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makes you fall remember just remember
Allah sees it all
alhamdulillah all praise to Allah and
may Allah's peace and blessings be on
the last messenger of
Allah I welcome you dear viewers to
another in our Series in the names of
Allah a program which is
designed to take us as
Believers as well as those who have not
yet
believed to take us through the various
names
of God which he has revealed to us for
our guidance in
life because knowledge of his
names is for a
purpose not merely to know them to write
them to have counted them but to
understand their
meanings their relevance to our lives
from the perspective of worshiping
Allah how we should use them in our
worship as he
said to Allah belongs all of the most
beautiful names so call on him with them
worship him with
them we learn about his names in order
to be able to fulfill that quranic
command
and at the same
time to know their relevance in terms of
how we should live in this
world because the ultimate goal of Life
the ultimate goal of life here is to
worship
God the ultimate goal is to worship God
Alone in that worship we become
the type of human
beings that we were created to
be those who would deserve with Allah's
Grace Paradise at the end of this
world we're not created to remain in
this world but we were created for
another
world the names of Allah helps us get
there Allah revealed them so we will
know who he is and be assured of who he
is not by knowing who he is we're able
to distinguish
between the true knowledge of who God is
and who God really is and the false
knowledge that is present in the world
which has misguided so many people into
worshiping other than God while thinking
that in fact they're worshiping God
so the
program is focused on the names of
Allah how many of them are
there Prophet Muhammad Ali wasallam told
us ultimately that they are
countless
but if we guard and count and understand
and Implement 99 of them if if we
Implement them in our
lives he has promised us
Paradise as he said Allah has 99 Names
whoever counts them whoever guards them
will enter Paradise so this is a noble
goal that is the goal of this program to
help us to understand and implement the
names of Allah in our individual
lives in our previous
programs we also looked at the names of
Allah in
General trying to determine which is in
fact the greatest of Allah's names about
which the prophet sallam spoke he said
that greatest name of Allah if we call
on him with it he will answer us and if
we ask
him anything through it he will give it
to us
so this was
again a an important aspect of knowing
about the names of Allah and we
concluded that the greatest name of
Allah was none other than Allah itself
this is the greatest name so we began to
look at how to apply that great name in
our daily lives Prophet Muhammad s
wasallam gave us a number of formul
to say when we get up in the morning
before we eat on a various occasions
throughout our
day using the phrase
bmah in the name of
Allah to keep whatever we are doing in
the correct
perspective knowing that
ultimately it is by the permission of
Allah it should be in a way which is
pleasing to Allah its goal is to worship
Allah so we looked at a variety of
things in our day-to-day lives as well
as things which are not in our
day-to-day lives but they come up like
exorcism and we discussed that in our
previous
session exercising in the name of Allah
and we looked at the method of the
Prophet may God's peace and blessings be
upon him to better understand what is
required of us in these matters to
remove the
misunderstandings that are common in
many parts of the Muslim world with
regards to this because people are doing
a lot of things in the name of Islam
which have nothing at all to do with
Islam we have to remember that Islam is
what prophet Muhammad may God's peace
and blessings be upon Him brought it's
not necessarily what we have inherited
from our parents because our parents
didn't learn their Islam from Prophet
Muhammad may God's peace and blessing be
upon him so it's the duty of each and
every one of us to seek out correct
knowledge of Islam as the prophet
wasallam
said muslim seeking knowledge is
compulsory for every Muslim so one
cannot just say but I'm Muslim I was
born in a Muslim family my parents are
Muslim isn't that enough no Prophet
Muhammad
wasallam he said to his
companions who were Muslims who were
sitting at his feet learning from him
seeking knowledge is compulsory for
every
Muslim so that's what we have
inherited that principle of having
knowledge of what Islam really is in
order to ensure that the practice and
what we're doing in the name of Islam is
really Islam
this is a duty on each and every one of
us and we cannot stand before Allah on
the day of judgment and say well I
didn't know as long as knowledge was
available to us then we are obliged to
know so dear
viewers
we looked at the name Allah and its
significance in our day-to-day lives
in the many examples which prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam
gave we reached in our last
segment uh
marriage the advice which he gave the
supplication which he gave to make uh
when a person is newly
married he also gave us
information concerning as couple married
couples what we should say even before
we have sexual relations I mean even
something so basic so private as that
Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam gave us
instructions to keep even such a private
and personal and emotional act to keep
that within the bounds that Islam has
set so he told us in order to protect
the children who are to come from that
relationship if Allah so Wills if any
one of you before having sexual
relations with his wife
says in the name of
Allah in the name of Allah oh
Allah divert Satan from us and from what
you have provided for us
and if a child was destined for them the
prophet s wasallam said Satan will not
be able to harm that child so it is
something that we owe to our own
children that we have produce that child
in the name of
Allah within the context of remembering
Allah so that even that very act which
people normally consider considered to
be a private uh
emotional uh
pleasurable and for other uh emotions
and feelings Etc they they would never
consider it to be something that could
be worshiped but from the Islamic
perspective it becomes an act of worship
once we use the name of
Allah and we stay within the bounds
which were set by Allah
Muhammad may God's peace and blessings
be upon Him
forbade certain acts which are
associated with sexual relations as
Muslims we need to know those if we're
married especially it becomes important
for us to know what is permissible and
what is not as we
said seeking knowledge is compulsory in
each area which directly concerns us if
we're not married then of course the
knowledge which is related to marriage
it's not obligatory on us at that point
in time not to say we can't get that
knowledge be prepared but it becomes
obligatory once we are making those
steps towards it we have already decided
I'm going to get married so and so then
we need to have all of the knowledge
which is necessary to ensure that we
have a good
fruitful marriage which is pleasing to
Allah subhah wa ta'ala further
more the prophet may God's peace and
blessing be upon him had given us a
number of uh supplications to make prior
to going to sleep at
night and the majority of them begin
with the
basah Allah says uh the prophet wasallam
told us to say with Allah's
instruction in the name of Allah I lie
down down on my
side oh Allah forgive my sins and drive
away my gin free me from the
responsibility and place me in the
highest assembly
there are a number of such uh duas which
the prophet Sall wasallam gave uh prior
to sleep some of them are short some of
them are longer and all of them will
have this phrase again Allah oh Allah
calling on Allah as we go to sleep in
order that we go to sleep with the
remembrance of Allah as we have passed
our day in his remembrance we pass the
night
likewise with that dear viewers we're
going to take a brief
break uh and come back with the
remaining part of our segment on in the
names of Allah as related to Allah's
greatest name
allaham alaykum when you are weak and
the road seems long remember just
remember seek strength from the
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when you are weak and the road seems
long seek strength from the
alhamdulillah all praise 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 prior to to the break we were
looking at where this program was headed
its purpose goals the knowledge that it
seeks to
present and we closed off the session uh
at the break looking at one of the
prayers for going to
sleep another which the prophet s
wasallam gave
was oh Allah in your name do I die and
live relatively short one but again
Allah oh Allah reminding
ourselves that it is our Affair is all
in the hands of
Allah then Prophet Muhammad s Ali
wasallam having closed off the issues of
the day he also used the phrase Allah oh
Allah to seek protection
from Evil characteristics in general
evil issues that we might face in our
lives in a Hadith narrated by IB Omar he
quoted the prophet wasallam as saying
that is oh Allah I seek refuge in you
from a
heart which does not fear
you that is a heart which is
hardened which is in no way
affected by the things which should
touch and should soften the heart the
heart is hard it cannot be touched
it is like a rock or harder as Allah
describes it in the
Quran the soft heart is what each and
every one of us should have what we need
so that when the words of Allah come
into that heart they have an impact they
have an
effect tears come to our eyes as the
prophet s wasallam had said among the
seven people who who would be shaded by
the shade of Allah's Throne on the day
when there would be no shade the day of
judgment resurrection and judgment one
of them would be one who remembers Allah
and tears comes to his eyes or her
eyes remembering Allah and tears come to
the
eyes that is the product of his soft
heart if we don't have that type of
heart then the Quran has no impact we
read it day in day out Ramadan outside
of
Ramadan but it's only a ritual that we
do because Muslims do
it but in the sense of reading it so
that it becomes a source of guidance for
us it touches us it changes us that
can't take place if our heart is hard
so Prophet Muhammad S wasallam taught us
to seek refuge in
Allah a heart which has no
fear and from a prayer a supplication
which would not be
heard that we call on Allah and Allah
doesn't hear it why when prophet
Muhammed wasallam
said call on Allah being certain that
your prayers will be answered why then
does the prophet wasallam tell us to ask
Allah to seek uh provide refuge for us
from
a prayer which is not heard why because
in another narration Prophet mm wasallam
described a man on a journey and we know
that one of the best times for prayers
to be answered is when a person is on a
journey those are going on Journeys we
asked them to pray for
us on a long journey in the desert an
arduous Journey which should make his
Dua even more acceptable he stops he
raises his hands and of course raising
one's hands in Dua this is this helps to
make it even more acceptable and he
calls on Allah oh Allah oh Allah and the
prophet Salli wasallam said but how is
this man's prayer going to be
answered when the food and the drink
that he consumed was
Haram his flesh the flesh which GRE his
body Grew From was Haram how is his
prayer are going to be answered so we
can see that even though Allah will
answer the prayers if one does so
sincerely it is if one fulfills the
other
conditions that we are in a state of
Halal we can't be in a state of Haram
and call on Allah and expect him to hear
us no
so when we ask Allah's
protection from a Dua a supplication
which is not answered we're asking him
really that we don't fall into the kinds
of sins which would make our prayers not
answered and then we went on to seek
refuge in Allah
from a soul which is Never
Satisfied a soul never satisfied
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always
unsatisfied seeking satisfaction Here
There and Everywhere and mostly in
Haram the unsatisfied soul is the one
that ends
up drowning in
Haram the satisfied Soul this is the
truly Rich Soul this is why Prophet
Muhammad wasallam had
said regarding the way wealth that we
should strive for in this
life that wealth and richness is not
from having a lot of possessions and
that's how people judge things in this
world that this is really the the the
successful person the one who's wealthy
he's got so many houses so many cars you
know businesses Etc this is the person
person who was wealthy but the prophet s
wasallam said no this is not the truly
wealthy person he went on to
say true wealth is the wealth of the
soul that is the the soul the heart
which is
satisfied when that heart is satisfied
becomes truly Rich so how does it get
satisfaction that's satisfaction only
comes from Allah as Allah
said it is only with the remembrance of
Allah that the hearts find rest they
find that state of comfort and
satisfaction so we ask Allah's
protection from the heart which is
unsatisfied no matter what it is given
it is never satisfied
IED so it seeks Haram it destroys itself
like the people who we look up to in
this world and we think they have
everything yet when we look into their
lives we see them killing themselves
taking drugs you know committing all
kinds of
atrocities yet they have everything and
we wonder why how because their hearts
were never
satisfied and the last point which the
prophet wasallam told us to seek refuge
in he
said and far and from knowledge which is
of no
benefit knowledge which is of no
benefit this is why we are studying the
names of Allah we're studying it for the
benefit because the Islamic approach to
knowledge is knowledge for what it will
do do for
us how it will benefit us not just
knowledge for the sake of knowledge this
is not an Islamic concept at all it's a
false concept knowledge is for its
benefit how can this knowledge benefit
me in this life and the life to come so
we avoid those areas of knowledge which
are of no benefit we focus on what is
truly of benefit so the prophet Sall
wasallam said I seek refuge in you from
these four this is a general Hadith
again seeking refuge in Allah using the
greatest name of Allah
Allah then Prophet wasallam had told us
that we should
also visit the sick this is one of the
rights of a Muslim and another Muslim
that we should visit our brother or our
sister when they become sick and when we
do so he said to
say oh Allah heal this slave of yours
that he might fight an enemy for your
sake or go to a funeral for your sake
again and the last two duas which the
prophet Sall
wasallam gave using again
Allah um are two very very important
ones
which need some time really to cover
them
properly one is the
Dua for seeking
forgiveness known
as the best or the greatest form of
seeking forgiveness is a very important
Dua because Prophet M wasallam had
said all of Adam's descendants
constantly make errors and the best of
those who constantly make errors are
those to turn back regularly in
Repentance to him so this is a very
important Dua we will not try to squeeze
it into the end of the program here now
because we do need to think and reflect
on it a bit and also the other Dua is
the one for seeking good uh which we
know know as
du both of these have particular
significant which inshallah we will look
at in more detail in our coming program
and with that dear viewers we are
closing the session thanking you for
being with us and hope that you will
continue to follow the program
throughout its episodes
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