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remember Allah sees it all
alhamdulillah
all praise is due to Allah and may
Allah's peace and blessings be on the
last prophet Muhammad sallallah alaihi
wasallam and on all those who follow the
path of righteousness until the last
day we'd like to welcome you back dear
viewers to our Series in the names of
Allah in this series we are looking into
Allah's names in order to be able able
to apply them in our
lives for the benefit that lies in
knowing those names Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam had told us
that one who learns 99 of Allah's names
would be guaranteed Paradise if they
guard
them if they know them if they
understand
them if they worship Allah with them
then this is the problem promise of the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam it
might seem very
simple Allah has 99 names you learn them
you've got Paradise it seems very simple
however as the scholars have explained
it's not merely just memorizing these 99
names but it is to understand them to
understand their relevance to
Allah how do we understand
Allah how do we worship Allah through
them Allah revealed them so that we
would better know him to be able to
worship him
better so it is not so easy it requires
a great effort on our part to understand
these names and to give Allah his right
through his names then to understand
their impact on our faith how should our
faith be affected by it
and then ultimately how can we reflect
those names if there is an
element that is valid for our reflection
so that's an important point to keep in
mind in the previous name that we looked
at Al Jabar there is no element in it
for us to reflect in fact we are to
avoid it whereas in the case ofman
and then that's what's required of us as
the prophet s wasallam had said man
whoever doesn't show Mercy will not
receive mercy so that's very
clear this charact this uh name alir and
Al which is the 13th and the 14th names
of Allah Al the great Al the proud these
names uh are names which describe allaha
and some of his characteristics and
there are among the names also that we
don't try to
emulate we will look at it in more
detail to see why but anyway in terms of
they mentioned in the Quran the name Al
Kabir is mentioned six times in the
Quran among them what we find inah verse
9 know of the Unseen and the seen the
great the high
exalted in the case of the name
alut that is mentioned only once in the
Quran in Surah alash verse
23 the guardian the Mighty the compeller
the
proud both of these names come from the
root kber and kber it means to become
great on one hand and and on the other
hand it means to have
pride with regards to allaha alir means
one greater than everything the one who
is greater than everything that's why we
use you know Allah
abbar that is the expression of his name
Al
Kabir one who's above the
characteristics of his creatures so this
being greater is not necessarily or
shouldn't be perceived as something in
terms of size because size of course is
limited to the creation and we know
already Allah's Throne is the greatest
part of creation far bigger than
anything in the creation itself and
Allah is beyond all of
that but anyway the point we said that
his characteristics Allah's
characteristics are over and above those
of his creatures he's greater in all
those respects and as such there is
nothing similar to him the name alut on
the other hand with regards to Allah
tala it represents one greater than
everything
evil one too proud to oppress his
servants and one proud of his dominion
rightly and rightly
so one too proud is
pride it it removes him from any type of
circumstance where he would
oppress it's the opposite for people if
they take on this attitude of Pride then
it becomes a means of Oppression well
relative to Allah it's a means of the of
expressing the Perfection of his Justice
his
fairness his treating The Creation With
or in the best manner then
it is a expression of Pride over his
dominion and he has that right to be
proud that all of the Dominion belongs
to
him because he created it
all for a human being to be proud he's
being proud about something which for
the most part he didn't
create he has nothing in this world
which he can say truly he created from
nothing now in terms of the Divine uh
name's effect on the believer on his or
her faith first and
foremost understanding that Allah is
alab greater than anything helps the
believer to realize why it isn't
possible for him or her to know Allah's
Essence to know Allah's Essence meaning
to ask the questions about how how it is
with
Allah human knowledge cannot Encompass
Allah as Allah stated very clearly in
Surah tah verse
11 knowledge cannot Encompass
him so his being
alir emphasiz is or affirms this quality
of being beyond the comprehension of his
creatures so for the believer he or she
stops with regards to questions about
Allah they don't get into the unanswer
bles they follow the guidance of the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam as he
said in an authentic
Hadith reflect on the signs or the
verses of Allah and do not reflect on
Allah reflect on the signs or the verses
either the signs in Allah's
creation and Allah's creation uh the the
planets the great Wonders that exist
within the universe
or reflect on the verses of the Quran
because you can't hardly find a verse in
the Quran which doesn't describe Allah
law in one way or another so that's
where we should be and of course we can
go to the Sunnah of the Prophet s
wasallam to further have clarity about
Allah tala through the descriptions that
have been given to us not through to our
speculations as to Allah's
Essence what we're saying here is that
when we find a text from the Sunnah or
from the Quran where Allah tells us
something about this
world we should understand what the goal
of that statement is not to go
necessarily into the
details of the statement itself for
example there's a well-known
Hadith which is found in sah
Muslim in which the prophet Sall
wasallam had said when half or 2third of
the night passes Allah Most Blessed and
Transcendent descends to the sky of this
world and he says is there any
petitioner to be given his petition is
is there anyone supplicating to be
answered is there anyone seeking
forgiveness to be
forgiven that continues until the dawn
breaks now this Hadith for example is
telling us or encouraging us to get up
for the night prayer to wake up in our
middle of the night after the halfway
point or in the last third of the night
and to turn to Allah in prayer this this
is the prayer which the prophet Sall
wasallam labeled like the best of
prayers after the obligatory prayers
it's the best of
prayers to get up from our sleep because
it's a prayer which is free from
R nobody's seeing us only Allah
knows so it is one wherein we are going
to be close to Allah so Allah has
informed us that at that time of the
night he descends to to the lowest
heaven now we accept what he the prophet
Sall wasallam has said and we take what
is the goal from it and apply it in our
lives that we get up in the night and
pray to Allah we don't go into the issue
of well if Allah descends in the last
third of the night
here um when the night ends it will be
the last third of the night night in the
next part of the earth and when that
ends it will be the ne the last thir of
the night in the next part of the earth
and so on and so forth so actually it is
the last third of the night somewhere on
the
earth 24 hours a
day so what does that
mean how does Allah get back up again
how is he down and above his throne at
the same time with we don't go there
that wasn't the intent of the
Hadith we're going to take a break here
dear
viewers and we'll come back after the
break to follow up on this point this
idea which is an important idea that we
should grasp and understand when we read
the Quran when we read the
Sunnah are and the road seems long
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alhamdulillah like to welcome you back
dear viewers to our Series in the names
of Allah prior to the break we were
looking at an issue which had to do with
the names and the attributes of Allah as
they have been related to us in the
Quran and in the Sunnah we said that
this particular
name
alir which emphasizes or
affirms that Allah is greater than
anything we can
imagine that we don't try to get into
the house of Allah tala but we restrict
ourselves to what information is related
to us and we apply it according to the
goals the obvious goals that is that are
behind those bits and pieces of
information which he has revealed the
example that we were looking at had to
do with the statement of the Prophet
Sall wasallam that in the last third of
the night Allah descends to the first
heaven and he
asks if there is anyone
seeking uh prayers to be answered that
so that he could answer them is there
anyone who is uh seeking forgiveness so
that he could be forgiven Etc so the
statement we said was advising us the
goal of it was to encourage us to get up
and pray at night
night it isn't for us to go in to try to
figure out how it is that Allah descends
to the lowest Heaven while still being
above his
throne we're not to go there because the
desire to want to explain that is based
on us conceiving of Allah like his
creatures like his creation meaning if
you're standing on top top of the house
and you go down to the first floor
you're no longer on top of the house
that's so you're thinking of Allah in
that same way and you want to try to
understand how is he still above his
throne when he went down to the first
heaven so we don't want to go there that
is just
confusion and it involves us lowering
Allah to the level of his creation so we
can understand him similarly for example
the Hadith where the Prophet sallam had
said that for the people in Paradise
they will see Allah the way that people
see the full moon that nobody will have
to stretch their necks their heads
because people are in front of them are
taller whatever they just look up and
they'll be able to see
Allah some people took this Hadith and
said this Hadith couldn't be acceptable
can be acceptable because it's saying
that Allah is like a a moon because it
said like the way people are able to see
the full moon uh without having to
stretch their necks and then we'll be
able to see Allah so they're focusing on
well it's saying that Allah is like a
moon no this is not what the Hadith is
saying the Hadith is only talking about
the issue that we everybody will be able
to see Allah who is in
Paradise so that's what we focus on
similarly we find people getting caught
up
in the issue of
Allah's and our free will people ask how
can we have free will if Allah has
already written down what we're going to
do can we do other than what Allah wrote
well no we can't so then where is our
Free Will so this is a point of
confusion for people which leads them
lead some of them to actually claim that
Allah really doesn't know the future
because that's the only way they can put
the these things together that Allah
really doesn't know maybe the details of
the future they say he knows the general
future but not the
details people have fallen into this
very famous philosophers have fallen
into it but we don't need to go there
what we know is we have free
will that's affirmed in the Quran and we
affirm it from our own Human
Experience what we also know is that
Allah knows everything his knowledge of
everything incl includes the past the
present and the future because he is not
bound by time so he knows everything in
perfect detail and he recorded
it so we don't have to worry about how
those two things go together what we
know is that his knowledge is complete
and what we also know is that we have a
free will and that's what we go with so
knowledge of Allah being
Al greater than anything that we can
imagine beyond our comprehension this
should give us a sense of
uh a sense of comfort in dealing with
the various statements that are made
from the Quran and the Sunnah with
regards to Allah that we don't try to go
into the details about Allah and in fact
Prophet Muhammad wasallam had said in a
well-known Hadith which is found in sah
Muslim and sah
alkari Satan will come to every one of
you and ask who created this who created
that until he questions who created your
lord when it comes to that you should
seek refuge in Allah say I affirm my
faith in Allah and His prophets and
avoid such
thoughts that is from a Satan
Source satanic to try for you to go and
try to figure out who created Allah
because your logic is telling you that
everything else is created then where
did Allah come from there should be
something before Allah that brought
Allah into existence but we don't need
to go there Allah we know has no
beginning and no end so once we
understand that he has no beginning then
to ask the question who created Allah
becomes
nonsensical it has no relevance
completely
irrelevant the name
alut as we said like Al Jabar is not
suitable for human beings human beings
shouldn't take this name and what it
implies it is suitable for Allah Allah
who is Too Proud to oppress his
creatures his pride over his Dominion is
is legitimate because it is
his in the case of human
beings knowing that this is a
characteristic unique to Allah alone
should create in them a desire to want
to avoid its implications for
themselves therefore they should display
the opposite
characteristics th that of
humility uh
subservience fear Etc as opposed to
Pride Etc
so the
believer is wary of this characteristic
as Allah said in Surah verse
60 is there not in Hell an abode for The
Arrogant
so this is a warning from
Allah and the prophet s wasallam had
said on the day of judgment Allah most
great and glorious will fold up the
heavens and take them in his right hand
and say I am the
king where are the tyrants and the
arrogant and he will fold up the Earth
in his left hand and say I am the king
where are the tyrants and the arrogant
so all of this is pointing to the fact
that these are evil characteristics
which we should avoid and pride in
particular pride has such evil
consequences that it has thrown or cause
a number of people of the past and the
present and will in the future cause
them to be thrown into hell we can start
with the uncle of the Prophet may God's
peace and blessing be upon him on his
Deathbed
Abu Talib who knew the prophet s
wasallam who knew he was a prophet and a
messenger of Allah knew him for his
character knew him for having raised him
in his own house but on his deathbed
when he was called to believe and his
own brothers were around him telling him
are you going to disgrace the tribe are
you going to dishonor our forefathers
etc etc he went with pride in his
ancestry
and his forefathers and died in a state
of disbelief which then
guaranteed and Abode in Hell forever for
him
similarly I judan who was known for his
extreme
generosity had asked the prophet
wasallam what about him all the good
that he has done will that benefit him
and get him into Paradise Prophet Sall
wasallam had said know that good would
not do any would not be of any benefit
for him because he never wants turn to
Allah and ask Allah oh forgive me oh uh
source of forgiveness he never turned to
Allah never recognized any errors on his
own part too proud he was proud of what
he was able to do for his people to give
and to provide everybody honored him
everybody praised him for his
generosity but the pride that he took in
being generous killed his faith so there
was no benefit for him in the next
life and the prophet s wasallam had
said as a clear
indicator Whoever has an atom's we of
pride in his heart will not enter
Paradise so after that then what we know
it is not suitable for a Muslim to take
on this
characteristic so we as Muslims when
reflecting on Allah
being
the Kabir
alir this should give us encouragement
to to avoid this
characteristic and to avoid those who
display
it and to not allow this characteristic
to block the paths to knowledge for us
because this is a very dangerous
characteristic for those who seek
knowledge and the prophet wasallam had
made the seeking of knowledge compulsory
for everyone but one who doesn't who has
in his heart this Pride will not be able
to learn
he will feel himself better he knows
more he has too much knowledge so he'll
not be able to learn from the teachers
who were there if Prophet Moses was able
to learn
from IM sha his student aledi had said
that he accompanied Imam Shafi from
Mecca to Egypt and he benefited from him
in legal issues and Imam Shafi benefited
Hadith from him this was Imam a Shafi
so this characteristic is not
appropriate for a student of knowledge
one who is out seeking knowledge
humility is the more appropriate
characteristic for humans in general
whether in seeking knowledge or
otherwise with that dear viewers we'
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in the names of Allah and we hope that
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