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alhamdulillah all praise is due to Allah
and Allah's peace and blessings beond
the last messenger of
Allah we welcome you back dear viewers
to another in our Series in the names of
Allah in our previous episodes we have
covered the first three names that we'll
be covering in this
series Allah the greatest name of Allah
then Alman and we look to them together
because of their sheared quality
uh the shared origin of those names
being rahma or the mercy of
allaha and we looked at those attributes
in the case of Allah we looked at how we
could call on Allah by it as Allah had
said in the
Quran all the beautiful names belong to
Allah so call on him with them worship
him through them so in the case of Allah
we looked at how the name Allah was used
by the prophet may God's peace and
blessing be upon him in the Sunnah in a
variety of different
circumstances from the
day-to-day uh prayers and supplications
we made before the ordinary things that
we do in a day whether we're leaving the
house whether we're sitting down for a
meal going to the bathroom going to our
wives husbands and wives um all the
various activities of the day there were
a variety of different supplications
which the prophet may God's peace and
blessing be upon Him prescribed
beginning with bismah we take that name
of Allah and we put it with bismi in the
name of Allah and also Allah oh Allah
calling on Allah by his greatest name we
looked at a variety of different prayers
which the prophet Salli wasallam gave us
from going to sleep at night getting up
in the morning in the mornings in the
evenings we also looked at
General uh duas which prophet s wasallam
made seeking Refuge from Evil
characteristics and we began those duas
all of them with
Allah we even looked at how to exercise
to remove
evil spirits from human beings who may
be possessed and we talked about that at
some length and the duas which are
recommended by the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam beginning with
bmah and we looked also at the
attribute uh of uh
rahma in the next set of episodes and
how that should be practiced by a Muslim
how he should understand understand the
vastness of Allah's mercy and then we
looked at how it should be reflected in
his life how he should show Mercy to
others as the prophet sallam had
said whoever does not show Mercy will
not be shown Mercy we are now moving on
to the next major
attribute and this is actually a
combination of three attributes or three
names of Allah and that is
Al Malik Al Malik and al-
Malik al- Malik translated as The
Sovereign Lord Al Malik the owner and
al- Malik the king so these are
attributes number four five and
six in terms of where they're located in
the Quran and that's what we look at
first we didn't look at that in the case
of Allah because it's mentioned so many
times in the Quran Quan it's you know
the number is huge we said it was some
2,62
times so that's you know you can hardly
find a page of the Quran where it's not
present whereas Alim we looked at how
many times they were used and they were
fairly frequently arim was 114 times
arahman 57 times now we're coming down
to the names less frequently used al-
Malik
is mentioned five times in the
Quran among those times that mentioned
in
Surah verse
114 High exalted above all is Allah The
Sovereign Lord the
truth in the case of al- Malik al- Malik
it is mentioned only twice in the Quran
inah we know
Malik and also in Surah Ali Iman where
Allah
says say oh Allah owner of the
Dominion and in the case of
Malik we can find it mentioned only once
in the
Quran indeed the pious will live among
Gardens and rivers firmly established in
the favor of the
king that's Surah alar vers
5455 only one time now the origin of
this these names of Allah
Malik Malik and Malik is from
mul mul milk or mal all of these are
Roots all of them refer to to Something
in possession of others you know when
this thing is in possession the person
has the ability to dominate it to keep
it for himself and not allow others even
to use it that is the basic meaning of M
Mal and milk from which the names Malik
Malik and al- Malik
came relative to Allah tala
if we say that Malik The Sovereign Lord
is one able to execute his command in
his
Dominion as opposed to
Malik who may
possess something but may not be able to
enforce his commands in it this is this
is a basic difference in the
language this difference is not
applicable to Allah tala
the Malik one who
owns a realm he has dominion over some
area or some
place whatever he commands whatever he
wishes done is
done whereas the
Malik one who owns he may not be able to
exercise his will in it he might be a
child or he might be somebody insane he
doesn't have his mind so people are
looking after the place for him but he
is the actual
owner so that distinction exists in the
linguistic use of the word but when it
comes to Allah
tala this is not
applicable in the case of Malik and
Malik we can say that Malik is the more
general term Malik is a more specific
term but in terms of Allah tala we have
to say that Malik is the personal
description of
allaha whereas Malik describes his
act just as Rahman Alman was the
personal description of Allah and Al was
the description of his act of being
Mercy
similarly Malik is considered to be the
description of Allah as a personal
description whereas Malik refers to his
uh Act of possessing and of owning as
Allah said in Surah asurah verse
49 so Allah speaks of the dominion over
the heavens and the Earth belong only to
Allah who creates whatever he wishes so
relative to Allah in terms of dominion
he not only owns it but he is free to
doing it as he Wills none can stop him
his will is enforced whether as
Malik whether as Malik or as Malik in
all of these names all of these the
nuances that exist linguistically don't
don't affect the reality with regards to
Allah tala where the whole Dominion is
his he possesses everything that he has
created and nothing takes place in his
Dominion which is against his will which
he does not permit and this is an
important point
because people have
misunderstood
where evil may take place in Allah's
dominion and we question is this from
Allah's will is that what he
wanted
well if he didn't have control over it
and it was from the will of Satan then
his Dominion would be
incomplete it would not the Perfection
of his Dominion would not be
there whereas when we consider Allah
with regards to dominion over his
creation it is complete so absolutely
nothing takes place which is against his
will but when we say will here what we
mean is his creational
will his creational will as distinct
from his legal
will these are two aspects of his will
one aspect ECT the the the legal will
this is what he wants us to do that he
has told us to do through the Quran
through the Sunnah through the prophets
that were sent we're told do this don't
do this the correct way has been shown
to us how we should live in accordance
with the guidance and the pleasure of
God that has been explained and that we
call his legal will but he has given us
the ability to either follow that those
instructions or not we have uh on one
hand the ability to choose he's given us
the ability they call it free will it's
not absolutely free but it's free will
to a certain degree we can choose what
we want to do choose to obey or to
disobey so we may disobey his legal
will however we
cannot go beyond his creational will
meaning even if we think choose to
disobey his legal
will only if he permits us are we able
to disobey his creational
will with that thought we're going to
take a break and we'll be coming back
after the break to look a little more
deeply into this concept and to finish
looking at this attribute of Allah Al
Malik Al Malik and al-
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alhamdulillah all praise is due to Allah
and may Allah's peace and blessings be
on the last messenger of Allah welcome
back dear viewers to our program in the
names of Allah we just came back from
the break where we were
discussing uh prior to the break the
concept of Allah's
dominion over his creatures
that that
Dominion has a
complete and
irresistible
control the controller being Allah
subala as the
Malik as the Malik and the
Malik nothing takes place against his
will meaning his creational will meaning
that if a thing is to happen if he
doesn't permit it to happen it cannot
happen we might choose to disobey his
legal will what he has told us to do or
not to do we can choose to do that but
even after we've made the choice can we
guarantee that we can Implement that
choice we can implement the Disobedience
how many times have we chosen to do
something and it didn't happen
so obviously the control of the outcome
of our choices we don't
have we make a choice and we try to
implement it but only if Allah permits
it to take place it will take place so
here's the
Malik only if he permits it to take
place we are held accountable for the
choices that we
make and added to it if Allah permits to
implement those choices we are also held
accountable for the consequence of our
choice but in the end it is still Allah
who either permits us to fulfill it or
not so that's why we said relative to
these three names of Allah all of them
come together in the concept of Allah's
possession of his whole creation it's
all in his Dominion
and that his will is enforced in it
nothing can go against his
will as to the question that people ask
if Allah is all powerful and nothing
goes against his will so where does evil
come
from if we say that his
will was to allow evil then we're saying
in a sense that he was he's an evil God
is that what you mean by that question
may be asked of course
not reality is that nothing in Allah's
creation is 100% evil if Allah has
permitted it he has permitted it not
because of the evil that we perceive but
because of certain good which will come
from it good which we might see or we
may not
see we have how many times in our lives
experienced things where we said oh what
a what a terrible circumstance why did
that have to happen and then we see from
it certain good we say oh alhamdulillah
if it wasn't for that terrible
circumstance this other thing wouldn't
have happened we've seen it so many
times so that's the reality if Allah has
permitted it to happen there's some good
behind it which he has permitted it for
that's the bottom
line
so Allah is not evil he is good so if he
permits something to happen he does it
for the good that he has permitted not
for the thing itself and a simple
example you know when we go to the
dentist we go there and we
suffer we have injections there's
drilling there's pain all of this that
we go
through do we go through because we like
pain no we don't do it we don't go to
the dentist and suffer at his hands
because we enjoy
pain at least most of us
don't we go there because in the
suffering that we go through we are
preventing a greater suffering if we
don't remove that cavity or remove that
bad tooth then we will suffer even more
later on so we
suffer a certain amount of harm to
prevent a greater
harm now we can see that
but for example you take a child take
that child to the dentist first time
he's ever been to the dentist oh he's
very happy you tell him dentist is a
nice person wears his big long white
coat he's going to give you candy and he
goes there dentist gives him candy he
likes it but then once the dentist puts
that needle in his gum puts the drill in
his tooth pain hey he hates the dentist
after that he doesn't want to come back
to the dentist no matter how much you
try to explain to that child that the
dentist the pain that the dentist is is
giving you this suffering that you're
going through this is to prevent a
greater he can't see the greater the
greater suffering he can't see what a
bad tooth is going to do to him so all
he can see is the dentist causing him
pain he can't see beyond it so as the
child is unable to see the good that is
behind it similarly in certain
incidences in our lives we can't see the
good so we think this is all evil but in
reality nothing takes place in our lives
that is 100% evil except if we look at
it from the perspective of ourselves we
may make an evil intent to do an evil
deed and go and do that evil deed we can
say okay that's 100% evil that's coming
from us we can be evil people but from
Allah tala from allaha Allah is good so
whatever he has permitted ultimately
there is good to come from it
so since he is the one who is the
ultimate
ruler the ruler of all rulers then it is
not surprising to find that as the
prophet wasallam had said the most
detestable name in the sight of Allah is
the man who calls himself
malikul or Shah sh this is a forbidden
name Prophet Muhammad wasallam informed
us of
this
Allah tala is the owner of the day of
judgment his rule on the last day is
complete he is The Sovereign his
Dominion is
Ultimate Prophet Muhammad wasallam had
re related that on the last day Allah
will gather the people and call them in
a voice which will be heard by those far
away and those near saying I am the king
I am the judge andik
and and it is from Allah's Mercy that he
is the ruler on that
day because by him being the ruler we
can be sure of absolute fairness and
Justice if anybody else other human
beings were involved
then there is a great chance that
Injustice will take place now relative
to the effect of these Divine
names first and
foremost belief that true possession and
ownership of anything in this world is a
result of Allah giving us possession of
it this should give us a sense of uh of
responsibility that this is not really
ours we should feel that we have been
given something for a limited period of
time whatever we have in this world it
has been given to us by Allah and we are
to utilize it in the way which is
pleasing to
him we have a responsibility so whatever
we have is not a an issue for us to be
proud and and uh puffed up about it's
for us to take uh note that we have
responsibility in it first
furthermore uh Prophet Muhammad wasallam
had advised
this look to those less fortunate than
you and do not look to those above you
it is better for you in order that you
do not deny what Allah has blessed you
with so it's all coming from Allah Allah
chooses to give some more than others
this is the part of the test of this
life and we have to know that it is his
Dominion he can pick and he can choose
who he gives it to but know that
whatever he gives there's a
responsibility with it so if you have
less it means you have less
responsibilities if you have more it
means you have more
responsibilities
also
believe that the absolute rule belongs
only to Allah
also means that we shouldn't do
anything which is displeasing to him if
any other ruler in this world calls us
to do something which is displeasing to
Allah then there is no obedience due to
that ruler as the prophet wasam had
said no obedience is due to the
creatures if it involves Disobedience to
the
Creator so absolute obedience belongs
belongs only to Allah our obedience to
others is subsequent or secondary to our
obedience to Allah we have to consider
is this going to conflict with Allah's
command or not if it is not conflicting
then those who are in authority over us
we should obey
them this is the basic uh principle
which
governs our lives with regards to
Dominion with regards to understanding
Allah's attribute of being al- Malik Al
Malik and al- Malik the dominion over
this world belongs completely to
Allah whatever we have in it is what he
has given us we die and we leave it
behind we can't take it with us so
really it has only been put in our
possession for a limited period of time
and we are judged as to how we use it
when we think of al- Malik that's what
we should think about what is in this
world who does it who does it really
belong to I'm calling it mine it's my
car it's my house it's my this and it's
my that but in reality is it really
mine this is what in thinking about and
reflecting on and in Remembering Allah
through this name al- Malik Al Malik and
Le we should be aware
of the Dominion belongs ultimately only
to
Allah and we should serve him in it
whatever he has given us is a
test and we are obliged to obey his
instructions over the instructions of
all else with that de viewers we like to
thank you for being with us in this
segment of our program in the names of
Allah in which we have looked at the uh
fourth fifth and
sixth uh attributes under the names of
Allah Al Malik al- Malik and al- Malik
and we hope inshallah that you will be
with us in our coming
episodes the road seems long remember
just remember seek strength from the
strong