 In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of all the worlds. Then, Salat and Salam to the most honored prophets, Muhammad and his good people, the Prophets. Dear viewers, As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. All honor is mine to be with you discussing the Holy Verses of Quran and understanding the interpretation and the commentaries of the Holy Quran based on the teachings of Ahl al-Bayt, alaykum as-salam. We have got to the point discussing, we discussed, bi of Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem, that we are seeking aid from Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. We need Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala's assistance in everything that we do. That is why it is recommended by Ahl al-Bayt, alaykum as-salam in numerous narrations that everything that you do, smaller things that you do, make sure you remember Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala and say Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem. Even write what Imam says, even if you want to write one line of poetry, make sure you write Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem before that. To that letter of things, we should always remember Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem. That was the action plan from our previous episode. We discussed the letter ba bism, we said ba means seeking assistance and aid from Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala in whatever that we do. And then, Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahman ar-Raheem. Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahman ar-Raheem means names in the name of Allah. What are these names? Why we didn't, why we don't read and it's not in the Quran? Bil'lah, why we say Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahman ar-Rahman ar-Rahman ar-Raheem. In the name of Allah, why we didn't say in Allah we began everything. First of all, we cannot understand Allah's attributes. We can't. Our minds, our intellects, we are limited. Allah's infinite knowledge, infinite being, can't be understood by our limited. Hence, we seek aid from the names of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. We seek aid from Allah's attributes, which are his names, 99 names that we have. Also, we have in Dua'a Joushan al-Kabir where we have 1000 attributes of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala that is very recommended to read in the month of Ramadan. So, we have been taught to supplicate and call upon him by his name. Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, has said in chapter 7 verse 180 where Allah says, اعوض بالله من الشيطان الرجيم و للله الأسماء الحسنة فدعوا بها To Allah belong the best names. So, supplicate him by them. Basically, supplicate Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala by his names which we have right now, for example, the 99 names that are famous which is very important. Actually, that can be a good action plan for ourselves and our kids to memorize and to learn and to understand the 99 names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that we have and Allah's attributes, غفار, تكبر, رأوف, رحيم and so on and so forth. So, we seek aid from these attributes, from these names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and Allah says, ودلله الأسماء الحسنة فدعوا بها supplicate to him by these names. So, since he said this, we have بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم بأسم or بسم الله Why we have the word Allah? Why we don't have بسم الرحمن بسم الغفور بسم الخالق بسم all the other 99 names than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala According to our commentators that we have that again, I remind myself and ourselves that we are only relying on those commentators that have based their understanding of the Holy Qur'an based on the teachings of Ahlul Bayt, a.s. Not that they have came up with their own understanding and they are interpreted the Qur'an based on their understanding. Rather, we are only focusing on those commentators which have mentioned narrations of Ahlul Bayt a.s. as supporting their argument. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the word Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala it encompasses all the other names and attributes of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala all the other names, we find it within the word Allah all the other names, all the other 90 names خالق and you name it we see it within the word Allah it's all the الرحمن الملك القدوس the most sacred, the eternal Lord السلام the embodiment of peace المؤمن the preserver of safety العزيز the mighty one الجبار the omnipotent one المتكبر the dominant one الخالق the Creator and all the other 99 names each one is taking part of Allah's I mean, one attribute of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and it's discussing for example الخالق it's talking about Allah's being Allah the Creator but Allah, the word Allah encompasses الخالق encompasses المتكبر encompasses الباري المصور the evolver the flawless the shaper and so on and so forth all the other names come under the word Allah basically Allah is the general is the umbrella all the other 99 names come under that is why in Quran we start with بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم we start by the name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we see in many verses of the Holy Quran which brought the word Allah and then said what is this Allah for example chapter 2 verse 226 فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ غَفُورٌ رَحِيمْ and Allah is indeed all forgiving all merciful or another verse chapter 59 verse 23 هو الله الذي لا إله إلا هو الملكل قدوسه سلامه مؤمنه محيمه عزيزه جباره متكبر سبحان الله عما يشركون He is Allah there is no God except Him the sovereign the all holy the all benign the secure the all conserver the all mighty the all compiler the all magnanimous clears Allah of any partner that they may ascribe to Him so بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم so we are talking about Ba and we are being very short and very hand picking the information there are a lot of narrations a lot of discussions a lot of commentators have discussed the word that if we want to go into the detail of بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم the Ba ism Allah الرحمن الرحيم each one of them it will require us to discuss hours and hours for us to understand even that even though we will not be able to completely comprehend the meaning of it there are some stuff that has been reached to us by the imams of Ahl al Bayt there are more and more meanings to these verses and holy verses of the Quran so بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الرحمن to be more general everybody is in this world is receiving Allah's mercy in different shape or form everyone the believer non-believer animals humans plants every creation of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is receiving some sort of Allah's mercy where Allah in the Quran the Holy Quran says وَرَحْمَتِ وَسَعَتْ كُلَّ شَيْءِ my mercy my blessings has encompasses and has covered everything everything so that is the general الرحمن sun the moon the rain the wind and the plants growing all the resources that earth is giving us and so on and so forth they all go under the الرحمن بسم الله الرحمن general it encompasses everybody everybody is benefitting from this Allah's mercy بسم الله الرحمن and then comes الرحيم الرحيم is more specific more to the people who are believers basically because they have accepted Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because they believe in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and they act upon Allah's teachings following Allah's messenger Muhammed sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi following Ahle al Bayt alayhum wa salam where Allah appointed them and through Rasool Allah which he brought in Aid al Ghadeer where he appointed Amir al-Mu'minin the commander of the faithful and through different narrations we have where Imam Rasool Allah would tell that after me my successors are 12 and he would mention their names so if a person believes in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala believes in the messenger of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala believes in Ahle al Bayt alayhum wa salam he is a believer he is a mu'min there are special mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for them they have brought themselves under this umbrella they have shown that O Allah we want to be under this special umbrella of your mercy we want to be under your Rahiminya they are already in Rahmani Rahmani is a general umbrella everybody is under this umbrella but there is another mercy which is under this Rahiminya for the believers it is very important am I a believer have I come under this umbrella of Rahim Allah's mercy all beneficent all merciful have I done my job or am I just stating it am I just saying I am a Muslim I am a believer but in my action I am not I have to go and back and analyze my personality analyze my belief am I a true believer in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala if not let me go research let me go read let me go ask let me find to let me come to conclusion myself that I am on the right path that I should follow muhammad and ala muhammad and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as the creator it is very important for us whatever we say to believe in it and to act upon it so in the name of Allah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim is not only also words that we utter Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim in all my body parts that I should believe in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah I believe in you and I start everything I do by your name that you are the one who are ar-Rahman ar-Rahim all the beneficent all the merciful so action plan me and we will continue that inshallah wrapping up the Bismillah Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim inshallah in this episode and then the next episode inshallah we can start with Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alani so when we say Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim we mean it we understand it as much as we can we have read about it we have researched about the oneness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala where we are inshallah a good believer in him one might say is it Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala picking and choosing who will become believer and who doesn't become a believer and see like for example he wakes up in the morning and say okay I like this person to be a believer I don't like this person I don't want him to believe in me this is against Allah's justice and if a person he picks not to be a believer on the day of judgment he's about to punish him that you're not a believer he can argue against Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala you didn't allow me to become a believer you didn't introduce me to the Islam you didn't introduce me to the deen to the religion to the truth you did not introduce me how are you going to be to punish me Allah all just adil he won't do that we have to show it is a definitive Allah who guides us through ahl al bayt alayhum salam and the Quran Quran guides us ahl al bayt alayhum salam guides us guide Rasulullah guide they are the messenger of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala they are the means where Allah used to guide you and I to the right path but have we shown have we shown this potential that I want to be guided I want to find the truth I remember about a decade ago I used to be involved in producing documentaries about the life of the reverts those who have accepted Islam as the religion and have accepted ahl al bayt alayhum salam and the madhab of tashayya when I would read unanimously all of them would tell me that we were looking for the truth we were searching we would ask we would read some of them would say that we read we read the bible we read the Torah we read the badgavitka and all the other books we kept asking and crashing and asking we had a lot of questions that were unanswered when we got to the Holy Quran we wanted we showed the sign we wanted when we opened the Holy Quran unanimously all of them would say that when we opened the Holy Quran the verses of the Holy Quran was talking to us the verses of the Holy Quran was answering our questions the verses of Quran was clarifying all the misconceptions that we had in our mind about the truth and it became clear for us that this is the path that we need to follow and we accepted it so we have to show the potential I'll give you an example I walk into a room everybody's thirsty and I have a picture of water in my hand everybody's thirsty the one who has his cup upside it will I give him water I can't give him water well he has to hold his cup this way for me to pour water in it and make sure the cup is not dirty if the cup is dirty I'm not going to pour water because you won't be able to drink it I have to cleanse myself from the sins that I have committed I have to ask Astaghfar and ask forgiveness from Allah SWT cleanse myself for the light of the guidance of Allah SWT to shed light into my life I'll give you another example and inshallah we will conclude this Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim and the reason why we're bringing these examples that when we say Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim we mean it we believe in Allah SWT we believe that he's all merciful all beneficent and we want to okay if Allah all merciful all beneficent all just why he has given to such people he has not given me what kind of wisdom is this and we see unfortunately some people have these kind of discussions right now for example there are satellites in the sky there are sending waves of information so each and every one of us we are receiving those waves if we don't have the necessity tools and equipment we won't be able to see those information right now we have phones so we connect this phone to the signal and we're able to see if we have a dish and we have a receiver well I have the dish I have the receiver I plug it in I connect everything to the TV why is it not working well you have to direct your dish to the direction of receiving the signal in order to be receiving those information and in order for you to be able to watch whatever that you want to watch on the TV so we have to turn our heart Allah's sending wave everywhere they are sending through the Ahl-e-Bait A.S by us bringing our dish toward the teachings of Quran and Ahl-e-Bait A.S together we can see the light coming to our lives and by us saying Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim and our dish to the direction of Quran and Ahl-e-Bait together or Rasulullah said I'm leaving you two valuable things Kitab Allah Wa Atrati Ahl-e-Baiti these two valuable things insha'Allah we will receive the guidance from Allah and we will be insha'Allah on the right path insha'Allah we will conclude on this episode by reciting the most important dua and that is the dua for asking Allah to hasten your opinions of our beloved Imam Mahdi A.S Faraj Al-Shareeb Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim Allahumma kulli waliyika Al-Hajjat ibn al-Hasan Salawatu ka alaihi wa ala aba'ih fi hazeh sa'ataw fi kulli sa'ah waliyan wa hafidah wa qaidan wa nasra wa dalilan wa aina hatta tuskinah wa ardaka taw'a wa tumatta'ahu fiha tawila berahmatika ya arhaman rahmeen