One of the best lectures by Ustad Nouman Ali Khan delivered at the East London Mosque.
In this inspiring talk, Nouman Ali Khan shares deep reflections on faith, community, and the importance of connecting with the Qur’an in our daily lives. His words remind us of the timeless wisdom of Islam and how it can guide us through modern challenges.
✨ What You’ll Learn in This Lecture:
Practical lessons from the Qur’an for everyday life
The power of community and unity in Islam
How to strengthen your relationship with Allah
Motivational reminders to stay steadfast in faith
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In this inspiring talk, Nouman Ali Khan shares deep reflections on faith, community, and the importance of connecting with the Qur’an in our daily lives. His words remind us of the timeless wisdom of Islam and how it can guide us through modern challenges.
✨ What You’ll Learn in This Lecture:
Practical lessons from the Qur’an for everyday life
The power of community and unity in Islam
How to strengthen your relationship with Allah
Motivational reminders to stay steadfast in faith
This is one of the most powerful and memorable sessions by Nouman Ali Khan in London. Don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe to spread the message.
#NoumanAliKhan #EastLondonMosque #IslamicLecture #QuranReminders #UstadNouman
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00:00Alhamdulillah
00:00Alhamdulillah
00:02خالق الوجود من العدم
00:04وجاعل النور من الظلم
00:06ومخرج الصبر من الألم
00:09وملق التوبة على الندم
00:12فنشكره على المصائب كما نشكره على النعم
00:17ونصلي على رسوله الأكرم
00:20ذي الشرف الأشم والنور الأتم
00:22والكتاب المحكم
00:24وكمال النبيين والخاتم
00:27سيد ولد آدم
00:28الذي بشر به عيسى بن مريم
00:31ودعا لبعثته إبراهيم عليه السلام
00:35حين كان يرفع قواعد بيت الله المحرم
00:38فصلى الله عليه وسلم
00:41وعلى أتباعه خير الأمم
00:43الذين بارك الله بهم كافة الناس العرب منهم والعجم
00:48فالحمد لله
00:50الذي لم يتخذ ولدا
00:52ولم يكن له شريك في الملك
00:54ولم يكن له ولي من الذل وكبره تكبيرا
00:58والحمد لله
01:00الذي أنزل على عبده الكتاب
01:03ولم يجعل له عوجا
01:04والحمد لله
01:06الذي نحمده ونستعينه ونستغفره
01:10ونؤمن به ونتوكل عليه
01:12ونعوذ به من شرور أنفسنا ومن سيئات أعمالنا
01:16من يهده الله فلا مضل له
01:19ومن يضلله فلا هادي له
01:21ونشهد أن لا إله إلا الله
01:24وحده لا شريك له
01:26ونشهد أن محمدًا عبد الله ورسوله
01:30أرسله الله تعالى بالهدى ودين الحق
01:33ليظهره على الدين كله
01:35وكفى بالله شهدا
01:37فصلى الله عليه وسلم تسليما كثيرا كثيرا
01:41ثم أما بعد فإن أصدق الحديث كتاب الله
01:45وخير الهدي هدي محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم
01:49وإن شر الأمور محدثاتها
01:52وإن كل محدثة بدعة
01:55وكل بدعة ضلالة
01:56وكل ضلالة في النار
01:58يقول سبحانه وتعالى في كتابه الكريم
02:02بعد أن يقول أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم
02:05تبارك اسم ربك ذي الجلال والإكرام
02:08رب الشح لي صدري ويسر لي أمري
02:10واحل العقدة من لساني يفقه قولي
02:13واللهم ثبتنا عند الموت بلا إله إلا الله
02:16والله أجعلنا من الذين آمنوا وعملوا صالحات
02:20وتواسعوا بالحق وتواسعوا بالصبر
02:22أمين يا رب العالمين
02:23First of all it's an honor to be here at the East London Mosque
02:27and I want to share with you that I have a special love
02:30for the city of London every time I get a chance I come here
02:33more often than not I am here without telling anyone
02:35and the thing that I love about this city the most
02:38is the Muslims of this city
02:39and it is something special that you have here
02:43there's an energy even among the youth here
02:45that have a zeal to serve this deen
02:47to commit themselves to this deen
02:48that is unprecedented in the Western Muslim world
02:51I've been to countries like Australia
02:53all over Canada
02:54all over the United States
02:55many other parts of the world
02:57and I haven't seen the kind of energy
02:59and the kind of enthusiasm that young people have
03:01towards their deen that I see here
03:03today's khutbah in any case
03:05I wanted to share with you some things about
03:08something that we recite all the time
03:10something that we say all the time
03:12and we overlook I would argue all the time
03:14and that is the gift of Allah
03:16that He revealed to all of us
03:17and that is Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim
03:19there is so much that can be said about
03:21Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim
03:22but I hope to share a few things with you today
03:24the first of them is obviously
03:25the most conversation that you might be familiar with
03:28is in the name of Allah
03:29that's how it begins
03:30in the name of Allah
03:31we'll get to Ar-Rahman ar-Rahim in a little bit
03:33but when you say in the name of Allah
03:35it's the Arabic word ism
03:36that has been translated as name
03:38but actually the Arabic word ism comes from the original wasam
03:42and wasamah in Arabic as a verb means two things
03:45it means a mark
03:47some kind of brand
03:48like sometimes they would have animals
03:50anybody's horse
03:51there's a lot of white horses
03:53and is it mine or is it yours
03:54so they would put a brand on the horse
03:56so now I know this one's mine
03:58so it's a mark that distinguishes this horse
04:01from every other horse
04:02similarly there are twins
04:04I don't know which one
04:05is this Abdullah or Abdul Karim
04:06I don't know which one
04:07one of them has a birthmark
04:08that's his wasam
04:09a mark that distinguishes someone
04:11that you can't confuse them with anybody else now
04:13that's actually one of the meanings of wasam
04:16and the other meaning of wasam
04:17actually comes from wasamah
04:19and from it you get words like wasim and wasam
04:21which means beauty
04:22in other words not only is there a mark
04:24but it's a mark of beauty
04:26those are two things that come within that word
04:28when we say Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim
04:31we're acknowledging something about Allah
04:32that every one of his qualities
04:35everything that he does
04:36is something that's unique to him
04:39it cannot be confused with anyone else
04:41the way Allah shows mercy
04:43the way Allah guides
04:44the way Allah provides
04:46the way Allah plans
04:47the way Allah does anything that he does
04:49is unique to him
04:49it cannot be compared
04:50that is his unique mark
04:52that's the first thing
04:53but the second thing also
04:54is that everything Allah does
04:56whether you understand it
04:57and I understand it or not
04:59has beauty in it
05:00everything Allah does has beauty in it
05:02and that's just inside when we just use invoke the name
05:05ism
05:06but now let's take this a step further
05:08when we say
05:08in the name of Allah
05:10instead of just saying
05:11you're just mentioning Allah
05:13just calling on Allah
05:14but actually invoking the name of Allah
05:16and actually by invoking the name
05:18the uniqueness of Allah
05:19and the beauty
05:20of all of the qualities of Allah
05:22we're actually
05:23like Imam Al-Alusi rahimahullah commented
05:25alba'u lil-istiaana
05:27that you're asking Allah's help
05:29when you say
05:30Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim
05:31you're actually asking
05:32Allah's help
05:33but human beings need
05:34different kinds of help
05:35when you're sick
05:36you need someone to cure you
05:38when you're tired
05:39you need someone to help you
05:41you know
05:41when you're confused
05:42you need someone to clarify for you
05:44when you don't know
05:46you need someone to educate you
05:47when you're lost
05:48you need someone to guide you
05:49it's not one kind of help
05:50if you're hungry
05:52you don't need to be educated right now
05:54you need to be fed
05:54it's a different kind of help
05:55so when you ask Allah for help
05:58then at a different occasion
06:00you need a different kind of help
06:01and of course
06:02every one of Allah's names
06:04provides a different kind of help
06:05when Allah calls himself
06:07Al-Hadi
06:08the one who guides
06:09then of course
06:10the help he will give us
06:11that he'll guide us
06:12when he calls himself
06:13the provider
06:14Ar-Razaq
06:14Ar-Raziq and Ar-Razaq
06:16the one who provides
06:17over and over again
06:17then obviously
06:18he's in that name
06:20he's gonna be giving me provision
06:21when he calls himself
06:23Dhul-Quwat-Al-Mateen
06:24the one who has extended might
06:26extended power
06:27then I need strength
06:28I'm weak
06:29and I'm gonna call on Allah's power
06:30to grant me some of that power myself
06:32so I can accomplish
06:33what I need to do
06:34so every one of Allah's names
06:36gives us a different kind of help
06:37but when I wake up in the morning
06:39and I'm just getting out of bed
06:41and out of my mouth comes
06:43Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim
06:44just like that
06:45just like that
06:46I just say
06:46I don't think about
06:47which name do I need right now
06:48do I need Allah to give me
06:50the strength to get up
06:51do I need Allah to guide me this morning
06:53do I need Allah to
06:54you know
06:55to help me plan my day
06:56do I need Allah to provide me
06:58hada, rizq
06:58do I need Allah to provide me
07:00peace in my family
07:01and security
07:02which name of Allah
07:03should I call on
07:04and it is the gift of Allah
07:06that by using just the word
07:07ism
07:07it is all of the names of Allah
07:10all of the unique qualities of Allah
07:12all of the beautiful things
07:13about Allah
07:14that you included
07:15just inside the word ism
07:17whether you thought of
07:18all of those names or not
07:19this is the mercy of Allah
07:21I could not have thought
07:22of all of the things
07:23that I need from him
07:24because I don't need one thing
07:25I need too many things
07:26I'm in too much need
07:28and so I can't even think
07:29of all of those names
07:30walillah
07:31you know
07:31asma'ul husna
07:32fadruhu biha
07:33he says
07:34for Allah
07:35they're the most beautiful names
07:36call him by all of those
07:38beautiful names
07:38but how many people
07:39are gonna learn
07:39all the names of Allah
07:40not everybody will know
07:42all the names of Allah
07:43but we need all of them
07:44so Allah give us a gift
07:46when we say
07:47bismillah
07:48just bismillah
07:48we've already called upon
07:50all of Allah's names
07:51the one you will ever learn
07:53and the one you will never learn
07:54all of them have been included
07:56subhanallah
07:57and that's a gift of Allah
07:58when we say
07:59bismillah
08:00ar-rahmana
08:00ar-raheem
08:00now
08:01the second thing
08:02on this point
08:03walillah
08:04al-mathal
08:05al-a'la
08:05sometimes to appreciate
08:06what Allah does for you and me
08:07because what he does is unique
08:08sometimes it's healthy
08:10to make a comparison
08:11how we deal with each other
08:12there's a father
08:14or a mother even
08:15and she pours her love out
08:18on her child
08:19she takes care of this child
08:20even before the child is born
08:22this kid is inside her stomach
08:25causing her pain
08:27you know
08:27destroying her body from within
08:29and all she does is make dua for him
08:31when will you ever find
08:33another human being
08:34all you do is cause them pain
08:36every day goes by
08:38the womb gets heavier and heavier
08:39now she's throwing up
08:41even more and more and more
08:42food starts tasting like paper
08:44she can't even sit down straight
08:46her back hurts all the time
08:47she's even hurting when she's sleeping
08:49she has to con
08:50and she's worried about her
08:52and she's hungry all the time
08:53because the baby takes all the food
08:54and it doesn't even taste good
08:56for her to eat
08:56this creature causes her
08:58pain upon pain upon pain
09:00wahnan ala wahnan
09:02kama yaqululul quran
09:03subhanallah
09:03weakness on top of weakness
09:05burden on top of burden
09:07and yet all she does is
09:08her love keeps increasing
09:09her love doesn't go down
09:11it keeps increasing
09:12it doesn't say enough already child
09:13I had enough
09:14I've been dealing with you for six months
09:15there's three more months to go
09:16she doesn't do that
09:17her dua's start increasing
09:19she comes to the imam and says
09:20what surah can I recite
09:21so my baby can hear it
09:22you know
09:23and then the baby comes out
09:25and almost kills her
09:26almost kills her
09:27she bleeds almost to death
09:28and instead of
09:29when will you ever have someone
09:31that bleeds you
09:32that almost kills you
09:34and the first thing you want to do
09:35is take care of them
09:36and hug them and feed them
09:37that's your mother
09:38that's what she does
09:39and that's just
09:40what she did at birth
09:42what the love that she's given you
09:44the support that she's given you
09:46even when you're an adult
09:47so many of you
09:47there's no one you can talk to
09:49and you'll talk to your mother
09:50there's no one who will understand you
09:52your mother will understand you
09:53there's no one who will feel your pain
09:55your mother will feel your pain
09:56that's not just when we were babies
09:58even when you're 50 years old
09:59it doesn't matter
09:59and that mother
10:01somebody goes to her
10:03the son goes to her
10:03and says
10:04mom you're so great
10:05you make such good roti
10:07please help me
10:09and the mother's thinking
10:10that's all I'm good for
10:12I've done nothing else for you
10:14but make roti
10:15that's the one thing
10:16that came in your mind
10:17all the other sacrifices I made
10:19I took
10:20you know
10:21five different trains
10:22and three different buses
10:24to get a job
10:25so you can go to college
10:26and all you can thank me
10:27is you made roti the other day
10:28that's all that came in your mind
10:29how ungrateful are you
10:30she doesn't say it
10:32but she feels it
10:32she doesn't say it
10:34she still loves you
10:34but you know
10:36you and I
10:36no matter how hard we try
10:38we can never acknowledge
10:39the goodness of our mother
10:40we can't do it
10:40if we were to call on Allah
10:43with one name
10:43imagine you called on Allah
10:46Ya Razak
10:47Bismil Razak
10:48you know
10:50I just call on Allah
10:51the name Al-Razak
10:52that's it
10:52you know
10:53then Allah
10:54you're only appreciating
10:56what about Allah
10:56that He provided for you
10:57but you didn't appreciate
10:59that He guides you
11:00you didn't appreciate
11:02that He protects you
11:03you didn't appreciate
11:04that He secures you
11:06and gives you good people
11:07in your life
11:08you didn't appreciate
11:09that He gives you knowledge
11:10He didn't appreciate
11:11that He made you Muslim
11:13that He gave you your health
11:15that He gave you your job
11:16you didn't appreciate
11:17any of those things
11:18you just reduced
11:19everything about Allah
11:20to one of the things He does
11:22one of them
11:23and Allah kept us
11:25from reducing Allah Himself
11:27subhanahu wa ta'ala
11:28because that's offensive
11:28we wouldn't even know
11:31وَيُعَلِّمُكُمْ مَا لَمْ تَكُونُوا تَعْلَمُونَ
11:33He taught you
11:34what you couldn't have even known
11:35we would have even been
11:36praising Allah
11:37and it would have been offensive
11:38because it's just not enough
11:39so He gave us
11:40بِسْمِ اللَّهِ
11:41He gave us this phrase
11:43and now when you
11:44when you call on that phrase
11:45the believer is supposed to become
11:47filled with gratitude
11:48we're supposed to be overwhelmed
11:50in how much
11:51in how many ways
11:52Allah helps us
11:53in how many ways
11:55Allah provides us
11:55there are no other relationships
11:57like this one
11:58you know
11:59I go to my teacher
12:00for knowledge
12:01you know
12:02I go to my parents
12:03for support
12:04and when I'm young
12:05for provision
12:06you know
12:07I go to my spouse
12:08for emotional support
12:09and love
12:10I go to different people
12:11for different things
12:12but to Allah
12:13you go to Him
12:14for all things
12:15you go to Him
12:16for everything
12:17there's not one thing
12:18that is missing
12:19when you and I
12:20turn to Allah
12:20so that's the first part
12:22of the equation
12:22بِسْمِ اللَّهِ
12:23but then Allah
12:25didn't stop there
12:26even actually
12:27I want to share with you
12:28some things about
12:28the word Allah
12:29our ulama had a long
12:31debate in our history
12:32what is the origin
12:33of the word Allah
12:34does the word Allah
12:35come from ilah
12:36and is it the combination
12:38of al-ilah
12:39al-ilah
12:40or is it a name of Allah
12:42that belonged to Allah
12:43from before Arabic
12:45and before all languages
12:46always been the name of Allah
12:47there's been these two
12:48positions
12:49all across our history
12:50and both of them
12:51have their evidences
12:52but I want to share
12:53some things with you
12:54even if you say
12:55that this word belongs
12:56to comes from
12:56the word ilah
12:57ilah is commonly
12:59translated someone
13:00to be worshipped
13:00al-ma'bud
13:01al-ma'bud
13:02al-ma'luh
13:03bima'na al-ma'bud
13:04but you know
13:05the word alihah
13:06the verb in Arabic
13:07it actually comes
13:08from love
13:09the origin of the word
13:11faza'a ilayhi
13:12wa ahabbahu
13:12ashadda al-hub
13:13it's actually
13:15intense kinds of love
13:17the old Arabs
13:17before Islam
13:18they used to have
13:19ten degrees of love
13:21the lowest of them
13:22was khub
13:22the lowest of the
13:24degrees of love
13:24was khub
13:24and they would have
13:25ten degrees
13:26and the tenth one
13:27will kill you
13:28you love someone so much
13:30you become so obsessed
13:31that you can't even eat
13:32you can't even sleep
13:32you know
13:33it just kills you
13:34it's unhealthy
13:35the ninth one
13:37the ninth one
13:38actually is called
13:39walah
13:40or alah
13:40from which the word
13:41ilah comes
13:42and the word walah
13:43means a kind of love
13:45that when you have it
13:46you don't feel pain
13:48when you have it
13:50you don't feel hunger
13:50you don't feel sadness
13:52it is taken
13:54this love
13:55fills your appetite
13:56so much
13:56there's no room left
13:57for anything else
13:58there's no negative emotion
14:00left in your life
14:01because
14:01this ilah
14:02has filled it for you
14:03when we call upon Allah
14:05by saying
14:06Bismillah
14:07we are expressing
14:09our love for Allah
14:10and acknowledging
14:11that if we truly
14:12have love for Allah
14:13all of our problems
14:14are going to feel
14:15like nothing
14:15we all have problems
14:18some of us have
14:19marriage problems
14:20some of us have
14:20problems with our children
14:21some of us have
14:22problems with money
14:23some of us have
14:24problems with health
14:25some of us have
14:26problems with extended
14:27family
14:28friends
14:28we have all kinds
14:30of problems
14:30some of you have
14:31legal problems
14:31some of you have
14:32business problems
14:33immigration problems
14:34there are so many
14:35problems in life
14:36all you're doing
14:37all day
14:37there are taxi drivers
14:38here
14:38that are driving around
14:39all day thinking
14:40about their problems
14:41how much money
14:41do I have left
14:42How am I going to pay for the next tuition fees for the child?
14:45Which uni are they going to go to? And all of it.
14:47That's all they're thinking about all day.
14:49When you call on Allah with bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim,
14:52know that Allah will remove the tension from your head.
14:56He'll get rid of it.
14:57And He will replace it with a reliance on Allah.
14:59And everything will get sorted out.
15:01Everything will work out.
15:03Because you have this gift that came from the heavens.
15:05This thing you recite and I recite bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim is not cheap.
15:09It's amazing.
15:11You know when it's used in a context?
15:13All of you know it's used in the beginnings of surahs, every time.
15:16But the one time it's used in the middle is in the story of Sulaiman.
15:19إِنَّهُ مِنْ سُلَيْمَانِ وَإِنَّهُ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَانِ الرَّحِيمِ
15:22Ever think about that?
15:24Sulaiman a.s. is going to transfer the throne of another queen
15:29thousands of miles in the blink of an eye.
15:33And he says this is because of bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim.
15:37This is what bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim can do.
15:40What is Allah teaching you and me?
15:42If Allah can do that when someone truly believes in bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim
15:46then you and I have no reason to be pessimists left.
15:49A Muslim is not supposed to be depressed.
15:51Because he has this gift.
15:53You know if you had... I'll tell you a secret.
15:56Think about this as an analogy.
15:58It will help you inshaAllah ta'ala.
15:59It helped me a lot.
16:01And you have all these problems.
16:02Money, health, family.
16:04You know all these issues in your life.
16:06And they only seem to be getting worse.
16:08They don't seem to be getting better.
16:10The arguments are getting more and more nasty.
16:12And you're just buried and buried and buried.
16:14You know there are young men here, young women here that can't get married.
16:18You know and either the family doesn't agree or the guy is not right or the girl is not right.
16:23Or nothing is right or you know.
16:25Is it even going to happen?
16:27She's getting older and older.
16:28The father is getting worried.
16:29How am I going to get my daughter married?
16:31All of these problems are happening.
16:32And imagine one day that somebody comes to you and says,
16:35Here's an envelope.
16:37You can open it in 30 days.
16:39But I'll tell you there's 2 million pounds in here for you.
16:42But you can only open it in 30 days.
16:45But it's in your hand already.
16:48You have it.
16:49Even if you don't have enough food for lunch.
16:52Even if you don't have enough money to pay the electricity bill.
16:56You have nothing in your hand.
16:57For 30 days you're still poor.
16:59But you're the happiest man I've ever met.
17:02You're still walking around without shoes on the street.
17:04And I'm like, hey man, why are you so happy?
17:06You don't know.
17:0727 days.
17:08I'll let you know.
17:10Because you have a guarantee in your hand.
17:13You have a guarantee.
17:15And whenever you get depressed.
17:16Whenever you feel really hungry.
17:18You just look at the envelope.
17:2024 more days.
17:22This thing has given you a guarantee that a better life is coming.
17:27Isn't it?
17:28All of your problems became small.
17:31No big deal.
17:32Because you have a guarantee.
17:34That is when you call on the name of Allah.
17:37That's a guarantee in your hand.
17:39It's worth more than a few million pounds, let me tell you.
17:41It's worth a lot more than that.
17:43And it's in your hand.
17:44It's just in your hand.
17:46You just got to believe in it.
17:47That's all.
17:48You know, somebody else could have the same paper and say,
17:51I don't believe it and rip it up.
17:53Never even open it.
17:55Be skeptical about it.
17:56You and I are believers.
17:58We believe in the power of Allah's names.
18:00And so I take you quickly to the next name.
18:02Of all of Allah's names.
18:04First of all, he invoked the one that makes us worship him out of love.
18:08The word that comes from Allah.
18:10And even that name is so unique.
18:12Because the wasslam already told you that there's a uniqueness to Allah, right?
18:15You know, in Arabic, this is a little bit of an Arabic thing,
18:17but I'll try to make it easy for you.
18:18You must have heard, if you have Arab friends or somebody speaking Arabic,
18:21when they call on someone,
18:23Harf-ul-nidaa, he is the Ya.
18:25You say, Ya Walad, Ya Rajul, Ya Kareem, Ya Abdullah.
18:28Ya Abdullah.
18:29They say Ya all the time when they call someone.
18:31When you say Ya, you don't use Al.
18:33You don't say Ya Al Walad.
18:35If you want to use Al, you say Ya Ayyuhal Walad.
18:37You don't just say Ya Al Walad, you say Ya Ayyuhal Walad.
18:40Like Allah says Ya Ayyuhal Mudathir.
18:43For example, Ya Ayyuhal Nabi.
18:45If you want to put Alif Laam there, Al there, you have to say Ayyuhal.
18:48You can't just say Ya.
18:49But if you don't say Ya, you can say Ya Musa, Ya Isa, Ya Zakariya, Ya Yahya.
18:53You know.
18:55Some argue the word Allah has Al in it.
18:58When we say Ya Allah or No,
19:00we say it all the time.
19:02The name of Allah is so unique,
19:04you don't even do in Arabic what you do with the name of Allah anywhere else.
19:08Even the name of Allah is unprecedented.
19:11Even the way it's pronounced, Allah, when you say Allah,
19:15you don't say Allah anywhere else in Arabic.
19:17Even the way it's pronounced is unique.
19:19Even the way Allah gave us the gift of His name,
19:22is to tell us you are dealing with someone like as no one else.
19:25He's like nobody else.
19:27He will help you like nobody else.
19:28He loves you like nobody else.
19:30He cares for you like nobody else.
19:31He remembers you like nobody else.
19:33He's always with you like nobody else.
19:35Everyone else will leave you.
19:36Everything else will leave you.
19:37Allah will never leave you.
19:39That's what He reminds you and me of.
19:41That's what He reminds you and me of.
19:43Now, there's a lot to talk about like I said,
19:45but I will finish on time.
19:46I respect the fact that a lot of you have to get back to work
19:49and have other responsibilities.
19:51I have about five minutes left,
19:52so a few things I'll try and squeeze in about this beautiful phrase.
19:55The two names of Allah, all of His names,
19:58that He could have included.
19:59You know, because He has the best of all names.
20:02But the two descriptions that He wanted us to know,
20:04every time we do something,
20:06every time we call on all of His qualities,
20:08of them, two of them should come to the front of our mind.
20:11Meaning two of His qualities overshadow everything else.
20:16When you think of everything else about Allah,
20:18it is under these two.
20:20And those are Ar-Rahman, Ar-Rahim.
20:22Ar-Rahman, Ar-Rahim.
20:24What incredible two names.
20:26Ar-Rahman simply means three things.
20:30It means that Allah's love and mercy and care is extreme.
20:35Mubalagha means it's beyond what you can imagine.
20:38It also means, so it's extreme, that's the first thing.
20:40The second thing is, that it's immediate.
20:43The second thing is that it's immediate.
20:45Which means you don't have to wait for it.
20:47It's happening right now.
20:49And the third of the meanings, when you use Fa'lan,
20:52that's the scary one.
20:54It's actually not permanent.
20:56It's extreme, it's immediate,
20:58but it's not necessarily permanent.
21:01When you say, for example, in Arabic,
21:03Atshan means thirsty.
21:04Thirst is not permanent.
21:05When you say Jawaan,
21:06Jawaan is extremely hungry.
21:08It's extreme, it's immediate, but it's not permanent.
21:10When you say Jawaan, extremely angry, it's not permanent.
21:13Well, for some people it is.
21:14But yeah, for most people it's not permanent.
21:17You know?
21:18But the beauty of the Arabic language,
21:20and the beauty of how Allah chose to describe Himself,
21:23this is a kind of Mubalagha,
21:25even if it's temporary, it doesn't go away on its own.
21:29If you're thirsty, the thirst will not go away on its own until you use water.
21:35If you're hungry, hunger will not go away on its own until you eat food.
21:40If Allah is Ar-Rahman,
21:42if Allah is excessively loving, excessively caring, excessively merciful,
21:48that extreme love, mercy, and care will not go away ever until you remove it.
21:54Until you don't want it.
21:56Allah will never take it away.
21:58People don't want it sometimes.
22:00Rasulullah one time told the Sahaba,
22:03strangest thing,
22:04the Sahaba are sitting there,
22:05and he looks at them and he says,
22:07So all of you are going to Jannah,
22:13except the one who refused.
22:16Why would?
22:18And even the Sahaba asked the same question that came in my head.
22:21Who's gonna refuse?
22:25Why would we refuse to go to Jannah?
22:28He says,
22:30Whoever obeyed me, whoever came to me,
22:37because he's the merciful messenger of Allah.
22:42Whoever came to me in obedience, wanted to go to Jannah.
22:44Whoever forgot about me, disregarded me, he didn't want to go.
22:47You and I can remove ourselves from Allah's mercy.
22:50Allah will not close the door, we close the door.
22:53And sometimes you close the door for many years.
22:56Sometimes you close the door for many, many years.
22:59And then you open it.
23:00And when you open it, Allah doesn't say,
23:01Why did you close it?
23:02Get lost, I don't want you anymore.
23:04He doesn't do that.
23:05The door remains open.
23:07The doors of Allah's mercy and His care and His love remain open.
23:10The last of these names is Ar-Raheem.
23:13And as I leave you with Ar-Raheem,
23:14two things I want to share with you.
23:16Ar-Raheem actually fills the void of Ar-Rahman.
23:18Ar-Raheem is Sifa Mushabbah, they say in Arabic, something that is permanent.
23:22So don't you worry.
23:23Allah will take care of you right now, immediately.
23:25And if you're worried about tomorrow,
23:27He'll take care of you tomorrow too.
23:28You know, it's human nature.
23:30If you're really hungry,
23:32And your wife says to you,
23:33What do you want to eat next week?
23:35You say, forget it woman, what do we have right now?
23:37I don't care about next week, I'm starving right now.
23:40Once you finish eating,
23:43And your stomach is full,
23:44Then you say, so what are you saying about next week?
23:47You don't think about the future if you have a problem in the present.
23:51Once your present problem is solved,
23:53Then you start thinking about the future.
23:55If you haven't paid the bill yet,
23:57Then you're only thinking about the bill right now.
23:59The moment you pay the bill, you start thinking,
24:01When am I going to pay next month's bill?
24:02You think about the future.
24:03What did Allah do?
24:04Allah took care of your immediate need when He said Ar-Rahman.
24:07And He took care of your future when He said Ar-Raheem.
24:10He took care of your future.
24:12Both of them.
24:13And in the right order.
24:14Because human beings,
24:15You love to rush, you love the things that you need right now.
24:19You're obsessed with them.
24:21Doesn't He know who He created?
24:24He gave me Ar-Rahman first, then He gave me Ar-Raheem.
24:27And so I leave you with the last of these many treasures of Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem.
24:32Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem is what they call in Arabic,
24:35Shibhu Jumla.
24:36Innaha Laysat Jumla.
24:38It's not a sentence.
24:39It's actually what's called in English grammar a fragment.
24:42Okay, it's a piece of a sentence.
24:44For example, if I say in the car,
24:46In the car is not a sentence.
24:48If I say there's a person in the car,
24:50No, that's a sentence.
24:51In the car there are a lot of people.
24:53That's a sentence.
24:54But if you just say in the car,
24:56It's not a sentence.
24:57When you just say in Allah's name,
24:59That's not a sentence.
25:00That's an incomplete thought.
25:02There's no Mubtada,
25:04There's no Khaba,
25:05There's actually a Mutaallik,
25:06It's just a Jar Majroor,
25:07The Arabic students will know.
25:08There's no Fi'l.
25:09Some grammarians,
25:10When the Mufassirun studied this ayah,
25:12They said,
25:13Wow, this is incomplete.
25:14How do you complete it?
25:15There must be a fill in the blank.
25:17So they say,
25:18It must mean,
25:19Abda'u bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim,
25:21Ou abtadi'u bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim,
25:23I begin with the name of Allah.
25:24You might have seen some English translations that say,
25:26I begin with the name of Allah.
25:28Even though the words I begin are not there.
25:30They're just not there.
25:31So the question is,
25:32Why aren't they there?
25:33And that's what I hope to share with you now.
25:35Allah Azzawajal in His wisdom,
25:37The one who,
25:38He taught us how to speak.
25:41He knows how to speak.
25:42When He wants to make a full sentence,
25:44He will make a full sentence.
25:45When He wants to give you half a sentence,
25:46He will give you half a sentence.
25:48We don't judge Allah's speech by our standards.
25:51Our speech is judged by Allah's standards.
25:53He's the one who taught us how to speak.
25:55Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
25:56He gave us an incomplete statement on purpose.
25:59Because what you do next completes it.
26:02In the name of Allah,
26:04I eat.
26:05In the name of Allah,
26:07I get out of bed.
26:08In the name of Allah,
26:09I wash my face.
26:10In the name of Allah,
26:11I get in my car.
26:12Everything you do is actually completing.
26:15Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim.
26:17It is as though this beautiful gift of Allah,
26:19Was waiting to complete everything you do.
26:21It's the other way too.
26:22And now you know what you understand?
26:24There's lazim and malzoom.
26:25If you do anything without Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim,
26:28It's incomplete.
26:30This was a part of it.
26:31This is a part of the equation.
26:33It had to be.
26:35In small things and big things.
26:38And so,
26:39Now that my time is up,
26:40Insha'Allah ta'ala,
26:41At some other time perhaps,
26:42I'll come and share with you.
26:43One of the beauties of Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim.
26:45In the one surah,
26:46Where there is no Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim.
26:48Surah al-Tawbah.
26:49But that's for another time.
26:51BarakAllahu li wa lakum fil Qur'an al-Hakim.
26:53Wa nafa'ni wa iyaakum bil ayaati wa al-Dhikhi al-Hakim.
26:56Alhamdulillahi wa kafaa.
26:59Wa salatu wa salamu ala ibadihi al-lazhin astafa.
27:02Khususan ala afdalihim.
27:03Wa khatamin nabiyyin.
27:05Muhammadin al-Amin.
27:06Wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in.
27:08Yaqul allahu azza wa jal fi kitabihi al-Kareem.
27:10Ba'da an aqula.
27:11A'udhu billahi min ash-shaytana ar-rajim.
27:13Inna allaha wa malayikatahu yusalluna ala nabiy.
27:17Ya ayyuhallathina amanu sallu alayhi wa sallimu taslima.
27:21Allahumma salli ala Muhammadin wa ala alih Muhammad.
27:24Kama sallayta ala Ibraheem wa ala alih Ibraheema fil alameen.
27:28Innaka hamidun majid.
27:29Allahumma barik ala Muhammadin wa ala alih Muhammad.
27:32Kama barakta ala Ibraheem wa ala alih Ibraheema fil alameen.
27:36Innaka hamidun majid.
27:37A'ibadallah rahimakumullah.
27:39Ittakullah.
27:40Innallaha ya'muru bil adli walihsan.
27:42Wa ita'idhi alqurba.
27:44Wa yanha'anil fahshai wal munkar.
27:46Waladhikrullahi akbar.
27:47Wallahu ya'lamu ma tasna'oon.
27:49Aqmih salah.
27:50Innassalata kanat ala almu'minina kitaba malkuta.
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