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remember just remember Allah sees it all
alhamdulillah all praise due to Allah
and may Allah's peace and blessings be
on the last messenger messenger of Allah
I'd like to welcome you dear viewers to
another in our Series in the names of
Allah and we have been
looking at uh Allah's names from the
perspective of understanding them
understanding their
meanings understanding their relevance
to us uh not just what they mean
linguistically but what they mean in
terms of Allah because often times there
is
a a gap
between what the name means
linguistically and what it means when
applied to Allah subhana wa tala so what
we'll be focusing on is obviously what
it means to
allaha and that aids Us in understanding
Allah and in understanding Allah that
should Aid Us in worshiping him because
the basic principle that we are
following following is as Allah had
said the most beautiful names all belong
to Allah so call on him with them
worship him through them so this is what
we are uh trying to uh do by
understanding uh the names how they
relate to allaha then looking into their
relevance to us as human beings where it
is uh possible for us to reflect these
meanings they have an effect on us and
they should be manifest in terms of our
own actions then we do so where they are
limited to Allah tala and there's
nothing of them that we can take on for
ourselves then we praise Allah with them
and that's as far as we
go in this segment we're looking at the
seventh name Al
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and this name is mentioned only twice in
the Quran one of the times is in Surah
Al jum in the first
verse all in the heavens and the Earth
glorifies Allah The Sovereign the holy
the almighty the all
wise the basic meaning of Al
is derived from the
word which means basically pure and
blessed so the Divine name alus
according to the
scholars is that it is refers to one who
is perfectly free from any
deficiency holy in all aspects
now in terms of the believer and how
that name relates to the
believer first and
foremost that
belief the belief that Allah is free
from any weakness or
deficiency should lead the believer to
reject any kind of
references which
would address to him or would attribute
to him any kind of
imperfection some of these we can find
in the Jewish and Christian scriptures
for example and in many of the other
scriptures but just as an example in
Genesis 2 verse two it states there and
on the seventh day God finished his work
which he had done and he rested on the
seventh day from all his work which he
had
done this is the attribution of rest to
Allah
tala this is an Unholy attribute this is
an attribute of his
creatures it is not a per attribute of
perfection it's an attribute of weakness
people rest because of a need to rest so
the attribution the attribution of this
attribute to Allah is totally
inappropriate we also find in Exodus
32:14
and the Lord repented of the evil which
he thought to do to his people
repenting God repenting repenting to
whom this whole issue of repentance this
is for the creatures those who could do
wrong those who went after doing wrong
they turn back to Allah in Repentance
and Allah forgives them of their of
their sin so this is the process of
repentance so it is
inconceivable that that Allah would
repent so we would reject all such uh
texts you know as being either man-made
distorted interpolated whatever but
could not possibly be of a revealed text
from
God also when we reject the
deficiencies we reject
deficiencies which include those made by
Muslims
wherein they share the opinions of
others who look at Islam in a negative
light and say for example that Allah's
laws are
backward they're brutal they're
unjust for a Muslim to agree to that is
to attribute to Allah
deficiency because a backward word law
means that it's not suitable for the
time for our times Allah prescribed
it 1,400 years ago and it's now outdated
not really applicable
today that is a deficiency Allah who
knows the future of human beings he
knows the nature of human beings in
human
society
therefore he shouldn't
have to make laws and then have to
remake them
again he lays down laws which are
suitable for human beings in all times
and all
places so for example people take the
law the Islamic law regarding polygamy
and they look at this as being backward
yes people in the ancient times did it
but it's not suitable to our modern
world and as a result they either add
conditions so they say you can't do it
unless you get your wife's
permission when Allah is already given
permission or they say that you can't do
it you know unless there's something
wrong with your
wife she's sick or something but just to
go and take another wife when your wife
is perfectly in good health this is not
acceptable but this was not the way of
the first generation Prophet Muhammad am
didn't marry additional wives because
his existing wives
were
incapable uh same thing with his
companions Etc so the law for polygamy
is a law which deals with human need
it's not restricted to the time in which
it was
revealed Human
Society has this need it has had this
need since the early EST of
civilizations it is the
norm women outnumber
men and polygamy is the way for the
excess women in the society to find a
home without resorting to being
Mistresses uh
lovers uh prostitutes etc
etc
also among the laws which may be looked
at as brutal
is the death
penalty whether it is by cutting off the
head or however it is
done the general position held by many
Western countries now is that the death
penalty is is brutal it shouldn't be
applied people should lives should not
be taken but this was the revealed
law this was the revealed law from God
and where it is
applied it has the impact in society it
may not be applied properly and so the
impact is not what it should be but we
can see even in a place like America
where the idea of uh you know no death
penalty cancellation of death penalty
exists in some states other states have
chosen not to they continue to apply
it um another example in terms of is the
cutting off of the
hand death penalty maybe is more widely
used it's found in many different
countries in the world but cutting off
the hand maybe it is only in Islamic law
that we have this law today they say
this is brutal you chop off this hand
the hand which God has created that is
very brutal well the bottom line is that
where it is applied in the society it
has a benefit a greater benefit than the
harm to the individual Islam looks at
the overall society as a whole and that
hand is removed to protect the society
so Allah's law is
perfect Allah's law is perfect in this
matter it's not
brutal allowing that person a free hand
to steal in the society and put
everybody else's security at risk
that is
brutal the the the the lives and the the
society which functions with fevery
widespread this is a brutal
Society people get their fingers chopped
off because somebody wants to get a ring
from your finger people are knocked down
beat up for their shoes that they're
wearing or the jacket that they're
wearing I mean this is brutality this is
the real brutality and that's happening
in the societ societies that don't apply
this law so Islam when it prescribes the
removal of a person's hand this is to
protect the society from the greater
harm of that individual and it's not
just for any
individual see because when the law is
applied one has to be aware one has to
be conscious that this law is not just
applied for each and every person
anybody who steals anything there are
conditions if a person steals something
which is a part of public property
meaning he owns a part of it from a
library from a public bus or something
like this then his hand is not going to
be cut off he may be punished in some
other way jailed whatever fined but his
hand won't be cut off similarly if
somebody drops something on the ground
and he picks it up takes it his hand
won't be cut off for that either that
there was Temptation so he took
it his hand will be cut off if he picks
a pocket because to pick a pocket you
know this is not something that
Temptation came this is something a
person trains for he trains for it and
he takes uh this with skill with skill
so this is the hand that is cut off the
hand of the professional
Thief with that de viewers we're going
to take a brief break here and we'll be
seeing you after the
break when you are weak the road seems
remember just remember seek strength
from the
strong my name is Shi and this is
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today's edition we'll be discussing
about the day and night Allah equated a
s with Darkness the firmament with
darkness and equated the Earth with
light why are there really pillars that
cannot be seen or is it an unseen pillar
everything is running but the
relationships are fixed yes so that it
would appear to people as if nothing is
running you see we are destroying the
our environment with our own hands and
that's why thean
says seek
streng
alhamdulillah all praise 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
program in the names of Allah prior to
the break we were looking at one of the
aspects or the impacts of belief in this
name
alus what impact it should have on the
life of the believer we said
that it should lead him or her to reject
the statements and the arguments of
those who would describe Allah's laws as
being deficient
for him to be holy the holy the one free
from defect
deficiency
weakness lack of
wisdom
backwardness
brutality these types of attributes are
totally
unacceptable so the believer when he
hears these things mentioned somebody
says as we said before that polygamy is
a backward law Muslims shouldn't
practice it we say no Allah prescribed
it it has benefits for society until the
last day of this world we said also the
death penalty we were speaking about
that now we spoke about cutting off the
hand of the
thief that there is benefit in it
benefit which benefits the the society
as a whole sure for that individual who
loses his hands it is something harmful
to him but the idea aidea of directing
an amount of harm to an individual to
save the greater Society this is wisdom
this is wisdom and this is why Allah has
prescribed it similarly the uh issue of
female proportions in The Inheritance
laws people say today it is
unjust how you're going to give a woman
half of what you give a man
when their parents die why should that
be woman is equal to a man because this
is the way that people are now looking
at society as a whole whereas Islam the
Quran states that the woman gets half
that of a male uh relative her brother
you know when they're dividing up and
this is not in all cases but in
specifically son and daughter some other
cases but not in each and every case
anyway but even if we take those cases
where this takes place we have to
understand that law within the context
of Islamic uh family UH
responsibilities in a society where
people are on their own a male looks
after himself females look after
themselves the males have no
responsibility for females then for us
to apply such a law would seem unjust
each person is responsible for himself
so why should the males get doubled out
of the females whereas in Islamic
Society the male is responsible for the
female so uh father a man is either a
father is responsible for his daughter a
brother is responsible for his sister a
son is responsible for his mother you
know every position a husband is
responsible for his wife every every
position in which there's a relationship
between a man and a and a woman the man
is held
responsible that is Islamic law the man
is required to look after his daughter
until she gets married and leaves the
home a brother if parents are dead a
brother is required to look after his
sister until she gets married and goes
on her own with her husband
a son is required to look after his
mother if the father dies there's nobody
to look after her her father is dead he
is responsible to look after his mother
fully
completely so the male always is in a
position where he's responsible for a
female as a husband he must provide and
maintain his wife she doesn't have to
work her resp responsibility is to look
after the home and the children his
responsibility is to provide a place for
her so when we look at that division of
things of inheritance within that
context then we can see it's quite
reasonable a portion of the inheritance
is divided equally between the Son and
the daughter but then an additional
portion is given to the son based on the
fact that he is responsible for a sister
or for his mother for his daughter if he
has one right so that additional portion
is for the additional responsibility so
that law is not unjust it is perfectly
just it is perfectly Fair it may not be
equal but equal is not always just equal
can be unjust and unfair in some
circumstances the second effect that
belief in in Allah's
name
Al should have is that Allah's
Purity also
affirms the truth of all that he informs
his
creatures as Allah said in Surah verse
87 whose speech is more truthful than
allahs thus it should serve to remove
any doubts that the believer might have
in his mind regarding anything which
Allah
promises even if what he has promised is
Bel Beyond his or her
comprehension for example Allah promises
in
Surah can the reward for good be other
than
good one may receive an evil consequence
for a good deed and be discouraged from
doing further
good so one questions where is the good
for the good the fact that we cannot see
good doesn't mean it isn't there our
belief in Allah as being the pure and
the holy should give us the
confidence in what he has told us he has
promised that the reward for good is
good so even if what we see in front of
us appears to be evil know that there is
good behind
it the third effect of this
belief in the Divine name
alus is that it confirms the very
purpose of life for the believer because
the creation of life without
purpose would be an act of
folly a senseless
act creation of life without a purpose
as anything in this world when somebody
does something and has no purpose behind
it we say the person has done a
senseless act a foolish act something
silly somebody knocks on your door and
you open the door and you ask them who
do you want they say they don't know you
asked them why do you knock on my door
said you don't know say obviously this
person has lost it this not a sensible
person person doing acts without reason
behind it so Allah tells us
in do you think I created you aimlessly
and that you will not be returned to me
this is Allah's reminder that there is
purpose here and we need to know that
purpose and live in accordance with the
purpose those who fall into uh the
rejection of religion as man-made
they've fallen into this
trap they feel that yes there is a God
but all religions people made them up
men are interpreting them so they're uh
you
know male biased you know male male
chauvinist or whatever but they believe
in God but they say we don't believe in
religion but what does that mean it
means then what is our purpose well
everybody has to find his own
purpose then this is
confusion we are created in this world
and Allah didn't tell us the purpose for
which we were created isn't that
something
inconceivable I mean if we think of
having for example a factory and we hire
workers to come and work in the
factory but we don't tell them what
their jobs are in the factory so they
come to the fact and they just aimlessly
walk around because they don't know what
they're supposed to do there we' say
that this is
mismanagement this isn't wise that's
silly the wise manager he makes sure
everybody who comes to work has a job
description he knows exactly what he's
supposed to do there what his purpose is
Allah is beyond all of that he didn't
create his creatures and not inform them
what their purpose is here so believing
in Allah as being Al is believing
that he is free from such actions which
are aimless therefore there is clear
purpose we need to know it and live in
accordance with it fourthly belief that
Allah is perfect and free from any
deficiencies should also lead the
believer to know that his speech his
laws his Divine decrees are all
perfect so the believer would strive to
see perfection in them and even if he
can't see it or she can't see it they
believe that it is perfect and that
keeps their faith
intact now to some degree this name has
been
misused we find the title given to the
Quran as the Holy
Quran but this is in fact really an
inappropriate
description instead what we find in the
Quran is that Allah refers to the Quran
as Al Quran Kim
the noble Quran or Quran the Glorious
Quran Quran the Magnificent Quran
Quran the mighty Quran these are the
descriptions which Allah gave to the
Quran but not alus he didn't give the
term holy to the Quran so this usage
really is
inappropriate and really it is uh
Muslims being affected by the common
practice this among Christians to call
their scripture the Holy Bible so they
Muslims not to be outdone call the Quran
the Holy Quran but it's not really
appropriate but if somebody said to you
what is your holy book we don't say we
don't have a holy book we say our holy
book is the Quran it is the
Quran but we don't call it the Holy
Quran also giving the prophet wasam the
title the holy prophet this is also
inappropriate in closing I just like to
mention that Prophet Muhammad s Ali
wasallam also use the name alus in
prayer and Aisha reported that whenever
he was in in position of bowing and
prostrating he used to
say free and pure from defects lord of
the angels and the spirit and when he
completed
the Witter prayer at night he used to
also
say
sub subh
Malik subh
Malik glory be to the holy king so this
is the way that the prophet Sall
wasallam used to pray with this name
alus and as such We should strive to do
the same 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'll continue in the next
segment uh with uh the
name and we hope inshallah that you will
be with
us when are weak and the road seems long
remember just remember seek strength
from the strong