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remember just remember Allah sees it all
alham all praise due to Allah and may
Allah's peace and blessings be and the
last messenger of Allah I'd like to
welcome you dear viewers to another in
our Series in the names of
Allah in these uh various episodes we
are looking at the meaning of Allah's
names and we're looking at how those
names are relevant to us as Believers
what do they mean in the sense of the
impact that they should have on us on
our faith and also to what degree we are
able to reflect them we're doing it
based on Allah's
statement to Allah belongs all of the
beautiful names so call on him with
them worship him through
them so this is the focus of our program
in this segment we'll be looking at the
name Al
this is the ninth in the series of names
that we'll be looking
at now this the Divine name al- is
mentioned only once in the Quran in
Surah alash 59th chapter verse
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23 The Sovereign the holy the besto of
Peace the granter of
security the basic meaning of
al- is derived
from a root which has
two uh possible
forms either from Iman or from
Aman both of these are possible sources
for the meaning of
Al as
such the root
Iman the meaning of it is belief and
confidence and in the case of Aman the
meaning is security and safety so the
name will obviously contain both
elements so relative to Allah tala the
Divine name means the one who assures
his creatures that he will not deal
unjustly with
them and your lord will not oppress
anyone it is also said to mean that he
is the bestower of security from his
punishment he's the one who can provide
security for The Believer from
punishment which he would
face if
he commits sins if he has disobeyed
Allah Etc and of course of course Allah
can provide that Security based on him
doing certain things of course the
security will not be an arbitrary
security Allah gives that security to
particular
individuals as he said in Surah namal
verse
89 whoever brings a good deed will have
better than it in
reward and they will be secure from the
terror on that day so Allah tells us
here what will bring the
security that is in his name
Al Good Deeds this is the
guarantee if we do good deeds meaning
the Good Deeds which Allah has
prescribed because of course people can
say I'm doing good deeds
but these were not what Allah
prescribed a person for example
celebrating the birthday of the Prophet
Sall Ali wasallam feels that he's doing
a good deed this is something which is
good I'm celebrating the prophet's
birthday that's a good deed however the
point of the matter is that Prophet
Muhammad may God's peace and blessing be
upon Him didn't celebrate his
birthday he used to fast on Mondays
and when he was asked why he fast on
Mondays he said that was the day I was
born so he fasted on
Mondays one of the reasons was because
he was born on Monday so if we want
truly to celebrate his birthday then
fast on Mondays every Monday not a
particular Day in the year this was not
his way he didn't choose a particular
Day in the year once a year when he
celebrated supposedly his birthday he
didn't do it nor did his companions they
didn't do it either so that as good as
people might perceive it it isn't a good
deed because Prophet Muhammad wasallam
had
said I didn't leave anything which would
bring you closer to Allah that is any
good thing obviously I didn't leave any
good thing which would bring you closer
to Allah without telling you to do
it it's all been
told the message is complete as Allah
said today I've have completed your
religion so when Allah revealed that
verse whatever was not a part of
religion at that
time can never be a part of the
religion that is the sense of shity that
we should feel whatever was not a part
of the religion in the lifetime of
prophet Muhammad S.I wasallam can never
be a part of the religion if we take a
path other than that then we will end up
with a religion other than the one which
he brought and that is what happened to
others like Christians the religion that
they follow today it has no relationship
with the religion which Jesus
brought no
relationship because of the fact that
they didn't have the principle of
sticking to exactly what Jesus brought
not that he didn't teach them to do that
but because they were lacks the religion
went to areas that for this historical
reasons now that uh people um tried to
compromise it for the sake of promoting
it and it
suffered the main day of worship which
Jesus gathered with people to worship
was the Sabbath Saturday it wasn't
Sunday where did Sunday come from well
when people were trying to promote
Christianity among the Romans in the
Roman Empire they the day which was the
popular day of worship for a particular
god Apollo was Sunday Sunday was set why
because Apollo for the Roman pagans was
the son God he was the son of the main
god Zeus but he was also the son God
meaning according to their belief he
would get on his Chariot and he would
ride across the sky and bring the sun
behind him so that's how the Sun would
get from one side to the other that was
Apollo
riding so people used to worship him on
Sunday that's where the name Sunday
comes from the day for the worship of
the sun god
Apollo so in order to try to promote
Christianity among the
Romans and already by the time it
reached Rome it had changed quite a bit
from what Jesus brought anyway but it
took another turn since the Romans were
believing that God had a son Apollo
popular God and he was worshiped on
Sunday they said yeah God has a son but
his name is really
Jesus and they sh Ed the day from the
Sabbath the Saturday to
Sunday they thought they were doing a
good thing but it wasn't a good thing it
was an evil thing and it was part of
changing the religion which Jesus
brought so similarly for
Muslims we can attain the security of
law on the day of judgment when there
will be no other security but that which
he gives
by doing good deeds as many as we can
but we have to keep in mind that a good
deed has to be one prescribed by
God either in his book or through his
messenger this are the true Good Deeds
other good
deeds not in accordance with what God
has taught and what the prophet
brought these are not considered to be
true Good
Deeds so if we want to gain that
security we have to do it through the
good deeds
which allaha
prescribed now when we look at the issue
of the effects of this belief belief in
the Divine name
Al what is its relevance to us how
should it affect
us that Allah is the source the true
source of
security what that should do is it
should encourage the believer to face
the trials that he or
she is going to find in this life once
they try to practice Islam and to convey
it to
others this was the way of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam his way was
to implement Islam in his life and and
to convey it to others and he told
us convey whatever you have learned from
me even though it be a single verse of
the Quran that's the duty of every
Muslim to convey Islam to others doesn't
means pushing it down their throats
forcing them to believe no it means
conveying the message letting them know
letting them be aware of The Message of
Islam and of course Allah tells
us
call to the way of your Lord with wisdom
and fair preaching with
wisdom so it should be done in a wise
way not just pushing things in people's
faces you know insisting Etc but making
the information available in a pleasant
way so if a person accepts that Legacy
the legacy of the prophets
to live Islam and to convey it to others
then he is going to find trials in this
life difficulties are going to be there
he's going to run into all kinds of
problems which come from the forces that
seek to prevent the spread of Islam the
spread of the truth so he has to now be
patient this is the test if he wants the
security then he has to know Allah is
the source of Ultimate Security so he
needs to be patient with these trials
and Allah will find a way for him as
Allah
said whoever truly fears him in their
hearts in their
actions in their lives Allah will make a
way out for them that is the promise of
Allah and that is the security that
comes
from
Al we're taking a break now we hope to
see you again after the
break when you are weak the road seems
long remember just remember seek
strength from the
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God Almighty subhanahu wa taala
glorified is he is talking to us the
scholars are telling us God Is So near
if you want to talk to God go to pray as
soon as you say like this allahar you
are with him he is attentive to
you when you are are weak and the road
seems long remember just remember seek
strength from the strong
alhamdulillah all praise due to Allah
and may Allah's peace and blessings be
on the last messenger of Allah we
welcome you back dear viewers from the
break in our
program in the names of Allah in this
segment we have been looking at the
ninth name of Allah
al- Al the one who grants security and
peace and we're talking about the effect
that this name should have on us as
Believers when we reflect on Allah
through this
name and we said that we should take
from it a sense of
security that Allah subhana tala if we
have done what he has asked us to do
that he will
give us the security and protection that
we
need we said
that
allaha has given us the responsibility
as he gave the prophets before us the
responsibility to practice Islam and to
convey it to
others once we have accepted that Legacy
then we find trials that is the nature
of the way we look into the lives of the
prophets and that's what we we see
trials in fact when one of the
companions asked the prophet s wasallam
who in this world receives the most
trials oh messenger of Allah he said the
prophets then those like them then those
like them
so the key is what keeps them
going in the face of all of these trials
it is Allah's name
Al the fact that he provides us with
security to get us
through if we look in the life of the
prophets in the past or we look in the
life of the prophets in the future the
prophet Prophet Jesus who is to come
back we see Allah granting that security
in the past we see in the cases of Moses
Prophet
Moses that his mother was given security
regarding him from what she feared
Pharaoh was slaying the newborn children
and her child was to be slain also but
she was instructed to put the child in a
basket and put it in the river in the
Nile and that seemed like throwing him
away but Allah brought him back to her
for her to
breastfeed and security was granted to
her also we find that in the case of
prophet
Abraham conveying the
message breaking the idols of his people
the people at first realizing when he
answered when they asked who did this
and he said the biggest one can't you
see he's got the axe around his neck
people they realize this no no couldn't
be him because they can't do that so he
said well how can you believe in them if
they're not able to do it these
things so at
first they heard what he said the
message got through to them but they
didn't want it they prefer to stick with
their Customs they said listen we have
to protect our
Idols prophet Abraham of course they
didn't call him a prophet he had to be
punished so they made a huge bonfire
threw him
in Allah provided security for him Allah
provided security for him the fire
didn't burn
him this is not to say that if you and I
are tested
today and they throw us in a fire and
our faith is good and strong we're not
going to get burnt because we
know in the story of the people of the
ditch they were thrown in the
fire but they were burnt and at the same
same time Allah would reward them they
the security for them is not that they
were saved from the fire and when the
mother one of the women who were to go
into the fire she hesitated because she
had a
child and the child spoke to her a
miracle child spoke to her and told her
not to hesitate she jumped in the fire
and we also know in the time of deal to
come when uh deal will be
making a fitna creating a major trial
for
people calling people to believe in him
as
God and he will cut a man in half walk
between the halves then call the man and
he comes back
together and the man theal will ask him
now do you believe that I am God and he
says no he won't believe it so he will
take him try to cut off his head not
able to he will take him then and throw
him into the fire that is there with him
because theal will have following him a
river which looks like a river from
Paradise cool white and a river which
looks like a river from Hell A River of
fire so he'll take him and throw him in
there and people will see him burnt up
but the prophet Salli wasallam said that
man will be going into
Paradise that water appear to be his
fire is actually the door to Paradise
what appears to his paradise is actually
a door to
hell
so let's not assume that what happened
to Abraham is going to happen to us but
the point is the belief the belief Allah
will provide security he did it in the
past for the
prophets and as we mentioned he will do
it in the future he is not bound by time
but he does it in his own way don't
expect what
happened uh for prophet Abraham
necessarily to happen to us if we're put
in the same
situation in the
future we are not we are told by Prophet
Muhammad wasallam that Prophet Isa
Prophet Jesus after he defeats the deal
he kills the deal then Allah lets loose
the Gog and the
Magog two tribes that will come and
devastate the Earth
nothing will be able to stop them even
Prophet Jesus and his people cannot so
he has to take refuge in in a fortress
in Mount
T and there Prophet Jesus makes Dua he
prays ask Allah's protection because
there's nothing they can do against the
Gog and the
MOG and that night Allah sends worms
that will bore their way into the back
of the heads of the the Gog and the
Magog and they will die out
finish
end and Jesus and his followers will
come out that is the safety which Allah
gave for
Jesus on the other
hand with regards to effects of the
belief in the Divine names the believer
should reflect on Allah's promise of
security for their sincere belief in
their own lives with regards to other
believers and non-believers
Allah
said those who believed and did not
pollute their faith with
idolatry will have security and right
guidance that is the promise of Allah
tala and the prophet
wasallam also instructed us with regards
to the
consequences of how we deal with those
around us as we seek security from
allaha we should also provide that
security to those around us so Prophet M
wasallam had
said one whose neighbor is not safe from
his harm will not enter
Paradise so as we receive security we're
required to provide it to those around
us security to our neighbors that is the
closest person to us whether they're
Muslim or they're non-muslim they should
be secure from our harm there should be
no harm coming to us as a result of
being their neighbor Prophet wasallam
had said by Allah he does not believe
three times he repeated it and when he
was asked who is that he said the one
whose heart har from whose harm his
neighbor is not safe so Islam stressed
the importance of the neighbor looking
after our neighbors so much so in some
narrations that the prophet Sall
wasallam said he thought that Allah was
going to make the neighbor one of our
inheritors we have to look after our
neighbors provide security for them and
they provide security for
us this is essential for society to be
secure
where people don't care about their
neighbors are not conscious of their
neighbors and don't provide security for
them then the societies
crumbles people don't want to have
anything to do with those around them
there are places in the west where
people live in huge buildings thousands
of people in single buildings and nobody
knows their neighbors nobody knows who
is next to them people die in their
homes and nobody even knows until the
smell comes under the door finally they
call the fire department they come break
down the door they go and they find the
person dead inside there nobody knew
what happened to
him
also there was an article which uh I
found in the paper many years ago back
in the early
80s it stated this is from the
Associated Press in
London it said a young woman screamed
for help for 25 minutes as she was raped
battered and strangled in London late
Friday night but neighbors said they did
nothing because fighting and screams are
frequent here she was beaten to death in
the street raped beaten to death in the
street so much so that when the police
went to look at the case they weren't
even sure you know whether she was 15 or
30 they said she was somewhere between
15 and 30 she was beaten beyond
recognition broad daylight screaming top
of her lungs people don't want to get
involved that's what happens when
neighborliness concern and security with
the neighbor is
gone so
Muslims have to keep this point in mind
our neighbors our neighborhoods very
important as we reflect on this name of
Allah
Al we should recognize not only only
that we seek peace and security from
Allah and we will get it as long as
we're doing the right thing but that
also we should convey that peace and
security to the society around us that
our neighbors should be safe from any
harm coming from us as we should be safe
from any harm coming from them with that
dear viewers I'd like to thank you for
being with us in another in our Series
in the names of
allaham alaykum when you are we and the
road seems long remember just remember
seek strength from