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alhamdulillah all Praises du to Allah
and may Allah's PE peace and blessings
beyond the last messenger of Allah I'd
like to welcome you dear viewers to
another in our Series in the names of
Allah and this series began with a
discussion of the importance of the
names of Allah that it was or represents
the most fundimental area of knowledge
that every believer in God should have
and we went on to look at uh statements
which the prophet may God's peace and
blessing be upon him made with regards
to the names of Allah the most famous
one was that he has 99 names and we
looked at the meaning of him having 99
Names whether it was limited to 99 or
whether it was uh you know a number
which the prophet Sall wasallam with
Allah's instruction chose as a basic
uh minimum for one to learn to
understand to implement in his or her
life and to find with it a way to
Paradise then
after going through that we started to
look at you know issues concerning uh
deviation in Allah's names how Allah's
names might be misused in the past and
how they continue to be misused in the
present and after that we looked at
certain basic rules governing Allah's
names you know how should we approach
them basically we focused on the issue
of language and how we understand
language that we should take the names
as they are in the language as God has
revealed them as the prophet may God's
peace and blessings be upon Him
understood them and his comparing his
understood it and then the early
generation and that's what we go with
after that then we looked at the issue
of the greatest name of
Allah and that's where we were in the
previous few uh episodes we looked at
the greatest name of Allah and concluded
that that greatest name was none other
than Allah
itself and we looked at the evidences to
support that uh we did mention that
there were other
opinions but that the weight of evidence
supporting that that uh it Allah was the
in fact the greatest name that seemed to
be the strongest opinion so that's what
we went with on the basic basis of that
we began to look at the name Allah as
the first of the 99 names that we would
be looking at in this
program we agreed in the very beginning
that in looking at the names we would
look at the meanings of the
names uh we look at how we should uh
deal with them relative to Allah tala
and how we should reflect them if there
is a means of reflection in our own
actions in our character
Etc we said there are some names of
Allah that we can't try to emulate and
among them is the name Allah itself I
mean we cannot emulate
Allah Allah is the only true God worthy
of worship now for a human being uh
there's no way that we can try to
emulate that there no people should be
worshiping us Prophet Muhammad Sall Ali
wasallam did say that if anyone was to
be woried in this
world in besides Allah not instead of
Allah but besides Allah it would be that
a wife would be commanded to worship a
husband that was uh the prophet wasallam
said if that was to show the position of
the man within the family
structure uh and that is to prostrate
before him really not worship him in the
sense of you know worship him as we
worship God but the
prostration and this is similar it is a
prostration of Honor similar to the
prostration which the Angels were
required to do before Adam so uh the
wives the wives are required to honor
their husband I mean Prophet muham
wasallam didn't give the okay for them
to prostrate before their husbands but
honoring them obeying them this is
required of them so I mean that is the
maximum that one could say that uh there
is some element of reflection here and
children relationship to their parents
could say that children are supposed to
honor their parents Allah has commanded
that
after you know so many places in the
Quran where Allah says you know that we
worship Allah alone
and and we should be dutiful good to our
parents so that is the sort of next step
I mean that's the closest that we could
come to uh honoring almost like
worshiping uh amongst Human Society but
we don't try to take on the
characteristics of Allah in that respect
we can only say that as we are required
to worship and honor Allah tala there is
an element of Honor which is due to some
people within the society honor which is
due to Prophet Muhammad wasallam to his
companions to the Khalifa to the people
in Authority there's a certain element
of honor and the the father and the
family the mother and the family
children in relationship to the
parents then we looked at um the the
origin of the name Allah and we said
that it's origin was from Al according
to the majority of opinion of Muslim
grammarians Arabic grammarians some did
hold that it was a word without root
that it was a fixed word it has no
uh root from which it was derived that's
another opinion but the majority held
that it was from
Al and as a meaning meaning we said that
it contains in it all of the meanings of
the other names of Allah because all of
the various constructions grammatical
constructions in which the name Allah is
mentioned in the Quran along with other
names of Allah they all come as
descriptions of Allah
they all comes come as further
descriptions of Allah so it means then
that all that they contain is contained
within the name Allah just as if we took
the name of a person we said Muhammad
then we described him as a carpenter a
father a uh politician a whatever all
the other descriptions that we give
those descriptions are describ they're
all representing characteristics which
Muhammad has so similarly when we see
the various verses in the Quran where
Allah uh mentions the name Allah first
and then after that we see other names
coming their descriptions of the name
Allah just in the basah
itself so in the name of Allah and then
descriptions of Allah who is he
Alman the most beneficent Alim the most
merciful so from that it was concluded
that the name Allah contains the
meanings of all of the various names so
then from a practical point of view in
terms of how do we as human beings uh
utilize that name in our day-to-day life
well we said that we follow the
instruction of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam with regards to this
name of Allah and there are two basic
ways that he has instructed us to use
that
name on one hand he gave us the basmah
that's just
bismah saying it before certain acts and
in order to achieve certain goals before
certain prayers Etc he gave that and the
other is Allah which means oh Allah
you're calling on Allah that we use
these two phrases or these two
expressions using the name of Allah
throughout our day and we said that the
purpose of all of that was to keep us in
touch with the awareness of Allah that
we are constantly aware and conscious of
him in our lives because of the fact
that if we are ious then it means that
we are able to make the right choices
with an awareness of God we can do the
right thing with an awareness of God we
can avoid evil where we forget God where
we uh become negligent then that's when
we go astray and that's why we have that
in Islam as is stated in the Quran and
elsewhere that you know the use of drugs
alcohol is forbidden because of the fact
that it takes away a person's
Consciousness and then he he or she
becomes subject to the evil influences
of the forces around in the
society so Prophet Muhammad Ali wasallam
then prescrib for us on a very basic
level the use of the basmah and
Allah in a variety of Acts that we do in
the day and we began uh in the last
program with the supplications of the
morning and the evening and that uh was
begun with uh
Allah and we talked about the
supplication of the basah before we eat
our meals and pointed out of course as
again this was a basic ordinary mundane
act that people do by using bismah
before eating and eating in accordance
with the Sunnah of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam then we turn
that act into worship of
Allah and we also mention that we would
use that uh the name of Allah in Allah
prior to going into the bathroom we
mentioned
that we talked about that before we
sought refuge in Allah
from uh evil male and female Gins
corruption uh anyone only has to go into
a public bathroom to to see what kind of
corruption goes on there anyway from
there we went to uh the
woodoo uh and uh what should be said to
begin woodoo and that was with the basah
and at the end of wo we also added that
we say uh
Allah
uh oh Allah make me of those who
constantly turn back to you in
Repentance and of those who constantly
purify themselves and that was basically
where we reached in our last program
this is just summing up what went before
or we did also touch on
uh the beginning of prayers but we'll
look at that after we come back from the
break so we're going to take a brief
break now and then we'll carry on
looking at places within our day-to-day
life in which the best M should be used
and Allah should be
invoked we'll take our break
now when you are weak and the road seems
long remember just remember seek
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alhamdulillah all praise is due to Allah
and may Allah's peace and blessings be
on the last messenger of
Allah I'd like to welcome you back dear
viewers to our Series in the names of
Allah and before the break we were
looking at uh some of the places where
Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam specified for us to utilize
this greatest name of Allah and we
reached the woodoo that we should uh use
it in the beginning of woodoo and this
is a place where people commonly
actually neglect its usage uh many
people are not aware that the prophet
Salli wasallam had said that uh there's
no prayer without wo and there's no wo
without saying
Bah uh Scholars have taken that to mean
that the woodoo is
incomplete but bottom line is that
we should utilize bismah before making
wo and that we said was to put it in a
spiritual context so that we don't get
caught up in the physical act of woodoo
similarly with our
prayers the buo prepares us spiritually
to go into the prayer and the prayer
should have that spiritual uh content it
should have that spiritual uh expression
for it to be of real value otherwise the
physical act uh we can train a monkey to
go through the movements of prayers and
as those prayers don't benefit the
monkey any similarly a human being who
goes to prayers like a monkey without
having any understanding then we have to
say that there's no benefit to those
prayers as Prophet Muhammad s wasallam
had said some people pray and only half
of the value of the the prayer goes up
to Allah other people pray and
absolutely nothing goes up so this is
the reality that uh we have to keep in
mind when we consider our daily prayers
and um we mentioned in our previous
segment that in the beginning of the
prayer uh Prophet Muhammad s Ali
wasallam used to pause before reciting
the Quran and the companions asked him
uh you know what were you doing what
were what were you saying and he told
them that I was
saying oh Allah distance me from my sins
as you have distanced the east from the
west and so on further with the
Dua also whenever the prophet Sall
wasallam went into
or into suud when he bowed and he
prostrated in
prayer his wife Aisha related that he
used to commonly say
sub glory and praise be to you oh Allah
oh Allah forgive me so we find Allah
repeated twice in this this is one of
the duas for Bowing and
frustrating also when he came out of
when he stood back up
saying that is Allah hears the one who
praises him he would then go on to
say commonly we just
sayam but it's also narrated from the
prophet s alhi wasallam that he used to
say Allah oh
Allah our Lord alham all praise is due
to you and and at the end of his daily
prayers he taught his companions a
variety of different prayers to say
supplications before closing off the
prayer among them is one which Abu Bakr
was taught by the prophet sallam and he
passed it on to us that
is
that is oh Allah verily I have really
wronged myself a lot and none can
forgive sins except you so forgive me
with your forgiveness and have mercy on
me so forgive me and with your
forgiveness have mercy on
me indeed you are the most forgiving the
most merciful this is the Dua which the
prophet wasallam taught to Abu Bakr
there's another Dua which he taught many
of the Companions and they reported that
he used to teach it to them the way that
he taught a chapter from the Quran
meaning that he put great stress on it
many of them were taught it that
is
M oh Allah I seek Refuge with you from
the punishment of hell and the torment
of the Grave the trials of living and
dying and from the trials of the
Antichrist seeking Refuge from deal the
Antichrist was something the prophet
Salli wasallam taught the way he used to
teach a chapter from the
Quran also we are also have uh that
towards the end of the prayer he used to
seek Refuge from a a variety of
different bad
characteristics among them he used to
seek Refuge from uh sin and death
unpayable debts and the companions noted
that at the end of the prayer he would
commonly
say oh Allah I seek refuge in you from
sin and unpayable debts so they asked
him why is it that you're always seeking
Refuge from these unpayable debts Al he
said indeed when a person becomes
indebted and he is unable to pay up the
debts he begins to lie whenever he
speaks and he breaks his promises
whenever he gives them so these are two
evil characteristics to be constantly
lying when one is speaking and breaking
one's promise whenever they give the
promise so Prophet mam wasallam sought
uh Refuge using Allah seeking Refuge
from the precursor what would lead to
that situation and that is the unpayable
debts and this is from this actually
from this Dua of the Prophet wasallam
the scholars derive the principle
of that is
preventing an evil by preventing or
prohibiting the things which lead up to
that evil so this was the pro prophet's
practice sallallahu alaihi wasallam to
uh seek Refuge from unpayable debts also
he used to seek Refuge as narrated
by har oh Allah I seek refuge in you
from
weakness a weakness which leads us not
to do the things that we are capable of
doing and from
laziness laziness which further dis uh
discourages us from doing even the
obligatory Act
also from
cowardice
cowardliness and from
cility where in old age we lose our
minds we don't have an awareness of what
is going on around us we seek refuge in
Allah from
that besides that Prophet Muhammad s
wasallam gave us obviously with
instruction from Allah
tala the use of the basmalah as a means
to
exercise uh possessing evil
spirits this is something which perhaps
to some degree has uh gone astray in
many Muslim countries where exorcisms
are performed using a variety of
methodologies which have nothing to do
with the Sunnah of s alai wasallam and
some people go so far onto the other
side as to say exorcism is a joke people
are not possessed it's not possible for
the Gin evil spirit to possess a human
being they deny it altogether but in
fact possession is a
reality Spirits do on occasion evil
spirits from among the Jin do on
occasion possess people people I would
say that probably most of the cases that
people tend to attribute to possession
may not be possession at all it could be
a lot of other factors those people are
involved in this field of treatment
spiritual treatment exorcisms for people
who are possessed point out that most of
the cases are uh people's you know um
struggling to deal with either problems
in the home psychological problem a
variety of other things and it's not
really possession but from time to time
there does come real cases of possession
and this incident I will relate it to
you is an incident narrated
by and this is an authentic
Hadith one which is collected by Ahmed
hbal in his musnad in it he said once I
went traveling with the prophet and we
came across a woman sitting with her
child she said oh messenger of Allah
this boy has been Afflicted and has
caused us many
trials I don't know how many times a day
he seized with
fits the prophet s wasallam said give
him to me and he she raised the boy up
to him and he took the boy and placed
him in the middle of his
saddle and he then opened the boy's
mouth
he blew in the boy's mouth three times
and he
saidah in the name of
Allah I am a slave of
Allah so get away oh enemy of
Allah this was the prophet Sall wasallam
statement this Hadith authentic as it is
is clear evidence of possession but it
also teaches us the correct methodology
for dealing with it not what many people
are involved in around the world and
we'll look into that in more detail uh
in our coming session on in the names of
Allah we will be looking further at
other prescriptions which the prophet
may God's peace and blessing be upon Him
gave us a in order to deal with issues
of spiritual possession with that dear
viewers I bid you all farewell hoping to
see you again in the next
episode and the road seems long remember
just remember seek strength