When Mountains Crumble (Part 3)

-notes by Sr.Hamda

Al-Musawwir:
هُوَ اللَّهُ الْخَالِقُ الْبَارِئُ الْمُصَوِّرُ لَهُ الْأَسْمَاء الْحُسْنَى يُسَبِّحُ لَهُ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ

1.The One who gives shape.

Our minds are so limited and finite that we cannot design a shape beyond that which we know.

Ex/1 Aliens are always hominoids: tall skinny men- short fat men: always in the vision of man. Because we cannot envision, much less, design something that we have never seen before, it is beyond our capacity as human beings and is a characteristic that us unique to Allah alone.

Allah is the one who created you and perfected you with the most beautiful shape.

Gem: Allah is worthy of worship because of who He is.

If he had not created us, he would still be worthy of worship by virtue of who He is*

There is not a single thing that is between the heavens and the earth except that it praises Allah- we just do not understand how they praise Allah.

Rasool Allah sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam told us not to kill frogs because they give tasbeeh by croaking (or try to).*

He who loves Allah takes care to acknowledge or accept, learn, and teach to others His perfect names and attributes and beseeches or makes du’a to Allah by them.

Al-Hakeem:

هُوَ اللَّهُ الْخَالِقُ الْبَارِئُ الْمُصَوِّرُ لَهُ الْأَسْمَاء الْحُسْنَى يُسَبِّحُ لَهُ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ

Many times in Quran Allah pairs the name Al-Hakeem with the name Al-Azeez.

Whenever they are paired, there is always a message. Allah is the one Who acts with Hikmah, He does not do anything in vain.

What does Al-Hikmah (mentioned in over 70 ayaat of Quran) have to do with Al-Azeez?

Because most of mankind when they get power, make mistakes and abuse that power. But Allah is far from submitting to such a thing.

Do not be amongst those who forget Allah

Allah tells us who He is through His names and attributes and if we love Him, then we will study His names and attributes.

Ex/ Consider the case of a man who is away from his family. He will call up the wife or kids and find out what they did during that day. But what does it matter if he knows? But this is a manifestation of that man’s love for his family that He wishes to find out everything he possibly can about that person he loves.

The fundamental building block of eman is by studying His names and attributes and knowing who He is.

Allah has an infinite number of names but there are 99 that were you to:

a.understand
b.act upon them
c.memorize and make du’a with them

that you will enter Jannah.

By knowing Allah ta’ala, you will know yourself

There is a difference between Allah’s names and His attributes.

A name of Allah is a proper name:

a. We invoke Allah with them- these names also have meanings

b. Names of a human being aren’t necessarily a description of that human being: but they are for Allah

Ex/1 Someone is named ‘Eman’ but lacks faith. If Allah says He is Al-Qudoos, than we accept and affirm that Allah is free from any and all imperfections.

c. We do not call out using the attributes of Allah

Ex/2 We do not call out the forgiveness of Allah, rather we invoke the Oft-Forgiving.

d. Every name of Allah has at least one or more meanings.

e. Allah’s attributes are more than the names. Allah has certain attributes from which no names can be derived.

Ex/3 Allah is the One who is angry (or angered) at the appropriate time (gheyr al-maghdoobi). But how will you invoke Allah by this attribute of His?

Every name leads to at least one attribute, but not every attribute leads to a name

The attributes of Allah are not created rather they subsist or exist within Allah

Again by knowing Allah, you know yourself