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you fall remember just remember Allah
sees it
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all praise is due to Allah and may
Allah's peace and blessings be on the
last prophet Muhammad sallallah alaihi
wasallam and on all those who follow the
path of righteousness until the last day
I welcome you back dear viewers to
another in our
Series in the names of
Allah and in this series we're looking
at the names of Allah from the
perspective of not only their
understanding knowing what they are know
what they knowing what they mean but
also looking at how they should impact
on our
lives what place do they have in our
lives we said in the earlier segments
that knowledge of Allah's attributes is
critical because if we are to worship
Allah correctly we must know who he is
and how best to know but through the
revelation of his
names because each name contains an
attribute informing us who is
Allah so we began a few segments back
with the greatest name of Allah Allah
itself as number
one and a segment or two ago
we began to look at the second and third
names of Allah Alman and arim putting
them
together because of the fact that they
share the same root the same root
understanding root meaning of rahma or
mercy and um I should mention of course
that you know the order that we're
taking it in is it's from a verse in
Surah Al has it's not
necessarily uh a required order or that
really in fact number two and number
three
are they're just in the list that we're
covering they are number two and number
three and in the previous segment we
were looking at the vastness of Allah's
mercy and how it encompasses all of his
creation and the elaborate details which
the prophet may God's peace and blessing
be upon on him gave about Allah's Mercy
him writing it on himself as an
obligation him taking people out of the
Hellfire as on the day of
judgment his Mercy covers even the wild
animals of this world preventing them
from destroying their own
offspring in spite of their
ferociousness them being carnivores that
have no compassion in that sense well
that that's how it appears to us as
human beings but they're just eating
it's normal for them they're hungry they
eat but as we observe them it seems
compassionless they just tear the
animals apart but why don't they tear
their offspring apart because of one
portion of Mercy out of 100 portions
which Allah placed in this world and it
is due to that that there's love amongst
us
love between a husband and a wife
parents and their children and the love
that that is experienced by All
Creatures is all from that vast Mercy
that vast ocean of Mercy which Allah has
placed in this
world and in the previous segment we
closed it off uh looking at a Hadith
where the Prophet s wasallam had said uh
concerning the uh
rain
actually the there's a verse from the
Quran where Allah refers to the way rain
as Heralds of his Mercy uh the clouds
actually as Heralds of his Mercy Mercy
being the rain but then he went on to
refer uh not only to the rain but to
scripture as being a part and parcel of
his Mercy but Prophet mammi wasallam did
State also with regards to Allah's Mercy
uh and Reign that uh in a particular
Hadith in which uh he said uh a morning
when he got up uh he said to his
companions do you know what your lord
said last night and they replied Allah
and his messenger know best so he said
Allah said some of my servants arose
believing in me and some of them
disbelieving
as for him who said it rained because of
the blessing and mercy of Allah he is a
Believer as for him who
said it rained because of the rising of
such and such a
star he is a disbeliever in me so
Prophet mam wasallam also quoted Allah
reaffirming in what is called a hadithi
that the rain was from the mercy and
blessings of Allah but then we had gone
on to also say that even the
scriptures Allah referred to the
scriptures which he sent to His prophets
to human beings as a mercy and we
explained why saying
that Allah had given us really enough
for us to find the right way but from
his Mercy he added to that books and not
only that he added to them prophets to
explain how to understand the books even
so all of this is from Allah's
mercy and what we find in the Quran is
that Allah even refers to Paradise
itself as a part and parcel of Allah's
Mercy in Surah T verse five Allah says
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there as for those whose faces are
shining they will be in Allah's Mercy
forever the mercy of Allah forever that
is being spoken about here is Paradise
so Allah uh refers to Paradise as his
mercy and Prophet Muhammad s Ali
wasallam himself had said no one's Deeds
alone will put them in
Paradise no one's Deeds alone will put
them in
Paradise so his companions asked him
even in your case oh messenger of Allah
he said even in my case if it were not
for the grace and the mercy of Allah
encompassing me not even
I and that
is a level of humility that one needs to
reflect
on but reality is Paradise is from the
mercy of Allah no one will enter it
except by the mercy of
Allah had he taken us to
account or if he takes us to account one
deed evil against one deed
good no one would make
it but because he multiplies the value
of the Good Deeds he raises sins with
those good
deeds it's possible for us to gain with
his grace
Paradise so having looked at that we
need to now go and look at the
impact the effect of belief in these two
names of Allah on the believer how
should it impact in our lives first and
foremost we should have a clear belief
in these two names and what they
mean we've seen so many different uh
statements of the
Prophet statements of Allah with regards
to them we should have no doubt that
this
represents a clear attribute of Allah
which should not in any way be explained
away explained away as anything but what
it is
and I'm saying that one might say well
who would go to explain that way it's
very clear Allah's Mercy Allah's Mercy
you know we can see that however among
the scholars of the past from a
philosophical school called the school
of people who follow it are known as
thees a scholar from back in the 11th
12th
century
he as a scholar of this particular
School argued that the term rahma or
Mercy this quality or this
characteristic or attribute is not to be
attributed to Allah that it is a human
characteristic that in fact what it
means in relationship to Allah is that
he will bless his creatures so it's in
reference to his Blessing of his
creatures and not an attribute to be
attributed to Allah um that position was
held by not just himself but by others
at one point in time a philosophical
school of thought as I said but it is
rejected the prophet s wasallam spoke
about it in no uncertain terms when he
talked about Allah creating
mercy and dividing it into 100 Parts
this is all from his Mercy
it's very clear
Etc now let's go on to the issue of its
impact in our lives first and
foremost awareness of Allah's Mercy
throughout his
creation should be like the awareness of
Allah's dominion over his
creation we should see it
everywhere we should be aware we should
be conscious of it in every aspect of
his creation because it is not missing
in
anywhere so it should create a sense of
awe and humility in the hearts of the
Believers towards
Allah they should be a by being aware as
they aware of his might and his
greatness they should be aware of his
Mercy in such a way that it brings this
sense of humility in the hearts just as
the prophet sallam had said that even he
would not go to Paradise by his
deeds that is the expression ultimate
expression the prophet of Allah the
final messenger of
Allah he is saying that even he will not
make it to Paradise merely because of
his deeds that's humility and that's
what awareness of Allah's Mercy should
create in the heart of the
believer we're going to take a brief
break here and we'll be coming back to
look further at the impact of these
names the beneficent the most
merciful in our
lives when you are weak and the road
seems long remember just remember seek
strength from the
strong
and people need each others needs schors
more than they need to drink and eat
because even regarding what we drink and
eat we may not be able to figure out
which is permissible and which is not
Quran is not preserved in the books only
the SE of prophet Muhammad wasallam is
not preserved in the books only only but
on the heart in the hearts of men in the
hearts of people who have devoted their
time to seeking knowledge believe and
trust that none could take
place without the knowledge of
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Allah
you are weak and the road seems long
remember just remember seek
Str
alhamdulillah all praise due to Allah
and may Allah's peace and blessings be
on the last messenger of Allah welcome
back dear viewers to our Series in the
name of
Allah prior to the break we're looking
at the first effect or impact that
awareness of Allah's Mercy through his
names Alman Alim should have in our
lives we said that we should gain from
it a sense of Allah the vastness of
Allah's Mercy how it encompasses every
aspect of his
creation whenever we look wherever we
look we should be able to see the mercy
of Allah in his creation and that should
create in us a sense of humility before
Allah a sense of thankfulness gratitude
for the great blessings which he has
given us through his
Mercy
furthermore a second impact should be
that it should create in The Believer
a keenness to
achieve the benefits of his
Mercy by causing us to want to strive
our utmost to receive Allah's grace and
mercy on one hand we recognize it and
are in awe of
it we're humble before it and on the
other hand we want it we should want it
we should strive and seek whatever way
possible to achieve it we should be
striving to achieve
it Allah tells us that one of the ways
to achieve it is to obey Allah and his
messenger in Surah Al
Imran verse
132 Allah says
there obey Allah and the messenger in
order order to receive Mercy obey Allah
and the messenger in order to receive
mercy so this is one rote we want to
achieve the
mercy which Allah has in
abundance then the starting point is
obedience to Allah and his messenger
obviously preceding that is belief in
Allah but taking that for granted that
we do believe
or we say we believe then the next step
is to live that
belief to live a
life in which is
Manifest submission obedience to Allah
and his
messenger another root is that of
repentance in Surah zumar Allah says
there say oh my servants who have
oppressed themselves do not despair of
Allah Mercy indeed Allah forgives all
sins indeed he is the all forgiving the
most
merciful repentance as the prophet
wasallam
said whoever repents from sin is like
one without
sin
removes sin sincere repentance of course
removes sin once sin is removed then we
are open for Allah's Mercy
thirdly the True Believer should find
incentive in his or her awareness of
Allah's immense Mercy to strive to show
Mercy to
others that this is the reflection we
said some attributes can't be
reflected Allah's
name being Allah the Creator
sustainer all merciful all knowing etc
etc we cannot reflect that it's not
possible but Mercy him showing Mercy to
us we can show Mercy to others as he
said because of that one portion of
Mercy coming into this world that one
portion
gives us the attribute of mercy so we
should strive to show it not only
because it is a
necessity having seen it in
Allah having
been uh explained it through his
scripture and through the practice of
the Prophet wasallam but also because in
showing Mercy to
others we ourselves can gain Mercy this
is one of the roots to gain Allah's
Mercy there was a particular incident
which took place in the time of the
Prophet may God's PE and blessing be
upon Him abuur narrated it uh the
prophet was sitting uh with one of his
Grand children alassan IB
Ali and he kissed
him and sitting nearby was one of his
companions by the name of ALB
habis when Al saw
this he
said I have 10 children and I've never
kissed one of them he felt proud he
boasted that was supposed to be you know
a manly thing you don't kiss kids so he
saw Prophet mm Al wasallam doing that he
said I have 10 children I've never
kissed one of them Prophet Sall wasallam
turned to look at him and
said
whoever doesn't show Mercy will not
receive
mercy so the prophet Sall wasallam
clarified here that for us to achieve
the mercy of Allah we have to show it
it's one of the requirements for us to
achieve that mercy and kissing our
children or kissing our grandchildren or
other people's children this is a way of
showing Mercy this there's an element of
Mercy there
and um some people might say well it's
not in my culture you know I don't
really feel a desire you know well start
to do
it it's something that can be
learned as the prophet had told us with
regards to the quality of patience some
people seem to be born with it and
others not but it's something that we
need to have we should have so he
said
whoever pretends to be patient with a
desire wanting to be patient trying to
hold himself and express patience
eventually he will become patient so
similarly this
characteristic it's not our habit to
kiss children Prophet Muhammad wasallam
did it he said whoever doesn't show
Mercy kissing a child is Mercy an
expression of Mercy will not receive
mercy so we do it we do it and until it
becomes normal and natural for
us another occasion the prophet wasallam
had
said Allah will not show Mercy to one
who does not show Mercy to people so not
just children Mercy in the society in
general and the prophet wasam related to
us a story a story
from an incident which took place in the
past among the Israelites there was a
prostitute who came to a well to get
some water when she came to the well she
saw a dog outside of the well panting
its tongue out licking the ground it was
dying of thirst it couldn't get into the
well to get the water to Jumpin would be
for it to die so what she did was she
tied
her shoe to her scarf she climbed into
the well dipped it in bring brought her
shoe out and fed the
dog when she did that Prophet wasallam
said because of it Allah forgave her
because of that act of Mercy to a
creature to a
dog Allah forgave her
her
sins so we can understand what the
prophet s wasallam said that whoever
doesn't show Mercy will not receive
Mercy one who shows
Mercy
is uh subject to receiving the mercy of
Allah subh
tala so being merciful is one of the
higher characteristics that a human
being can
acquire as it is one of the great
attributes of Allah it's one of the
great attributes of human beings and
Allah described His prophets
saying I only sent you as a mercy to the
worlds verse
107 this is how Allah described Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam as a mercy to
the worlds and again inah AL Iman verse
159 Allah says
there
it was by Allah's Mercy that you were
kind to them had you been harsh and
hard-hearted they would have fled from
around you so this is a quality which
each and every one of us should strive
to
acquire Usama IB Z on one occasion
related that people questioned the
prophet
when they saw him crying when his
grandchild was brought to him one of his
daughters had a child who was dying and
the child was brought to the prophet
wasallam as it was in the last throws of
its
life and the prophet's tears came down
the eyes of the Prophet Salli wasallam
so they asked him are you crying for the
child oh messenger of Allah they thought
this was something maybe you know
um not really appropriate so he he said
in
response indeed Allah is only merciful
to the merciful among his
servants indeed Allah is only merciful
to the merciful among his
servants and when the prophet Sall
wasallam was asked by
Aisha uh what should she say when she
goes to the
graveyard he told her to say a
peace be on the believing and submitting
people of these abodes may Allah have
mercy on our predecessors and successors
and Allah willing will be joining you
all so this was the recommendation ation
of the Prophet Sall alhi wasallam to
show
Mercy to try to acquire this
characteristic one of the great
attributes of Allah subh tala which each
and every human being should try to
acquire it makes a difference it's a
means of receiving Allah's mercy and how
can we not want to acquire this
attribute when Allah has been so
merciful to us even when we don't
deserve it so with that thought we're
going to close our
program advising
encouraging as the Quran as the Sunnah
of the Prophet sallallah Al sallallahu
alaih wasam
encourages that we should be merciful to
those around us whether Believers and
unbelievers children or Elders even the
animals we should should show Mercy to
them with that dear viewers I bid you
all
farewell when you are weak and the road
seems long remember just remember seek
strength from the strong when life is a
burden and everything is unstable
remember just remember Allah is the able
when nothing makes sense
and you're heading for demise remember
just remember Allah is the wise when the
way is cloudy and there's no one by your
side remember just remember Allah is the
only guide when your heart is breaking
and your pain makes you fall remember
just remember Allah sees it all when you
are how weak and the road seems long
remember just remember seek strength
from the strong when life is a burden
and everything is unstable remember just
remember Allah is the able when nothing
makes sense and you're heading for
demise remember just remember Allah is
the wise when the way is cloudy and
there's no one by your side remember
just remember Allah is the only guide
when your heart is breaking and your
pain makes you fall remember just
remember