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remember just remember Allah sees it all
alhamdulillah all praise du to Allah and
may Allah's peace and blessing s beond
the last messenger of
Allah I'd like to welcome you dear
viewers to another in our Series in the
names of
Allah alhamdulillah we've been looking
in our previous episodes at
the intent behind the names of Allah why
Allah subhana tala has reveal these
names to
us what value do they have in our lives
relative to Allah relative to the world
in which we
exist and we looked at the rules
governing the names of Allah how to
understand them and we looked at also
how people have deviated in their
understanding of these names how they've
ended up uh giving Allah false names
giving Allah's names to his creatures
uh and now we began to look at the names
as a whole and particularly the greatest
name of Allah within them we mentioned
in the previous segment a particular
incident which took place in the time of
the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam in
which he heard one of his
companions uh make a
supplication and after hearing it he
said said that this supplication
contains the greatest name of
Allah which if a person calls on Allah
with it Allah answers his
prayer and if he requests of Allah with
it Allah gives him what he
requests and we said that scholars in
looking at this Hadith and other hadiths
which speak about the greatest name of
Allah have have differed as to what in
fact is the greatest name of
Allah the opinion held by a number of
Scholars among
them and and others is that Allah the
name what was referred to as Jalal Allah
is in fact the greatest name of Allah
itself and to support that
they brought uh certain
evidences why did they choose this as
opposed to other names like Al
which
chose meaning the all living why this
particular name well in the previous
session we looked at the first
evidence which was
the N various narrations various
narrations which are
uh by Prophet Muhammad wasallam
concerning the greatest name and they
those narrations mention verses from the
Quran and they mentioned uh duas with
other people had made when we bring them
all
together we do find that the name common
to all of them is
Allah the name common to all of them is
Allah it may be in the form of Allah
which means Ya Allah that's calling out
to Allah it's Allah is still there or
the the actual word itself
Allah the second argument or evidence
which is used is that it is the most
mentioned name of Allah in the
Quran if we compare the number of times
it is mentioned
2,62 times
to even the nearest other
name arim arim is mentioned 114
times there the the difference is so
vast the next nearest name arahman is
mentioned 57 times so obviously Allah
has chosen this name and given it a
special status over the others to have
used it so many times more than any
other of his
names so that is the second argument the
third argument is the meaning itself
what does the name Allah
mean actually it
incorporates all of the other names all
of the other Divine names are
Incorporated their meanings are
Incorporated in the term Allah
so it is the most general of all of the
names of
Allah the fourth
argument is relative to its usage that
this
name has only been applied to
God it's the only name that has been
applied to God and no one
else we don't hear of any people even in
the time of the ancient Arabs prior to
Revelation Etc nobody took this name all
of the other names uh people might take
these names but this name Allah has only
been assigned to God
Alone the fifth
argument is the fact
that other names of Allah are attributed
to it and the name Allah is not
attributed to other names so you find
for example in
Surah verse
180 which we said was the basic theme of
this whole program in the names of
Allah the most beautiful names belong
only to Allah so call on him with them
so in this uh
verse the all the other names are
referred to as the names of Allah
similarly even if you look at the
Bas we talk about in the name of Allah
and then Alman and arim are
descriptive names of Allah so always the
names are attributed to Allah and not
Allah attributed to the other names you
don't hear
ofman Allah but you hear of Allah Alman
or
allahim the sixth
argument or
evidence is
that in the verse in the Quran in which
Allah chooses two
names two names to represent himself he
said there
call on Allah or call on the most
merciful now he mentioned both of these
two names the one he mentioned first was
Allah also Prophet Muhammad wasam in a
well-known Hadith that
saidd again if these two names Allah and
Alman are the most uh prized or the the
greatest of the names then naturally the
best name that a person could call
himself is a servant of Allah or a
servant of the most
merciful again even when the prophet
sallam mentioned these two he mentions
Abdul he mentions Abdullah first and
then Abdu Rahman and if we look at the
two names in any case whether in the
verse in Surah is or in this Hadith we
should note that Alman addresses issues
of mercy and we'll be looking at that in
more detail when we get to the name
Alman but F fundamentally it is a
derivative of rahma or mercy and that is
the the the
essential uh meaning of the name Alman
it may be Mercy in its comprehensive
sense that it encompasses all of his
creation and you know there are other
aspects of his Mercy but if essentially
it is Mercy whereas say the attribute of
Might and power this is not represented
Inman whereas in the name Allah it is
represented the might and the power is
there in
Allah and this is found in in the name
Allah just as also Mercy uh beneficence
all of that is
found if we go on to the seventh
argument that is a linguistic argument
of uniqueness to the term
Allah in that you can find the term
Allah when used with the particle of a
dress in Arabic
when you're addressing somebody you use
the the particle yah which means in
English o it's in Old English Modern
English doesn't really use it very much
but uh it existed in Old English in
Arabic it is a standard feature of the
language yah now if you use yah before
Alman or yah before arim to are the
names of Allah and all the other names
you must drop the definite article so
you have to
say you can't
say this is not linguistically correct
but when you put that article or
particle yah before Allah you still say
yaah Allah you don't say y Allah yeah
people might mispronounce and say that
but the correct way is Ya Allah which
you will say yahman and yah so this is a
linguistic unique uh part or concept
with regards to
Allah the eighth argument and final
argument is that the name Allah has been
given a special place of honor in that
the universal Declaration of
Faith ill ah there's no God worthy of
worship but Allah Allah's name that same
name becomes the one used in the
Universal
declaration in the Universal declaration
so that puts it on that special level
because that Universal declaration is
the key to the next life Paradise in the
next life success for this life depends
on that particular Declaration of Faith
so that becomes also a part and parcel
of the argument for the name Allah to be
one of the uh oh not one of sorry but
the greatest name of
Allah with that dear viewers we're going
to take a brief break and we'll be
coming back after the break alayum
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seems long remember just remember seek
strength from the strong
alhamd we' like to welcome you back to
our program in the names of
Allah and in the first part of the
program we completed looking at the
evidences used to
established the name Allah as being
being the greatest name of
Allah it is the
name by
which all of the other names become
descriptive uh
terms they are used to describe Allah
Allah's name is not
used to describe the other names so it
is the most fundamental name of Allah
and we said in terms of its meaning that
that it is the most comprehensive and
that the meanings of all of the other
names are found within the name
Allah whereas each and every other name
has particular aspects of
Allah's uh attributes that they focus on
they don't necessarily include other
attributes sometimes they may include
more than one but they're not
comprehensive in the sense of including
all other attributes that can only be
said about
Allah
now the
origin of the term
Allah is again an issue of dispute among
Scholars although the general position
held and this is the same position
you'll find in lisan Arab which is
considered to be the most authentic and
authoritative uh dictionary very
extensive
containing many many
volumes the position held there is that
Allah is a contraction from
alah alah which means the God right IL
meaning God or object of
worship when you put Al before it then
you specify it as being definite The One
and Only God
now in terms of its
application relative to us as human
beings of course this name we call on
Allah with this
name we worship Him by seeking his help
seeking his guidance Etc using this
name and Prophet Muhammad s Ali wasallam
in order to bind us to this
name and keep Allah constantly in our
day-to-day lives he made the basmah that
is saying bismah or in the name of Allah
he made it a
supplication which we are encouraged to
say before any Act of significance that
we have to do
using Allah's
name also what he has done in our daily
uh acts of worship whether they be
formal or
informal whether we're praising Allah or
whether we're calling on him for a
need was also to include
Allah oh Allah in these various daily
prayers
so what we'll be doing over the next few
episodes is looking at the
various uh circumstances in our
day-to-day lives wherein Prophet
Muhammad Sall alai wasallam prescribed
us using the
basah and prescribed for us to use
Allah now some of these will be familiar
to you as viewers Muslims which you're
already using and a number of them may
not be familiar but in any case what
we're looking at right now is how do
we put this name Allah in our day-to-day
lives of course the goal behind it is to
be more and more conscious of Allah in
this name it becomes a form of
remembrance of Allah
which is the appropriate form that we
spoke about before not the inappropriate
form where we take the name Allah and we
repeat it you know like a person who has
lost his mind he's just babbling Allah
Allah Allah Allah Allah no we we said
already this is not the way it is a
deviant and misguided way it was not
done by Prophet Muhammad may God's peace
and blessing be upon him nor by his
companions and surely if they didn't do
it then it must not be the way because
if we are to claim that this is a valid
way of remembering
Allah and Prophet Muhammad s Ali
wasallam didn't do it what in fact are
we saying but that we have found
something that he didn't
have or that he knew it and he hid it
from his followers
where AA reported that he left us on a
clear
plane that's how that's what he told us
that I left you on a clear white plane
whose day is like it's night anyone who
deviates from that plane from that
Clarity destroys
himself so
as I said we'll be looking at a few of
the daily
recommended uh
basas
Allah which the prophet Sall wasallam
recommended for us the idea being to put
these in our daily lives to use them uh
as frequently as we can the first one
that we'll be looking at is one which
was related
by Abu
Bakr uh the closest companion to Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam and
the first Calif after
him he asked the prophet Salli wasallam
what should he say in the morning and in
the evening he asked him to give
him a supplication which he could use in
the morning and in the evening and the
supplication which the prophet wasallam
gave him was none other than a
supplication beginning with Allah oh
Allah this is the best that the prophet
Sall wasallam had to give
him he told him to say Allah
oh Allah know of the Unseen and the
visible creator of the heavens and the
Earth Lord and the owner of everything I
testify that there is none worthy of
worship but
you I seek refuge in you from the evil
of my soul and the evil of Satan and his
idolatry this was the Dua
which prophet Muhammad wasallam gave
based on the special request of Abu Bakr
it begins with
Allah oh Allah nor of the Unseen and the
visible so this is a Dua which we should
try to learn and to put it in our daily
lives it's in the early morning because
the prophet Salli wasallam said to say
it when you get up in the morning and in
the evening and he also recommended that
it be said even before going to sleep at
night the next uh
supplication is one which everybody
knows basically that before we eat we
should say bismah and this is in a
Hadith which was narrated by
aish that she quot to the prophet S
wasallam as saying
if any one of you eats he should mention
the name of Allah he should say bismah
now this is very simple
bismah and Allah in his Mercy had his
Prophet guide us to this very simple
supplication which when done with
regards to the food that we eat
when we eat regularly at least three
times a day we turn that act of
eating which is normally a mundane
physical act to feed
our systems our bodies keep ourselves
alive and
functioning he gave us a simple formula
which when said turns that simple Act of
eating into an act of worship
and this is something
unique in Islam among the world
religions that we worship Allah while we
eat that act of eating itself becomes an
act of worship of
Allah but of course it is to say
bmah but
also to be sure that what we're eating
is halal because of course if what we're
eating is Haram we're going to be shy to
say bismah before it as a Muslim one
would feel shy to say Bismillah and eat
something which was Haram or drink
something which was Haram so it is a
kind of a reminder for us also that if
we can't say bismah before what we're
eating then we
know we're some we're off we're off the
track we need to get ourselves back in
line so on one hand
the food itself or drink that we're
taking should be
Halal and also it should have been
earned by a Halal
way for this uh Act of eating then to
become an act of
worship
the other point that should be kept in
mind the other point is that when we eat
to keep it as an act of worship we
should also eat
moderately because Prophet M wasallam
had said the believer eats as if he has
only one stomach whereas the disbeliever
eats as if he has seven believer should
therefore eat moderately and he said
that we should eat a third drink a third
and leave a third for breathing so as he
said the worst container that a person
can fill is one's stomach so a Believer
eats moderately he doesn't overeat
controls what he eats he makes sure what
he eats is halal that is permissible
among the things which Allah has made
permissible and at the same time he says
bismah he calls Allah uses Allah's name
before he begins to eat and with that
dear viewers would we've come to the end
of our program so inshallah we'll see
you in the coming program where we'll
continue to look at a variety of other
uh recommended supplications which the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam gave
us to put Allah in our day-to-day
lives
alaykum when you are weak the road seems
long remember just remember seek
strength from