
I can look through it It means the
object through which I can Look through So
now If this is the case that no
word In the Arabic language hasn't got a
true meaning Now you understand what I mean
Then it's the same with the names of
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala So the names
of Allah jalla wa ala We are going
to look at the root letters That's the
only way That we are going to Understand
the name And then we are going to
look at the structure of the name Because
there is difference between Ghafir, ghafoor Ghaffar Do
you hear the difference?
There is difference between shakir, shakkar And shakur
So first we are going to look at
The root letters to understand The meaning What
is the meaning of shukr?
Let's have a look at shakur So that's
not the name we are going to look
at today But what is the meaning of
shakur?
How would you translate shakur?
Grateful How would you translate it?
As shakur Grateful Grateful Grateful We all agreed?
Consentious?
Consensus we say right?
Consentious?
Consensus Consensus Good Another thing in the Arabic
language Every letter always sounds the same You
have ho and house Anyway Garage The Garage
Why is the first one g and the
other one j?
It's the same letter What are you doing?
Why are you making it difficult for people?
I know Allah Okay Thought And taught Why
are you doing this?
So in Arabic that's not the case One
We never have two letters to make one
letter And every letter always sounds the same
This is why Arabic Is the most easy
language to learn Okay So When you hear
me speak It's like I'm an Arabic nationalist
right?
But I'm not, I'm from Belgium So But
I Anyway How are we going to look
at the name?
Well from two perspectives right?
One from the root letter perspective And then
from the construction Is it shakur?
Is it shakkar?
Is it shakir?
And so forth Well in Arabic shakara So
the root letters Doesn't stand for gratitude No
not at all And this is Our problem
Our religious terms We are very often Borrowing
them Borrowing?
We say borrow something right?
Or lending, how do you say it?
So we borrow them from Other religious communities
With all due respect to them But it's
not a correct Translation, like prayer Is not
a translation of Salah So shakara Well Follow
me I am a farmer And I have
two cows They both have the Same age
And I feed them with Exactly the same
amount of food After Two months I want
to slaughter the cows To eat them Or
to give them away And I see that
One cow on the scale Weighs 100 kilos
more Than the other one They are the
same age I fed them with the same
amount of money But one cow is giving
me more meat Than the other cow The
cow that gives me More meat in return
for what I have Given than the other
one I call this in the Arabic language
Daabatun An animal, shakira A shakur Animal So
what does it mean then?
It means someone Who gives you more in
return Than what you have given Is that
clear?
So shakira in the Arabic language Means Giving
someone more In return Than the person In
question has given you That is shakira That
is what we are coming at now So
if we know now That this is the
meaning Then If I were to give you
50 pounds today And tomorrow I give you
100 And you tell me Why do you
give me 100?
You gave me 50 yesterday And I would
say I give you 100 today Because you
were so kind To accept my 50 yesterday
This is shakar And this is what Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala does He rewards us
For something he has given us You see
So a shakur is the one That rewards
you For nothing Just because he is The
bestower and the giver Is that clear?
So a shakur is the one That not
only gives you more Than you give him
Because that which you do give him Came
from him So he is rewarding you For
Just because he is a shakur Is that
clear?
So that is the meaning of shakur So
shakur to say the grateful No that falls
too short And A shakur is also the
one That in quality Gives you more And
in quantity gives you more Than you give
What do we mean?
Look You live 60 years For Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala And he gives you an
eternity Of goodness So 60 years, 70 years
Bismillah, fasting, Ramadan And he says look That
would be the same as if I were
to come to you And say if you
give me one pound I give you Oxford
street with all its shops Doesn't make sense
Would that one pound, would you say One
pound is a lot of money It would
disappear, it would be like nothing You would
say that's nothing, 50p There you go, I
give you all Oxford street With all its
shops Well Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells
you 60 years And I give you Jannah
with everything inside This is the meaning of
shakur So that's One of the meanings of
shakur And this is why The messenger of
Allah made it very clear He said for
the ones who believe and so forth He
said they have in Jannah In Jannah there
is everything Which no ear Has ever, sorry
Which no eye has ever seen Which no
ear has ever Heard of Of which a
mind Could never think Why these three things
What's the reason Of these three things Well
the first thing he said What the eye
has never seen That's the smallest world Because
you haven't seen everything So you can say
okay What an eye has never seen, there
are many things I didn't see I didn't
see China Or maybe I saw it on
YouTube but I didn't see it But the
world you hear of Is bigger than the
world you see Isn't it You heard about
the past You hear about the future You
hear about other countries And so much more
So he said it is not what you
have seen Neither what you have heard Now
we come to the imaginary world So it's
not The small tiny world You have seen
Not the bigger world that you have heard
of And it is neither your world Of
imagination So whatever crosses your mind That paradise
is It isn't So imagine for hours, for
decades Centuries And everything you will write on
paper Paradise is not that Subhanallah This is
a shakoor He wanted to give you What
you can't imagine Because otherwise you would be
prepared To say okay yes No what is
it And now you should know something very
beautiful Is if it is not the same
That means colours In paradise are not these
colours So when Allah says green The name
is the same The colour is different When
Allah says banana In surah al waqia When
Allah speaks about talh Banana, the name is
the same But the reality is different And
this is why Allah in surah al baqarah
Surah al baqarah says وَأُتُوبِهِ مُتَشَابِهَا And they
will be given It's a similar thing And
Abdullah bin Abbas R.A said about the
verse The names are the same The realities
are different So even when Allah says castle
When Allah says rivers of milk and honey
It is just to help us to imagine
something But it's not that something And now
If we look The only shapes that we
know Is either round Or with a straight
line Either I'm not from Illuminati Either If
you freeze this and you say look So
anyway Now it sounds very strange So either
it's a rectangle Or it's a circle It's
either with a straight line Or with a
Curve That's all we can imagine And everything
we have is built on two things A
curve and a straight line This is how
simple we are Planes Curve, straight line Car,
curve, straight line That's all But what we
can't imagine is Another shape apart from Straight,
curve In Jannah there are Other forms and
shapes That we can't imagine So meaning that
Allah blocked our brains in this life There
is a certain Limit to what we can
do So that we would Find an entire
new World With new colors With new perfumes
With new shapes, with new everything Why?
Just because we prayed 35 minutes a day
Fasted One month During the year Travelled for
Hajj Once in a lifetime And gave 2
.5% Of what we earned, what we
had What is this?
Shakoor This shakoor Look, I drink this I
drink three like that And Allah keeps my
body straight Subhanallah Bismillah, up like this And
I keep on walking, that's my energy A
car A car Does less than I do
But drinks more than I do Subhanallah I
mean a shakoor This is all giving more
In abundance, subhanallah The thing is now That's
the last thing, it's like I'm Explaining the
name of shakoor, this is my problem really
So when you look at A shakoor, even
the things We possess aren't ours What you
are wearing now is not yours It has
been Given to you by Allah And it
remains his Everything You have is his Allah
says From Allah's money that he has Given
you So everything you are wearing now Is
Allah's Subhanallah So now He allows us To
wear To drink, to eat To do so
many things With his possessions And if someone
asks me, can I use your pen You
say no You know Your heart when a
brother calls you You know, what's up Brother
I got a problem with my car Can
I have your car for five minutes All
of a sudden on the other side He
went offline You know all of a sudden
You disappeared No more you And when they
knock on the door tell I'm not there
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he gives
us At all times Always And now for
us The biggest gift Is not the gift
The biggest gift Is the giver of the
gift When you receive From someone Then don't
Says Abu Hassan He said when someone gives
you something Do not accept it Until you
know that He is the means but Allah
is the giver This is why people When
they were given something They were in awe
They said this is a moment that Allah
is thinking Of me, you know So all
of these things When we connect To Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala through his names And
the way that I'm Describing this is what
we call a Mushahada Is witnessing In our
lives How Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Treats
us How Allah cares about us How he
protects us How he connects to us Then
our lives will change Then the connection between
Knowing all of a sudden Becomes feeling And
then feeling Gradually Will turn into doing Without
anybody telling you to do so Our problem
Why do we find it difficult To get
our children praying for example Well we told
them Fiqh, fiqh, fiqh But we didn't tell
them Fiqh for Allah If we were to
have made that connection Between them and Allah
They would come to you and say Daddy
what should I do to make Allah happy
Now it's just a burden Rules, there you
go, pray What do they do, what do
you think they do very often When you
think that they're praying Everybody pray They pretend
that they're Performing wudu Then they close the
doors On the phone Many told me when
they grew up That this was exactly What
they were doing Some would just wet their
hair So that daddy would think that they
perform wudu So why Because we went through
Fiqh Fiqh is necessary But we forgot to
tell them about the one We do it
for How many parents today talk about Allah
You keep on repeating so Often that your
child is beautiful That your child Not your
child That your child Turns into an ego
tripper Narcissistic ego tripper That forgets that It
received its beauty from Allah Oh you're beautiful
Oh you got beautiful eyes, oh you got
beautiful hair Oh you got beautiful eyes, oh
look at the smile Yes, yes, tell me
more, tell me more What are you telling
the child That everything is about the child
But if you now tell your child From
the very start You say MashaAllah And your
child for example has beautiful eyes You say
MashaAllah Allah gave you beautiful eyes You know
the first thing I taught Laith, Laith will
turn Three A year in three days Yes
Now I told him like every time That
he eats or drinks Then I told him
It only took a week I told him
every time Shukran Ya Rabbi Shukran Ya Rabbi
Like this So now he will turn a
year And now when he eats and so
forth He does himself like this And then
he wants me to say Shukran Ya Rabbi
I know that he doesn't understand what he's
saying Right Like sometimes when people have a
girl or a boy Two to three years
old And perform sujood They think that they
have a new mu'min They're doing what the
parents do So it's not like all of
a sudden You have Shaykh al-Islam doing
sujood in your house Yes I got a
miracle child It's beautiful But if you dance
the child will dance So but anyway I
know that my son Doesn't understand what he
says But it's so easy Like now he
got used to when he eats Shukran Ya
Rabbi And that will be the first thing
he will say then InshaAllah So it is
very easy We should the first Seven years
We connect our children to God To Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala Through love To show
them how much he cares To show them
how much he loves To show them how
much he protects Only these beautiful things And
then they say Do you want to smell
the flower that Allah made for us Because
at the very beginning When a child is
being Taught in this way it doesn't know
anything But that which you taught your child
But if you start doing this When it's
18 you never did it You say oh
do you want to see the flower That
Allah made for you It will say well
it's the farmer that grew it You know
But now if you start From a very
young age The child will connect to Allah
Subhanahu wa ta'ala And this mu'min generation
Is what we need You know it's a
mu'min generation It's so easy And if we
mess This generation up We will need to
wait 40 years Why 40 years We have
to wait until they turn 20 That is
If they have children when they're 20 And
then their children When they're 20 they're adults
So that's 40 years So if we now
miss out on one generation Then we miss
out 40 years Can you imagine 40 years
are gone So Imagine yourself starting From a
very young age Allahu Akbar This is what
we need to do you see So connect
to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala As I
mentioned Is not the one that is Grateful
because you are grateful If someone does something
to you For you What are we doing
for Allah No he's the one That rewards
people For something he has given them And
gives a lot In exchange for nothing You
can't even say In exchange for 60 years
No because this worship is his He's chosen
you To worship him So how are we
going to be grateful then How are we
now that we know this What are we
going to do Well the scholars say by
shukr Our part of shukr They say what
is shukr They say shukr is one Real
shukr is one they said That you do
not engage in war Against Allah With the
blessings he has given you That's the first
thing That you don't use Anything he has
given you And everything you have and everything
you are He has given you Tongue, hair
Eyes, ears Everything So that you do not
engage in war Against Allah with anything that
he has given you That's shukr This is
shukr The second thing they say Is that
you melt Away in shame Knowing that he
keeps on giving you While you keep on
running Away from him Subhanallah How often did
we say Here we are again He keeps
on putting us back to him While we
are running away from him Go to the
mosque, go to a class Subhanallah if it
was up to us Maybe we wouldn't be
here So melt away in shame Knowing that
he keeps on giving you While he keeps
on seeing our shortcomings And mistakes and sins
So they say shukr is melting away in
shame Another thing about shukr They said Is
that you use your blessings To bless others
Because The true Honor is not that you
Have the blessing in your hand But that
Allah Chose you to be a means To
bless others That you know that you are
Allah's instrument Subhanallah How happy would a football
be On the feet of Ronaldo You know
Yeah This is the problem When we give
and people don't respond To us very well,
they don't thank us Like I go like
this So I put the glass in front
of him I say And he doesn't say
anything I say why didn't he say thank
you And I want my ego Wants him
to say it Brother here you go He
didn't say brother So you Want to be
Recognized for the good you do Now you're
going to look at it In a different
way Because this hurts us you know Having
expectations from people Is the most painful thing
You become a prisoner of your own emotions
And your own expectations But if you see
that you doing good Is not you doing
good But is Allah choosing you To be
the element Through which he wants to Get
to his servants Then you are witnessing his
Generosity and his greatness And then you are
Honored, you don't want any Thanks We don't
long from you Any thank nor Any reward
Why?
Because you're witnessing That Allah is Rabbi did
you choose me?
Me From amongst all people Me to give
to your servants And this is why Imam
Al Ghazali He says in When you give
someone Something, don't give it like this Look,
don't give it like this He says when
you give Someone, give it like a beggar
Because you are saying Please accept me to
be the means Through which Allah gives you
Subhanallah Look at the difference He says don't
go like that But be like a beggar
Hoping that someone Would take something out of
your hand Because in reality He is the
giver And you are receiving So you're giving
it as someone who Receives not as someone
who gives You see And if we connect
to Allah With our heart And our emotion
and our vision Of life in this way
Then we become pious people This is what
we want We don't care about If people
Join us That doesn't matter You see, because
very often When a husband wants to go
Live his religious life More intense than his
wife Or a wife more intense than her
husband Very often they stop Because they say
Or friends At a certain point when you
choose To close the doors Of false Impressions
behind you And step into the door of
Reality And what is the door of reality?
Connectivity Being connected to God, to Allah Living
for Allah, finding Him In your life That
is where true life starts And if we
lose our way In the jungle called dunya
Then we will not be able to connect
to Him But yes, when you do this
Very often you will see that people Don't
understand you That people think that you're maybe
crazy Why did you forgive that person?
Show your teeth, show who you really are
Show Like if the messenger of Allah Was
like that When that man came up to
the messenger of Allah Then he took him
like this and said Give me my money
back But the prophet of Allah Still had
a month or ten days To give the
money back And The prophet of Allah smiled
And he took him even harder He said
give me my money back And the face
of the prophet of Allah turned red But
he smiled And he said Ya Rasulullah Do
you want me to finish this?
And the messenger of Allah Said no He
said give him his money And give him
something extra Isn't this What Allah does with
us?
You know We are sinning And then He
Reminds us to repent And when we repent
We feel even closer to Him than we
were Before the sin Subhanallah So when you
look at the behavior Of the messenger of
Allah You see that he was practicing These
names The messenger of Allah said There is
no one who is more patient than Allah
People Say that he has A son And
a wife And some amongst them Deny his
existence But nevertheless he keeps on feeding them
And he keeps on curing them Not only
feeding to keep them alive No when they
are sick He cures them You see So
he said no one has more patience Than
Allah So when we look at the Divine
names We want to become a reflection Of
the meaning of these names This is what
we want to be And this is the
most Honorable thing The messenger of Allah said
The best ones amongst you Are those who
make Who Are those who make Others think
of Allah Then Imam Al Munawi said It's
not about people talking Talking is a part
of it He said when they give They
remind others of the Generosity of Allah When
they are patient They remind others of the
patience of Allah When they protect They remind
others of the protection of Allah When they
give mercy They remind others of the mercy
of Allah and so forth So by Meeting
these people And being in their companionship You
will Be reminded Of Allah And this is
Where we need to go We shouldn't allow
Ourselves to die Without being a reflection of
the meaning Of all these names Make this
our goal What do we have to lose?
Yes, sometimes people Will walk over you Sometimes
people won't respect you But people don't even
respect Allah But Allah cures them Allah then
guides them Allah guides people who Were insulting
him Why he could have Destroyed them?
No he chose Come to me You know
like the politician of Holland like a couple
of months ago He was always talking against
Allah Making fun of Allah, making fun of
the Prophet He was anti-Islamic Anti-Quran,
he wrote a book Against the Quran But
he found Allah, how is this possible?
But when someone wrongs me Watch out Allah
calls us Every night And we sleep Every
night He says who wakes up and asks
me I will give him Who begs me
for forgiveness I will forgive him There we
are Nevertheless He didn't give up on us
But when someone doesn't call me back When
I WhatsApp three times Or call five times
Subhanallah We can learn a lot from Allah
This is how I see it He is
the king Who is self-sufficient Who needs
no one No one can do Anything for
him No one can be Of any benefit
or help To Allah So why is he
doing this?
Because he is The pure And this is
what we need to reflect in our Sincerity
We help people for the sake of Allah
And Allah does this For his own sake
Because he is good Because he is good
Because he is Quddus You see So we
want to be a reflection Of all the
names Of the Almighty And that is This
is what we are going to do together
Every time a new name Or a group
of names And I am going to explain
you in brief What the meaning is And
then how to practice this name With our
hearts How we should How it should transform
our way of thinking And how we behave
You know and this is These three things
we are going to look at Inshallah every
week And who knows that we live long
enough to You know have a look at
all of these names Inshallah I am going
to try to make it as quick as
possible But as informative as possible As well
Inshallah So that we can Inshallah by the
end of this year That we have seen
all these names Inshallah and practice them So
that was it for today Jazakumullah Khairan Is
there anything you would like to say Or
any reflection you would like to share And
then you can do this now Inshallah Yes
Yes Yes
What I believe I am going to try
to give A very brief answer to this
The first thing we need to understand Is
that in Islam It has always been That
a scholar Shares knowledge And now everybody wants
to Gain knowledge On his or her own
Or hasn't got enough patience What we need
To know is When scholars can give us
what we need We just sit with scholars
That's it Nobody expects from everybody in the
world To know perfect Arabic In detail So
really Arabic at a high level Is not
just one year Neither two, nor three, nor
four Nor five, nor six, nor seven, nor
eight It is a journey I mean it's
Quranic Arabic Is very strong And people that
say come learn Arabic in a year That's
a lie You will never learn Arabic in
a year That's in need of dedication But
that doesn't mean that you can't sit with
people Who will make it easy for you
Like for example This class Where we will
have a look at the names This will
already help you If you find another class
where Tafsir is given by someone Who has
Tread the path of Tafsir In detail, he
will facilitate it for you as well And
everybody At his or her own level But
the first thing One does is just sit
with Scholars or students of knowledge Who have
this knowledge And will share it with you
And then step by step You will get
there Somebody else?
I am grateful that I am allowed to
be Doing this, Alhamdulillah Thank you so much
Somebody else?
One more?
Yes Yes No
We are going to do this Yes Yes
We are going to do that as well
So we are going to give you an
example of how you can invoke Allah SWT
Each of these names Yes It's becoming later
and later I am so sorry Having delayed
you