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and you are weak and the road seems long
remember just remember seek strength
from the strong when life is is a burden
and everything is unstable remember just
remember Allah is the able when nothing
makes sense and you're heading for
demise remember just remember Allah is
the wise when the way is cloudy and
there's no one by your side remember
just remember Allah is the only guide
when your heart is breaking and your
pain makes you fall remember just
remember Allah
sees
alhamdulillah all prais is due to Allah
and may Allah's peace and blessings
beyond the last messenger of Allah I'd
like to welcome you dear viewers to
another in our Series in the names of
Allah in the previous episode we began
to look at this vast time topic a topic
which is focused on the
180th verse of
Surah the seventh chapter of the Quran
which Allah says
there the most beautiful names belong
only to Allah so call on him with
them what is meant by this this is an
instruction from Allah's tala to worship
him through his
names as we know worship is the very
purpose of our creation Allah has told
us that he created the gin and humankind
specifically for his
worship this is a general piece of
information which Allah has given us
about what our purpose purpose in this
world is to be able to achieve that
purpose of worship Allah has given us
various Ways by which we should worship
Him ultimately as we pointed out in the
previous
session all of our Lives should be an
expression of worship of
Allah Allah told
us say indeed my
prayers my sacrifices my living and my
dying are for Allah the Lord of all the
worlds so that element of worship which
was the central
goal is expanded to every aspect of our
lives and for us to be able to worship
Allah in all aspects of Our Lives we
have to know him we have to know who he
is and who
isn't many people due to their confusion
as to who Allah is end up worshiping
other than Allah they end up worshiping
some elements of his Creation in some
cases they call those elements Allah
they believe that Allah became human or
that he became a part and parcel of his
creation There's no distinction between
Allah and his creation there are a lot
of confused ideas in the world today
concerning who Allah is so Islam
presents a clear
picture and the source of our
understanding of course is the Quran
itself and here it is Allah is telling
us that we should worship Him using his
names so our
lives all aspects of Our Lives should in
one way or another reflect the names of
Allah of course this is not to say each
and every name will be reflected because
there are some names uh which are
particular to Allah and those names what
is acceptable from us is only to praise
Allah through those names whereas for
other names names which involve his
Mercy his grace his forgiveness Etc you
know attributes which uh reflect have a
reflection in our own lives then we are
required to reflect those attributes in
our
lives and we talked about the status of
knowledge concerning Allah's names as we
said since worship is the goal and
purpose of life and we need to know
Allah to be able to worship him then
obviously knowledge of who Allah is is
the beginning it was the beginning which
Allah
gave adam to distinguish him and to put
him in a status where he
deserved the prostration of angels
before him when the Angels questioned
Allah about his decision to create Adam
he taught Adam the names of everything
and naturally those names began with the
names of Allah so
as the scholar iabi had
said the Excellence of a field of
knowledge is determined by its subject
matter thus since the Creator is the
highest and most excellent subject of
consideration knowledge of his names
must be the highest and most noble
branch of
knowledge
so this puts this
subject the essence of the
series in a very special
position for all who are
believers who have accepted The Message
of Islam as well as for those who are
viewing this program who are not
Muslims it is very important for you for
all of you to understand who Allah is
this is the most important area of
knowledge that each and every human
being must arrive
at
so we said this is the most important
area the names of Allah then represent
the most important area of
study and it is not surprising since the
names of Allah hold such a high
importance that the greatest verses in
the Quran are those which focused on
Allah's names and
attributes so verse
255 of Surah Al Bak the second chapter
known as the verse of the foot stol
aat this Allah instructed his Prophet to
inform us was the greatest verse in the
Quran and it is a description of
Allah confirming his correct attributes
and denying the false attributes which
were given to him similarly the greatest
chapter in the
Quran uh with regards to its value and
the rest of the Quran is
surlas which prophet Muhammad s Ali
wasallam said was equivalent to onethird
of the
Quran why is that because of the fact
that it focuses
oned and in particular the names and
attributes of Allah some Scholars
divided up the verses of the Quran into
three basic categories one the laws two
promises and warnings and three the
names and attributes of Allah and this
seems to agree with a Hadith or
narration from Prophet Muhammad Sall
alaihi wasallam which was conveyed by
Abu D in which he quoted the prophet
Sall wasallam as saying indeed Allah
most great and glorious divided the
Quran into three parts and made say he
Allah is unique one of the parts of the
Quran so that is the the uh status of
knowledge of Allah's names and
attributes and in the
previous uh episode we also went on to
look at the 99 Names of Allah which
prophet Muhammad s Ali wasallam informed
us
about he told
us indeed Allah has 99 Names whoever
counts them will enter
paradise and we went on to look at what
this meant what is the meaning of
counting them some narrations mention
preserving
them and we concluded as the scholars
uh the various opinions of the various
Scholars seem to agree on the idea that
these names counting them or guarding
them meant on one hand to understand
them and their meanings on another hand
it meant to believe in them it also
meant
to act in accordance with them and this
was basically where we reached in our
previous uh
session having understood that we are
going to now have a look
at the opposite the antithesis
of worshiping Allah with his names to
better understand what we shouldn't be
involved
in we could call this the misuse of
Allah's
names there is a verse in the Quran in
which Allah has
stated
but shun those who deviate regarding his
names for they will be punished for what
they
do this is a warning which Allah has
given to avoid and to beware of those
who deviate with regards to his names
what is meant here by deviation in his
names one of the meanings given by
Abdullah IBN Abbas one of the great
commentators of the Quran
from among the companions of the Prophet
wasallam is he said it referred to the
Pagan practice of deriving names for
their Idols from Allah's
names uh mujahid one of his students
said that it meant Alat one of the idols
of the qur was taken from Allah and Al
from
aliz and Al manat from al-
Manan so it meant basically as uh Abbas
pointed out deriving false names from
Allah's names or it could include giving
Allah names which are not from his
names further more a more common
practice which is turned up amongst
Muslims is the Turning of Allah's
names uh and Arabic in general into
numbers uh what we have is known as
numerology where the old
alphabet uh Arabic alphabet known as the
the abjad alphabet uh was given values
each letter Al if was given a value ba
was given a value G Etc and from these
numbers now the quranic text was turned
into a set of numbers we're going to
stop here uh and take a break and
inshallah I will see you after the break
Salam when you are weak the road seems
long remember just remember seek
strength from the
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society you are weak and the road seems
long remember just remember seek
strength from the strong
alhamdulillah all praise are due to
Allah and may Allah's peace and
blessings be on the last messenger of
Allah welcome back dear viewers we're
continuing to look at the names of Allah
in our program in the names of
Allah we were looking at prior to the
break some of the ways in which the
names of Allah are misused as Allah had
warned us against it and warned us to
stay away from those who deviate with
regards to his
names we said that the first way most
obvious way as indicated by Abdullah IBN
Abbas one of the companions of the
Prophet sallallahu alhi
wasallam was to derive the names of
Idols false names from Allah's names
themselves as the ancient Arabs did the
idol Alat was taken from Allah's name
Allah and uh Al manat was taken from Al
Manan and alza was taken from aliz so
this becomes a form of shik with regards
to Allah's names a form of idolatry and
to give Allah false names this would
fall into a similar category to give him
names which uh describe him in ways that
he didn't describe himself this is also
an an element of deviation with regards
to Allah's names or it could involve
misinterpreting the names interpreting
them in other than the ways that they
were meant to be understood as they were
understood in the first generations of
Muslims the second major area by which
people have fallen into deviation with
regards to Allah's names is the area
related to
numerology and numerology is a an
ancient uh we could call it pseudo
science where people
assigned numbers to letters this was
done by the ancient Greeks Mesopotamians
others did this and the Jews prior to
the coming of Islam had also done that
with their
alphabet and um what happened is that as
Islam spread and absorb these areas some
people BR came into Islam with these
ideas and so the uh idea of the Jewish
alphabet which is very close to the
Arabic alphabet you know turned into
numbers and those numbers used
for uh fortune telling and a variety of
other things uh this uh became accepted
with among the ignorant Muslims and
eventually it became an idea which was
promoted in certain circles one of the
most common examples of it which most
people know about is
786 this this number
786 is supposed to
indicate but it
doesn't this is something made up and
actually it was something which was uh
spoken against even in the early
generation IBN Abbas he used to forbid
this abjad system and he considered it
to be a form of
magic and and this position which he
held is quite reasonable as there is no
basis for it in the Shar at
all however in spite of his objection
and the objection of many of the early
uh scholars in the first
Generations this practice continued to
the point where today we have books
printed which promote and teach this for
example there's a book which is called
prophetic medical Sciences it was
published in India and it contains
details of how to prepare an amulets
which are known as
tawi uh it has part
two uh done by Sufi Muhammad a R sahib
and part three done
by Ash Ali
lwi in part two the contents offer
amulets to cause love Victory pregnancy
increased sales in one's shop the
repayment of loans to spoil bewitchment
to release captives and so on and so
forth and among the important rules
which the author States stes rule number
three he said keeping in mind the
position of the stars and the mo moments
is but essential for one who practices a
spell or writes an amulet and po part uh
rule five performing Abu is essential
for muttering a spell or writing an
amulet Under The Heading of
miscellaneous amulets for love the
author
writes the following
chart is based on the following
Ayah they've taken a verse this is verse
165 from the uh from bak and they have
turned it into numbers the
verse and he in this chart it's a chart
with series of numbers uh for the
various words of the the verse and the
uh instruction there is that the woman
who keeps this chart called a naksh
will uh will have uh will be exceedingly
loved by her husband and whoever looks
at her will fall deeply in love with her
so it's quite evident you know from this
type of charm uh amulet that it's a
mixture of quranic texts Pagan rights
Etc and the claims that are made by
those who prepare these uh charms and
amulets are Preposterous they have no
basis in Islam at all and this is why IB
Abbas referred to it as being a branch
of
magic because it involves to some degree
fortunetelling
and um actually in more recent
times uh there was an individual by the
name of Rashad Khalifa in America
originally from Egypt who claimed that
he was a prophet of Allah he claimed
that he discovered the uh mathematical
numerical Miracle of the Quran which was
supposedly based on the number
19 anyway he uses this numerology and in
it he calculated the exact date of
Y so obviously we can see this is
fortunetelling to tell the future as to
when the last day is going to come
Prophet Muhammad wasallam didn't inform
us Angel Gabriel when he asked Prophet
Muhammad s wasallam when is the hour you
know Prophet Muhammad s wasallam himself
said that the one who asks knows no more
than the one who's being asked but he
didn't know and neither did Angel
Gabriel yet Rashad Khalifa using
numerology in the Quran claim to be able
to uh calculate the exact date of
Y the Third Way by which people
deviate in regards to Allah's
names is by using them in incorrect ways
to remember Allah we know that
remembrance of Allah is something
recommended Allah
says remember Allah a lot so we are
encouraged to remember Allah as much as
we can but the issue is how do we
remember Allah is it according to our
own fancy whatever ideas that comes to
our heads or anyone can in develop his
or own or her own way to remember
Allah or is it in accordance with the
way the prophet Muhammad may God's peace
and bless blessing be upon him and his
companions understood this command of
Allah well obviously for us to remain on
the straight path to remain on the path
of Islam as it was brought means that we
have to follow the way of the Prophet so
to take Allah's name for example the
name Allah and to just repeat it over
and over again this is what some people
do they say that they're remembering
Allah in this way so they repeat Allah's
name Allah Allah Allah Allah and this is
supposed to bring them closer to Allah
but reality is that this was never done
by Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam this wasn't his way what he
told us to say
was or he said to say Subhan
Allah
alhamdulillah he always told us to
repeat Allah's names in meaningful
sentences where we're glorifying Allah
or we're asking his
forgiveness or something of that nature
but just to repeat the name over and
over again this is not the way of the
prophet and his companions may God's
peace and blessing be upon him and may
God be pleased with them this wasn't
their way if that was the way they would
have been the first to do it but it
wasn't so that mode or that
method is unaccepted able and what has
happened is that people have developed
around that a body of
literature and
formulas for how many times to mention
Allah's name if you say this name or
that name so many times this will happen
and that will happen so for example we
can find in a book called The 99 Names
of Allah by Shams
Freelander he States in there that
concerning the the
names
and and these names of Allah he said
that if one
says if one says these names he said if
a woman who desires to give birth but
cannot she fasts seven days and each day
at the breaking of the fast she repeats
these three names 21 times breathes into
a glass of water and then breaks the
fast with the water Allah will bless her
with a
child the name ala he
says he who would like to have a child
or would like to come together with a
person who is traveling if he repeats
this name 1,000 times for 40 Fridays
it's going to happen
so these kinds of claims of course are
unacceptable Prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alai wasallam has not given us that
information no one has the authority to
make these claims even if a person did
this and it did happen all we can say is
that it is coincidence it's by Allah's
will that it has happened it's just like
you know a person who uh doesn't know
who Allah is he thinks Allah is a stone
and he prays to the stone and his prayer
is answered we don't say well his prayer
to the stone caus his prayer to be
answered at all we know it is Allah who
answered it so the fact that a person
may do these prescriptions and get
results this doesn't means that it is
the prescriptions which cause those
results it's just that Allah permitted
these things to take place and we should
know that this is a deviation this is
misguidance this is not what was brought
by Prophet Muhammad wasallam and he
said whoever brings anything new in this
affair of ours in this Islam it will be
rejected by Allah it's not acceptable to
Allah so brothers and sisters dear
viewers those of you who are
watching be aware that such practices
are false and they represent deviation
in the names of Allah with that we've
come to to the end of our program and I
hope inshallah that you will be with me
in the next episode I bid you now
farewell Salam
alaykum when are we the road seems long
remember just remember seek strength
from the strong when life is a burden
and everything is unstable remember just
remember Allah is the able when nothing
makes sense and you're heading for
demise remember just remember Allah is
the wise when the way is cloudy and
there's no one by your side remember
just remember Allah is the only guide
when your heart is breaking and your
pain makes you fall remember just
remember Allah sees it all
when you are weak and the road seems
long remember just remember seek
strength from the strong when life is a
burden and everything is unstable
remember just remember Allah is the able
when nothing makes sense and your
heading for demise remember just
remember Allah is the wise when the way
is cloudy and there's no one by your
side remember just remember Allah is the
only guide when your heart is breaking
and your pain makes you fall