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all
alhamd
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 we welcome you back dear viewers to
our Series in the names of
Allah this series focuses on the names
of the
almighty as they are relevant to us in
our
lives for
practice or for
worship or for better understanding
Allah subhah wa ta'ala
Allah revealed these names for a purpose
and these are among the
purposes that have been extracted from
them in a verse in the Quran Allah said
quite
openly all the beautiful names belong to
Allah so call on him with
them call on him through them worship
Him according to them so Allah has
addressed this issue is not something
that we're are making up you know it's
different approach maybe most people
they say you just learned the 99 names
we teach our children 99 Names once
they've memorized it wonderful you're
guaranteed Paradise maybe you can take
me in with you this is a kind of
attitude that uh parents take on this
it's quite common but reality is that
just memorizing these names as some of
the scholars like alhi said a non-muslim
can do the same thing
so obviously it is not about merely
memorizing these
names there's something beyond that when
the prophet Sall wasallam had said Allah
has 99 Names whoever guards them will
enter Paradise then there's something
deeper here so this is what we're
looking at the deeper meaning of the 99
Names how they're relevant how
we should live in accordance with them
how we should apply them in our lives so
in this segment we're looking at name
number 17 in our list
Al the
originator is something similar
to actually both this name and the name
coming after Al they're all in
interrelated because they're all dealing
with aspects of Allah being the
Creator anyway the name Al is mentioned
three times in the
Quran one of them is in Surah
alash which has combined about 15 of
Allah Allah's names
there he is Allah the Creator the
originator and the fashioner the
originator
Al Scholars differed with regards to the
root from which the name Al
came some said that it came
from which means to be free from or
distant from
something Prophet Muhammad wasallam had
said he used the same phrase I am
innocent and free
of whoever lives in the midst of the
disbelievers this is a recommendation of
the Prophet may God's peace and blessing
be upon him for Muslims to live among
Muslims to reinforce their faith anyway
the other opinion which is
held is that it's
from which means
creation coming from another term which
actually means Earth because creation
came from the earth in the context of
Allah subhana tala this Divine name
means the
Creator the
originator the one who distinguished or
gave the creatures the creation distinct
characteristics which would distinguish
them from each
other now relative to the effect of this
name on the belief of those who have
accepted Allah into their
lives this name Al should restore to
them
confidence in a time when the world
scientists are dazzling people with
their
discoveries and they're making all kinds
of fantastic claims of creation for
example years back in the 60s
when the
first uh test tube baby was made that's
how it was put front headlines test tube
baby scientists create baby from a test
tube as if they actually took
ingredients mixed it all up in a test
tube and poured it out heated it and
there came a baby but that's not how it
went at all what they did was they took
an ovom they took a sperm
put it in a Petri dish in a dish you
know when they were United then they put
it inside of the womb of a woman and a
child came so where where is the baby in
the test tube see this just
sensationalism and you find that a lot
yeah today in the world of science huge
massive
headlines claims huge claims for the
scientists when you actually get to the
root of it you find hey what they did
was not so great as what they claim so
belief in Allah as the
originator helps to bring us back to a
solid foundation bring our feet back
down on the
ground the scientific World which is
filled with arrogance and pride and
outrageous claims are seen as they
are true scientists really among them
they know that the more that they
research the more they find out is the
more they know they don't know that's
the reality as they Research into any
area whether it is in astronomy or it is
in biology or it is in physics where
whatever field they go into the more
they research and find out is the more
they find out they don't
know so those that are
humble they will freely admit it that
really what we don't know is far more
than what we really know and the more we
research it's not like we're eventually
going to get our knowledge around this
thing and we're going to have this whole
thing covered no actually the more we
Reacher The Wider the thing gets the
bigger it gets so the less that we know
becomes even more and more evident
in order to address this issue Allah
made a parable in Surah alhaj verse 73
Allah says there oh
humankind a parable has been made so
listen to it indeed those on whom you
call besides
Allah these
scientists cannot even create a
fly even though they combine together
they got all of their scientists
together in the world for this purpose
they cannot even create a fly and if the
fly snatches away a thing from them they
will have no power to release it from
the fly so weak are is the seeker and
the one who is sought that's the reality
the whole of this scientific
world is really
incapable of
creation though that's what they claim
so okay if that's what you claim Just
Produce for us a lowly
fly one of the most
detestable
creatures on the Earth in our sight
actually they play a very important role
if it weren't for them then we would be
up to our neck in carcasses they
they lay their eggs in the carcasses
dead animals and their worms that come
out of it the
caterpillars the maggots we call them
they eat up
this
uh additional you know excess flesh and
meat so they play a very important role
but anyway relative to us it's nasty the
fly we want to get to fly away from us
so okay produce for us a fly you can
take a fly crush him up put him in a
test tube you can analyze what is the
fly made of is made up of so much
calcium you know so much iron so much
this so much that you can find all the
things that are available in your
laboratory you can take those
ingredients take the ingredients mix
them together stir them all up heat them
and produce for us a fly reality they
can't do it even if fly so this is Allah
bringing them back down to earth this is
the reality you are
incapable you can manipulate yes yes you
can
manipulate but create no you cannot
create a
fly the only thing that you're able to
do is to make life from Life if you have
living material then you can develop
that living material in one way and
another way you clone things you know
you you know other types of operations
of this type where you are not bringing
something absolutely new what you're
doing is only manipulating what is
already there life already has to be
there for you to create then let us have
you bring
inanimate inanimate me uh chemicals and
substances and let you put life in it
that you can't
do that's the challenge and that's the
reality scientists are limited and this
is what this name alari reminds us that
Allah is the
originator with that dear viewers we're
going to take a brief pause and we'll
come back to finish off the this
wonderful name of Allah
subhana when you are weak and the road
seems long remember just remember seek
strength from the
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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 program in the names of
Allah and in this segment we're looking
at the 17th name Al the
originator and we said that this name
puts modern science back in its place it
pulls the scientists down from the
pedestals that they have been placed on
like gods in our world they're able to
do anything and everything this is what
they they claim it's just a matter of
time before we're able to do this and
we're going to do this we're going to do
that reality as Allah said create a fly
let's see what you can really do and we
know they can't do
it knowledge of this name
Al also
should give us a sense of
confidence in that Allah being the
originator he has revealed certain
knowledge to his final Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi
wasallam and if he relates to us
something in the field of
science then we have to believe that
what he has related is the
truth because
Allah is the ultimate scientist if
there's such a
thing he has knowledge of Creation in
its
totality and he is the one really
creating nobody else
can so if we consider for example we
talked about
challenging scientists modern scientists
to make for us a
fly if we consider the issue of the fly
Prophet Muhammad s
wasallam told us that if a fly falls
into your
drink you should put him in throw him
out and
drink because under One Wing is disease
and under the other Wing is
secure the prophet may God's peace and
blessing be upon Him pass on that
information to us now modern scientists
say no
way this is proof that your Prophet is a
false
prophet he told you this that there's
cure and disease in the fly we big
scientists have only found disease in
the fly we haven't found any cure so
this is not true so your Prophet is not
a true prophet
for us we say
no you haven't found proof that there is
no cure all you can say is that you
haven't found a cure the fact that you
haven't found a cure does that mean
there is no cure no it isn't that's not
proof that there is no cure all it
proves is you haven't found
it so modern science does not
disprove the statement of the prophet
God's peace and blessing be upon him
that in the fly there is both disease
and
cure the fact that we can only find
disease doesn't mean there is no
cure if somebody were to tell
us a 100 years
ago that in the poison of the Cobra the
Cobra whose poison is
so uh strong one bite and it's just
seconds before you're dead if somebody
were to tell us 100 years ago that there
is a cure for heart
problems in the Venom the poison of the
Cobra what would be said they would say
are you insane that's Madness how could
there be any cure for the
heart in the Venom of the Cobra what we
know is from the Venom of the Cobra the
Cobra Venom stops your heart from
beating and you die so how could there
possibly be any cure but today today we
have in
Bangladesh and India Cobra Farms where
cobras are raised and they're milked for
their venom and the Venom is sent to
Laboratories in Europe and America and
they extract from it medicine which is
used for heart patients
Allah
abbar this is Allah is the greatest what
was considered to
be impossible
unlikely Unthinkable is now reality so
in the same way that scientists at that
time would have denied this would have
rejected
it scientists today are rejecting the
statement of the Prophet may God's peace
and blessing be upon him simply because
they don't have knowledge and
unfortunately some Muslims are caught up
in this you know because they've had
some scientific backgrounds they studied
science in school University whatever
and they've come under this influence
and so that's raised for them doubts
about what the prophet has conveyed to
us and that is shaking the foundation
the roots of the faith itself but Allah
is
Al he is the original
Ator and he knows best is creation as he
originated it so if there's a cure and
he revealed that to his messenger then
we should know that there is a cure we
don't have any doubt about it we don't
have to wait
until 10 years 50 years 100 years from
now when scientists find the cure for
diseases that the fly carries in the fly
we don't have to wait till then
the snake who has
poison when he bites another animal and
he eats that animal if he didn't have
the antidote to his poison he would
himself be dead so we have a snake
having both the poison and the antidote
and there are a number of plants in the
plant kingdom that are like that where
the uh harm which comes from it through
some kinds of uh you know uh reactions
that people have skin things the
treatment of it is there within the
plant itself so we have it in both the
animal kingdom plant kingdom where
animals and plants contain both the harm
and the cure to the harm so it is not
unusual having not found it in the case
of the fly is not evidence of its
non-existence the third point that I
would like for us to
consider with regards to the effects of
belief in
alar the name Allah the
originator is
that it
confirms for us for the Believers that
everything besides him is created
everything besides him is created if he
is the creator the true creator and
originator of everything then everything
besides him is a part and parcel of his
creation therefore anyone who would
claim or would put forth or promote
something or someone to be God who is
actually from his creation this has to
be
rejected straight away this name Al
affirms that Allah is the only
God so if for example we have Christians
who claim Jesus Is
God Jesus Is
God so a simple line of reasoning with
them to try to bring them to what is
reasonable and logical is to ask
them could
you as a Christian do you feel
there is any way that you could become
God that you could become God the
creator of this universe and of course
the
person would say
no and when you ask the person why they
would say because I'm a human
being I'm a created being how can I
become God the Creator if they tell you
yes well then you're dealing with
somebody whose mind is not there they've
lost their minds so trying to reason
logically with such a person there's no
point now if the person says no I
couldn't possibly become God any time
now or in the future because I'm a human
being then the next logical question to
ask the person is was Jesus a human
being was Jesus a human being was he
born
circumcised on the Eighth Day drank milk
from his mother was small and grew up
got bigger and
bigger was that Jesus was he a human
being if the person is honest he will
say yes Jesus was a human
being and the next logical point is then
he couldn't possibly be God if you said
you couldn't be God because you're a
human being
then if Jesus was a human being he
couldn't be God
either for a person who is open-minded
just hasn't really thought this thing
out he was just born in a family where
everybody told him Jesus was God from
the time he was a child so he grew up
believing Jesus was God he didn't stop
for a minute to think about it is do
really make sense everybody says it so
he just goes along with it without
stopping and
thinking a person who's honest
when this is presented to them then they
will say oh you know I never thought
about it that way yeah I guess Jesus
really couldn't be God
simple but of course not everybody's
going to respond in that way it's not
going to be necessarily that simple
other people for example who know where
you're coming from when they when they
when you ask them uh was Jesus a human
being they're going to say well uh maybe
half half you know he was uh a human
being but he was God also you know or he
appeared to be a human being but he
really was God or something like this
they'll try to find their way out
because they know that the next thing is
going to be proof that Jesus couldn't
possibly be God so they're not honest
they're not really wanting to know the
truth they just want to defend their
faith at all costs so they will put
aside what they feel to be true what
they know to be true in their hearts and
just go along with the standard
line so this uh basic name alari the
originator gives us that sense of
confidence that everything besides God
is his
creation everything besides God is his
creation so nothing should be worshiped
besides him if everything besides him is
his creation then he alone deserves our
worship and that's what knowledge of
alari the
originator the 17th name of
Allah impacts this is how it impacts on
the faith of the believer with that dear
viewers we'd like to thank you for being
with us in this segment of our program
in the names of Allah and we we hope
that you will continue to follow this
series learning from each and every name
something new about
Allah which will help you in your
worship or in your knowing
Allah as it has helped me in preparing
it when are we the road SL