 Bismillah, An-Nahi Minal-Hangiri-Lahi Rabb-Lalamin Wa-Salaatu Wa-Salaamu Alayhi Wa-Saheedin-Mursaleen Sayyidi Muhammad Wa-Layhi Wa-Sahdihi Wa-Salaam Wa-Salaam Wa-Salaam Wa-Salaam Wa-Salaam Wa-Salaam Wa-Salaam Wa-Salaam Wa-Salaam Wa-Salaam Wa-Salaam Wa-Salaam Next three weeks and then of course we will end in November dealing with the beautiful names of Allah, Asma'Allah, Pusna So this text, based on a brief text, it actually is about the Jadid, the Hasna, the Shahi, Asma'Allah, and the Pusna So a brief overview and explaining the beautiful names of Allah And there are many, many, many books on this subject The most well-known is probably when it was Adi's and Allah said it, Asna But that would take more than six weeks to get through That would take a year Ahmed Zawo as a book on Asna So that's the deal There are many of these So we chose this one So we'll start with the text and then interject the kitchen for a start So he starts working with Allah And this one's by him and I'm asleep I'm asleep, he passed away in 9-11 Adi, he was a polymath, a person that knew virtually everything that would be known at that time In our days and times with the specializing of knowledge It would be very difficult to be a polymath to know everything that's there to be known But Imam Suyuti would definitely qualify He was a great Hadith scholar He was a great Quran scholar His name was Qad, Rulun al-Qur'an He was probably the standard in that particular area He was a great Philk scholar He actually rose to the level of Mujtahid His fifth teacher, Muhammad Zawo We got asking him a series of questions he couldn't answer He was a great linguist and scholar of Arabic He had several very 90 compilations and related to Arabic language All of its sciences Nahasat Bilal, he was a great scholar of the Surah He wrote extensively, especially in the Qur'an He wrote in Qur'an, he compiled literary works Probably the thing he's most distinguished for is his abridgment of larger works So even this work is considered He even said, we'll read it in his introduction An abridgment of Imam Ghazali's work In the beautiful names of Allah Rahimullah Suyuti, he memorized the Qur'an at the age of 8 He started giving fatawa at the age of 27 But around the age of 40 He was renowned for his scholarship His teaching, his writing But around the age of 40 or so Perhaps a little older He retired to the shores of the Nile A little shack on the shores of the Nile A river and a suyuti He just worshipped Allah and wrote And dedicated his life to that He was also a Sufi People used to not mention that But he wrote a defense of the Shabbi Padiqat, which he was a member of He was an advocate for the nation First, he was probably one of the greatest Hadith scholars who compiled brief And made the compilations of that So another Suyuti was an incredible Incredible person So when we see these massive compilations Of earliest scholars and people say No one person can do that But if we look at Imam Suyuti He compiled over 600 books During the course of his life Probably at least 100 are extant And the manuscripts and the printed books Are readily available Probably 100 printed books Means what, 500 are printed Which means what Is a great opportunity for all of you To dedicate your life to finding Absolutely these manuscripts And doing packing critical editing Of them and then printing them Insha'Allah So he starts off by listening To the names of Allah He says So Allah has 99 beautiful names 100 And the last one Whoever So based on the Hadith Allah has 9 names Only one No one can protect it Except in the Jannah So the Hadith There are up to about 100 names 99 names rather 100 less one Whoever memorised them Whoever memorised them Who loved them Entered the Jannah And went into Paradise Ibn Atiyah He says, and this is related Ibn Atiyah is quoted in Imam And now he is at Qar Rahimullah He says So he says Memorising them involves Include having faith in them Magnifying them And longing for them And so longing for them Longing to adapt to Adorn oneself with those character traits To the extent that you may possibly Say, Rahman, Rahim So I long to be Muslim I long to be Muslim So Ibn Atiyah says Rahimullah That's included in Whoever memorised them Entered the Jannah So So Ibn Atiyah says He is Allah Ibnarat If all you cannot Listen carefully The famous Al-Hakim, Al-Waddulu, Al-Najil, Al-Ba'if, Al-Shahir, Al-Hakku, Al-Wakil, Al-Qawiy, Al-Nateen, Al-Wadi, Al-Hameen, Al-Hasri, Al-Mubdi, Al-Mu'il, Al-Mu'il, Al-Mu'il, Al-Mumi, Al-Mumi, Al-Tulhay, Al-Wajil, Al-Najil, Al-Wahid, Al-Sabad, Al-Qadr, Al-Muqadr, Al-Muqadr, Al-Aqqur, Al-Aqr, Al-Tahir, Al-Hakum, Al-Wadi, Al-A'al, Al-Qawiy, Al-Tatum, Al-Aafu, Al-Waafu, Al Mali, Al-Muqin, Al-Mu'il, Al-Ikran, Al-Muqasif, Al-Jal, Al-Qadri, Al-Muqadr, Al-Mani, Al-Qar, Al-Nate, Al-Aqur, Al-Aad, Al-Badi, Al-Ba'if, Al-Rashir, Al-Sabur. Rawahat, Turmidi, Wa-Baihaqi, Al-Dawak. So this compilation is narrated by the Turmidi and the Baihaqi and the Sublication. In some of the narrations of this Hadith, there are some variations of the words. For example, one of the other narrations of Turmidi mentions Al-Qadim, which is significant because there are those who say, when people say Allah, who is Al-Qadim. Al-Qadim is an innovation from the dialectic theologians. But it's related, the narration is da'if, but the fact that it's in the compilation of Turmidi shows that it was circulating amongst the Hadithin before the compilation of the dialectic theologians. So there are other names in this narration that aren't in that narration, this one to come down and out because it has some historical implications in terms of the intellectual history of the country. And the claims that some people make in that regard. These were transgressors who go along. What does it mean? Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. Al-hamdulillah wa-ahid as-sabadil al-wanazzehi. An as-sa'idati wal-wanad. So he says, our presence with Allah, the One, the eternally sought after. The One who's removed, far from having a spouse or a child. So he says, our presence with Allah, the One eternally sought after. Far from having a spouse or a child. And he says, our presence with Allah, the One eternally sought after. Far from having a spouse or a child. So he says, our presence with Allah, the One eternally sought after. The One far removed from any spouse or any child. The One who has originated the breath of life. Nessam, the breath, and some say the breath of life. Which is a very significance in that people claim that physical stuff. How did our ability to evolve from this? To have some sort of organism, just like the blob to start. Cultifying. How does the organism attain the ability to have lungs and to inhale and exhale? It's a significant question. More significant is the question, which also relates to this, of the consciousness. How do we have the ability to be consciously aware of Allah's existence, so that we can long to adorn ourselves with His name? How do we have the ability to find some virtue in that adornment? How did that evolve from this? Anyway, Allah originated it. The One who gives life to decomposed bones. The One who possesses beautiful names. And lofty attributes. The highest attributes. A bare witness that there is no God except Allah. He is alone. He has no partners. He is a God who encompasses everything in His knowledge. And He is part of Adam, the names of things. وَاَشَالُوا الْأَنَّ مُحْمَدًا عَبْدُّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ الْمُسْتَمَّا بِأَشْرَبُ الْأَسْمَاِيِ وَالْمُشْرِ أنَّ لِنَّهِ تِسْعَتَلْ وَتَسْئِنَ اِسْمَنْ صَلَ اللَّهُ وَعَلَيْهِ وَعَلَيْهِ الْأَخْيَارِ وَصَحَابَتِ الْكِرَانِ الْأَبْرَاعِ So he says, I bear witness that Muhammad is his servant and his messenger, who is himself named with the most noble of names, and guides us to realizing, to knowing that Allah has 99 names. May the blessings of Allah be upon him and upon his chosen family and his noble. And righteous companions, Amin and Amin, and may Allah bless us, his brothers and sisters. And to Ashabi, you are my brothers, my companions are those who will come at the later times who will believe in me never having seen you. May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon the brothers and sisters of Rasulullah. And may Allah bless us, we appreciate that. So as for what follows, the head of the shop, the qayfun, the asma, the husna, so this is a brief explanation of the beautiful names of Allah. Wadih al-Maf, so it has a very clear wording. Bahih al-Mana, its meanings are very apparent. So it's not, it doesn't include a lot of philosophical and technical terminology and jargon. Entakhaptu atfarabu min al-maqsa bil-asna. So as we mentioned previously, as I chose, I selected most of it from Imam Ghazali's book, al-maqsa bil-asna, the lofty objective. So the beauty, a beautiful brief, hope of you, of the explanation of the beautiful names of Allah. Bihar asadu, yakhima, husna. And so I praise that, I ask that it be completed with good. Wala min al-asma, lughatan, mad-dal'adan, ala musanna. So he said, you should know that linguistically, ism, so we say an English name, is something that indicates a name of people. And w'ur-fan, sometimes they say here asfal'ah, so in the technical or applied language of the scholars, mad-dal'a mufradan al-ama'anan binafsihid, bayru mut'arridnan bininyatihi bi zamana. So he says that the language of the scholars is very different from the language of the scholars. Bayru mut'arridnan bininyatihi bi zamana. So he says that the technical language of the scholars is something, its singular form indicates a meaning in and of itself, because the dual and plural forms indicate two meanings, a meaning and two or more. So distinguishing the singular form indicates a meaning in and of itself. So bok, kap, jar, microphone, so the word indicates a meaning in and of itself, but it's not subjected in a structure to a period of time. So the subject-subjugation in terms of the structure to a period of time is what distinguishes the name, or we might say the noun, from the verb. So when you say the hebtu, the structure of the word indicates a concept going coupled with the period of time, the past, the hebtu. So if I say ad-habu, bima'an al-had, so al-mustafa, so if I say ad-habu, it's a concept going which is coupled with the period of time, present or the future. Whereas if I say bok, kap, it's a concept, an idea, but it's divorced or devoid from any connection with time. And so this is what it means when you say al-layhu, al-gayri, but ar-lidin bi-dinyatihi bi-zaman. So it's not connected by a structure to any period of time. But tasmiyatu ja'idu lafli, danan al-ad-dadi kan'an. So naming the process of name, tasmiyatu is to make that expression, bok, et cetera, an indication of that meaning. So we can say bok in the abstract, or we can say bok. I've applied that concept to this particular object. So I've named this a bok as opposed to the concept existing in isolation. Wa-khtulifah, wa-khtalifah al-lismi, al-ad-dadi. Wa-khtulifah al-lismi, anin al-mustafa, al-gayri. So it says there's a difference of opinion concerning whether the noun or the name is the essence of that which is named or something else. Wa-khi al-mas'alitu tawilatun, tawilatun da'ili, la'ih-tamiyuhah, ad-dashah. So you said this is a very lengthy issue that this particular commentary doesn't allow for, because this is a brief presentation. Imam Ghazadi at the beginning, the first issue he deals with in the Maqsa, the asna is this issue. It is the isim a'inu dat, or gayruh, gayruh, gayruh dat. A'inu al-mussamna, or gayruh al-mussamna. Is it the essence of the name or is it different? Wa-khasu al-muktari, anuhu gayruh, ended at laq. So the choice best summary of this issue that is other than the name when it's unrestricted, so it's not applied to a particular object. Wa-khararrahaa, wa-khararrahaa s'aloo ba'at tazani, bihashiyatihi, end of qalani, ala qawdi, ta'ala wa'alida ma'ada man asmaa wa kullaha. So he says that the great Imam, the theologian, Saadat al-Tazani, he engages in a very exacting study of this issue in his hashiah when discussing the verse of Allah and he taught Adam the names of walkings. Inna asmaa Allahi ta'ala, at tisaatah wa tis'ina, he alati ishtamala aalehah, rwa'at bu-bukhari, an abi Huraywata radiya Allah wa anh. If qala qala Rasulullahi saadatahu alayhi salam, so he brings the hadith mentioned earlier on Rasulullah. So that the names of Allah be exacted are 99. This is included in the relation narration of the man with bukhari on the authority of abi Huraywata, may Allah be pleased with him. And when he said that the Messenger of Allah, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said, inna bi'l dahi tisaan wa tis'ina ismaa bi'atan illa wa'ahidaa. So Allah has 99 names. Then who? The Hebrew witch. And he is ad in love the ad. In the other narration, inna bi'l dahi tisaatah wa tis'ina ismaa bi'atan illa wa'idaa. Man ahsa'a ad na khala ad janah, inna bu-bukhari, inna bu-bukhari. So Allah has 99 names. 100, that's one. Whoever memorizes them, with Ali, that's involved, not here mentioned. And there are other opinions that just straight up memorize them. So at the very least we should all try to memorize these names. And if that conservative opinion is right, insha'Allah, that's right. We have to deal with the crowds. That and Allah. So that's the very least we should strive to memorize them. Perhaps over the six weeks, now they'll be in the homework. So each week we take one sixth of them. If they're non-mathematically challenged, how much would that be each week? 16 and a half. So let's make it 17. So we'll do 17 a week. And so when we come next week, we'll recite the first 17, insha'Allah. All together. Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim Al-Malikab, Kudus Al-Salam Al-Mu'min Al-Mahim Al-Azim, Jab'ar Al-Qalq Al-Ba'al Al-Masool Al-Qarq Al-Masool, Al-Bukhar Al-Qahhar Al-Bahab Al-Razat. So we'll do it all together, insha'Allah. We'll do it like the Dala Al-Khira. Jalla Jalla Lahu, Dala Lahu Raheem Al-Haqada. Adil. Insha'Allah. So he says afterwards, we'll go back to the Habib. And RasulAllah said, He said, He said, And so he, So he, So he says, And these names, here's Allah, the one besides, there's no Allah beside him. And that which is conjuncted to that, to the end of the names of Sabor, which will come. So those will be coming in the context of the insha'Allah. Amma Allah, he briefly mentioned Allah, So he says, is mentioned in the revelation. So he says, He is Allah. And so this indicates, this, his name is Allah. Alladhi. Whom there is no God besides He, the sovereign, the sanctified, the one free from defects and imperfections, the one who extends safety and security and peace, the one who protects the mighty, the compelling and al-jabbar, which we'll get to in a few weeks or so. And al-jabbar is not just compelling. A lot of the names, so a lot of the names there's Ismul Jalal, there's a name of majesty, al-jabbar, the compelling. And coupled with the meaning of janad, a meaning of beauty. And that's, yani we say, jabbar totu kassaf. I am men, I heal the break. And so jabbar is also the one who heals. Is the compelling, that's janad. And he's the one who reforms and repairs, that's the janad. So a lot of names are like that. And so we should try and to just mention this here, adorn ourselves with these names. So in those situations that require strength and compulsion. So for example, forcing a criminal to stop their criminal behavior. You have to compel him or her the female criminals to stop their behavior by force if necessary. Because of the harm they might do to themselves or others. So that's janad. But we should also endeavor to reform and repair relationships. We should also endeavor to help to repair hearts that have been broken and torn and wounded. And so that's also jabbar. So jabbar and multikibbir, the one who is and mighty, because I don't want to say arrogant. Shaytan was arrogant. Abad was takbara. Mechanomin and kathirim. But along with the kathir, he's relegated unto himself things no one else can have. So jabbar. And we should try to be multikibbir. Many scholars say multikibbir that this is a name that has no human manifestation. While others such as Imam Mu'aiz and Abdul Salam he has a book called Shajjarat Ma'arif with Ahwan. So the tree of spiritual states and knowledge in states. And one of the opening chapters he discusses that issue. This issue. He said, adoring yourself of the character traits and names of Allah. And so he says, a lot of scholars they say, well takbara has no human manifestation. But he says it does. He says, I'm saying it pulls, it pulls us. I know about that. That we elevate ourselves from lowly, lowly and petty things. So someone insults us and we get ready to insult them back and we step back. They say, you know, I'm better than that. They say, your head is so big it makes me put your blunt jealous. And you're getting ready to say your mama's so skinny she can pull open a cheerio. And then you catch yourself and you say, a takaboo on that. And so that's what they have here. That's what they have here. Like, I'm better than that. So normally I'll say I'm better than this person. Harsher than that. But I'm better than responding to that. You know, tell them they have a beautiful head. May Allah protect it and preserve it. Then they're messed up. They're screwed the whole time. They're waiting for the comeback on your end. So you told them about their head. I mean, who here? I told them. That's what they say. They got their response ready. Ready to do battle. Actually they said, you have a beautiful head and may Allah preserve it. They wish they had a head like yours. Now they're all messed up. Spring stopped popping out. Spring stopped popping out. That's the word for Allah. That's the word for Allah. That's the word for Allah. So we use this mention at this point. That Allah, who is the name of the world that is the word for Allah. It's a proper name. So Imam Sikuti doesn't mention that. We can imply that of the structure of the verse. But he doesn't mention that. But it's a proper name. So the name of the noble essence. The incomparable essence. The originator of the heavens and the earth. The one whom there is nothing like unto him. Basically he is shaped. But he possesses names and attributes. Yet, what was the name of Allah? See it. Yet he hears it. He sees it. In an incomparable way. Basically he is shaped. His name is Allah. Who are Allah? His name is Allah. And we think of his. We shouldn't think in a gender sense. We should think in a mooder sense. But with the masculine pronoun. There is everything. Arabic language names. Everything with the masculine of the feminine pronoun. Sahada. Kuaqitab. This is a book. Another kuaqitab. Kuaqitab. Kiaseya. So these things don't have a gender. A book doesn't have a gender. And a car doesn't have a gender. Who say kiya? Say ya. Kuaqitab. So it is a book. It is a cup. But they have that correspond in some context to gender. And so another scholar says that So the essence that's rightfully worshiped. So we were some people worshiped many things. Some people worshiped money. Some people worshiped clothing. That's mentioned in the hadith of the prophet. He said So a worshipper literally the slave, the servant of gold and silver, money khamisah, which is a tuli sort of like what I'm wearing now but without the sleeves or like a square of garment that the abbots could wear. Some people take great pride but the prophet said ruling is the worship of these things. Because Allah is the one who should be rightfully worshiped. And So people worship other things. They're meaning rightfully worshiped. You will. But only Allah is rightfully worshiped. And so the name of the one who's rightfully worshiped is Allah. Aziz al-Ajad. Right in the chest. Alhamdulillah. So to finish the verse in Arabic glorified is Allah far far above that which they attribute to him or join his partners with him. So this is the property for the one whose existence is necessary for all other existence. So only Allah, no other nothing in existence other than Allah is necessary. Our existence is contingent. We don't have to be here. We don't have to be here. But Allah must be here. And Allah was always here. And without the existence of Allah there's an infinite regress that makes all existence impossible. So without the existence of Allah there's an infinite regress that makes all other existence impossible. So we need Allah. Even in the eight years the intelligent ones amongst them they implicitly say we need Allah so that we can escape the problem of an infinite regress. So Dawkins, right, he says when asked where did this all come from it came from an alternative universe. And think that solved the problem. We could explain where this comes from so we are trapped in an infinite regress that came from an alternative universe which it raises the original question where did that alternative universe come from? And so you have a different sort of infinite regress. Where did the alternative universe come from? It's cut to the chase and admit Allah is real and Allah is magical. Allah is real and Allah is the necessarily existing and mustahapuli jameel and muhabbit the one who deserves all forms of praise. By because anything that we might find praiseworthy and anyone or anything is a gift from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So you might as well go to the source. Anything we find praiseworthy and anyone or anything is a gift from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And so Allah is the one deserving of all forms of praise. And so in the hand of the praise of the tongue, and the hand to give that the praise of the limbs in that that's the praise of the limbs. The praise of our state all forms of praise whatever they might be are ultimately deserving. Allah is the ultimate one deserving of all forms of praise. Wa qarqeela fi tafsiri qawlihi ta'ala. Haid ta'ala mula hu-samiyyaa. Haid ta'ala mu'ahada yusanna Allaha ghayru Allah. So it's said concerning the explanation of his saying being exalted. Do you know anyone named like him? Meaning do you know anybody named Allah other than Allah? So anyone like him? I don't think that's on the versatility. I don't think anyone takes their explanation seriously either. They say like, O Allah, brother arm a like him? Arm head Allah. Mashallah. So I wish you name other Poochi Allah This is my sister I mean Dabra Allah but there's no serious people have ever named anyone or anything Allah. He makes a very interesting point at this here. He then says He says He says that the tongues and the hearts are restrained from a dairy to apply this name, this noble name to other than Allah be he glorified and exalted despite the large number of the enemies of the religion and the opponents of the noble man. So just out of spite you think someone say I'm going to name my baby Allah but they don't do it and he said the hearts are restrained and the tongues are restrained Qubid Al-Nisen Wa Qulubu the hearts and the tongues are restrained then him Allah over all of the ages that people have resisted on this planet and think about that then him Allah then him Allah even the false guys they didn't name the false guys they said manad manad oh no this one this one can't be Allah so go back Allah la ilaha illallah of course Allah called someone by his name except for the same noble name he asked by his name except by his name Allah so he said that no one calls on Allah exalted his name through a particular name from his names except that the soul of the da'i has a portion of that name that's called that's called through his prayer so if we say in both Allah look at the yalati our soul will have a portion of gentleness and subtleness ya rahman ya rahman our soul will have a portion of mercy but no one who calls ya Allah ya Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah has any portion of that name because that's in the view of many and this one the great name we'll talk about that and this one I'll mention that shortly da'i la ilaha illallah wa an arabiyin wa huwa wa huwa arabiyin at al-attarina so most of the scholars of language the theology consider that this is an arabic name an original arabic name wa za'im al-balqi balqi claims an huwa arab that is a name that has been arabized taqida ibrahni ibrahni wa qida syriani so it's said that it's from originally from Hebrew and some say it's from Syria but the old quwami of jordia scholars say Allah is an original Arabic designation wa qadil bin danji wa akfiru ahlil ilmi ala anil ism al-adama wa huwa allah so bin danji says most of the scholars say that the great name of Allah is the great name is Allah sometimes that also we also have a shahada one of the sisters want to take shahada alright so we'll pick up the next time ism al-adam we'll pick up the people of jordia they say that the great name is Allah and he said that it's the great name so we'll pick up the next time so there is a shahada As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi what is your name? Manika inshaAllah so you are familiar with the basic teaching of ism al-adam so you are prepared in front of all of these witnesses to make the following declaration openly bear witness there is no had but Allah and openly bear witness that Muhammad recites messenger and servant and you understand that we say openly bear witness there is no had but Allah there is no trinitarian belief that Jesus is not part of of the godhood understand so what I just said you are going to say it in Arabic what you are going to say means openly bear witness in front of all of these folks here there is no god but Allah it's the servant of messenger so repeat after me as-salamu alaykum and la ilaha ilm Allah wa as-salamu alaykum and Muhammad Rasul Allah we are going to do it 3 times so just make sure no one can talk as-salamu alaykum and la ilaha ilm Allah wa as-salamu alaykum and la ilaha ilm Allah abduhu wa rasuluhu as-salamu alaykum la ilaha ilm Allah wa as-salamu alaykum and la ilaha ilm Allah wa as-salamu alaykum and la ilaha lal lal so you know a sister who is I here so stay close that has to be your body and other Muslim sisters take care of her Alhamdulillah so we don't want excitement Shahada, take care of Allah Wa Akbar and then our sister Monica 3 months from now she is suffering from post shahada stress syndrome That's a real disease, drop to your sister to make sure she never suffers from post-Shahada stress syndrome. Alhamdulillah. Be'aritulahi. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah.