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Al the fashioner is the 18th name in our
list and we'll be looking at this
name first and foremost
to
understand Allah through this
name what does this name indicate in
terms of his
attributes so that we can better
understand him to worship Him in
accordance with his
name then we will look to see how this
name should impact on us as Believers
what relevance does it have to our
day-to-day Day
Life what
lessons what
uh knowledge is there that we can
extract from it that we can use to make
our lives more in keeping with what
Allah wants from us because this is why
Allah revealed these
names Allah told us
all the good excellent beautiful names
belong to Allah so call on him with them
pray to him in accordance with them use
them in our praying to
Allah so the name
Al which is only mentioned in one place
in the Quran
Surah Al again verse
24 he is Allah the Creator the
originator the
fashioner this term
M this name comes from the root
S which means
leaning in the context of Allah the
Divine name
Al means that he creates in whatever
form he wishes he gives his creation
form so it's still an element of
creation as I mentioned
earlier right Al we took already all of
these and all of them relate back to
Creation Al is creating from
nothing
Ali is the only one to do so he is the
originator none others have done it or
can do it Al is the one who when he
creates things he gives it a design he
gives it a form it gives it an image
Etc
so Allah said for example in Surah
inar verse 7
and8 who created you fashioned you in
due proportion and assembled you in
whatever form he wishes this is
Allah is the one that gives us the form
that we
have so how does this knowledge
knowledge of Allah being the form Giver
the fashioner how does it impact on our
faith well what it does is that it
reminds the
believer that the external forms that we
have these external forms came from
Allah subhana
tala there's nothing to be proud about
in them because it's not anything that
we
did we didn't create it this is really
from
Allah so what then is the important
aspect of the human being it isn't the
external that we see that external form
which people tend to be caught up in you
know so and so is handsome so and so is
beautiful everybody wants to be
beautiful and
handsome but what prophet Muhammad
wasallam had said was
indeed Allah does not look at your forms
these forms that he has created you in
he doesn't look at them so what does he
look
at he doesn't look at your forms
nor or your wealth because where did
that wealth come from he gave it to you
you really didn't earn it yeah you think
you went to work and all these kinds of
things and you got it but no
Allah is the one who gave it to you
because there are other people who go to
work doing the same thing that you do
and they don't get
it so why you and not
them this is the decision of
Allah so this is not what makes a
person good pleasing in the sight of
Allah a great human being not because of
how they look or the wealth that they
have what is it as the prophet wasam
went on to
say instead he looks at your hearts and
your Deeds he looks at your hearts and
your
Deeds the hearts which is inside the
chests this is not something people
usually show
off say look I have a nicer heart than
you have no because when you cut people
open doesn't look very
pleasant doesn't matter whose heart it
is the most
beautiful male or female on the earth
their heart looks no more beautiful than
anybody else's
heart in the end it is really what is in
the heart in terms of the faith that is
what distinguishes the people and that's
what Allah looks
at as he said in
indeed the most noble of you are those
who fear Allah the most this is what
this is the this is the principle that
he has given us not the
external from which people are divided
into different forms shapes and sizes
but the internal the heart and what
comes from the heart are the Deeds what
kind of Deeds we do this is what makes a
person a great person a good person the
Deeds that they do and that's why
Prophet Muhammad s wasallam had told us
when it comes to getting
married and that's the beginning of
family life he
said women are married for four reasons
their wealth their lineage their beauty
and their
piety but he
said choose the pious may you be
successful choose the one that's most
Pious that's the one who has it in the
heart that is the most important
thing if you're going to raise a
generation how is it that generation
going to be raised if the heart isn't
good as the prophet wasallam had
said indeed in the body is a clump of
Flesh if it becomes good all of the body
becomes
good and if it goes bad the whole body
goes was
bad indeed it is the
heart this is the essence of the matter
so belief in Allah as Al should bring us
to that reality he is the one that
created the forms so he's not giving us
any special reward for them it's from
him and what we should see when we see
beauty or whatever we see Allah's
greatness
not the greatness of the individual
greatness lies in the quality of that
individual his or her moral
character his or her
faith his or her Deeds what kind of
Deeds are they doing what kind of Life
do they live so this is your basic
uh factor which you use to determine
to distinguish amongst people the status
of the
faith
furthermore
this attribute and and the name which
carries
it
Al should help the believer understand
why Allah has
prohibited images
he is Al he is the one who makes the
images in Islam we
know that prophet Muhammed wasallam
said the people who re receive the most
severe punishment on the day of judgment
are the Image
Makers now our brother others behind the
cameras are looking and
smiling well of course what is
understood from that is that the image
makers are those who actually create
images in the sense that they carve they
paint they draw
Etc that is the understanding of most
scholars in this
regard uh some do hold that even uh the
movie or video or whatever is included
but the majority hold that this is not
the case the point is that these images
that are made that were made in ancient
times carvings drawings Etc they LED
early generations of human beings into
idolatry there's a story which was
related by the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam concerning the people of n
that there were some righteous men am
among them who died and Satan came to
the people and told them that they
should make images of these righteous
people and leave them in the places
where they used to sit and they used to
gather Satan came back to them after
they did that in a later time when they
had forgotten what their parents did it
for and told them that it is because of
their parents' worship of these images
that the crops
were uh good they rain came and life was
well and people then fell into
idolatry with that dear viewers we're
going to take a break and come back to
you after the break looking at the name
al-
mus when are the Road seems long
remember just remember seek strength
from the strong
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when you are weak and the road seems
long remember just remember seek
strength
from
alhamdulillah all praise is due to Allah
and may Allah's peace and blessings be
on the last messenger of Allah we' like
to welcome you dear viewers back to our
program in the names of
Allah in this segment we're looking at
the 18th name of Allah
Al the fashioner one who gives the
creation its form and its
shape and prior to the break we were
looking at uh an element of the impact
of knowledge of this name on the
believer saying that
basically uh this name also informs us
why the making of images by our hands
Etc was prohibited in Islam and it was
basically
to prevent the possibility of idolatry
that's the fundamental element but
there's also that other element in which
the prophet Salli wasallam had referred
when he
said those who try to imitate Allah's
creation and we hear that amongst the
artists you know the great artists that
they have created something which as
they say is greater than
life you know and people have become
attached to these
images so uh Islam made this making of
images of living creatures and beings
prohibited in order to protect the faith
of uh people in general uh especially
those you know who could be
influenced by the attachment and the
love of beautiful or attractive images
which they have been raised
on also belief in this name Al mus
like the names
and they should
create in the heart of the believer a
sense of
awe when they look at the
creation how Allah has made this
creation he has given it form and in
that form is design
meaning the snowflakes that fall how
many snowflakes fall in a year Around
The World God Only Knows but what
scientists have found is that no two
snowflakes look alike when you put that
simple snowflake that you see falling it
doesn't look like anything you put it
under a microscope and you find this uh
object of great design
very
geometric
design and each and every snowlake
carries a different
design these are among the signs which
Allah has
left as Al the one who gives form and
design to things these are among the
signs for them assuring them that there
is a God a creator of this world it is
not a product of accident as some would
have us
believe they say well you know the
chance Collision of atoms and whatever
this is what created this world it's
just by
accident but we say
no when you find
design design indicates a designer
that is a basic principle this is the
argument which was used by Plato logical
argument for the existence of
God designs don't come consistently from
accident meaning if you take a bucket of
paint and you throw it on the
wall it might splatter on the wall and
you say okay that sort of looks like a
hand that sort of looks like a head
maybe like a foot maybe like a person
silhouette you know if you look at it
this way or that way you might be able
to see this right like the
clouds
but if one were to
suggest that we could mix
paints right we mix paints add them into
a bucket the different
colors and take this bucket and throw it
on the wall and end up with Mona Lisa
okay it's the famous painting which
artists love people traditionally from
Europe European backgrounds they adore
this as one of the great works of art
you take that bucket of paint with all
the colors there and throw it on the
wall and end up with a Mona
Lisa
well Common Sense tells you that this is
not going to happen
of course the people who are claiming
that this thing can happen they say well
no if you do it enough times eventually
one time yeah it might happen but Common
Sense tells us the first time that you
try it is no different from the
billionth time it's all the same there
is absolutely no chance for this to
happen absolutely no chance it's just
not going to
happen this is the reality that
everywhere scientists
look
inside the plants inside the animals
inside the earth inside you
know
outside the universe the planets the
solar systems the
galaxies everywhere they look they find
design everywhere they look they find
design
so this cannot be the product of an
accident there is no
way accidents don't produce design all
the time occasionally you might find
some design but no like some people say
dropping an atomic bomb in a
junkyard and it that explosion producing
what the
Rolls-Royce what are the chances of that
happening that's
nonsensical so this issue of Allah being
Al it gives us that sense of confidence
to know that yes this world was
created God
exists proof is there it's quite logical
and reasonable the evidence is there we
don't have to see God to believe in him
just as we don't have to see electricity
or to see
magnetism or to see heat we don't have
to see these things to believe it exists
it's enough for us to perceive its
effects and that's enough to believe
reasonably and logically
really those who claim that uh the world
is a product of an accident
are really the illogical ones they're
the ones who are following what common
sense says completely otherwise the last
point I'd like to raise for us to
reflect on concerning Allah being Al mus
the fashioner and the designer who
gave the creatures their form their
colors their
families their species and all these
different things right if we take it and
look at the probably the most critical
area that of human
beings Allah created us in a variety of
different
forms as he said he did
so that we may know each
other that we may know each other not
that we may despise each other and make
differences and Counting people this way
and that way and we have this thing of
race this person is from that race and
the other race no this is all
nonsense this is not from Allah this is
human beings people made up this whole
concept of race otherwise reality is
that we are one human
race that's the
reality Allah created Adam as he as he
said uh through his
messenger all of you came from Adam and
Adam came from dust that's the bottom
line we're all one family and Allah left
signs amongst us among them a sign for
our times where issues of race would
become a big issue people divide up
people were enslaved as be based on the
issues of race he left a sign in the
blood of human beings we come in a
variety of different blood
groups and these blood groups are not
according to race at
all you may find
somebody
from the
Scandinavia with the whitest of skin
blondest of hair bluest of
eyes
from blood group
a and the rest of the people in that
same Community are b o everything
else and if that person was in need of a
blood transfusion nobody in his or her
community would be able to help them but
you can find somebody else from the
south of India or in Africa who is the
blackest of
black hair
black pupils black skin black
but he is a typ blood and his blood can
save that person from the
north what is that but a proof and a
clear sign that we are one human
race
so this knowledge of Allah being
Al also brings us to that uh conclusion
of a Oneness of the human race we are
all one people and this is what Hajj
tells us that's what we experience
personally and uh those that have been
on Hajj you know this is among the
things that that Amaze them how people
come in so many shapes colors forms Etc
and what brings them all there together
the
faith so Al mus takes us back to this
unifying factor which unifies all of
humankind belief
in God with that dear viewers we like to
thank you for being with us in this
segment of our program in the names of
Allah where we have looked at the 18th
name
Al as a part of the series relating to
the creation
Al Alik the
creators
Al the originator and
al- the
fashioner we hope to see you in our
coming program we'll be looking
at the names related to Allah's quality
of being the oft
forgiving alur Al GA and
Al with that we bid you
fairwell are and the road seems long
remember just remember seek strength
from the strong when life is a burden
and everything is unstable remember just
remember Allah is the able when nothing
makes sense and you're heading for
demise remember just remember Allah is
the wise when the way is cloud
and there's no one by your remember just
remember Allah is the only guide when
your heart is breaking and your pain
makes you fall remember just remember
Allah sees it all when you are weak and
the road seems long remember just
remember seek strength from the strong
when life is a burden and everything is
unstable remember just remember Allah is
the able when nothing makes sense and
you're heading for demise remember just
remember Allah is the wise when the way
is cloudy and there's no one by your
side remember just remember Allah is the
only guide when your heart is breaking
and your pain makes you fall remember
just remember Allah sees it