Zakir Naik – Allahs Unique Attributes
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Let's discuss the concept of God in Islam.
The best reply
that any Muslim can give you
regarding the concept of God in Islam,
Islam,
it is
in numbers and senses, it is the 2nd
largest religion in the world. It has more
than 2,000,000,000 followers
out of the 8,000,000,000
population.
It has 25%
Muslims.
But in terms of practice, it is the
largest religion.
There is no other religion which is followed
by more than 1,500,000,000.
In census, yes. Christian may be larger. But
in practice,
Muslims
Islam is the largest religion.
Islam is a semitic religion
and the most
sacred scripture is the revelation of almighty God.
The last and final revelation, the glorious Quran,
which was revealed to the last and final
messenger prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.
The best reply that any Muslim can give
you regarding the concept of God in Islam
is quote to you, Suray class, chapter number
112, verse number 1 to 4 from
the Quran.
Allah says in Suri class, chapter number 112,
verse number 1 to 4.
Say He's Allah 1 and only.
Allah,
the absolute and eternal.
He begets that noise begotten.
That nothing like him. This is a full
line definition of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
If any person says so and so candidate
is God, if the candidate
you believe to be God passes the full
line definition,
we Muslims have got no objection in accepting
that entity as God. Number 1,
kulhu allahu aad. Say he's Allah 1 and
only.
Number 2, Allah hosamad.
Allah, the absolute and eternal. Number 3, lam
yalit walam yalat. He begets not, nor has
he forgotten. And number 4, walam yakullahu kufuwan
ahad. There's nothing like him.
This Suray class,
it is the touchstone of theology.
Theo means God. Logic means study. Theology study
of God. And touchstone,
if you want to buy or sell jewelry,
you go to a goldsmith.
If you want to buy or sell gold
jewelry,
you go to a goldsmith and want to
verify how pure the gold is. So the
goldsmith takes the gold jewelry and rubs it
again against a stone called a touchstone.
And depending upon the color,
he will tell you whether the gold is
a 24 karat gold
or a 22 karat gold or 18 karat
gold or it may not be gold at
all because all that glitters is not gold.
So Suray class is the touchstone of theology.
The God you are worshipping,
put in the test of Suray class. If
he passes, he's a true God, otherwise he's
a fake God.
For example,
there are many human beings
who say that Bhagwan Ranish is God.
Once doing question and answer time, Hindu said,
we Hindus never say Bhagwan Ramesh is God.
I never said that the Hindus say Bhagwan
Ramesh is God. I said some people.
And there are thousands of people who claim,
Bhagwan Ramesh
is God. Let us put this Bhagwan Rajnish
to the test of Suri class.
The first is,
Was Bhagwan Raishnish 1 and only?
We know there are thousands of men who
have claimed to be God. He's not the
only one. And especially the country where I
come from India, there are thousands of men
who claim to be God. He's not the
only one.
Number 2,
Allahu Samad.
Allah, the absolute and eternal.
Was Rajnish absolute and eternal?
We come to know from his autobiography,
he said, he was suffering from asthma,
from diabetes mellitus,
from chronic backache. Imagine almighty God suffering from
asthma,
diabetes, mellitus,
chronic backache,
thirst,
lamulad,
volamulad.
If he gets not, no, he's begotten.
We know Bhagwan Deshnesh,
he had parents.
He was born in Jabalpur.
Later on, his own parent become a disciple.
In May
1981,
he goes to America
and takes thousands of Americans for a ride.
He goes to the state of Oregon
and starts his
own village known as Ranishpuram.
And he takes thousands of Americans for a
ride.
And it was mentioned, he owned more than
50 Rolls Royce. The person who owned the
maximum Rolls Royce in the world.
Later on, the American government, they arrest him
and put him in prison.
Rashne says
that the American government
gave me slow poisoning.
Imagine almighty God being slow poisoned.
And the last test,
is so stringent
that no one besides the one true God
can pass the test.
The moment you can compare God to anything
in this world, He's not God.
We know Bhagwan Rajnish,
like all the other human being, had 2
eyes, one nose, one mouth, 2 hands,
2 legs,
big white flowing beard.
The moment you can compare God to anything
in this world, He is not God.
Suppose someone says,
almighty God
is
a 1000 times
stronger
than Arnold Schwarzenegger.
You might have heard the name of Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
He was given the title Mr. Universe.
Supposed to be the strongest man in the
universe. The moment you can compare God to
anyone,
whether it be Arnold Schwarzenegger,
whether it be King Kong, whether it be
Dara Singh, whether it be a 1000 times
or whether it be a 1000000 times. The
moment you can compare God to anything in
this world, He's not God.
There's nothing like Him.
Suraj class is the touchstone of theology.
We Muslims,
we prefer calling
Allah
by the Arabic word Allah rather than the
English word God. The reason
is a person can play around with the
English word God, which you cannot do with
Arabic word Allah.
If you add s to God, it becomes
God's
plural of God. There's nothing like plural Allah.
If you add b e s s to
God, it becomes goddess,
meaning a female God. There's nothing like female
Allah or male Allah in Islam.
Allah is unique. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has
got no gender.
The moment you add father to God, it
becomes Godfather. He's my Godfather. He's my guardian.
There's nothing like Allah father in Islam,
or Allah by in Islam.
If you add mother to God, it becomes
Godmother.
Then nothing like Allah mother or Allah means
Islam.
If you prefix the 10 before God, it
becomes 10 God meaning a fake God. There's
nothing like 10 Allah in Islam. That's the
reason we Muslims,
we prefer calling Allah
by the original Arabic word Allah rather than
the English word God. But if someone uses
this word God like how I'm doing, when
you are speaking to non Muslims, I've got
no objection.
But I'd just like to remind you that
God is not the appropriate translation of the
Arabic word Allah.
There are many people who say
that God,
He can do anything.
He can become a human being.
But why can't we have a God man?
The reason I say you cannot have a
God man because,
the qualities of God and man are opposite.
A human being has a beginning,
God has got no beginning.
Human beings have an end. God has no
end. You can't have a person who's a
god man having an end and no end
at the same time. You can't have a
person
who has a beginning and no beginning at
the same time. It's meaningless.
It doesn't make sense. You can either have
God or you can have man. You can't
have a God of man.
It's not possible.
Human beings, we require to eat.
Allah says in the Quran in Surah Anam
chapter number 6 verse number 14.
That Allah is the one who feedeth everyone,
but does not require to be fed.
You, we human beings require sleep and rest.
Allah says in the Quran in Suri Baqarah
chapter 2,
verse number 255, that the Ayatul Khursi, Allah
Allah is the eternal,
the self existence.
No slumber can see Him, nor does He
require rest. To Him belongs everything in the
heaven and the earth. So Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala does not require rest and sleep like
how human beings require. So how can you
have a God man together?
It is
meaningless.
You can either have God, or you can
have man. You can have a government.
That's the reason Allah says in the Quran,
in several places,
Allah has power over all things. In Suri
Baqarah chapter number 2, verse 10 6. Insuri
Baqarah chapter number 2 verse number 109. Insuri
Baqarah chapter number 2 verse number 24. Insuri
Imran chapter number 3 verse number 29. Insuri
Nihal chapter number 16 verse number 77. And
Surah Fathir chapter number 35 was number 1.
For verily
Allah has power over all things.
Allah says in Surih Buruj chapter number 85
verse 16.
Allah
is the doer of all He intends. Whatever
He intends, He can do. But He does
not intend doing ungodly things
like becoming a human being,
like resting,
like sleeping, like eating.
Allah clearly says in the Quran,
that the scriptures are very clear cut, talking
about God, yet
most of the human beings they don't follow.
Allah says in Suri Baqarah chapter 2 verse
number 18,
The deaf, the dumb, the blind, they will
never return to the true part. The same
message repeated in the Bible,
in the gospel of Matthew, chapter number 13,
verse number 13. Seeing they see not, hearing
they hear not, neither will they understand.
The Bible is telling that the Bible is
clearly mentioning there's one God. He has got
no images. Don't make images of God. Believe
only in Him,
yet people will worship more than one God.
They will make 2 gods, they will make
3 gods, they will make image of God.
Gospel of Matthew chapter number 13 verse number
13. Seeing, they see not. Hearing, they hear
not, neither will they understand.
Similarly, if you read the Hindu scriptures.
In Rigveda,
book number 10, hymn number 71, verse number
4.
Seeing the words, they see not. Hearing the
words, yet they hear not.
That means it is clearly mentioned in the
scriptures that God is only 1. He has
got no images, yet people worship more than
1 God, yet people make images of God.
You know, some people say,
almighty God, he will do anything.
Almighty God will never tell a lie
because to tell a lie is ungodly.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
He will never do injustice.
Allah says in Surah Nisa chapter 4, number
40, Allah is never in just in the
least degree.
Allah will never forget. Allah says in suray
Ta chapter 20 verse 52, Allah never forgets.
Allah will never make a mistake. Allah says
in Suray Ta chapter 20 verse 52, Allah
never makes a mistake.
The moment Allah tells a lie, He ceases
to be Allah.
If Allah makes a mistake, He will cease
to be Allah.
If Allah forgets, He will cease to be
Allah. That's the reason Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
will never tell a lie. He'll never make
a mistake. He will never forget. He will
never do injustice.
Therefore, some people say Almighty God,
He became a human being.
He cannot be God and human together. If
he became a human being, what is the
use of worshiping of a human being like
you and me? He has lost his powers
and then later on, he's the same human
being became God. It's not possible. A human
being cannot become God. Otherwise, you and I
also become God. So that's the reason almighty
God will never become a human being.
Most of the religions besides Islam,
they have a philosophy called anthropomorphism.
Anthropomorphism
means
almighty God
taking even a human form. And most of
the religions beside Islam,
they believe that Almighty God
became a human being once or more number
of times.
And they have a beautiful logic
that Almighty God, He's so pure, He's so
holy. He does not know how does a
human being feel
when he's in trouble. Almighty
God, so holy, so pure, he does not
know how a human being feel when he's
sick. He does not know how a human
may feel when he's disturbed.
So, almighty God came to this Earth and
became a human being to know what is
good or what is bad for the human
being.
I'm asking a question.
If I make
if I make a computer,
do I have to become a computer to
know what is good or what is bad
for the computer? No.
I don't have to become a computer to
know what is good or bad for the
computer. If I'm the creator of the computer,
I write an instruction manual, how to operate
the computer.
Put on the electricity. Press the button
on the computer.
Don't put it in water, it will get
spoilt.
Don't drop it from a height, it will
get damaged. I write the instruction manual. I
don't have to become a computer to know
what is good or what is bad for
the computer.
So similarly, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala does not
have to become a human being to know
what is good or bad for them. What
does he do?
He chooses a man amongst men,
who we call as messengers.
And he communicates with them on a higher
level and he reveals the instruction manual.
The instruction manual for the human beings is
the glorious Quran.
The last and final instruction manual for the
human beings is the glorious Quran.
The do's and don'ts for the human beings
is mentioned in the last and final revelation
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. That is the
glorious Quran.
The glorious Quran
is the last and final revelation.
The last and final instruction manual for the
human beings.
Allah says in the Quran
in Suri Isra chapter number 17, verse 110.
By whichever name you call upon Him, to
Him belongs the most beautiful name. You can
call Allah by any name, but it should
be a name that He Himself has given.
It should be a beautiful name and there
are no less than 99 different attributes
given in the Quran
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Ar Rahman, Ar
Raheem, Al Hakim.
Most gracious, most merciful, most wise,
most wise. No less than 99 attributes given
in the Quran and the crowning one is
Allah.
This message,
that to Allah belongs the most beautiful name.
Besides Surah Isra, chapter number 17, verse number
10. It's also mentioned in Surah Araf, chapter
7, verse number 18. And Surah Ta chapter
number 20 verse number 8. And Suratah chapter
number 59 was number 24. That to Allah
belongs the most beautiful names.
Now when you give an attribute to Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, it should be a unique
attribute
and should only point to him and no
one else.
If it's not the unique attribute, you cannot
give the attribute to Allah.
Let me give an example.
If I want to give a unique
attribute
to Neil Armstrong.
Have you heard of Neil Armstrong?
The person who was the first man to
set foot on the moon.
If I say Neil Armstrong
was an American,
there are 100,000,000 people who are American, nothing
unique.
If I say Neil Armstrong was an astronaut,
there are tens of thousands of human beings
who are astronauts. Nothing unique.
To give a unique attribute, it should be
Neil Armstrong
was the first man who set foot on
the Earth.
If you reverse it, who is the first
man who set foot on the Earth? The
answer is only 1, Neil Armstrong. So when
you describe Allah,
the attribute should be unique and should not
belong to anyone else.
You cannot say Allah is the creator of
the building.
There are many people who can create building.
Allah is the creator of the universe.
Who's the creator of the universe? Allah.
Al Khalik,
the creator.
Al Rahman,
the merciful.
Al Raheem,
the most gracious.
Al Hakim,
the most wise.
If you reverse it, who is
the creator? Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Who is
the most merciful? Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Who
is the most gracious? Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Who is the most wise? Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
Almighty God
should only be 1.
Some people say, why can't there be multiple
gods?
You know, one god for cloud, one god
for rain, one god for wind, one god
for sun.
What is the problem?
If there would have been many god like
how we have in the mythology or some
of the religions, then one god will fight
with the other god. One god taking the
help of the 3rd god to defeat the
4th god. What is this?
It is better to have one god who
has all the powers rather than divide the
powers into many. You can have only 1
and you can't have 2 heads.
Allah says in the Quran in Suri Anbiya
chapter number 21 verse number 22. If there
were more gods besides 1 true God, there
have been confusion in the earth
and in the world.
Allah says in Surah Mu'minoon chapter number 23
verse number 91.
Allah does not begin a son
nor are the other gods besides Allah.
If it was so,
each god would have taken away what it
had created and would have hold it on
the other.
So the correct concept is God should only
be 1. He should be absolute.
He should have all absolute powers rather than
having multiple
gods. That's the reason.
If you study the scriptures
of most of the major regions in the
world,
most of them,
they say
that God is only 1. They believe in
monotheism.
The scripture
say, you should worship only 1 God.
But
most of the time,
they change the scriptures.
The other religion that change the scriptures
or they explain the scripture in the wrong
way to the followers.
Quran says in Suri Baqarah chapter number 2
verse number 79. Woe to those who write
the book with their own hands and then
say, this is from Allah. To traffic with
it for a miserable price. Woe to those
for what they earn. Woe to those for
what they write.
That's the reason
Allah says in the Quran. Masha'Allah, much better
now.
That's the reason
Allah says in Suri Yusuf chapter number 12,
verse 1, 116.
Most of them
do not worship Allah without associating
God with Him.
That means, they may believe in 1 God,
but they associate partners with Him.
What is the use?
So Allah says in Surah Yusuf chapter number
12 verse number 106, most of them worship
not God besides associating partners with him.
There are
some people
who are agnostic
like the Buddhist.
Some people are atheist
like the general religion, they don't believe in
God. For those people who are agnostic,
who do not comment whether God is there
or not, or those who are atheist, who
do not believe in God at all, I've
given a talk on, does God exist?
And the talk on, is the Quran God's
word?
If any human being
watches
this talk of mine, does God exist?
Or is the Quran God's word? The talk
is for about
2, 2 and a half hours and the
question and session for 4 are 6 and
a half hours in Malaysia.
Insha'Allah, he'll be convinced
that God exists.
I proved it with scientific proof with the
help of the Quran, the existence of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, with reason, logic and science.
So anyone who's atheist or agnostic,
if he hears my speech, does God exist?
Or is the Quran God's word? Insha'Allah,
if he has an open mind, he'll believe
that there's one God and you should worship
him
alone. Islam
believes in tawhid.
Tawhid
does not merely mean believing
in 1 God.
Tawhid
comes from the Arabic word,
wahada,
which means to unite,
to unify,
to consolidate.
It means
unification
of 1 God.
And tohid has got 3 categories.
Toi the rubia,
toi the small siphate, and toi the livada.
The first is toid the rububiyah,
means maintaining the unity
of
the lordship of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Rububiyah
comes from the Arabic word
rub, meaning sustainer, meaning cherisher. So believing and
maintaining that Almighty God is the rub.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala alone is the creator,
cherisher and sustainer
of everything in this world. Everything is dependent
on Him.
He is independent
of anything and everything.
That's Tawhid ar Rubia.
Number 2,
is Tawhid Asma'u Sifaat.
Maintaining the unity of the names
and attributes of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
This is divided into 5
rules and condition.
Number 1,
you should describe Allah
only by the way Allah has described him
or his prophet Muhammad SAW.
You cannot give your own description of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Number 2. You should only give names to
Allah, what Allah has given in the Quran.
You cannot give your own name.
You cannot say Allah is Ghadib, the angry
one. Quran says Allah gets angry,
but you can't say Allah is the angry
one because Allah did not describe himself like
that. Didn't name him that way.
Number 3.
You cannot
give the description of Allah to anyone else.
You cannot say I know of a man
who has no beginning and no end.
That's Allah's quality. You cannot give the qualities
of His creation to him. You cannot say
Allah repented.
Allah made a mistake. Allah told a lie.
These are qualities of his creation. He does
not have to repent. He doesn't make mistakes,
so why should he repent?
Like how the Bible says, almighty God repented.
In Islam, in the Quran, you'll never find
almighty God repenting or telling a lie,
or making a mistake, or forgetting, or dying.
And the 5th is
that you cannot give the name of Allah
to somebody else.
Cannot name a human being Ar Rahman. You
can name him Ar Rahman, but not Ar
Rahman. Ar Rahman is the merciful.
You can not call him Al Hakim,
the wife. If you want to say, you
have to add in the front of it.
Abdul Rahman,
the servant of the most merciful. Abdul Hakim,
servant of the most wise.
And you cannot give any human being,
Abd of anyone else. You cannot say, Abdul
Rasool. He's the servant of Rasool. No. It's
not allowed. You cannot say Abdul Nabi, the
servant of the Nabi. No. You can only
be Abduh Allah and No oneness.
These are the 5 points
of toys are small sifaat. The 3rd category,
toys are lividah.
Maintaining the unity of worshipping Allah alone. That
means you should worship Allah and no one
else.
If you believe in the first two, and
you give good names to Allah, but
along with it, you worship somebody else besides
Allah,
you break
the tawhid.
Besides believing in 1 Allah, besides giving him
the correct attributes and names, besides the Abu
Bay, you should also worship him alone and
no one is.
And Allah says in the Quran, in Surah,
you know, chapter number 10, verse number 31.
Talking about the pagans,
the Arabs at the time when the Quran
was revealed. When you ask them,
who is the one who rules the faith
from the heaven and the earth?
Who is the one that has power over
hearing and seeing?
Who is the one who gives life to
the dead and dead to the life? Who
is the one who controls everything? They say
Allah.
Then why don't you show piety to him?
Why do you worship other gods?
Allah repeats the message in Surah Surah Surah
of chapter number 43 verse 87.
That's the reason Quran says in Suray Yusuf
chapter 12 verse some 106.
Most of the human beings do not worship
Allah without associating partners with Him. That means
they may believe in 1 Allah.
They may give him the good names,
but with that 1 Allah, they also worship
other gods. This is shirk.
If you break
any one of the 3 categories of tawhid,
toidr wubia, toidrasmosifat
or Toyd alibada, it is called a shirk.
Shirk is the biggest thing in Islam.
And Imam al Daybib's book shirk is number
1, biggest thing in Islam.
Allah says in Surah An Essa chapter 4
48,
that Allah forgiveth not
that the associate partners with Him. Anything else
if He pleases, He will forgive.
Anything else if he pleases, he may forgive.
But anyone who has committed shirk,
he has committed the most heinous sin.
Allah repeats the message in Surah An Nisa
chapter 4
16. That Allah forgiveth not anyone joining God
with Him.
Anything else if he pleases, he may forgive.
For anyone who have joined God with him,
he has strayed far away.
So shirk is the biggest sin in Islam.
And
it's mentioned in the Quran in Suri Maidah
chapter 5 verse number 72.
They say the Christians,
they say that
Jesus Christ, peace be upon him, the son
of Mary is Allah.
They are dun kufr. Those who say Allah
is Jesus the son of Mary.
Quran is saying,
They are doing kufr. They are blaspheming
those who say,
Allah is Jesus the son of Mary.
But said Jesus, peace be upon him.
Israel. Oh, children of Israel.
With my lord and your lord.
Anyone who associate partners with Allah.
Allah will make jannah haram for him.
And fire shall be dwelling place and he
shall have no helpers in the hereafter.
Jesus Christ, peace be upon him, said,
anyone who associate partners with Allah,
faqadharamallahu
alaihiwajannah.
And he shall have no helpers in the
hereafter.
That's the reason
I started my talk by quoting a verse
from the glorious Quran from Surah Imran chapter
number 3, verse number 64, which says,
Oh, people of the book,
Come to common terms,
ask between us and you. Which is the
first term?
Allah.
That you worship none but Allah.
I did not say you believe in only
1 Allah.
I said Allah
that you worship man but
that you associate the partners with him
That we erect not among ourselves
Lords and patrons other than Allah find our
Allah. If then they turn back.
That we are Muslims bowing over to Allah
Before I end my speech,
I would like to quote a few verses
of the Quran.
Allah says in Surah Anam chapter 6, verse
7 100 and 8. Revile not those who
worship God besides Allah.
Abuse not those who worship God besides Allah,
lest in the ignorance they will abuse Allah.
Allah says in Surah Alukman chapter number 31,
verse number 27.
That if you convert all the trees into
pen
and the ocean
into ink, backed with 7 oceans, yet the
words of Allah will not be exhausted.
I would like to end my speech
with the quotation of the Quran
from Suri Hajj, chapter number 22,
verse number
the
All those who you worship, this is a
parable. Listen to this. All those who you
worship beside Allah, if all of them gather
together.
Allah is giving a challenge.
All the gods that you worship beside the
true god,
some believe 3 gods, some 1,000 gods, some
33 crores, 330,000,000
gods. All the 100 of millions of gods
you worship,
if they gather together to create a fly,
they will not be able to do it.
And if the fly snatches something,
they will not be even able to get
it back.
Femen are those who petition.
Femen are those whom you petition.
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