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pain makes you fall remember just
remember Allah sees
it
alhamdulillah
all praise is due to Allah and may
Allah's peace and blessings be on the
last prophet Muhammad Sall wasam and on
all those who follow the path of
righteousness until the last
day we'd like to welcome you dear
viewers again to our program in the
names of Allah
this program which was
designed to help the
Believers understand Allah
better
because this is the only rot by which we
can understand
Allah by what he has revealed of himself
to
us his names mentioned in the Quran and
the
Sunnah this is a source of knowledge
know for us to better understand our
Lord we study these names in order to
find out more about Allah so that when
we worship
him our worship would
be
fulfilling what it is that he wants from
us for our own benefit because obviously
Allah doesn't need anything from us
but through his names he's informing us
about
himself so that we can worship him we
can live lives of worship as we said
earlier that the whole life of a
Believer should be a life of
worship as Allah gave the basic motto of
the believer in the Quran
saying
indeed say indeed my
prayers my
sacrifices my living and my dying are
for Allah the Lord of all the worlds
that's the whole life dedicated to
Allah for that to happen it must happen
with guidance because how does a person
know how to dedicate his life to Allah
if it's left up to us to come up with
ideas from our own heads we can come up
with all kinds of things appropriate and
inappropriate so
Allah gave us sources of knowledge in
order to know how to worship him and his
names is one of those basic
sources found in the revelation of the
Quran and the revelation of the
Sunnah so we have taken the basic
approach outlined in another verse of
the Quran in which Allah
said
indeed all of the most beautiful and
excellent names belong to Allah so call
on him with them worship him through
them
so following that principle we have been
working our way through the various
names of Allah in this segment we have
reached name number
19 we're adding it to number 20 and
21
Al the forgiver of
sins
alar the oft
forgiving and
alur the
forgiving all of these
names all of these names reflect an
element of Allah's accepting
repentance or
even blotting out sins without
repentance based on other acts that a
person may do which are good as Allah
said in the Quran elsewhere in
that righteous Deeds erase evil Deeds so
this is a part of Allah's quality of
being the oft forgiving so these uh
names numbers 19 20 and 21 are the ones
we're looking at in this
segment we began our whole series with
the greatest name of Allah that was
Allah itself
and we brought evidences to support why
we felt that that was the greatest name
of
Allah other opinions exist but the
overwhelming evidence supports Allah as
the greatest name of our
creator
now we pointed out that worshiping Allah
with his names or through his
names had to be done
in accordance with the way that the
prophet may God's peace and blessings be
upon him did because Islam was revealed
to him he is the one who
conveyed Islam to the generations to
come to reach us he best knew how to
worship Allah through his
names and as I mentioned
earlier one of the ways by which we
would remember Allah was not to take his
name Allah and keep repeating it over
and over and over again this was not the
way that is something which people
invented people use it try to find
justifications for it but the bottom
line is that Prophet Muhammad s wasallam
didn't do it nor did his
companions so we know that this practice
of repeating Allah's name Allah Allah
Allah Allah this practice is falsehood
it's
misguidance it doesn't bring us closer
to Allah it takes us further away from
Allah because Prophet Muhammad wasallam
said I left nothing nothing which would
bring you closer to Allah without
telling you to do it and that wasn't
among the things that he told us to
do so dear brother and sister brothers
and
sisters watching this
program I hope that this point is
clear the topic of this segment we said
was the 19th 20th and 21st
name
Al mentioned only one time in the
Quran and that is in
Surah by the same
name in the third verse Allah says
there the forgiver of sin acceptor of
repentance the severe in punishment
Al is mentioned five times in the
Quran among them in
Surah verse verse
10 I said ask forgiveness from your lord
indeed he is oft
forgiving and alur this is the most
frequently mentioned of this three names
related to forgiveness it is mentioned
91 times in the Quran among them in
Surah or
Surah verse
5 indeed only Allah is the forgiving the
most
merciful
now the the origin of the names
Al
alur these names came from a
root which means covering and
hiding relative to Allah these Divine
names mean that the one who covers sins
this is Allah's quality he's the one who
can cover sins blot out sins this is
that foundation for forgiveness
forgiving of sins through blotting them
out in
distinction trying to distinguish
between the names Al and alur he said
that Al GA is the one who covers sins in
this
world
alur meant covering sins in the
hereafter
and Al meant covering sins from the
sight of Allah's
creatures this is uh sounds nice but
really linguistically speaking we don't
have any clear evidence to establish
these different uh interpretations the
basic principle here is that they all
relate back
to which means hiding or covering
blotting out and that relative to Allah
it means the one who removes
sins we call it
forgiving
now the significance of this particular
uh
attribute found in the name
Al as well as the name Al gafar and the
name Al
gaur
is that
Allah's
quality and
names are
manifest through human
sin through human
sin some people ask why did Allah create
Satan when he knew that he was going
to cause Adam to eat from the
tree the point is that though the act of
Satan was
evil and Adam's acceptance of Satan's
suggestions was wrong and his eating of
the tree from the tree The Forbidden
tree was
sin at the same time that act after
doing
it Adam turned back to Allah and sought
repentance in turning back to Allah and
seeking
repentance
Adam did a great act of
worship seeking repentance from sin
because it is the nature of human beings
to
sin as the prophet wasallam had
said all of Adam's descendants
constantly make
errors with that thought we're going to
take a break and we'll be coming back
from the break to look further into this
concept of human sin and God's
forgiveness when are weak and the road
seems long remember just remember seek
strength from the
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and you are we and the road seems long
remember just remember seek strength
from the strong
alhamdulillah all praise is due to Allah
and may Allah's peace and blessings be
on the last messenger of Allah we
welcome you back dear viewers from the
break to our program
in the names of Allah and in this
segment we're looking at three names all
related to
forgiveness
Al Al and
alur all of them
addressing the quality of Allah to
forgive sins of his creatures when they
turn to him in Repentance or they do
acts which leads him through his
pleasure to forgive them other
sins we spoke earlier about a woman from
the
Israelites who came to a well she was a
prostitute came to a well saw a dog
dying of thirst unable to get into the
well to get water from the
well so she tied
her scarf to her shoe climbed partly
into the well put her shoe into the
water bring it out brought it out and
fed the
dog on feeding the dog Allah
pleased with this merciful act on her
part forgave her of her sins that is
Al
alur
Al so we were talking about this issue
of sin human beings committing sin and
Allah forgiving them and we spoke about
why Allah created Satan knowing that he
would tempt Adam and Lead Adam into sin
what we pointed out here was
that when Adam sinned he then turned
back to Allah and sought forgiveness and
for that Allah forgave him of his
sin as the prophet wasallam
said one who repents from sin is like
one without sin so this act of
repentance is a major act of worship and
this was the good the great good that
would come out of Satan's Act of
tempting
Adam so Allah created Satan knowing what
he was going to do because of this
greater good that would come from that
act and also uh we have a Hadith from
the prophet s wasallam narrated by Abu a
and Abu hura they said that the prophet
s wasallam had said if you did not
commit
sins Allah would sweep you out of
existence and place you with another
people who would commit sins ask Allah's
forgiveness and he would forgive
them if we didn't commit
sins Allah would have removed us from
existence and replaced us with people
who would
sin ask Allah's forgiveness and he would
forgive them so in the sin that a human
being commits
when he turns back to Allah seeking
Allah's forgiveness Allah's attribute of
being the of forgiving is
Manifest so this is the great good that
comes from that evil
roote and this is why Allah created us
human beings knowing full well that we
would disobey Allah that we would commit
sins in another narration from Ann Malik
he related that the prophet s wasallam
had said Allah is more delighted with
the repentance of his servant than one
who suddenly finds his camel Laden with
supplies after losing it in a Barren
land as a person would be so much
in joy and
happiness after losing their cam
at the point of death dying of
starvation and all of a sudden the camel
reappears how happy we would be Prophet
wasallam said Allah is more
happy with the servant who turns to him
in Repentance so this is the great value
of repentance with regards to allaha
at the same time when we look at the
impact of these names
Al
alur
Al Allah the of forgiving it should keep
hope alive in the heart of the
believer keep hope alive that he or she
would be forgiven of their
sins because Allah is the oft
forgiving
so the
believer doesn't fall into a state of uh
distress and give up
hope and fall into more sin as a result
of having lost all
hope this names these names reminds the
believer when he worships Allah reflects
on them reminds the believer that Allah
will
forgive
however there are conditions some people
take this understanding of Allah Allah's
name Al they've taken it and have gone
to
extremes so when they commit sins and
they advise brother sister this is not
good it's Haram don't do it they say
Allah that becomes the answer Allah is
all forgiving and he's
merciful but the bottom line is that his
mercy and his
forgivingness is it something arbitrary
you don't have to do anything all you
have to do is believe that he is
forgiving and merciful and you're
forgiven that doesn't make sense that's
illogical that's foolish
no there has to be effort on the part of
Allah's servant for him to deserve and
to
receive by the grace of Allah Allah's
forgiveness so let us not fool ourselves
into thinking that without any effort on
our part we will receive Allah's
forgiveness no forgiveness has
conditions there are clear conditions
which were set by the prophet sallallahu
alaih
wasallam set by Allah subh in the Quran
they're there there are
conditions the first of the conditions
is one which the prophet Salli wasallam
said in a
Hadith which was narrated
byb he quoted the prophet sallam as
saying
remorse is
repentance in that statement the prophet
Sall wasallam laid the foundation for
True
repentance remorse feeling bad about
what one has
done that is a condition for one's
repentance to be accepted by
Allah if one commits a sin and still
enjoys the memory of that
sin they don't feel bad in any way
within themselves about the sin they
just know it's a sin people tell them
it's a sin they know they shouldn't do
it because maybe they studied it or
their parents told them or Society tells
them it's not good but in their hearts
they love
it and they turn to Allah and
say
forgive me oh
Allah will Allah forgive them no because
this primary condition which Allah made
equivalent
to repentance is missing
remorse it's like when Prophet wasallam
said Haj isaa well it doesn't actually
mean Haj isaa it means that without
arafa there is no
Hajj if you miss araa there's no Hajj if
you miss Mina before arafa your Hajj is
still there there are things that you
can miss from Hajj and Hajj is still
there but if you miss arafa no Hajj
because arafa is the essence of Hajj the
plane of araa everything is moving
towards that point
where we stand and
spend half the day in worship of Allah
in
prayer in the plain of
arafa so in the same way as
Hajj is invalid if arafa is missing
similarly TBA is invalid if nadam is
missing and n
dama
remorse
sadness feeling bad about what one has
done if that is missing then there is no
repentance it's only a ritual we're
going through words we are
mouthing but it has no
impact and as such Allah will not
forgive us so as I
said alhamdulillah knowledge of the
names shows us reminds us of this great
forgiving quality of Allah tala and it
should keep hope alive in the heart of
the believer but it is not an idle hope
an aimless hope a hope which is not
connected to some
real
practical
acts which by the grace of of Allah
bring the Forgiveness of
Allah it becomes
deserved by Allah's Grace without that
then repentance is a meaningless
ritual that with that point uh dear
viewers we're going we've come to an end
of the program we'll close it and we
hope to see you in our coming program
where we'll finish off our discussion on
Allah's of forgiving nature as expressed
in his names Al Al and
Al with that I bid you all
farewell when you are weak the road
seems
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