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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 mess messenger of
Allah welcome dear viewers to another in
our Series in the names of
Allah in this series we are looking at
the names of Allah the names which Allah
revealed for us to understand him and
for us to be able to worship him with
Clarity these names have relevance not
only to Allah subhana
himself Allah the
almighty but they also have relevance to
us as individuals in terms of how they
should be reflected in our lives we
worship Allah through them with them and
our lives should reflect them where
there is
relevance in uh in our in in in the
names themselves where there's relevance
in the sense that we could possibly
apply them we looked at the greatest
name of Allah already Allah we said
there's no relevance in terms of us
applying there is nothing we cannot be
Allah we cannot imitate Allah so there's
no place for that Allah that name which
encompasses all of the attributes is
something inappropriate for us as human
beings whereas Alman and Alim which are
the second the second and third
attributes which looking at in in this
segment we began to look at in the
previous segment it does have an element
which is relevant to us and we are going
to be looking at it but we will continue
from where we left in our previous
episode which had to do with the
vastness of Allah's mercy and we spoke
about what Allah said concerning his
Mercy covering
everything and the prophet Sall wasallam
talking about how you know Allah created
the mercy in 100 parts part uh one part
is sent into this world 99 is saved for
the Believers on the day of judgment and
that one part is so
comprehensive that it stops the wild
animal from devouring its own child or
from trampling its own
offspring we raised a question at the
end of the last
segment if Allah's Mercy is so great and
as the prophet may God's PE and blessing
be upon him said that he wrote in a
book on
himself obliging himself that his Mercy
would precede his anger if that is the
case then why will some people remain in
Hell
forever where is Allah's Mercy there we
said that Allah's Mercy actually even
includes s people of
hell and we mentioned the Hadith uh of
intercession which prophet Muhammad in
which prophet MMI wasallam had said this
is found in sah Muslim he had said that
uh Allah
will himself
intercede after all of the intercession
has taken place by his permission
intercession of the Angels intercession
of the p The Messengers inter session of
the Believers I guess there will be
inter session also of the Quran and you
know variety of other uh elements of
Allah's creation where he has permitted
them to intercede as an honor on that
day then after all of the in
intercession is completed and the only
thing left as as he said was the most
merciful of the
merciful then he will take a handful out
of hell and from them he will take take
some people who had never done any
good they' never done any
good and he would throw them into a
river known as the River of Life and
they would Sprout it's on the outskirts
of paradise they would Sprout grow the
way that seed grows in Silt and they
would enter Paradise but these
people will be among the Believers those
who had
expressed sincere belief in Allah that
belief might have been weak and had not
uh permitted them to uh do a lot of good
deeds etc etc in fact they were without
Deeds external Deeds but obviously they
had that basic internal deed of the
heart and that is of belief they would
be extracted so what of the
others those who didn't believe
why doesn't Allah take them out
also well the question that we have to
consider here is
that Allah's Mercy is also tempered by
his Justice though it precedes his anger
it is tempered by his Justice because if
the
reward for belief and disbelief were the
same because if we're saying in the the
people everybody's coming out of
hell so everybody's going into Paradise
whether you believed or you didn't
believe the same whether you rebelled
against Allah whether you're obedient to
him all the same
so then where is the justice that would
be unfair people in this world had
submitted themselves and really there's
no reward for that submission because in
the end they're going to hell as the
disbelievers are also going to be to
Hell the rebellious
disbelievers
so what we're saying here is that when
we speak of the mercy of Allah we have
to look at it within the context of his
Justice and his Justice is so much so
that
uh his Justice is so much so that
Prophet Muhammad s wasallam own father
ends up in him
not because Prophet Muhammad wasallam
knew him because he died before he was
born the fact of the matter is when a
man came to the prophet Salli wasallam
and asked him about his own father and
the prophet Sall wasallam told the man
that his father was in hell and the man
was upset the prophet Sall wasallam told
him at the same time that his own father
is with him in hell this is in sah
Muslim and it was put under the the
title of a chapter in which he wrote he
who died in a state of disbelief will be
in the fire intercession will be of no
avail to him and the relationship of his
favorites would not benefit him that's
the reality Imam Muslim mentioned this
Hadith after about the father of the
Prophet then he also mentioned another
Hadith in which AA related the prophet
Sall wasallam after the verse and warn
your next of kin in Surah shur was
revealed the prophet Sall wasallam went
and stood on Mount Safa and announced oh
Fatima daughter of Muhammad oh Sofia
daughter of Abdul mutalib oh sons of
Abdul mutal that's his grandfather I
have nothing that can Avail you against
Allah in the day of judgment however you
may ask me what you want of my worldly
belongings in this world you can ask me
whatever you want but on that day
there's nothing that I can do for
you so if Prophet Muhammad
wasallam is uh in that situation where
he can't even help his own father we
know his uncle Abu Talib on his deathbed
Prophet Muhammad Ali wasallam asked him
to accept the one God
Allah but Abu Talib due to his pride in
his ancestry and his tribe and their
Customs he was egged on by his own
Brothers uh telling him are you going to
disgrace the tribe are you going to
disgrace our family Etc and so he died
in a state of disbelief and as a
result Prophet Muhammad s wasallam
said that for the good that he did Allah
gave him the least punishment
M of the people of the Hellfire but
still he would be in shoes from the hire
which would cause his brains to boil so
much so that he would think that he is
receiving the most severe punishment of
anyone in the
Hellfire that's his own
uncle there was another case where an
individual by the name of IB
judan who was known for his
generosity he was an extremely generous
person and Aisha asked about
him whether the good that he did would
be of any benefit for him in the life to
come and the prophet Sall wasallam said
it would be of no avail to
him as he never once said said oh my
Lord pardon my sins on the day of
Resurrection he never turned to
God he was generous but it was
generosity out of
Pride he had
means Allah had granted him means
there's a story about where he got his
wealth from Etc Allah had granted him
means and he shared it with the people
and he was proud to do it and people
praised him and
but it wasn't connected with
faith and because of that it would be of
no benefit for him in the life to
come
so though we're talking about the
vastness of Allah's mercy and we talked
about how it covers every aspect of his
creation at the same time the principle
of Justice also
Reigns The principle of Justice fairness
in Allah's judgment also
Reigns But continuing on to look at the
vastness of Allah's
Mercy the prophet s wasallam described
him on one occasion described Allah on
one occasion when a group came to him of
prisoners of
war and among these group of prisoners
of War there was a
woman uh who was searching among the
prisons of War for
her
child when she found the child she
immediately put the child on her breast
and suckled
it the prophet Salli wasallam and the
companions they observed this and then
the prophet wasallam said to him to them
do you think this woman would ever allow
her child to be thrown in the
fire they saw how concerned she was
about finding the
child and they
said by Allah so far as it lies in her
power she would never throw a child into
the fire the prophet Sall wasallam said
Allah is Kinder to his servants than
this woman is to her child Allah is
Kinder to his servants than this woman
is to her
child with that dear viewers we're going
to take a break and we'll be coming back
to you uh with this same thought after
the
break C when you are weak and the road
seems long remember just remember seek
strength from the
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strong dear brothers and sisters welcome
to another episode of our series on supp
a fact of this part of Islam it's a
requirement it's an obligation it's a
it's an act of worship that must only be
devoted to Allah no one other than Allah
he is close to you he is he is all
hearing so worship Him make Dua to him
respond to him and he will respond uh to
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you
when you are weak and the road seems
long
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 welcome dear viewers back from the
break to this segment of our program in
the names of Allah and we're looking or
continuing to look at the vastness of
Allah's Mercy prior to the break we
talked about a a a a metaphor or a an
example which the prophet Sall wasallam
gave to the companions of Allah's
compassion and mercy on his
creatures as a woman would hate to throw
her child into destruction a woman who
loves her child would hate to do that
the prophet Salli wasallam said Allah is
more kind he's kinder to his servants
than even the such a
woman among the vast elements of Allah's
Mercy is that he erases sins
easily instead of sins sticking to us
you know one sin for one good
deed uh you know an arrang ment like
that would put us in such a point of
weakness that very few of us would ever
escape the
Hellfire however Allah is
merciful so what he has done is he has
allowed sins to be removed with a
variety of uh practices whether it is
repentance and we look at repentance
some
more or whether it is other good deeds
in particular I'll mention one which the
prophet Sall wasallam had said uh as
related by Abu hura one of his
companions he said that whoever says
Subhan 100 times in a day his sins will
be removed from him even if they are
like the foam on the
ocean anyone who says
Subhan that is glory be to Allah and may
he be
praised such a person saying that 100
times will gain the removal of sins from
himself even if they're like the foam on
the
ocean that is a great great Mercy from
Allah
tala and it's also part of knowing how
do we worship Allah through his
names as we said before it is not by
taking a particular name and just
repeating it rman rman rman or r r rim
or Allah Allah Allah repeating like that
is of no
value it's
meaningless it has no
meaning even if we did that with each
other's names we call out to somebody
Ahmed Ahmed Ahmed Ahmed
Ahmed they would say once once enough
enough one time is fine oh you might
repeat it Ahmed Ahmed okay trying to
stress to the person come here quickly
or something is urgent but just over and
over and over and over again hundreds of
times thousands of times and some people
do believing that they're remembering
Allah no that is is not
sane it is not logical it's not
reasonable and Islam is a logical and
reasonable religion it didn't bring that
message the message it brought
was for us to remember Allah
Subhan glory be to Allah and may he be
praised that we say that reflecting on
it then it will have that impact on us
of course it is sincerely it's not just
parting it just repeating the words
sometimes people repeat words of
remembrance which are filled with
meaning but they do it in such a way
that uh a person it it becomes a
meaningless
sound for example after the prayers
we're encouraged to say Subhan Allah
alhamdulillah and repeat these 33 times
each however when people do this
commonly
unfortunately you will see them or you
will hear them doing it so
fast that instead of saying Subhan Allah
what they're saying is
span instead of saying
alhamdulillah what they're saying is
H instead of saying
allahar what they're saying
isbar so they're saying
SP what is this this is not Subhan
Allah it has a different meaning altoe
it has no meaning Subhan Allah glory be
to Allah has a meaning and that's what
we were enjoying to say it's not the
sound and people do it you see them
doing it so quickly with their hands it
looks as if they have you know some of
those diseases like Parkinson's where a
person's hands are
shaking you know I remember actually
some people uh accepted Islam and uh had
come with me to the Masid and after the
prayer H people sat down you know
they're remembering Allah and they
looked around they saw these people
everybody's hands were like this
starting to shake like
this so they said what is this so I had
to explain to them that they're supposed
to be remembering Allah but
unfortunately the way in which they're
doing it it's just a physical act you
know they're trying to get over it as
quickly as possible that's why their
hands are moving like this you know as
if they've got no control over the the
muscles you know you've lost control of
your muscles so your hands are flipping
like this you know it's very unfortunate
it's very common amongst Muslims and
it's a sad situ ation but this is what
it has come to so when we have this
statement of the Prophet sallallah
alaihi wasallam telling us to mention
Allah's name a hundred times here in
this phrase meaningful phrase
Subhan this means to do that with
reflection to take time to reflect on it
to think about it the meaning of Subhan
allaham
and what does it mean to praise
Allah when a person does that
reflecting then it is going to have that
impact on him but when a person does it
quickly as we said in a very nervous
fashion you know just repeating sounds
then of course it has no impact no
benefit furthermore Allah's
Mercy is so great that he rewards us for
good
thoughts even if they're not followed up
with good
deeds how how merciful how much merciful
could one get Prophet Muhammad wasallam
had said Allah most great and glorious
said if my servant thinks to do a good
deed I will record it as a good deed as
long as he doesn't do it if he does it
I'll record it is
10 Allah
abbar that is
amazing if Allah's
servant thinks to do a good
deed but didn't do it for one reason or
another Allah records it as a good
deed and in other narrations it
mentioned that if a person thought to do
EV
and he didn't do it that Allah would
record it as one good
deed he thought to do an evil but he
stopped himself didn't do it Allah
records that as one good deed that is
amazing we are getting
reward for
deeds in the realm of
thought how how much more merciful can
one
be and this is the greatness of
allaha that his Mercy reaches into our
very
thoughts and you will find Allah
referring to a variety of His blessings
in this world as Mercy For example the
rain we have a verse in
Surah number 57 where Allah says says
there it is he who sends the winds as
Heralds of his Mercy it is he who sends
the winds as Heralds of his
Mercy what is that Mercy it is the rain
the winds come telling us of the rain to
come after he refers to the rain as his
Mercy
and of course the land the
crops the the that whole cycle of
production of food provision of drink
Etc all of that is from the mercy of
Allah subhah wa ta'ala
we also find Allah referring to the
scriptures which he
sent as his Mercy he uses the term Mercy
to address it we find in Surah Allah is
saying
there I have revealed the scripture to
you explaining everything as guidance
mercy and Glad Tidings for the Believers
so Allah called the
scriptures Mercy why
because Allah had already in creating us
given us a consciousness of
himself as we said in the earlier
episode when Allah
created Adam he took from Adam all of
his descendants and he made them bear
witness that he was their lord
saying and they
said
Shah he said am I not your lord and we
all
said indeed we bear witness to it so we
all have a consciousness of Allah within
us and he has put in our souls an
awareness of righteousness and and evil
corruption as Allah said each Soul was
given a consciousness of Good and Evil
so that was enough but he didn't stop
stop there from his Mercy he sent books
of Revelation to clarify further for us
the right and the wrong so he called
Revelation his
Mercy with that dear viewers we're going
to stop uh we're still looking at the
great attributes of Allah's Mercy Alman
and arim we'll continue in the coming
episode and I hope that you will join
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