Understanding Allah's Names and Attributes

should this is BR can do this way no isue take it here who they for come forward in if the uh youth that are in the gym if they can come inshallah come for this lecture we have some money we're going to be giving out inshallah aldah good alhamdulillah [Music] muh s then inshallah tal a couple of weeks ago we began a lecture inside of Masjid Omar and this was a lecture intended for adults because the subject matter that we're discussing is a big big big subject and it's so important subject and I thought for sure that it may be very complicated and when I came to the D there were 25 kids and I said Subhan Allah we have to we have to see what we're going to do here I mean I prepared a lesson we got to do what we can do and see how it goes and so surprisingly amazingly the youth they took on to this Dar and I said you know okay next week inshallah I think there will not be any kids there I think it was too much for them and they're just like wao man and the next week I came and there's like 30 kids there I said Subhan Allah the book that we're studying is and the IM who wrote This Book is Islam Tam and this is a book that deals in the beginning of it with the issue of the names and the qualities of Allah the names and the attributes of Allah the of and so this is from one of the most important subject matters because first and foremost we're discussing Allah Asel we're discussing Allah and there is no greater subject than to discuss Allah Asel and from what we're discussing about Allah is his names and his qualities because how will you have a relationship with Allah if you do not know and understand understand his names and his qualities if you don't understand his actions if you don't understand these things about Allah how will you have a strong relationship with Allah Asel for example if you only knew your dad is Dad will you have a strong relationship with your father if someone says do you have a dad and you say yes I have a dad well what about your dad I don't know but I have a dad what if you have a mom but you don't know your mom and you don't know what it means to have a mom and you don't know her qualities and someone says to you you have a mom and you say yes I have a mom but you don't know much about your mom will you have a strong relationship with your mom or a weak relationship with your mom which one weak because you don't know much about her but why do you have such a strong relationship with your mom guys come forward come forward inshah come forward come forward come forward why do you have a strong relationship with your mom why because you know who she is and you know what she does and to Allah is the highest example example so when Muslims today have problems in their religion the most important place for you to look with the Muslim youth today in my opinion is do they know the names and the qualities of their lord and his actions and do they understand them correctly because when you understand that Allah is that Allah is the provider and what that means that Allah is and what that means then you will be able to rely on Allah when you see many other people do not rely on Allah they rely on maybe some famous personality even some people are relying on musicians when I was growing up musicians were raising me up musicians were teaching me how to be a man because I didn't have that influence right but if I had the knowledge of Allah that was in my heart and I knew better about my Lord then I think and Allah knows best I would have made a lot of different decisions in my lifetime and the same thing goes for the Youth today and the same same thing goes for families today when families know Allah Asel and they know about him and his qualities then they know they can have a strong relationship with him and they can return to him but when families have a weak connection with Allah and you remind them with Allah but the name Allah sounds like the name God to you Christians don't know what God means Christians don't know what Jesus this means that's why they have Godless homes because the presence of their lord they don't experience because they don't understand what does God mean what does Jesus mean was that even his name and now today we find Muslims making the same mistake they give Allah names that he never had and we even find the duat who are calling the people to the Muslims who are talking to the Muslims Muslims and they keep using the word God God God God in some callers never even use Allah's name there's a famous famous caller he is so famous millions in millions of followers he only uses the word Almighty he never calls on Allah in his in his post he says Almighty XYZ Almighty XYZ Almighty XYZ he never says Allah so this is going to lead to big problem because how can you have a relationship with what you don't know or understand and this is why one of the wisdoms why Allah Asel he told you so many of his names and so many of his qualities Allah didn't say he he didn't say R2 s XY parenthesis did he say that why didn't he say that Allah Asel can say anything he want to say but the reason why one of the reasons why Allah is informing you of his names is because he wants you to know about him and if he wants you to know about him does he want to have a relationship with you does does he does Allah want you to have a relationship with him yes he does and that's why the first thing he tells you about him is what ald so Allah in the first two ayat of fa because is an Ayah he tells you in the name of Allah the full of Mercy The Giver of his Mercy then he tells you more about him all Praises for Allah first question tonight what is the meaning of a and what does it contain this is a $5 question the meaning of the name what does it mean and what does it contain it contains three things he blank everything he blank everything and he blank everything first of all I think there's two sisters that I owe $20 to are you is there one of them here tonight one yes okay I'll give to you at the end of the darts okay I owe you $20 we had a $20 question man she got it man I'm telling you the stakes are going to go up man I brought I brought some reserves for tonight so again I'm asking this question one more time yes he owns everything is a part his Mulk is a part of it he created everything as a part of creation he made it he brought it to existence and he fashioned it he created everything he created everything he yesy yes he created everything he yes no yes he's the owner meaning what yes okay Allah created everything for and he and after he created everything he did what for everything yes he created everything and yes he provided for everything and he what he has two of the three he said the third one but I want him to say it differently so I'm going to give him credit actually cuz he said he owns everything right meaning he manages the Affairs of everything so everybody repeat after me Allah is a Allah is a because he created everything because he provided for everything and he manages everything everything who lives who dies who goes to Jenna who goes to Hellfire how many drops of water will drop on the earth many how much wind will blow today everything he managed so he gets five because he got this one correct inshallah okay alhamdulillah this is for you very good so Allah Asel I need everybody's attention Hussein I need your attention Allah Asel he has names that are unique to him and there's one thing that we do and for things we don't do who knows the one thing that we do with Allah's names and his qualities what do we do yes Allah with with Allah's names and qualities there's one thing that we do and there's four things we don't do what's the one thing we do do I'm might see if the sisters have this real quick okay yes yes no think about it I'll give you an example I'll give you guys an example Allah said that he is the creator so what do we do we say we say what are you sure you say that see if you were sure you would have had some money man we are sure we say that we affirm it so that's the first thing we affirm the names and the qualities of Allah if Allah said that he hears what do you say he hears if he says he sees then what do you say he SE if he says he has a yed what do you say he has a yed but there's four things we do not do $5 for each one of these with the's names we affirm them and we do not yes we don't compare that's one so gets five yes no yes number two yes we don't make example she has 10 go ahead keep going do you want to do the other two okay yes she said we don't you mean ask questions what kind of questions we don't ask we don't say or ask how okay good and yes so there's five we're going to add how we don't ask how there's still two left we don't negate you said negate yes that's one and and we not not say how yes say how meaning you don't you don't you don't do what try to blank it when you try to say how you're trying to give in you don't interpret it okay you don't say how exactly there we go okay guys who said we don't say who we negate right negate come come you have $5 and who said we don't ask how this is five and who said we don't interpret uh-oh there's a problem here yes I'll give you I owe you two at the end of this okay I'll go to the car give to you inshallah and one said and we don't give example and we don't compare those are two so you have 10 okay uh Hass give this to her don't make the sisters walk man they work too hard so the names and qualities of Allah Asel there's one thing we do what is it that we do we affirm Allah says he has a yed we say he has he has what a yed and we don't try to interpret that meaning we don't try to say that this means this and also we don't try toam Alum and we don't negate it we don't what negated so if he says he has a yed we don't say no he doesn't have a yed also we said that and we don't compare we don't what compare compare and we don't say how okay we don't say how okay we don't give example and we don't say how so everybody together we affirm the names of Allah we affirm the names of everybody together we affirm the names of Allah we affirm the names of Allah everybody together together all of you say this I'm going my head's going to explode we affirm the names of Allah we affirm the names of that's like we don't interpret them we don't interpret them we don't negate them we don't neate them we don't give example for them we don't give example for them and we don't compare them and we don't ask how we don't very good I'm going to ask you guys that later on inshallah okay so this is the first thing that we established in our lesson that there's one thing that we do and four things we don't do if you add asking the question how that's five we don't ask how Allah asael says that he is the one who EST he went above his throne and he says in the last third of the night he comes down to the lower heaven we don't ask what we don't ask what and we say what that he he comes down he comes down and we don't say how this guy's going to ruin it for this corner because he's bothering everybody got to pay attention so who had a question someone said they have a question no you had a question okay so this is the first thing we had to establish the next thing that we had to establish is that we have Iman in Allah and everything that is that is that is included with him is complete all of his descriptions all of his descriptions are what they're what complete complete Allah says Allah says and for him is the highest example meaning there is nothing that is an example to him can you be merciful you can be merciful right like you could not beat me up right that's being merciful to me right thank you brother thank you very much however your mercy is not like the mercy of Allah who's the most merciful person that you all know on the count of three say it 1 2 3 say it no person I said that's alive on the count of three 1 2 three who I said alive who is the most merciful man you guys are going to get some points if you say this on the count of three everybody say who is the most merciful to you who is alive today on the count of three 1 2 3 good job yes your parents are the most merciful to you yes you guys that wasn't even coerced you guys just said it your parents are the most merciful to you are they not but is there Mercy like the mercy of Allah Asel no no to Allah is the highest example when it comes to the mercy of Allah as a think about this if you have a parent and you go to your dad and you tell your dad to his face you are not my father you're done you're finished you're done what happened I don't know khed was here yesterday yeah man this brother I don't know man he said what can you imagine though the mercy of Allah Asel that Allah Isel there are people on the Earth today and they're denying that Allah exist and Allah is still giving them life and he's given them food and he's given them oxygen he's even given them the brain power to try to fight with him can you can you understand this is the mercy of Allah Asel so the mercy of Allah Asel is the most Mercy there is no mercy like Allah's mercy so after we know that we affirm what Allah affirms for himself without doing four things what are the four things we don't do comp without comparing interpret give example compare and we don't negate and we don't what negate we don't do that okay and when it comes to the names and qualities of Allah we say that all of Allah's qualities and his names are complete meaning they're free from two things who can tell with two things a complete name is free from two things anything that's complete is free from two things this is is for $20 two things that a complete thing anything that is complete and Allah is the only one he is complete in his own existence in his Essence in his existence in all of his qualities in his Mercy in all of his actions in all of his names in all of his descriptions he is complete without two things Yes incompletion means deficiency good job look at that man this guy's Rich what you going to do today take me to lunch dinner okay what's the second thing you Allah's names and his qualities are free from any deficiency any decrease any incompleteness and no what yes sisters you also and no what and without any what think about something that's complete it's not incomplete and it also doesn't have any what let him try real quick go ahead do you raise your hand yes Allah's qualities and his names are complete without any incompleteness and also without any blank forgetness not forgetness yes not nothingness no yes mistake again this guy's got $40 mistake without any deficiency without any what deficiency any deficiency there's no deficiency there's no incompleteness and there's no mistake there's no deficiency there's no defect Allah's names are complete and they are perfect is his Mercy perfect is his Justice perfect is his knowledge perfect then why don't you guys act like that this is the point if you know Allah's name and Allah's knowledge is perfect then why do you seek knowledge from other things outside of him first shouldn't you go to Allah first shouldn't you shouldn't you you should why because his knowledge is what is complete it's absolute it has no deficiency and no defect meaning is there anything Allah doesn't know then should you consult Allah for everything no yes yes you should go to Allah for everything cuz there's nothing he doesn't know and there's nothing that he can't do there's nothing that he is not able to do there's nothing Allah is not able to do okay so so again we affirm what Allah has affirmed for himself we say yes whenever Allah he says that he this we say that some people come and say how come you say that he's he why do you say that he's he why do you say that have you seen him have you seen Allah why do you say that he's he anybody tell me why you say Allah is he who why do you say that it's really simple yes no we know yes no think about it I said asalam alaykum I said everything about Allah you affirm if he said it you affirm it you don't interpret it you don't negate it you don't give it example for it and you don't say how so why do you say that he's ha why do you say he's who yes no it's right in front of you yes yes because he what he said this is $20 question man because he what he said it Allah said ha what did Allah Say Ha Allah said what in the Quran ha so is Allah ha he's ha why do we say he's ha because he said he's h is he arahman is he al-aziz why do we say he's al-aziz have you met him then how do you say he's al-aziz he said it we affirm it we say what he said and we don't do four things what four things don't we do we don't negate it we don't interpret it we don't say how and we don't give examples very good and all of his names and qualities are what complete so when Allah says he's the provider that means that Allah's providing is complete without two things without incompleteness and without whates mistakes or deficiencies so if you want something from the creation why would you not go to the Creator first does that make sense to you guys he's the provider and his providing is perfect so why would you go to something less than him when he is the allseeing the all hearing the all knowing why would you go anywhere else first why would you go anywhere else first am me why why brother why do you go anywhere else first brother why the answer is what you wouldn't if you knew that he's what he's the provider and you remembered that and that his providing is what perfect Allah's providing is perfect everything save Allah everything besides Allah is either incomplete or deficient or both it's what incomplete deficient or both everything besides Allah law is either what incomplete deficient or both or both incomplete so this is the next thing now today that was all review that's what we've already done today I want to talk to you guys about a big big big subject this is big this is really really big this has to do with after we know that Allah's names and his qualities are complete perfect without any incompleteness and without any deficiency and and for Allah is the what the highest example is the what highest example if for Allah is the highest example is there anything like him if for Allah is the highest example is there anything like his qualities remember that if for Allah is the highest example then is there anything similar to him is there anything comparable to him who can give me an Ayah for both a proof for both of those there's an Ayah that literally says there's nothing similar to him and there's nothing comparable to him yes what' you said here bring this back H H bring this back to her bring this back to her the first one is asalam alayum Hussein sh listen I want you guys to pay attention to something right now where is that in the Quran what Surah yes what Surah yes and what's the name of the Surah okay I'll give him okay what happened to it no no no hold on a second I got to give you later after that's a $5 question I owe you five okay look look listen guys hey assalam alaykum I'm going to make a point right here I want you guys to pay attention to this Allah Asel made the religion very simple and unfortunately many Muslims try to take advantage of its Simplicity and they don't realize it Allah Asel when he says what Surah is this in in what this Surah is equal to what yes no it's equal to what no it's equal to what what no it's equal to what yes no last guess no last guess yes Amir it's equal to what no it is equal to 13 of the Quran I I asked remember now I asked you so if this is equal to 1/3 of the Quran because it's discussing what subject matter and his it's it's talking about Allah ined right so onethird of the Quran is whated what is the what is the second third of the Quran yes stories and the third one is what no oneir ised oneir is stories oneir is doing Halal and Haram very good now listen this Surah is equal to 1/3 of the Quran and this Ayah tells you it is from one of the greatest ayat in the Quran because it's talking about Allah and it's telling you that there's nothing similar to him nothing similar to him now I want to ask you guys a question why do so many of you know this Surah unfortunately what is the unfortunate reason that many of you know yes it's the shortest and easiest to recite in Salah so you guys are taking advantage but you're not even realizing that when you recite that small little bit of Quran it's equal to what one the oneir of the Quran not only that not only that the reward for reciting that some of the have said that that the reward is from the aspect of the action if you recite a third of the Quran in one Surah you're going to get the reward for what for onethird of the Quran Subhan Allah say allahar Allah look at the mercy of Allah you guys if you reite everybody do it [Music] now 13 of the Quran now here's what you don't do don't say if I say three times I'm going to do Quran I'm going to finish the Quran in in five minutes you get the reward for onethird of the Quran each time you recite because it's equal to oneir so the reward is going to go for its amount one3 isn't that amazing look at the mercy from Allah Asel and he has you say and he knows and Allah knew that the Muslims the most frequent on their tongue after fa is what is what what do you say the most frequently from the Quran after F yes what's the next one after that no no no the next Surah after that the next one that's the go [Music] to no hands down hands down sh sisters which one yes no in [Music] in you guys are going too long sh no no no Hass Hass don't touch that don't touch so you guys see the greatness of the Quran you guys see the what the greatness of the what is there anything such as a small Surah no but it may be shorter in length but we don't say it's what sit down please what do we say we don't say it's what we don't say that a Surah is what small we say that it is shorter shorter in length but the subject matter is the greatest of subjects in that little Surah that that short Surah is worth 13 of the Quran okay moving on moving on what's an Ayah that establishes that there's no comparison to him we said and there's another Ayah that establishes there's no comparing to him yes no Allah who sued means that Allah is self-sufficient he does not need anything and everything needs him what is is the meaning what is the Ayah that tells you that there's no comparing to Allah no example yes no I just he just said that yes nope yes it's an Ayah it's in an a no no it's in an ay think about it see this is the benefit of knowing sh this is the benefit of knowing Arabic language it literally says and there's nothing comparable or like him yes masallah good job there's no it's a team effort every everybody say [Music] it there's nothing comparable to him no no no guys move your feet am Amir move your feet move your feet thank you okay everybody paying attention is everybody paying attention we have to get into this ayum I need everybody's undivided attention like your absolute attention this is really serious here this part I'm about to mention is heavy it's really heavy when it comes to understanding AUM the names and qualities of Allah when we try to understand with our mind there's two types of thinking with our mind and critical deduction I see these younger guys are going to tune out here I think but the older guys I want you guys to pay attention this is extremely important there is two types of critical deduction critical thinking that it's called Kias there's two types that you cannot do and there's one type that we do do with the names and attributes of Allah there's two types that we don't do two types of interpretation of using critical thinking that we don't do and there is one type that we do do okay I'll give you an example when Allah says and here goes the example for the whole thing Allah says he has a yed Allah says he has a what hand no yed first of all he said yed did he say hand it can be linguistically interpreted as a hand however let's not go there let's say the first thing we say if Allah says he has a yet then we say he has a now if we want to contemplate and ponder over our Lord then there's two things that we won't do in that thinking and there's one thing that we can do the first thing that we can't do is take a general meaning and make it specific we can't make we can't take a general meaning and make it what specific for example let's look at the mercy of Allah here if we say Mercy in general is to be kind and we just generalize just general kindness and then we try to make it specific for Allah and fit that in we say no because his Mercy in encompasses everything it it showers over encompasses everything so we can't specify for him a a portion of mercy and can and just give that to him say he has merciful with Believers only for example can you say that can you say that that Allah is only merciful with Believers can you say that no we don't say that another type of thing we don't do this for the older guys I can see the younger guys are like whoop they're tuning out the other thing we can't do is take something specific and make it General now here is with the yed of Allah you know one day I was inside of a barber shop when I was not a Muslim actually you know what I took my shahada I had taken my shahada guys please this is disrespectful like one second okay I was inside of a barber shop one day and I had just become a Muslim musl and there's a group of people they call themselves The Nation of Islam do you know who these people are this is a racist nationalist organization that says that black people are Allah stuck for Allah they say that they say that now you look at them and say how can you be so foolish to come to this conclusion and they come to you and say don't you see in Quran that Allah says he has a yed he has a what yed and then they say that means he has a hand and then they say do you have a hand they took a specific a a general meaning and made specific to Allah okay here we say and for Allah is what the greatest example for Allah is the what greatest example so when Allah says he has a yet there's nothing there's nothing that's similar right and there's no example of it is there so we affirm it right and we say that it is his yet we affirm it for him and it is complete and it's perfect and it has no defect or deficiency and we leave it like that and Allah's Mercy is complete it's perfect it has no deficiency nothing that it's lacking and we don't try to say that Mercy now is like the mercy of my mom and we don't try to say that General Mercy is the mercy in Allah because all of the mercy that we know is only one p one portion of the mercy that Allah has and Allah informed us of this with the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam that Allah's Mercy that he has all the mercy that we could ever be aware of in this world is only just a portion of the mercy of Allah so there's mercy of Allah that is not even understandable in this life Subhan Allah right so this is the important part I had to say to you we take the names and qualities of Allah and we don't take the general meaning and make it specific and we don't make the specific meaning and make it General but we say the example is the highest example and there's nothing like it you understand there's nothing like it there's nothing comparable to it okay you guys understand any questions any questions no if there's a question about what I said something that wasn't clear to you cuz this is the most important subject we're talking about Allah before we move on next week to our next portion we have to talk about I want to make sure you guys understand this right now and as a matter of fact Allah Asel as Tam he wrote here he explained that all of this has been put together in the Surah that is equal to one3 of the Quran when Allah said what when Allah said that he is one that means he's alone and he is one right Allah a what's the meaning of a suid yes no what's the meaning of a summit yes o think think think he doesn't need he doesn't need he doesn't need yes he's self-sufficient and yes it's a piece it's a piece it's a piece yes wait Allah yes Allah does not need no not anybody it's anything and everything needs him Allah does not need any thing and everything needs him what does l mean yes yes both of you all of you guys count of three 1 two three he doesn't have kids and he was not born and no well we just got over this guys hey before we close the DS I have to hear this from you guys this is so important yes and there's nothing similar to him nothing what similar to him okay it's a Dan right now yes okay guys listen we're closing the D right now what I want you guys to do next week is I want you guys to study ayy all the questions I'm going to ask you next week are going to be based on or around the subject ofy this is where the sh of Islam is going next to establish these things about his names and qualities anality

should this is BR can do this way no isue take it here who they for come forward in if the uh youth that are in the gym if they can come inshallah come for this lecture we have some money we&#39;re going to be giving out inshallah aldah good alhamdulillah [Music] muh s then inshallah tal a couple of weeks ago we began a lecture inside of Masjid Omar and this was a lecture intended for adults because the subject matter that we&#39;re discussing is a big big big subject and it&#39;s so important subject and I thought for sure that it may be very complicated and when I came to the D there were 25 kids and I said Subhan Allah we have to we have to see what we&#39;re going to do here I mean I prepared a lesson we got to do what we can do and see how it goes and so surprisingly amazingly the youth they took on to this Dar and I said you know okay next week inshallah I think there will not be any kids there I think it was too much for them and they&#39;re just like wao man and the next week I came and there&#39;s like 30 kids there I said Subhan Allah the book that we&#39;re studying is and the IM who wrote This Book is Islam Tam and this is a book that deals in the beginning of it with the issue of the names and the qualities of Allah the names and the attributes of Allah the of and so this is from one of the most important subject matters because first and foremost we&#39;re discussing Allah Asel we&#39;re discussing Allah and there is no greater subject than to discuss Allah Asel and from what we&#39;re discussing about Allah is his names and his qualities because how will you have a relationship with Allah if you do not know and understand understand his names and his qualities if you don&#39;t understand his actions if you don&#39;t understand these things about Allah how will you have a strong relationship with Allah Asel for example if you only knew your dad is Dad will you have a strong relationship with your father if someone says do you have a dad and you say yes I have a dad well what about your dad I don&#39;t know but I have a dad what if you have a mom but you don&#39;t know your mom and you don&#39;t know what it means to have a mom and you don&#39;t know her qualities and someone says to you you have a mom and you say yes I have a mom but you don&#39;t know much about your mom will you have a strong relationship with your mom or a weak relationship with your mom which one weak because you don&#39;t know much about her but why do you have such a strong relationship with your mom guys come forward come forward inshah come forward come forward come forward why do you have a strong relationship with your mom why because you know who she is and you know what she does and to Allah is the highest example example so when Muslims today have problems in their religion the most important place for you to look with the Muslim youth today in my opinion is do they know the names and the qualities of their lord and his actions and do they understand them correctly because when you understand that Allah is that Allah is the provider and what that means that Allah is and what that means then you will be able to rely on Allah when you see many other people do not rely on Allah they rely on maybe some famous personality even some people are relying on musicians when I was growing up musicians were raising me up musicians were teaching me how to be a man because I didn&#39;t have that influence right but if I had the knowledge of Allah that was in my heart and I knew better about my Lord then I think and Allah knows best I would have made a lot of different decisions in my lifetime and the same thing goes for the Youth today and the same same thing goes for families today when families know Allah Asel and they know about him and his qualities then they know they can have a strong relationship with him and they can return to him but when families have a weak connection with Allah and you remind them with Allah but the name Allah sounds like the name God to you Christians don&#39;t know what God means Christians don&#39;t know what Jesus this means that&#39;s why they have Godless homes because the presence of their lord they don&#39;t experience because they don&#39;t understand what does God mean what does Jesus mean was that even his name and now today we find Muslims making the same mistake they give Allah names that he never had and we even find the duat who are calling the people to the Muslims who are talking to the Muslims Muslims and they keep using the word God God God God in some callers never even use Allah&#39;s name there&#39;s a famous famous caller he is so famous millions in millions of followers he only uses the word Almighty he never calls on Allah in his in his post he says Almighty XYZ Almighty XYZ Almighty XYZ he never says Allah so this is going to lead to big problem because how can you have a relationship with what you don&#39;t know or understand and this is why one of the wisdoms why Allah Asel he told you so many of his names and so many of his qualities Allah didn&#39;t say he he didn&#39;t say R2 s XY parenthesis did he say that why didn&#39;t he say that Allah Asel can say anything he want to say but the reason why one of the reasons why Allah is informing you of his names is because he wants you to know about him and if he wants you to know about him does he want to have a relationship with you does does he does Allah want you to have a relationship with him yes he does and that&#39;s why the first thing he tells you about him is what ald so Allah in the first two ayat of fa because is an Ayah he tells you in the name of Allah the full of Mercy The Giver of his Mercy then he tells you more about him all Praises for Allah first question tonight what is the meaning of a and what does it contain this is a $5 question the meaning of the name what does it mean and what does it contain it contains three things he blank everything he blank everything and he blank everything first of all I think there&#39;s two sisters that I owe $20 to are you is there one of them here tonight one yes okay I&#39;ll give to you at the end of the darts okay I owe you $20 we had a $20 question man she got it man I&#39;m telling you the stakes are going to go up man I brought I brought some reserves for tonight so again I&#39;m asking this question one more time yes he owns everything is a part his Mulk is a part of it he created everything as a part of creation he made it he brought it to existence and he fashioned it he created everything he created everything he yesy yes he created everything he yes no yes he&#39;s the owner meaning what yes okay Allah created everything for and he and after he created everything he did what for everything yes he created everything and yes he provided for everything and he what he has two of the three he said the third one but I want him to say it differently so I&#39;m going to give him credit actually cuz he said he owns everything right meaning he manages the Affairs of everything so everybody repeat after me Allah is a Allah is a because he created everything because he provided for everything and he manages everything everything who lives who dies who goes to Jenna who goes to Hellfire how many drops of water will drop on the earth many how much wind will blow today everything he managed so he gets five because he got this one correct inshallah okay alhamdulillah this is for you very good so Allah Asel I need everybody&#39;s attention Hussein I need your attention Allah Asel he has names that are unique to him and there&#39;s one thing that we do and for things we don&#39;t do who knows the one thing that we do with Allah&#39;s names and his qualities what do we do yes Allah with with Allah&#39;s names and qualities there&#39;s one thing that we do and there&#39;s four things we don&#39;t do what&#39;s the one thing we do do I&#39;m might see if the sisters have this real quick okay yes yes no think about it I&#39;ll give you an example I&#39;ll give you guys an example Allah said that he is the creator so what do we do we say we say what are you sure you say that see if you were sure you would have had some money man we are sure we say that we affirm it so that&#39;s the first thing we affirm the names and the qualities of Allah if Allah said that he hears what do you say he hears if he says he sees then what do you say he SE if he says he has a yed what do you say he has a yed but there&#39;s four things we do not do $5 for each one of these with the&#39;s names we affirm them and we do not yes we don&#39;t compare that&#39;s one so gets five yes no yes number two yes we don&#39;t make example she has 10 go ahead keep going do you want to do the other two okay yes she said we don&#39;t you mean ask questions what kind of questions we don&#39;t ask we don&#39;t say or ask how okay good and yes so there&#39;s five we&#39;re going to add how we don&#39;t ask how there&#39;s still two left we don&#39;t negate you said negate yes that&#39;s one and and we not not say how yes say how meaning you don&#39;t you don&#39;t you don&#39;t do what try to blank it when you try to say how you&#39;re trying to give in you don&#39;t interpret it okay you don&#39;t say how exactly there we go okay guys who said we don&#39;t say who we negate right negate come come you have $5 and who said we don&#39;t ask how this is five and who said we don&#39;t interpret uh-oh there&#39;s a problem here yes I&#39;ll give you I owe you two at the end of this okay I&#39;ll go to the car give to you inshallah and one said and we don&#39;t give example and we don&#39;t compare those are two so you have 10 okay uh Hass give this to her don&#39;t make the sisters walk man they work too hard so the names and qualities of Allah Asel there&#39;s one thing we do what is it that we do we affirm Allah says he has a yed we say he has he has what a yed and we don&#39;t try to interpret that meaning we don&#39;t try to say that this means this and also we don&#39;t try toam Alum and we don&#39;t negate it we don&#39;t what negated so if he says he has a yed we don&#39;t say no he doesn&#39;t have a yed also we said that and we don&#39;t compare we don&#39;t what compare compare and we don&#39;t say how okay we don&#39;t say how okay we don&#39;t give example and we don&#39;t say how so everybody together we affirm the names of Allah we affirm the names of everybody together we affirm the names of Allah we affirm the names of Allah everybody together together all of you say this I&#39;m going my head&#39;s going to explode we affirm the names of Allah we affirm the names of that&#39;s like we don&#39;t interpret them we don&#39;t interpret them we don&#39;t negate them we don&#39;t neate them we don&#39;t give example for them we don&#39;t give example for them and we don&#39;t compare them and we don&#39;t ask how we don&#39;t very good I&#39;m going to ask you guys that later on inshallah okay so this is the first thing that we established in our lesson that there&#39;s one thing that we do and four things we don&#39;t do if you add asking the question how that&#39;s five we don&#39;t ask how Allah asael says that he is the one who EST he went above his throne and he says in the last third of the night he comes down to the lower heaven we don&#39;t ask what we don&#39;t ask what and we say what that he he comes down he comes down and we don&#39;t say how this guy&#39;s going to ruin it for this corner because he&#39;s bothering everybody got to pay attention so who had a question someone said they have a question no you had a question okay so this is the first thing we had to establish the next thing that we had to establish is that we have Iman in Allah and everything that is that is that is included with him is complete all of his descriptions all of his descriptions are what they&#39;re what complete complete Allah says Allah says and for him is the highest example meaning there is nothing that is an example to him can you be merciful you can be merciful right like you could not beat me up right that&#39;s being merciful to me right thank you brother thank you very much however your mercy is not like the mercy of Allah who&#39;s the most merciful person that you all know on the count of three say it 1 2 3 say it no person I said that&#39;s alive on the count of three 1 2 three who I said alive who is the most merciful man you guys are going to get some points if you say this on the count of three everybody say who is the most merciful to you who is alive today on the count of three 1 2 3 good job yes your parents are the most merciful to you yes you guys that wasn&#39;t even coerced you guys just said it your parents are the most merciful to you are they not but is there Mercy like the mercy of Allah Asel no no to Allah is the highest example when it comes to the mercy of Allah as a think about this if you have a parent and you go to your dad and you tell your dad to his face you are not my father you&#39;re done you&#39;re finished you&#39;re done what happened I don&#39;t know khed was here yesterday yeah man this brother I don&#39;t know man he said what can you imagine though the mercy of Allah Asel that Allah Isel there are people on the Earth today and they&#39;re denying that Allah exist and Allah is still giving them life and he&#39;s given them food and he&#39;s given them oxygen he&#39;s even given them the brain power to try to fight with him can you can you understand this is the mercy of Allah Asel so the mercy of Allah Asel is the most Mercy there is no mercy like Allah&#39;s mercy so after we know that we affirm what Allah affirms for himself without doing four things what are the four things we don&#39;t do comp without comparing interpret give example compare and we don&#39;t negate and we don&#39;t what negate we don&#39;t do that okay and when it comes to the names and qualities of Allah we say that all of Allah&#39;s qualities and his names are complete meaning they&#39;re free from two things who can tell with two things a complete name is free from two things anything that&#39;s complete is free from two things this is is for $20 two things that a complete thing anything that is complete and Allah is the only one he is complete in his own existence in his Essence in his existence in all of his qualities in his Mercy in all of his actions in all of his names in all of his descriptions he is complete without two things Yes incompletion means deficiency good job look at that man this guy&#39;s Rich what you going to do today take me to lunch dinner okay what&#39;s the second thing you Allah&#39;s names and his qualities are free from any deficiency any decrease any incompleteness and no what yes sisters you also and no what and without any what think about something that&#39;s complete it&#39;s not incomplete and it also doesn&#39;t have any what let him try real quick go ahead do you raise your hand yes Allah&#39;s qualities and his names are complete without any incompleteness and also without any blank forgetness not forgetness yes not nothingness no yes mistake again this guy&#39;s got $40 mistake without any deficiency without any what deficiency any deficiency there&#39;s no deficiency there&#39;s no incompleteness and there&#39;s no mistake there&#39;s no deficiency there&#39;s no defect Allah&#39;s names are complete and they are perfect is his Mercy perfect is his Justice perfect is his knowledge perfect then why don&#39;t you guys act like that this is the point if you know Allah&#39;s name and Allah&#39;s knowledge is perfect then why do you seek knowledge from other things outside of him first shouldn&#39;t you go to Allah first shouldn&#39;t you shouldn&#39;t you you should why because his knowledge is what is complete it&#39;s absolute it has no deficiency and no defect meaning is there anything Allah doesn&#39;t know then should you consult Allah for everything no yes yes you should go to Allah for everything cuz there&#39;s nothing he doesn&#39;t know and there&#39;s nothing that he can&#39;t do there&#39;s nothing that he is not able to do there&#39;s nothing Allah is not able to do okay so so again we affirm what Allah has affirmed for himself we say yes whenever Allah he says that he this we say that some people come and say how come you say that he&#39;s he why do you say that he&#39;s he why do you say that have you seen him have you seen Allah why do you say that he&#39;s he anybody tell me why you say Allah is he who why do you say that it&#39;s really simple yes no we know yes no think about it I said asalam alaykum I said everything about Allah you affirm if he said it you affirm it you don&#39;t interpret it you don&#39;t negate it you don&#39;t give it example for it and you don&#39;t say how so why do you say that he&#39;s ha why do you say he&#39;s who yes no it&#39;s right in front of you yes yes because he what he said this is $20 question man because he what he said it Allah said ha what did Allah Say Ha Allah said what in the Quran ha so is Allah ha he&#39;s ha why do we say he&#39;s ha because he said he&#39;s h is he arahman is he al-aziz why do we say he&#39;s al-aziz have you met him then how do you say he&#39;s al-aziz he said it we affirm it we say what he said and we don&#39;t do four things what four things don&#39;t we do we don&#39;t negate it we don&#39;t interpret it we don&#39;t say how and we don&#39;t give examples very good and all of his names and qualities are what complete so when Allah says he&#39;s the provider that means that Allah&#39;s providing is complete without two things without incompleteness and without whates mistakes or deficiencies so if you want something from the creation why would you not go to the Creator first does that make sense to you guys he&#39;s the provider and his providing is perfect so why would you go to something less than him when he is the allseeing the all hearing the all knowing why would you go anywhere else first why would you go anywhere else first am me why why brother why do you go anywhere else first brother why the answer is what you wouldn&#39;t if you knew that he&#39;s what he&#39;s the provider and you remembered that and that his providing is what perfect Allah&#39;s providing is perfect everything save Allah everything besides Allah is either incomplete or deficient or both it&#39;s what incomplete deficient or both everything besides Allah law is either what incomplete deficient or both or both incomplete so this is the next thing now today that was all review that&#39;s what we&#39;ve already done today I want to talk to you guys about a big big big subject this is big this is really really big this has to do with after we know that Allah&#39;s names and his qualities are complete perfect without any incompleteness and without any deficiency and and for Allah is the what the highest example is the what highest example if for Allah is the highest example is there anything like him if for Allah is the highest example is there anything like his qualities remember that if for Allah is the highest example then is there anything similar to him is there anything comparable to him who can give me an Ayah for both a proof for both of those there&#39;s an Ayah that literally says there&#39;s nothing similar to him and there&#39;s nothing comparable to him yes what&#39; you said here bring this back H H bring this back to her bring this back to her the first one is asalam alayum Hussein sh listen I want you guys to pay attention to something right now where is that in the Quran what Surah yes what Surah yes and what&#39;s the name of the Surah okay I&#39;ll give him okay what happened to it no no no hold on a second I got to give you later after that&#39;s a $5 question I owe you five okay look look listen guys hey assalam alaykum I&#39;m going to make a point right here I want you guys to pay attention to this Allah Asel made the religion very simple and unfortunately many Muslims try to take advantage of its Simplicity and they don&#39;t realize it Allah Asel when he says what Surah is this in in what this Surah is equal to what yes no it&#39;s equal to what no it&#39;s equal to what what no it&#39;s equal to what yes no last guess no last guess yes Amir it&#39;s equal to what no it is equal to 13 of the Quran I I asked remember now I asked you so if this is equal to 1/3 of the Quran because it&#39;s discussing what subject matter and his it&#39;s it&#39;s talking about Allah ined right so onethird of the Quran is whated what is the what is the second third of the Quran yes stories and the third one is what no oneir ised oneir is stories oneir is doing Halal and Haram very good now listen this Surah is equal to 1/3 of the Quran and this Ayah tells you it is from one of the greatest ayat in the Quran because it&#39;s talking about Allah and it&#39;s telling you that there&#39;s nothing similar to him nothing similar to him now I want to ask you guys a question why do so many of you know this Surah unfortunately what is the unfortunate reason that many of you know yes it&#39;s the shortest and easiest to recite in Salah so you guys are taking advantage but you&#39;re not even realizing that when you recite that small little bit of Quran it&#39;s equal to what one the oneir of the Quran not only that not only that the reward for reciting that some of the have said that that the reward is from the aspect of the action if you recite a third of the Quran in one Surah you&#39;re going to get the reward for what for onethird of the Quran Subhan Allah say allahar Allah look at the mercy of Allah you guys if you reite everybody do it [Music] now 13 of the Quran now here&#39;s what you don&#39;t do don&#39;t say if I say three times I&#39;m going to do Quran I&#39;m going to finish the Quran in in five minutes you get the reward for onethird of the Quran each time you recite because it&#39;s equal to oneir so the reward is going to go for its amount one3 isn&#39;t that amazing look at the mercy from Allah Asel and he has you say and he knows and Allah knew that the Muslims the most frequent on their tongue after fa is what is what what do you say the most frequently from the Quran after F yes what&#39;s the next one after that no no no the next Surah after that the next one that&#39;s the go [Music] to no hands down hands down sh sisters which one yes no in [Music] in you guys are going too long sh no no no Hass Hass don&#39;t touch that don&#39;t touch so you guys see the greatness of the Quran you guys see the what the greatness of the what is there anything such as a small Surah no but it may be shorter in length but we don&#39;t say it&#39;s what sit down please what do we say we don&#39;t say it&#39;s what we don&#39;t say that a Surah is what small we say that it is shorter shorter in length but the subject matter is the greatest of subjects in that little Surah that that short Surah is worth 13 of the Quran okay moving on moving on what&#39;s an Ayah that establishes that there&#39;s no comparison to him we said and there&#39;s another Ayah that establishes there&#39;s no comparing to him yes no Allah who sued means that Allah is self-sufficient he does not need anything and everything needs him what is is the meaning what is the Ayah that tells you that there&#39;s no comparing to Allah no example yes no I just he just said that yes nope yes it&#39;s an Ayah it&#39;s in an a no no it&#39;s in an ay think about it see this is the benefit of knowing sh this is the benefit of knowing Arabic language it literally says and there&#39;s nothing comparable or like him yes masallah good job there&#39;s no it&#39;s a team effort every everybody say [Music] it there&#39;s nothing comparable to him no no no guys move your feet am Amir move your feet move your feet thank you okay everybody paying attention is everybody paying attention we have to get into this ayum I need everybody&#39;s undivided attention like your absolute attention this is really serious here this part I&#39;m about to mention is heavy it&#39;s really heavy when it comes to understanding AUM the names and qualities of Allah when we try to understand with our mind there&#39;s two types of thinking with our mind and critical deduction I see these younger guys are going to tune out here I think but the older guys I want you guys to pay attention this is extremely important there is two types of critical deduction critical thinking that it&#39;s called Kias there&#39;s two types that you cannot do and there&#39;s one type that we do do with the names and attributes of Allah there&#39;s two types that we don&#39;t do two types of interpretation of using critical thinking that we don&#39;t do and there is one type that we do do okay I&#39;ll give you an example when Allah says and here goes the example for the whole thing Allah says he has a yed Allah says he has a what hand no yed first of all he said yed did he say hand it can be linguistically interpreted as a hand however let&#39;s not go there let&#39;s say the first thing we say if Allah says he has a yet then we say he has a now if we want to contemplate and ponder over our Lord then there&#39;s two things that we won&#39;t do in that thinking and there&#39;s one thing that we can do the first thing that we can&#39;t do is take a general meaning and make it specific we can&#39;t make we can&#39;t take a general meaning and make it what specific for example let&#39;s look at the mercy of Allah here if we say Mercy in general is to be kind and we just generalize just general kindness and then we try to make it specific for Allah and fit that in we say no because his Mercy in encompasses everything it it showers over encompasses everything so we can&#39;t specify for him a a portion of mercy and can and just give that to him say he has merciful with Believers only for example can you say that can you say that that Allah is only merciful with Believers can you say that no we don&#39;t say that another type of thing we don&#39;t do this for the older guys I can see the younger guys are like whoop they&#39;re tuning out the other thing we can&#39;t do is take something specific and make it General now here is with the yed of Allah you know one day I was inside of a barber shop when I was not a Muslim actually you know what I took my shahada I had taken my shahada guys please this is disrespectful like one second okay I was inside of a barber shop one day and I had just become a Muslim musl and there&#39;s a group of people they call themselves The Nation of Islam do you know who these people are this is a racist nationalist organization that says that black people are Allah stuck for Allah they say that they say that now you look at them and say how can you be so foolish to come to this conclusion and they come to you and say don&#39;t you see in Quran that Allah says he has a yed he has a what yed and then they say that means he has a hand and then they say do you have a hand they took a specific a a general meaning and made specific to Allah okay here we say and for Allah is what the greatest example for Allah is the what greatest example so when Allah says he has a yet there&#39;s nothing there&#39;s nothing that&#39;s similar right and there&#39;s no example of it is there so we affirm it right and we say that it is his yet we affirm it for him and it is complete and it&#39;s perfect and it has no defect or deficiency and we leave it like that and Allah&#39;s Mercy is complete it&#39;s perfect it has no deficiency nothing that it&#39;s lacking and we don&#39;t try to say that Mercy now is like the mercy of my mom and we don&#39;t try to say that General Mercy is the mercy in Allah because all of the mercy that we know is only one p one portion of the mercy that Allah has and Allah informed us of this with the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam that Allah&#39;s Mercy that he has all the mercy that we could ever be aware of in this world is only just a portion of the mercy of Allah so there&#39;s mercy of Allah that is not even understandable in this life Subhan Allah right so this is the important part I had to say to you we take the names and qualities of Allah and we don&#39;t take the general meaning and make it specific and we don&#39;t make the specific meaning and make it General but we say the example is the highest example and there&#39;s nothing like it you understand there&#39;s nothing like it there&#39;s nothing comparable to it okay you guys understand any questions any questions no if there&#39;s a question about what I said something that wasn&#39;t clear to you cuz this is the most important subject we&#39;re talking about Allah before we move on next week to our next portion we have to talk about I want to make sure you guys understand this right now and as a matter of fact Allah Asel as Tam he wrote here he explained that all of this has been put together in the Surah that is equal to one3 of the Quran when Allah said what when Allah said that he is one that means he&#39;s alone and he is one right Allah a what&#39;s the meaning of a suid yes no what&#39;s the meaning of a summit yes o think think think he doesn&#39;t need he doesn&#39;t need he doesn&#39;t need yes he&#39;s self-sufficient and yes it&#39;s a piece it&#39;s a piece it&#39;s a piece yes wait Allah yes Allah does not need no not anybody it&#39;s anything and everything needs him Allah does not need any thing and everything needs him what does l mean yes yes both of you all of you guys count of three 1 two three he doesn&#39;t have kids and he was not born and no well we just got over this guys hey before we close the DS I have to hear this from you guys this is so important yes and there&#39;s nothing similar to him nothing what similar to him okay it&#39;s a Dan right now yes okay guys listen we&#39;re closing the D right now what I want you guys to do next week is I want you guys to study ayy all the questions I&#39;m going to ask you next week are going to be based on or around the subject ofy this is where the sh of Islam is going next to establish these things about his names and qualities anality

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Understanding Allah's Names and Attributes