Yassir Fazaga – Quranic Reflections on the Attributes Of Allah – PT 1

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			rajim Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim al hamdu lillahi wa Salatu was Salam ala rasulillah In the Name
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out there, our brothers and sisters in Islam, our brothers and sisters who may not be of the Muslim
faith, our brothers and sisters in humanity. We begin by greeting wisdom, Muslim greetings. Assalamu
alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu May the peace and blessings and the mercy of Allah be upon all
of you. And welcome back to this part of our program. And we're very grateful that you are joining
		

			us where we are going through some reflections of the Quran. And in this particular one and the one
before it, we are doing some reflections upon the verses that contain some of the characteristics
and attributes of the Creator. Allah subhanho wa Taala. And we are looking into the verse from Surah
Al Baqarah, that surah number two, verse number 255, I tell kursi, the verse of the kursi, and we
said that kursi was either a pedestal or kursi, his chair, and in it Allah Subhana Allah introduces
himself by saying, Allahu La ilaha illa Allah, there is no one no deity, no person nothing that is
worthy of worship, besides Him, Allah, Allah, Allah Allah, Allah how you are you He is the eternal
		

			the living and the self subsistent Alpha you Alka you may have a different translation also. That
means Alka Yoon is the one who is in charge of the maintenance of anything out there. That is why
for example, a person who is responsible of a school or anything like that may be called the
hygiene. He is the manager he is the one in charge of the affairs and the maintenance and the well
being of a special area. So as far as our world is concerned, that are you the one who is in charge
of the betterment, facilitating for goodness of this world is called Allah subhanho wa Taala. He is
a young lad who lives in Atlanta, neither slumbers, nor asleep seizes him. In other words, there is
		

			no deficiency in our Creator, Allah subhanaw taala do not think about him in human terms, do not
think or applied the limitations of humans into the creator Allah.
		

			And just reminded here of the term and high delivering letter who the who's in it? Well, no, neither
slumbers nor sleep seizes him. One simple person, in simple in the estimation of people used to say,
at the end of every night, I take all my worries, all my anxieties, and I cast it upon God, because
I know he is going to be up all night long. So the fact that you know Allah, our Creator, is not
seized neither by slumber nor by sleep, is that there is a source of conflict, their point is that
be comfortable, rest assured, Allah subhanaw taala is ever in charge of the maintenance of the
heavens and the earth. So it says, Let the WHO THE who seen it what I know lahoma is Mr. huachuma.
		

			And To Him belongs, or his, his, whatever is up in heaven, and whatever is down on Earth, so stop to
us human mind. When we describe the big or, or how big a thing is, we say it's as big as heavens,
it's as big as the earth. But that's as far as we know. So Allah saying that that is just part of
what he has. This is just part of what his kingdom contains. His dominion extends beyond this. But
to begin with, his is what is in heaven. And what is on earth all of that belongs to him. subhanho
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			Yalla Marina de mama Hassan, he knows that which again depending on the way it is understood that
which appears before them or that which they have done your brain ID him what it is that they are
committing at this time. The animal Nabina ID him woman cell phone, what they have done
		

			In the past, what they are engaged in and what they will do your Allahumma Vina ID human cell phone.
The knowledge of Allah is a knowledge of perfection. It is neither preceded by ignorance, nor is it
followed by forgetfulness. We humans, our knowledge is different. It is preceded by ignorance, and
it will certainly be followed by forgetfulness. Allah does not wait for things to happen to find out
about them. He knows about them prior to them taking place he knows about them. He's not making
humans do the things that they are doing. Because there will be no sense of accountability. But
rather Allah Subhana Allah His knowledge is so perfect that he does not wait for things to happen in
		

			order to know about them. Yeah, Allah moon avena a de mama confirm. While I own a mineral, mihaela
Masha, and they do not win humans. They do not encompass any part of his knowledge, except what He
wills to tell them. So we know what we know about Allah, we know what we know about the creation of
Allah because Allah has permitted that Allah has permitted for us to know this. And that is mean
your enemy he is just a portion, a little of what Allah Subhana Allah has created and Allah Subhana
Allah has chosen to share or to allow us this part of his knowledge while you return a mineral V in
levy. Mattia was he accuracy Usama? What was
		

			his Kersey said that because he is the chair was your accuracy you somehow it will or it could also
mean thrown, a place of sitting, it may mean power, it may mean knowledge argument whether this is
metaphorical, whether it is literal, at any case, whatever it is, it extends by through the heavens
and the earth. When we think that the heavens and the earth are the biggest thing of the year, Allah
subhanaw taala is telling us that his knowledge, His power, His sovereignty, extends to all of this.
Nothing escapes the power or the knowledge or the will of Allah subhanho wa Taala none of that
scapes Allah subhana wa was the accuracy you see what you will or whether you do have the hammer,
		

			and no fatigue, seizes Allah Subhana Allah or befalls upon Allah subhanho wa Taala in the process of
maintaining the heavens and the earth. If you remember earlier, we said that, in the Old Testament,
there is a reference to God taking a rest on the seventh day after he has created the heavens and
the earth. I wish that it may be the case that this language is metaphorical, that the literal
meaning of it is not meant the Quran does not allow for such a thing. You do not speak about Allah
in any way that can remotely suggest some sort of deficiencies in God, even in a metaphorical sense
that in the Quran is not acceptable. So Allah said, in the process of maintaining the heavens and
		

			the earth, no fatigue befalls upon a loss of pantalla layer, whoo hoo has the humor. He takes care
of it. Without that having an impact upon Allah without requiring that Allah takes arrest. None of
this happens. Well who will Allah you loveleen is the exalted the awesome, Allah subhana wa Tada.
You know, in the Hadith, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam tells us about the 99 Beautiful
Names and attributes of Allah subhanaw taala. It said that there are about 81 names that are
mentioned in the Quran of the attributes and the names of Allah subhanaw taala actually only have
the names of Allah Subhana Allah because Allah has more attributes than the names. So what happens
		

			is that Allah subhanaw taala keeps telling us about himself, either by what he has done such as idle
cushy right now. It was a mixture of his names and his qualities and his actions in the world.
Allahu Allah, Allah, Allah, who you know the personal name that is given to him a law and how you
will consume. He is the living and the self subsisting and remember that the names of Allah are his
personal names, and simultaneously, they're also his attributes. In other words, my name is Kareem,
which in the Arabic language means generous. However, my name may be Kareem, but in reality, I am a
very stingy person, I am very greedy. I am a very miserly person. So my name distinguishes who I am
		

			when we are in the number of people amongst people.
		

			When somebody says that, you know, we're talking about Kareem so people know whom they're talking
about, but it is not necessarily a reflection of what my name means, it is not a reflection of my
character, it does not stand up for what my actions are going to be like. And as does the name
sounds good, but to many people, it may be very hollow, because my life style does not reflect the
name that I possess. So similarly, in the case of Allah subhanho, wa Taala. His names are not just
personal names, his names are his personal names are simultaneously they are also his attributes
otherwise that becomes very whole, it becomes very meaningless. So when Allah Subhana Allah gives
		

			himself a name. It is not just the name, but rather it is the name and the attribute and the quality
that is within that name. And then I'll hire you for you later Whoa, whoa, see nothing Well, I know
neither sleep nor slumber or nor sunburn or sleep. Caesars, Allah subhanho wa Taala. And like we
have meant was the or like we have said was the other attributes that we have been reflecting upon
here, in this beautiful verse of
		

			Yala. When we come back, we're going to take a short break, when we come back, inshallah, we are
going to go to the following verse, and we have done the one before it and now we're doing the one
after it to see the consistency and the smooth transition of the Quranic style. So please do stay
tuned with us and we will be back shortly.
		

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			the one who conceals the faults of others in this world. Allah would conceal his falls on the Day of
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			Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, The Most Merciful. A Salam
aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato, who made a Peace and blessings and the mercy of Allah be upon
all of you. Thank you for joining us back again here doing our Atlantic reflections. And in this
particular one, we are about to conclude our reflections upon ayatul kursi. If you remember last
week, or so, we spoke about the verse that came before it could see and now we are speaking about
the verse that is coming after it.
		

			What comes after it? Oh cracy is where Allah subhanho wa Taala says, law across the deen there shall
be no compulsion in religion, people's relationship was a law, they cannot be forced into
		

			any religion that is based on force, it fails to be a sound religion. Why is this? After all this
description that was given about Allah subhanho wa Taala. If your relationship with Him is not based
on your own free will, your own free genuine desire to have that relationship with Allah, then that
is not meaningful? Allah Subhana Allah does not compel people to believe otherwise, that would
indicate a need. If we were compelled by Allah to believe, then that suggests a need on the part of
Allah subhanaw taala. But rather Allah clearly says that I am in no need of your worship. In fact,
Allah is great as he is. Our worship of Him will not increase him in greatness, if we decide not to
		

			worship Him. That way.
		

			Will not diminish his greatness. So, he is great as he is and there is nothing that we can do or say
to make him greater or to make him less great than what he is. And that is why one of the names of
Allah subhanho wa Taala is what we discussed a summit and now we have one that is Ronnie, meaning
that he is self sufficient, he does not need us, we are in dire need of him, he is not dependent
upon us and we are in complete dependence on him. His existence and well being is not contingent
upon us but rather ours is contingent upon him. So Allah says that he is so free, that this Deen is
about invitation, some are going to accept the invitation. Those who do not accept the invitation
		

			they will not be compelled to do so. They will not be compelled to do so. Let a craft that our
relationship with a law cannot be based on compulsion. People cannot be coerced, they cannot be
forced, they cannot be compelled into having a relationship with Allah subhanho wa Taala. That may
be slavery and slavery is you have the slave serving the master. But the master having a whip
because he needs the service of the slave. Apparently, it looks like the slave is doing the who will
have his master. But inside the slave has nothing but hatred, resentment, anger towards his master.
This kind of relationship is not befitting not within humans, let alone with our Creator Allah
		

			subhanho wa Taala. But rather, sometimes you like some people so much, that no matter how tired you
are, no matter how busy you may be, no matter how you are enjoying your own things, when they ask
you because of your love to them, you jump and you want to serve. Now that's just the draw some sort
of a similar to a glimpse of our relationship with Allah subhanho wa Taala. So our relationship with
Allah must be based on genuine, unconditional, sincere, authentic love. And that is why it says law.
		

			I will not compel anyone to serve me, I will not compel anyone to worship me. I will not compel
anyone to believe in me, even though everyone is utterly desperately dependent on the help and what
Allah subhanaw taala is facilitating for them. Despite all of this, a law says nobody is going to be
compelled to worship me. So you Muslims, what you do is you extend the invitation for others, if
they accept Alhamdulillah Praise be to Allah, if they don't have the new job. And that is why the
notion that you know, Islam was spread by the sword is So historically false, but also when we go to
the scriptures of Islam, that is not that is not the case. But then there is another point at the
		

			unexplained. It says cateva, Janusz domina lie, that truth has been clearly distinguished from
falsehood. When you compel people, it is as if truth does not have enough power to convince people.
Truth does not have enough power to shine and invite people. So what you do is that you compel
people to do so. But Allah said, Wait a minute, that is not the case. But tabea, no rush to minute.
		

			Era error has been clearly put on one side and rushed righteousness tools, they are on one side. And
there is a clear distinction between these two. When you start compelling, you may be suggesting
that there isn't enough power, in truth, for people to be convinced by it, that we need to compel
them to it and that is not acceptable. So Allah says, but by no means right. But then there is
another point, Allah out of his care and mercy all the time, all the time, he is continuously
showing truth and how powerful it is. It is not a one time deal. The truce was once made, to be
clearly distinguished from error and evil. No, no, no, but rather is continuous. Allahu Allah, you
		

			levina Allah is the front of those who believe your resume in Illinois, he takes them out of the
darkness into the light. And by the way, and the Quranic language, or the Quranic terminology.
Voluma. darknesses is always in the plural sense. It's always put in place
		

			neural form, however light, it's always comes in the singular, nor, because there is only one life,
there are many darknesses but there is only one life. So Allah continuously saves the believers from
the darkness into the light into the neural one levena cafaro Alia omocha, would you Who do you know
who Mina Nuri illovo Luma as for those who choose to reject faith, were friends or the devil under
his helpers, where they take them out of the light into the darkness. So, the point is lakra have
indeed continuously continuously all the time and consistently, truth is going to be clearly
distinguished from wrong, right and wrong, you know, there are some, you know, there is not
		

			relativism, what is right and what is wrong to some may not be the case to others. You know,
preference and taste may be what some people find beautiful what some people prefer, yeah, you can
have relativism there. But when it comes to right and wrong, truth and falsehood, there is no, it
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			you know, they've been manifested, they've been clearly distinguished, the line has been clearly
drawn, or whatever you're in a rush to mean, like gravity, there shall be no compulsion in religion.
So what happens is that when we look into itl corsi, and we see what comes after it, we have told
you about the attributes of Allah. These are the real attributes of any being that claims to be
worthy of worship, he is eternal, he is self subsisting, he does not need anyone has walked on this
earth is clear, he is everlasting, he is high, the living these are the absolute necessities of any
being that claims that he deserves to be worshipped, not that he compels people to do so. But these
		

			are the at least the minimum qualities that must be present in any being that are to be worshipped.
So because of these qualities, there shall be no compulsion in religion. Last, Iqra Fiji what do we
do with the attributes of Allah? When we look into the attributes of Allah, at a human level, we try
to perfect them. So for example, Allah subhanaw taala describes himself as being haleem, sublime,
		

			or klemens. So what happens is that at a human level, I try to do this, Allah describes himself as
being caring, he describes himself as being generous. So at a human level, I say, generosity is one
of the qualities and attributes of Allah, I am going to have it in my own character as well. I am
going to be generous to the best of my ability. However, by the end of the day, through the names
and attributes of Allah, we are able to get to know a lot better, when we know him better, that
should have an impact on our relationship with him. Now that I know a lot of the SME, he is the
whole all hearing, I should be invited to continuously call upon Allah. When I know that Allah is
		

			generous, I shall be invited and inviting myself all the time to ask of him, because he is generous.
When I know that Allah Subhana Allah is Allah who he is the author given, making a poor choice is
not the end of the world to me, but rather I know him, he forgives, and he loves to forgive, so I
can continuously turn back to my Creator, Allah subhanaw taala. I know to be overseas, he sees
everything. Sometimes I may be oppressed and nobody is helping. I know that Allah is not the absent
from this, Allah knows what is happening. And Allah works on his own terms and on his own time, and
Allah subhanaw taala is fully aware of what is happening. Similarly, I know that Allah watches, so I
		

			will not do anything that will jeopardize my relationship with Allah subhanho wa Taala. With this,
we come to the conclusion of this part of our program, very grateful that you have decided to share
a part of your day and we're very grateful for this. And I'm really hoping that you are enjoying
this as much as we are enjoying being with you. And until we meet next time we shall we say so long.
And Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato
		

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