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alhamdulillah all praise is due to Allah
and may Allah peace and blessings beyond
the last messenger of
Allah we welcome you dear viewers to
another in our Series in the names of
Allah in the previous episodes we
completed looking at the greatest name
of Allah none other than Allah
itself what we'll be doing in this
episode is to be looking at two names of
Allah Alman
and
Alim because of the fact that they come
from the same root and they carry
basically the same meaning and actually
we'll be doing this uh to a number of
other names uh throughout the program
where they share a common root and the
differences between them are very fine
then rather than taking each one
separately we'll combine them in into
one segment we will look at them and the
differences between them but we will
treat them together uh in one segment of
the names of
Allah so as we said name number two and
three is
Alman and
Alim translated as the
beneficent and the most
merciful in terms of the Quran where we
can find it in the Quran because as we
said the names of Allah which are
acceptable will be those that can be
extracted from the Quran or the Sunnah
we said that they're not
uh subject to our human interpretation
human uh deductions Etc otherwise we
will come up with names which Allah did
not
intend so we restrict ourselves to those
found in the Quran and the Sunnah so
what we'll be dealing with the first set
of names that we'll be looking at are
those that are mentioned exclusively in
the Quran or they may be also mentioned
in the Sunnah but we can find them all
in the Quran when we complete the number
of names that are available in the Quran
then we'll go on to the Sunnah to look
at names not found in the Quran but
found in the
Sunnah so these two names Alman and arim
are found in the Quran in a number of
different places in the case of the name
arahman it is found 57 times in the
Quran among the verses we can find in
Surah maram the 19th Chapter verse 93
in which Allah
says all in the heavens and the Earth
come to God the
beneficent as a
servant and uh in terms of
arim we can find Allah saying inah Bak
for example verse 54
indeed he is the oft forgiving the most
merciful and also inah
fa the second verse after
alhamdulillah
is so they're both there also anyway in
terms of the
meaning both names come from the the
Arabic root rahma which means mercy and
both of them are what are called
intensive forms of the present
participle the original form Rahim
becomes Rahman and
raheim now both of them fundamentally
we're saying means merciful but there
are some subtle differences between the
two uh particularly when we look at it
in relationship to Allah subhana wa
ta'ala in term terms of the
technical uh grammatical or
lexical uh definition or opinions
regards to Rahe and Rahman Rahman is
looked at as being a more intensive form
than Rahim because the Intensive forms
uh depending on the number of letters
that that constitute them the more
letters the more intensive they're
considered to be and Rahman has more
letter letters than
Alim but in terms of the understanding
with regards to
allaha the general explanation which is
commonly given and most people are
familiar with it is that Rahman is one
who possesses complete Mercy for the
creatures of this world and for the
Believers in the
next covering in both
worlds this world and the next whereas
Rahim is more specific for the Believers
on the day of
judgment that's the most common uh
explanation which is given with regards
to the difference between the two
however there's a verse in Surah bakar
verse
143 which creates a problem for this
interpretation that's the verse in which
Allah says
indeed Allah is compassionate and
merciful to people so this is a general
verse using the attribute Rahim in
regards to everyone not specifically to
the Believers so that uh previous
definition works fine to a certain
degree but it has its problems a more
accurate uh distinction between the two
can be found in terms of how they are
used in describing Allah in the case
ofman this is a description of Allah's
essence of him in character
himself whereas
Rahe describes his actions and if one
looks at the various verses in the Quran
where these two terms are used you'll
find it Con consistently being used in
this way that
whenever Allah uses the term
Alman he will use it uh not as a
description of his
actions
whereas we will see it in that way for
example inah verse
43 and he is merciful to the Believers
you'll not find Rahman being used in a
similar way instead you find Rahman
being used in a way equivalent to
Allah's name the greatest name Allah for
example we find
inah where Allah says
there say call on Allah or call on the
most
merciful whoever you call on the most
beautiful names belong to him so it's
used in the same way as as Allah is a
name given to Allah describing Allah in
his Essence not his actions similarly
Alman is used in the same
way whereas Rahim for example we find
even used to describe the prophet in
Surah TBA verse 1 28 we find Allah
saying there describing the prophet
wasallam that Prophet Muhammad wasallam
was concerned about you and
compassionate and merciful to the
Believers so uh the name all Allah and
Rahman are given as
equivalents and Rahman is used as a name
to describe Allah in general and it's
never used to describe any one other
than Allah whereas Rahim is used to
describe the prophet wasallam and in
general when it's used in regards to
Allah it's used to describe his
actions now to understand uh this name
of Allah because we said that as we
strive to worship Allah through his
names as he said
to Allah belongs all the beautiful names
so call on him with them worship him
through them we said it started by
understanding the meaning of the
name then understanding it with regards
to Allah's creatures I mean
understanding the meaning in and of
itself then we go to look at it with
regards to Allah's creatures and what we
see in terms of the creation and Allah's
Mercy is that his Mercy is vast it
encompasses everything and he states
that himself
inah verse
156 my Mercy
encompasses everything so
whatever exists in this world exists
within the mercy of Allah whether we're
talking about the righteous and the
unrighteous people and the Jin whether
we're talking about Believers or
disbelievers where in the heavens or in
the Earth all creatures all beings that
have an understanding and can choose the
sentient beings all of them function
within the mercy of Allah subh tala
however we did say as we said before
there is a special element of Allah
Mercy which is reserved for the
Believers on the day of
judgment and that
element is actually the greater element
of Allah's Mercy there is a Hadith uh
which prophet Muhammad related in which
he said indeed when Allah created Mercy
he created it in 100 Parts he kept 99
Parts with himself and released one part
into the world for his whole creation by
it they have compassion and mercy among
themselves with it the wild animals have
compassion for their
offspring so much so that the Beast
lifts its hoof from its Offspring for
fear of trampling it and Allah delays 99
parts to show Mercy to his servants on
the day of Resurrection
that is something really
amazing the greater portion of Allah's
Mercy is saved for the Believers on the
day of
judgment but what that single portion
one out of 100 is enough to govern and
cover all aspects of Allah's
creation so much so that the wild
animal will spare its
Offspring with that dear viewers we're
going to take a break and we'll be
coming back to further look at
this immense this tremendous attribute
of Allah the attribute of
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strength alhamdulillah
I welcome you back dear viewers to our
Series in the names of
Allah and in this segment of our series
we're looking at two of Allah's
names which are related to his vast
Mercy
Alman and
Alim before the break we looked at it
from a linguistic
perspective and we began following the
that to look at its General meaning with
regards to Allah and we said that the
name Alman refers to Allah's Essence
whereas the name Rahim refers to or is
used to refer to his actions and then we
started to look at the vastness of
Allah's Mercy as he
said my Mercy encompasses everything
Surah verse 156 but then Prophet
Muhammad wasallam went on to elaborate
on this to give us an even deeper
picture of the vastness of Allah's Mercy
he said that Allah created Mercy in a
100
parts and 99 Parts he kept for the
Believers on the day of judgment and one
part he sent into this world and that
one part is the basis of people uh being
compassionate with each other loving
each other all of the love Etc that
exist in the world so much so that even
the wild animal has Mercy on its
Offspring it has compassion towards its
Offspring and that's something that it's
worth reflecting on um why a wild animal
which we know is so vicious you come in
its presence a lion or a tiger a leopard
will tear you to
pieces without without any
hesitation not because it's angry at you
but that's just its nature as a wild
animal and a carnivorous animal it will
eat when it food is presented to it and
it's hungry it will eat
whatever yet it has
Offspring and it doesn't eat its own
offspring what stops it from eating its
own offspring that's really something
amazing if one just stops to think about
it and as the prophet wasallam mentioned
that the animal those that have hoofs
like a horse or uh a camel or whatever
these are the animals when they give
birth and their offspring is small and
it's drinking from them whatever
drinking milk you know it is careful not
to trample its Offspring what stops it
from doing that what gives it that care
and concern that same horse if it was a
wild horse for example you would not be
able to ride it it's not controlled it's
not uh tame you know so it's wild but
with its Offspring it's
careful and that is from the one part of
Allah's Mercy which he has put in the
world that even the wildest of animals
cares has compassion for its offspring
furthermore if we look at uh Allah's
Mercy from the perspective
of his anger and his Mercy what we find
is that the vastness of his
Mercy puts the puts precedence on his
Mercy over his anger and this is based
on Allah's statement when he said in a
number of places in the Quran describing
himself settling on the throne he
said for example in Surah tah verse 5
the most merciful is established on his
throne Allah brings together
two attributes or two
qualities one the throne it's not an
attribute of Allah but it is an
attribute of his creation you know one
of the parts of his creation which he
has made the vastest and the greatest of
his
creation so much so that the prophet
Sall wasallam had
said
describing the whole of Creation in
relationship to the foot
stol foot stol Which is less than the
throne the prophet Sall wasallam said
that the whole of creation the whole
universe everything that exists in
relation ship to the foot stool is like
a brass ring thrown in the middle of a
boundless
desert a vast desert as it falls it is
invisible you can't even see
it
and the foot stool in relationship to
Allah's Throne is also
like a brass ring thrown into a
boundless
desert so what are we talking about here
in terms of the throne the vastness of
the throne is
incomprehensible it is the
greatest part of Allah's
creation so Allah in these verses where
he talks about establishing himself on
his throne being established on the
throne settling on the throne
he uses on one hand the biggest and
greatest aspect of his creation and then
he describes himself
as he uses his greatest attribute which
is most allinclusive and comprehensive
Alman his Mercy which covers everything
so when he put these two things
together talking about the vastness of
his throne which sits over all of his
creation and then combines that with his
Mercy he is emphasizing to us that the
Dominion which is his in its vastness is
encompassed by his Mercy in its totality
there is no aspect of that Creation The
Creation in which we live that is not
touched by the mercy of Allah that is
how vast it is this is what we're
talking about now not only does Allah
inform us that but he make he takes a
step
further and based on the implications of
that relation
ship him
being the most
merciful the all merciful in all
inclusive in his
Mercy which covers the whole of his
Dominion he writes for himself he
records for
himself
that Mercy would be an OB obligation on
himself stressing precedence given to
Mercy so he said in Surah 6th chapter
verse
54 your lord has ordained on himself
Mercy he has ordained it on himself why
because no one could make it obligatory
on
Allah no one can command Allah to do
anything nor can anyone one prevent him
from doing
anything no one can prevent him
so the Precedence given to his Mercy
this is by his own choice he chooses to
give precedence to it
over all else and in particular over his
anger because that's the
opposite his Mercy he's
merciful and he's
angry upset with whatever is done
against his commands which he permits
because of course we cannot do anything
without him allowing us to do
it but Prophet Muhammad wasallam
elaborated on this
verse your lord has ordained on himself
Mercy he
said as narrated by Abu hura when Allah
created the
creation he wrote in his book obliging
himself indeed my Mercy Will Conquer my
anger and it is placed near him on the
throne indeed my Mercy Will Conquer my
anger and it was placed with him on the
throne
so Allah has obliged himself made an
obligation on himself that his Mercy
would
precede his
anger that is an expression of the
vastness of his mercy so somebody could
then ask as they do
ask if that is the case why does his
Mercy Allah's Mercy not cause him to
release the do Med Souls from
Hell doesn't those Souls who are going
to be in Hell
forever burning in Hell
forever isn't that indicative that his
anger in this
case precedes or conquers his
Mercy that is a question which is
commonly
asked and it's something worth
reflecting on
why is Allah's Mercy only limited to a
certain area or certain group or
whatever well in this sense
yes his Mercy does include people who
end up in
hell
because he does remove from hell some
people who are doomed there there's a
narration from the prophet wasallam
which was collected by Abu
Al in which he said
that
Allah after the Angels had interceded
and The Messengers had interceded and
the Believers had interceded and no one
remained to intercede except the most
merciful of the
merciful he will then take a hand
handful from the fire and bring out of
it people who never did any good and who
had been turned into charcoal and cast
them into a river called the River of
Life on the outskirts of paradise they
will Sprout as seeds from the
silt carried by the
flood this is the promise of the Prophet
so Allah's Mercy even reaches the
inhabitants of hell
anyway dear viewers we're going to stop
here and uh continue in our next episode
we'll continue to look at this idea
because it does work need a little more
uh reflection uh to answer this
particular question but fundamentally
Allah's Mercy as he said encompasses
everything and it precedes his anger and
this is the greatness of those Divine
names
Alman Alim
with that dear viewers I bid you all
farewell and I hope to see you in our
next
episode when you are weak the road seems
long remember just remember seek
strength from the