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allhd
all prais is due to Allah and may
Allah's peace and blessings be on the
last prophet Muhammad Sall alai wasam
and on all those who follow the path of
righteousness until the last
day I'd like to welcome you dear viewers
to another in our
Series in the names of
Allah this series focuses on the names
of Allah as mentioned in the Quran and
in the Sunnah because these are the two
authentic sources from which we can
extract the names of Allah because as we
said many episodes
back the names of Allah cannot be
determined by deduction human reasoning
and
logic we depend on what Allah has re
revealed revealed to us as the basis for
his names so that is the foundation that
we've built this program
on so every name that we look at we
identify its source in the Quran if it's
there then that's sufficient that could
also be in the Sunnah but usually we
just mention it's in the Quran as this
location if the name is not in the Quran
after we' finished looking at all of the
names that have been extracted Ed from
the Quran then we'll go and look at
those from the Sunnah from the authentic
traditions of the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi
wasallam the idea behind looking at
these names is that
we apply them in our lives because Allah
did not reveal them just
for vague knowledge knowledge without
any real benefit in fact the prophet s
wasallam sought told us to seek refuge
in Allah from knowledge which is of no
benefit so we are studying these names
in order to be able to extract from
them benefit in our daily
lives the fact that there is benefit is
also emphasized in the Hadith of the
prophet wasallam in which he said Allah
has 99
Names whoever memorizes them them or
guards them will enter Paradise that is
the promise of the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam so we know this is a a
worthy
Enterprise for us to know these names of
Allah also we are trying to develop also
Ways and Means of worshiping Allah
through those names because Allah had
told us in the
Quran
all the beautiful names belong to Allah
so call on him with
them That's the basis or the the working
principle that we're using behind this
program how can we apply these names of
Allah in our lives on one hand it
involves knowing their
meanings and
in that way we get to know Allah
better because it is through his names
that we know
him
secondly we try to find out what
relevance the names have in our
day-to-day lives whether we pray with
them or whether
we uh are conscious of Allah with with
regards to them and so it affects our
day-to-day lives in a particular way or
whether we reflect them that there is
some element of these names that we are
also expected to
live some names like Allah the first of
the names that we looked at we can't
live this name this name is unique to
Allah subhana wa tala
himself other names like rman
and the essence of the names rahma Mercy
is something we can live as the prophet
wasallam
said whoever does not show Mercy to
others will not receive mercy so it
means obviously we are expected on the
basis of this
name recognizing the mercy of Allah in
our lives we are expected also to
reflect that Mercy to those around us
whether it be human beings whether it be
children whether it be animals even
animals who are expected to show Mercy
towards in this segment we're looking at
the 10th name al- m the
guardian and this name is mentioned only
once in the Quran there's only one place
in the Quran where it can be found and
that is is in Surah alash the 23rd verse
where a number of these names that are
only mentioned once are found there
Allah
mentions about 15 of the names in that
one spot 15 of his names
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Alik The Sovereign the holy the bestow
of Peace the granter of security the
guardian
the meaning of this name from a
grammatical point of view was one where
Scholars had some difficulty
establishing because the root of the
name was in dispute where did this name
come
from some held that it came from am
which means to make someone feel
safe thus it meant the same as Aman the
trustworthy others held that it was from
M
trusted yet others suggested that it
meant a
Watchman a guardian a witness that is
Shahid or
ha or these other names these were other
meanings which were suggest
suggested relative to Allah this Divine
name means the witness of everything
which takes place in Allah's creation
according to the verse in Surah yunas
verse
61 whatever deed you may be doing I am a
witness of it while you are deeply
engrossed in
it Allah is the witness of everything it
also means The Watcher the one who
watches as he's the witness he's The
Watcher and the guardian over the
Affairs of all his creatures actually
this name muhim Allah refers to the
Quran also as
muhim muhim over over the other
scriptures in that the scriptures which
came before had become
distorted so how do we know what of
those scriptures are correct and what
are not the
Quran guards what is correct of the
scriptures so all of the other
scriptures can be put in the scale of
the Quran to determine what is authentic
from
them that is why Allah
gave the title m to the Quran itself and
1,400 years ago Allah said in the Quran
that people had made changes in the
scriptures and had written it with their
own
hands this discover this reality was
only discovered very
recently only a couple of centuries ago
Christian and Jewish Scholars studying
the Bible came to the conclusion that in
fact these texts were written by their
own
hands there were duplications they could
see patterns in them and they compared
earlier manuscripts with later
manuscripts and they found all kinds of
discrepancies which led them to
conclude that the whole of what was
known as the Torah amongst the Jews
accepted by Christians as part of the
Old Testament as well as the New
Testament writings of the
gospels that these were written by
humans this is not revealed scripture
although it may compare contain some
elements of revealed scripture it was
not the Quran pointed this out
1,400 years
ago so the Quran it is the guardian of
the truth the truth truth which was
revealed to the prophets of
Allah with regards to the effects of
this name what effect should it have
knowing that
Allah is the Supreme
witness who watches over all that takes
place in his
creation this knowledge the knowledge of
this name al- muhim should lead the
believer to reflect on his or her
thoughts words and
deeds being aware that Allah is watching
over everything that we think we say and
we do this should cause us to be
cautious Allah said inah Bak verse
74 Allah is not inattentive of anything
that you do Allah is aware completely so
this name encourages the believer to
take stock of themselves and to check
their
Lifestyles people easily for get caught
up into
corruption when in a corrupt
environment and it happens without
people even realizing it's
happening so a person may come on a job
you're raised with good principles you
know of being honest and everything else
but you go into a company you join a
company where you find everybody in the
company is involved in one or other kind
of corruption acts they're they're
they're either taking things from the
company take paper take pens take
whatever take them
home or they're involved in other
elements of corruption within the
company so you have come in you're an
honest person and you're sitting amongst
these
people in time you will be
affected we're going to look at this
point a little more deeply after the
break we'll take a brief break here and
inshallah I will see you after the
break when you are we the road seems
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alhamdulillah all praise is due to Allah
and may Allah's peace and blessings be
on the last messenger of Allah welcome
back dear viewers to our Series in the
names of Allah before the break we're
looking at the name al-
muhim the
guardian The Watcher the one who is
watching over all of our Deeds
external as well as
internal Deeds that are said or deeds
that are actually done with our hands we
said that awareness of this particular
name should lead us to reflect on on
what is going on in our heads what is
happening what we're saying with what is
happening with our actions and our
Deeds are we on the right path we're
being watched being a Muslim is not
enough one may sit in an environment
that's what we were talking about before
the break the environment which can
affect a person and gradually take him
or her away from the path so we talked
about an individual who comes into a
company he's raised honestly his parents
were honest and he was raised to be
honest tell the truth you know don't
take what doesn't belong to you but he
comes into a company and he sits down
with the people and all the people
around him you know they get to know him
friendly everything then he notices in
their behavior that at the end of the
day they're taking
pens p pencil
sharpeners papers paper clips they're
collecting these things and taking them
home with them they replaced every day
the company has a supply somebody who's
in charge of providing supplies for the
office so they're
replaced no big deal but really there is
a big deal here because people are
actually stealing
property but you know people have taken
it so lightly it's not a big deal you
know take a little bit home for your
kids you know everybody it's all right
no problem and so that person at first
he said no no no he doesn't want to do
this but then he looks he says
everybody's doing it it's the norm you
know so then he starts well maybe it's
okay if I just take a paperclip or just
a pencil and then eventually starts to
take more and more till he becomes like
the rest of them you know this is a
something that the prophet s wasallam
warned us about he described bad
companions is he described them as
jalis you have jalis and jalis a good
companion and a bad companion if you sit
with people who are you know bad
companions people of a negative
environment they're going to affect you
so the prophet Sall wasallam gave this
example he said that the good companions
are like the perfume mer Merchant one
who sells perfume if you go and you sit
with him all the time I e he's going to
give you a little bit of the
perfume is a favor he's giving you some
or at least you will walk away smelling
good because he has opened up all these
jars as he was selling them and this the
the scent has G gone over you so you go
home smelling
good whereas the bad companion is like
what he's like the
blacksmith sah he's there
working the Bellows blowing air onto the
coals that are burning he's got iron in
there he's beating it Sparks are
flying so either because you're close to
him while he's beating this iron Sparks
are going to come and burn your clothes
you have go home with holes in your
clothes or at least you'll go away
stinking of
smoke you'll go away smelling of
smoke one or the other in the west they
say if you lie with dogs you get up with
fleas it's same kind of idea maybe not
as nice as the way the prophet put it
but it's the same idea what you are
constantly around is going to have an
impact on you so for the believer this
name Al MIM should cause him to take
stock or her to take stock of
themselves are they still on track or
have they waved away dri you know
diverted from the path due to bad
companionship bad
companions
so that is one point that this name
should call us to reflect on where are
we the second is that it
invites from the perspective of being
conscious of Allah watching us it
invites us into the Halls
ofan what
is is as the prophet wasallam
said to worship Allah as if you see him
and if you can't see him indeed he sees
you to worship Allah as if you see him
that's that Consciousness to be aware of
Allah watching just as a person if his
father is there if he's doing a job and
the father is there watching him he's
going to be very careful but if the
father is not there then he tends to be
slack so the presence of the father or
the presence of your boss or the
presence of somebody of
importance causes you to do the job as
it should be done it shouldn't really it
should be enough to know that we have a
responsibility and we do it to the best
of our ability as the prophet wasam had
said that Allah loves from each and
every one of us that if we do anything
we do it to the best of our ability so
that should stand that should be our
standard whether people are watching or
they're not watching but
human beings are human beings we tend to
be more uh attentive tend to be more
precise more correct when people are
watching us so worshiping
Allah as if we can see him that is as if
he's there watching us we're going to be
much more uh concerned much more
conscious you know how we do it how we
do that act of worship we're going to
try to do it the best that we
can if we can feel the presence of Allah
that Allah is watching us and that's
what this name should create in us and
if we slacken from that level of doing
acts of worship as if Allah sees us then
we shift to the lower level which is
doing it knowing that he sees
us first level is to to do it as if we
see him as if he's there we can see him
the second level is to do it knowing he
sees us if we are able to catch either
one of those two The Higher One is the
better then we have entered into the
realm
ofan and this is something worthy of a
Muslim to strive his life for because
Prophet m wasallam in that famous Hadith
of jiel which I quoted from when Angel
Gabriel came and asked about what is
Islam what is e faith and what isan he
asked showing that these were different
levels so we should strive of course for
the highest possible
level the third
point of regarding the effects of belief
in the name Al MIM on the believer
is that it should cause reflection it
should cause us to
stop doing uh
evil from the realm of
thought we should knowing that
Allah Is Watching Over Us conscious of
everything we do from the realm of
thought we should strive to stop evil
Deeds meaning what meaning that an evil
deed starts with a thought it doesn't
just usually it's not spontaneous of
course there are some Deeds that we may
not even think it's just you did it
accidentally you did it without thinking
whatever usually but most evil Deeds are
done planned they're thought out an evil
thought comes to our mind maybe we
produce that thought ourselves or could
be from satanic sources or it could be
from our friends bad friends around us
suggesting
we have that thought in our head we can
either brush the thought aside or we can
think about that thought reflect on it
some more and then H sounds
good seems like a good idea and then we
come to a decision I think I'll do
this
and from there maybe we'll talk to
people about it you're planning to do it
and so and so and then we go ahead and
do it so it starts from the thought
once we've once it's reached the realm
of action we're about to do it to try to
stop then thought comes to you oh maybe
I shouldn't do this but you're already
in the act very difficult to stop then
the easiest time to stop that evil deed
is when it just starts in your head this
is the best place to stop it it's simple
it can just be brushed aside very simple
procedure so this name should have that
effect on us that we should strive to
stop evil from the realm of thought not
that we can't think evil because we're
human beings as I said there are forces
all around us that will produce evil
thoughts that we can't control so it's
coming can't help it it's part of the
test of this life but we can stop
it it's true Allah has promised through
his messenger a
mercy that we will not be held for E
account for evil thoughts will not be
held accountable for evil thoughts as
long as we don't speak about them and
act on
them that's
reality and that's a big mercy from
allaha but even so we don't say Okay
since we're not held accountable no need
to worry about those thoughts of course
we still need to worry about them worry
about them why because if we don't stop
things in the realm of thought then
they're going to become words and deeds
that's the norm that's the way things
are so we have to strive to stop this in
the realm of thought to prevent us from
falling into evil
Deeds now the fourth point that we
should keep in
mind concerning Allah being the
guardian that Allah
subh because of the good that we do he
guards us from evil through his Mercy if
we do good if we're involved in
righteous Deeds then he will look after
us and protect us this is the guardian
he is the Guardian guardian of the good
that we have done protecting us as Allah
said in
Surah their father was righteous
concerning the
uh young uh orphans whose wall was
rebuilt to protect the treasure that was
there for them Allah did it for them
because of their father that is Allah
guarding that is the guarding also when
we look at the case of prophet yussef
when he was caught in a circumstance a
major trial he's a
slave the wife of his master is called
in him to
corruption if it weren't for Allah
saving him guarding him he would have
fallen this is Allah guarding the
Believers and this is what when we
reflect on this name we also reflect on
this Guardian aspect that Allah protects
the Believers if we protect the
dean then Allah will protect us with
that dear viewers would like to thank
you for being with us in this segment of
the
program in the names of Allah
in which we have been looking at al-
muhim the
guardian we hope to see you in our
coming
episodes and we hope inshallah that you
will continue to benefit as we have
benefited in preparing these
episodes Road seems long