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alhamdulillah
all praise is due to Allah and may
Allah's peace and blessings be on the
last prophet Muhammad s 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 in this series we're looking at
names of Allah which have been revealed
to us in the
Quran and in the Sunnah of the Prophet
sallallah alaihi
wasallam as these are the only reliable
sources for
names the names of Allah are as he named
himself not as we as human
beings would choose
or uh create for him considering that he
best knows
himself so we have restricted this
program to the names found in the Quran
and the Sunnah of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam and in this segment
we're looking at two names two names
which are of a common origin one is
Al and the other
Al these are names number 15
and number
16 the name Alik is found 11 times in
the
Quran among them from Surah
Al he is Allah the Creator the
originator the
fashioner and
Al is mentioned only two times in the
Quran
among them is that found in Surah alh
verse
86 indeed your lord is the all knowing
Creator now if we look at the root of
these two names we'll see that the
common
uh gerend or verbal noun that it comes
from
is and means or has two basic meanings
one the creation of
something which is completely original
without there existing something like it
before and its creation from nothing and
the other is an estimation and
measurement relative to Allah
tala the Divine name Al
and its intensive
form refers to the original creation
making and measurement of the universe
and its contents Allah is the creator of
the universe and whatever it
contains as Allah asked
inah verse three is there any Creator
besides Allah no he is the one and only
Creator everything besides
him is
creation and
everything which we consider to be
created is in fact
manipulated by human beings or by the
creatures in this
world human beings are not able to
create from nothing whatever we
create is a manipul ation of whatever
already
existed so although we refer to Creation
in in human sense it is really used in a
metaphorical sense it's not true and
real creation it is a manipulation of
what already exists so for example the
chair that I'm sitting on uh it has
metal it has wood it has cloth now each
and every one of these units were from
something else the cloth came from
cotton for example which is from
plants and the wood came from a tree and
the metal came from rocks so these
things were manipulated and reorganized
or reassembled to produce this chair you
know maybe the first chair May made in
this particular design so it has that
element of originality to it but still
it is not from nothing it is from
something which already exists only
Allah creates absolutely from
nothing and the term the fact that the
term Creator is used for other uh
elements in the creation can be found in
Surah verse 14
meaning blessed is Allah the best of
creators so in that verse Allah is
identifying other
creators but as I said this is just from
a metaphorical perspective those other
creators are not true creators in the
full
sense
so this uh characteristic of being the
Creator is a unique characteristic that
he and he alone is the creator from
nothing everything else besides Allah is
creation so when we think of the basic
principle
ofed of the unity of
Allah it has a dualistic element to it
in that the unity of Allah is distinct
from the unity of
creation we have two unities here the
unity of Allah and the unity of his
creation they are different and distinct
they are not mixed in any way you know
the creation is a product of Allah's
creative activity now some people who
had difficulty grasping how can
something be created from
nothing their understanding and this we
find in Hinduism for example is that
when God
created since it was just him and there
was nothing else he took from his head
and he created some human beings from
his arms and he created another set of
human beings from his legs another set
and from his feet another set so you
have four basic casts or uh social
levels in hinduist Hindu uh philosophy
or Hindu the Hindu
faith and they arrived at that because
they couldn't understand the idea of
creating from nothing because they in
looking at themselves looking as human
beings everything we do is creation from
something so they've taken this in their
inability to conceive of a creation from
absolute nothing they have then taken
the practice of human beings and given
that to God so they've made him in fact
like his
creatures now if we go on to the effect
of belief in these Divine names
Al and
Al what they affirm for us first and
foremost as Believers is is the logic of
belief in
God Allah said in
Surah were they created from nothing or
did they create themselves or did they
create the heavens and earth indeed they
are uncertain
in this these verses 35 and 36 from
Surah T which is the 52nd chapter of the
Quran Allah addresses those people who
claim most of the verses of the Quran
don't come from this point most of the
verses of the Quran come from the point
that people believe in God but they have
become negligent they're not uh
reflecting on his bounties his mercies
His blessings in their lives they're not
reflecting on this so Allah reminds
them have you
seen how Allah spread out the Earth how
he created the camel and so on so and so
forth you know he gives this as a
reminder to them of their uh need to
accept uh Allah as the Creator and give
the praise and thanks gratitude which is
due to him through
worship but in this verse and a few
others like it in the Quran Allah
actually tackles that small minority few
people in this world who actually
believe there is no
God so he gives them a
logical scenario to reflect
on were they created from
nothing were they created from nothing
or by
nothing this is the first question
now common sense says that
nothing cannot produce
something nothing cannot produce
something so that's cancelled
they could not have been produced by
nothing spontaneously coming into
existence from nothing that's goes
against all reason so that's the first
option that Allah gives them is that
what you claim or the second
one or did you create
yourselves did you create
yourself this is another possibility
which again is
illogical could we have created
ourselves to create
oneself one first had to not
exist and if you didn't exist how can
you create
yourself because for you to do creating
you must exist so therefore it's not
possible that you created
yourselves this is the beginning of a
logical argument which Allah is giving
to those who deny that there is a
Creator we'll continue that after the
break inshallah we're going to take a
short break here and we hope to see you
after this
break
are thead seems long remember just
remember seek strength from the strong
my name is shuni and this is brought to
you from Huda TV um in today's edition
we'll be discussing about the day and
night Allah equated the S with Darkness
the firmament with darkness and equated
the Earth with light why are there
really pillars that cannot be seen or is
it an unseen pillar everything is
running but the relationships are fixed
so that it would appear to people as if
nothing is running you see we are
destroying the our environment with our
own hands and that's why the Quran
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alhamdulillah all praise due to Allah
and may Allah's peace and blessings be
on the last messenger of Allah welcome
back dear viewers to our program in the
names of Allah
and we're continuing to look at two
names name number 15 and number 16 the
list that we are following Al and
Al and I will just remind you as I said
in the list we're following because this
is not to say that these are names
number 15 and 16 it
depends which order you want to put them
in uh what what list you want to make we
are not uh insisting that this is these
are the actual numbers we're only for
our purposes in listing and working our
way through 99 of Allah's names this in
our list is 15 and
16 so we began to look at an argument
which Allah presents we said knowing
Allah is the creator
Al
it should give us a sense of
empowerment
to accept or to know that the belief in
a Creator is a logical and
reasonable belief because those who deny
God's creation that God's existence and
that the creation is from God say it's
just an
accident they basically argue that
belief in God is
irrational it is something
illogical uh people just Blind Faith as
they call it whereas their belief is
that what they believe is logical that
this is all a big accident and that's
why we're
here however Allah presents a logical
argument for them in
Surah verses 35 and 36 he asked
them were they
created from nothing or by
nothing they have to say
no if nothing was there how could we
come into
existence the other
option or did they create
themselves again we said that's not
logical that's that's not logical
because they would have to have not
existed to then create themselves and
Allah goes on to
say you know not only did they create
themselves but they also created the
heavens and the
Earth indeed they are
uncertain even if they wanted to make a
claim for themselves yeah we created
ourself but the heavens and the Earth
problematic it's too much but even to
say that we created ourselves is
nonsense it's IL logical because as I
said you have to have not
existed so that you could create
yourself to come into existence and if
you not existing you can't do any
creating so those two options are
finished Allah in this verse does not
mention the third option that is
somebody created you somebody had to
create you he just leaves it there for
the person with a mind to think to grasp
it he only gives the two options which
could not be what else is left but that
somebody created
you that's the logic for the belief in
God there has to be a Creator so this is
the argument presented by the Quran by
Allah in the
Quran there are some people who say well
okay yeah uh there was a Creator and he
created me but he was created by
somebody
else and that somebody else was created
by somebody
else and so on and for so forth and so
on and so
forth going
back reality is
that if you're going to go back
infinitely because that's what you're
saying now each Creator had a
Creator
then that is like
saying there was no
Creation The Very fact that we exist is
proof that there had to be one
Creator because if each Creator had a
Creator you're going back in infinitely
going back to Infinity means that it
would take an infinite amount of time to
get to where we are now means it would
not get here the very fact that we exist
here right now is proof that there was
one Creator actually this is the
argument used by
Aristotle Aristotle and
Plato they logically proved the
existence of God and according to
Western
thought the origin orators of logic the
people who laid down The rules for logic
were the ancient Greeks and here we have
the logicians themselves using their
minds their brains their reason to come
to the conclusion that there must be a
God so that in itself is something worth
thinking for those people who like to
claim that those who believe in God are
doing it out of emotion out of Blind
Faith
No it is quite reasonable and logical to
believe in
God the second uh point which should be
considered from the name Alik and
Al is that whatever exists in creation
is by the will and and the wish of Allah
subhana wa tala as he said in Surah Al
verse
68 your lord creates whatever he wishes
and
chooses
whatever is considered to be creation
whatever
exists is by his wish and his
choice so it means then that everything
which
exists is by the choice and the will and
the wish of
Allah
now that is a
basic part of belief in
God there are those who
say
well if your God is all powerful he is
Al we believe
that and you believe him to be good
right yes we believe God to be
good Prophet wasam said Allah is he's
good and he
loves and Hees he loves good so Allah is
good we don't Allah is not evil God he's
a good God that's our
belief so they said okay
if he's all
powerful and he's good where did the
evil come
from for them as they argue the very
existence of evil is proof that there's
no
God there couldn't be a God if he's good
unless you have an evil God and for some
people who are stuck with this idea you
have the people like the zor asrian of
Persia there solution to this problem
was to have a god of good Aur Asda and a
god of evil angram Manu so that way it
was solved God is good whatever comes
from him is good then there's this other
God who like really Satan elevated to
the status of a being able to create
like God that's what they've done and
the evil comes from this individual so
that way evil is not attributed to God
but from the Muslim perspective
that's not the case our belief is that
God created
everything whether whe whether it is
good or whether it is what we perceive
to be
evil because there are many things which
are
good which under certain other
circumstance can become evil rain for
example Rain Is a Good Thing causes the
crops to grow and everything but
sometimes rain comes and it floods and
people die so it depends on the
perspective one is looking at it from it
may be a good thing or it may be an evil
thing reality is that Allah created
nothing which was 100%
evil this is a point I made on an
earlier program Allah created nothing
which is 100% evil because if that were
the case then you're talking about an
evil God he created something evil with
a an evil
intent that's a evil God we do things
like that we have evil intents and we
try to implement those evil intents as
evil acts that is that in that small uh
parameter is pure
evil relative to ourselves that's pure
evil we thought evil and we did
evil but relative to Allah even that
evil which we thought and did if we did
it means he allowed us to do it then
there must be some good for which he
permitted us to do this
evil now we don't you know justify our
Evil by saying well Allah made me let me
do the evil so there must be some good
so that my evil is a good thing no evil
is evil still Allah has prohibited this
and he has warned us of punishment for
the evil so it's not something that
commanded but he has permitted us to
choose between good and evil and if we
weren't able to do evil then the choice
would be meaningless so he permits us to
choose it and to do it
sometimes if he sees in our doing it a
purely evil result that there's no good
that's going to come out of it then he
doesn't permit
it if there is some good along the line
some way way but we call the silver
lining of the cloud then he permits
it he allows it so
allaha
whatever evil that exists in the world
is by his permission and he is the one
who takes out of what we may conceive to
be evil good he's capable and able to do
that and that that's why he would permit
it the last point that I would like to
mention before we close is that the
belief in Allah as the creator also
should offer us some sense of
confidence in the fact
that uh Allah whatever human beings do
they will not be able to achieve what
Allah has done with regards to Creation
in you know science is moving at a very
fast pace now the scientists are being
promoted almost like gods in this world
they're able to do this they're able to
do that seems like there's nothing they
W not going to be able to do but
reflecting on this name of Allah brings
us back down to earth to know that Allah
is the only true creator in this world
with that dear viewers i' like to thank
you for being with us in this segment of
the program we hope to see you in our
coming segments
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