Re: Evidence of Allaah
**In this sermon he recalls the creation of Earth and Sky and the birth of Adam.* *
Praise is due to Allah whose worth cannot be described by speakers, whose bounties cannot be counted by calculators and whose claim (to obedience) cannot be satisfied by those who attempt to do so, whom the height of intellectual courage cannot appreciate, and the divings of understanding cannot reach; He for whose description no limit has been laid down, no eulogy exists, no time is ordained and no duration is fixed. He brought forth creation through His Omnipotence, dispersed winds through His Compassion, and made firm the shaking earth with rocks.
The foremost in religion is the acknowledgement of Him, the perfection of acknowledging Him is to testify Him, the perfection of testifying Him is to believe in His Oneness, the perfection of believing in His Oneness is to regard Him Pure, and the perfection of His purity is to deny Him attributes, because every attribute is a proof that it is different from that to which it is attributed and everything to which something is attributed is different from the attribute. Thus whoever attaches attributes to Allah recognises His like, and who recognises His like regards Him two; and who regards Him two recognises parts for Him; and who recognises parts for Him mistook Him; and who mistook Him pointed at Him; and who pointed at Him admitted limitations for Him; and who admitted limitations for Him numbered Him.
Whoever said in what is He, held that He is contained; and whoever said on what is He held He is not on something else. He is a Being but not through phenomenon of coming into being. He exists but not from non-existence. He is with everything but not in physical nearness. He is different from everything but not in physical separation. He acts but without connotation of movements and instruments. He sees even when there is none to be looked at from among His creation. He is only One, such that there is none with whom He may keep company or whom He may miss in his absence.
**The Creation of the Universe* *
He initiated creation most initially and commenced it originally, without undergoing reflection, without making use of any experiment, without innovating any movement, and without experiencing any aspiration of mind. He allotted all things their times, put together their variations gave them their properties, and determined their features knowing them before creating them, realising fully their limits and confines and appreciating their propensities and intricacies.
When Almighty created the openings of atmosphere, expanse of firmament and strata of winds, He flowed into it water whose waves were stormy and whose surges leapt one over the other. He loaded it on dashing wind and breaking typhoons, ordered them to shed it back (as rain), gave the wind control over the vigour of the rain, and acquainted it with its limitations. The wind blew under it while water flowed furiously over it.
Then Almighty created forth wind and made its movement sterile, perpetuated its position, intensified its motion and spread it far and wide. Then He ordered the wind to raise up deep waters and to intensify the waves of the oceans. So the wind churned it like the churning of curd and pushed it fiercely into the firmament throwing its front position on the rear and the stationary on the flowing till its level was raised and the surface was full of foam. Then Almighty raised the foam on to the open wind and vast firmament and made therefrom the seven skies and made the lower one as a stationary surge and the upper one as protective ceiling and a high edifice without any pole to support it or nail to hold it together. Then He decorated them with stars and the light of meteors and hung in it the shining sun and effulgent moon under the revolving sky, moving ceiling and rotating firmament.
**The Creation of the Angels* *
Then He created the openings between high skies and filled them with all classes of His angels. Some of them are in prostration and do not kneel up. Others in kneeling position and do not stand up. Some of them are in array and do not leave their position. Others are extolling Allah and do not get tired. The sleep of the eye or the slip of wit, or languor of the body or the effect of forgetfulness does not effect them.
Among them are those who work as trusted bearers of His message, those who serve as speaking tongues for His prophets and those who carry to and fro His orders and injunctions. Among them are the protectors of His creatures and guards of the doors of the gardens of Paradise. Among them are those also whose steps are fixed on earth but their necks are protruding into the skies, their limbs are getting out on all sides, their shoulders are in accord with the columns of the Divine Throne, their eyes are downcast before it, they have spread down their wings under it and they have rendered between themselves and all else curtains of honour and screens of power. They do not think of their Creator through image, do not impute to Him attributes of the created, do not confine Him within abodes and do not point at Him through illustrations.
**Description of the Creation of Adam* *
Allah collected from hard, soft, sweet and sour earth, clay which He dripped in water till it got pure, and kneaded it with moisture till it became gluey. From it He carved an image with curves, joints, limbs and segments. He solidified it till it dried up for a fixed time and a known duration. Then He blew into it out of His Spirit whereupon it took the pattern of a human being with mind that governs him, intelligence which he makes use of, limbs that serve him, organs that change his position, sagacity that differentiates between truth and untruth, tastes and smells, colours and species. He is a mixture of clays of different colours, cohesive materials, divergent contradictories and differing properties like heat, cold, softness and hardness.
Then Allah asked the angels to fulfil His promise with them and to accomplish the pledge of His injunction to them by acknowledging Him through prostration to Him and submission to His honoured position. So Allah said: "Be prostrate towards Adam and they prostrated except Iblis (Satan)." *(Qur'an, 2:34; 7:11; 17:61; 18:50; 20:116)
Self-importance withheld him and vice overcame him. So that he took pride in his own creation with fire and treated contemptuously the creation of clay. So Allah allowed him time in order to let him fully deserve His wrath, and to complete (man's) test and to fulfil the promise (He had made to Satan). Thus, He said: *"Verily you have been allowed time till the known Day." (Qur'an, 15:38; 38:81)
Thereafter, Allah inhabited Adam (p.b.u.h.) in a house where He made his life pleasant and his stay safe, and He cautioned him of Iblis and his enmity. Then his enemy (Iblis) envied his abiding in Paradise and his contacts with the virtuous. So he changed his conviction into wavering and determination into weakness. He thus converted his happiness into fear and his prestige into shame. Then Allah offered to Adam (p.b.u.h.) the chance to repent, taught him words of His Mercy, promised him return to His Paradise and sent him down to the place of trial and procreation of progeny.
**Allah chooses His Prophets* *
From his (Adam's) progeny Allah chose prophets and took their pledge for his revelation and for carrying His message as their trust. In course of time many people perverted Allah's trust with them and ignored His position and took compeers along with Him. Satan turned them away from knowing Him and kept them aloof from His worship. Then Allah sent His Messengers and series of His prophets towards them to get them to fulfil the pledges of His creation, to recall to them His bounties, to exhort them by preaching, to unveil before them the hidden virtues of wisdom and show them the signs of His Omnipotence namely the sky which is raised over them, the earth that is placed beneath them, means of living that sustain them, deaths that make them die, ailments that turn them old and incidents that successively betake them.
Allah never allowed His creation to remain without a Prophet deputised by Him, or a book sent down from Him or a binding argument or a standing plea. These Messengers were such that they did not feel little because of smallness of their number or of largeness of the number of their falsifiers. Among them was either a predecessor who would name the one to follow or the follower who had been introduced by the predecessor.
**The Prophethood of Muhammmad* *
In this way ages passed by and times rolled on, fathers passed away while sons took their places till Allah deputised Muhammmad (peace be upon him and his progeny) as His Prophet, in fulfilment of His promise and in completion of His Prophethood. His pledge had been taken from the Prophets, his traits of character were well reputed and his birth was honourable. The people of the earth at this time were divided in different parties, their aims were separate and ways were diverse. They either likened Allah with His creation or twisted His Names or turned to else than Him. Through Muhammmad (p.b.u.h.a.h.p.) Allah guided them out of wrong and with his efforts took them out of ignorance.
Then Allah chose for Muhammmad, peace be upon him and on his progeny, to meet Him, selected him for His own nearness, regarded him too dignified to remain in this world and decided to remove him from this place of trial. So He drew him towards Himself with honour. Allah may shower His blessing on him, and his progeny.
**The Holy Qur'an and Sunnah* *But the Prophet left among you the same which other Prophets left among their peoples, because Prophets do not leave them untended (in dark) without a clear path and a standing ensign, namely the Book of your Creator clarifying its permission and prohibitions, its obligations and discretion, its repealing injunctions and the repealed ones, its permissible matters and compulsory ones, its particulars and the general ones, its lessons and illustrations, its long and the short ones, its clear and obscure ones, detailing its abbreviations and clarifying its obscurities.
Salamvalekum to one and all,
Last week i was reading Surah Al Mulk these are the first few verses of it.
Blessed be Allaah, ofcourse and Allaah has power over all things for sure i dont have anything more but only 3 verses of surah Hashar Verse 22:24 one of my favourite verses
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SHAKIR: He is Allah besides Whom there is no god; the Knower of the unseen and the seen; He is the Beneficent, the Merciful
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SHAKIR: He is Allah, besides Whom there is no god; the King, the Holy, the Giver of peace, the Granter of security, Guardian over all, the Mighty, the Supreme, the Possessor of every greatness Glory be to Allah from what they set up (with Him).
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SHAKIR: He is Allah the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner; His are the most excellent names; whatever is in the heavens and the earth declares His glory; and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
I have nothing more to say, it feels like as if someones really hammering us with these names over and over again because if people can understand these attributes of Allaah then Allaah will surely provide him with the abode but again Allaah knows the best. Ofcourse many more attributes too.
People feel that death and life are different phases of life, ofcourse with there intellect ofcourse yes. But we fail to understand death is created as how is life also created (not similarity of creation). Hamdullillaah, with death we can actually see how life was also created but in a reverse manner.
Life started with mud, then clay, clay becomes drier and then spirit is blowed into it. Where as death spirit is got out first, the body gets drier, then in a state of clay and then into dust. Hamdullillaah this is the greatness of Allaah and proves how natural our religion is. Here dont we see any evidence about the creation of Allaah
Now ponder death is equivalent to life as the creator of both is only Allaah. But the difference with death is the free choice/freedom what we humans possessed is taken away by Allaah. Allaah u akbar.
Here Allaah in his mercy, is telling we humans look at the Heavens and yes seven heavens Allaah says, says look again. Its similar to telling our own kith and kin when we explain 2+2=4, and if s/he doesnt understand to look at it again and understand.
Allaah also makes us understand look again there is no rift in the heavens as in the following verse
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SHAKIR: Allah is He Who raised the heavens without any pillars that you see, and He is firm in power and He made the sun and the moon subservient (to you); each one pursues its course to an appointed time; He regulates the affair, making clear the signs that you may be certain of meeting your Lord.
The verse above again Allaah provides us with evidence, and even in verse 13:002, Allaah provides us with evidence that we will certainly meet our lord.
Allaah u akbar, Allaah is mentioning again and again thats thrice in total to look at it, believe me i would bang up my children if i had to teach them 2+2=4 again and again and again.
Allaah is merciful indeed, as Allaah says in the quran if Allaah wanted he would have destroyed all of us but Allaah is Gafoor, Ar raheem. Thats evidence, upon evidence upon evidence.
Other evidence to just prove to us the humans that Allaah exists and explains that Allaah has adorned the lower heaven with lamps and missiles to shaitan who go to the heavens to hear what the angels are talking between them.
Here Allaah warns we have prepared these stars for them acting as missiles and will destroy them.
One more of its evidence, to know Allaah exists and Allaah's mercy.
Here after Allaah provides all the evidence now warns the disbeliever, if Allaah wanted and if he was not merciful he wouldnt have warned us, explained to us, provided evidence to us but Allaah first provides evidence here and then tells the disbelievers that hell and hell is your abode.
This is because Allaah is already warned us in advance much much much in advance, would we then request for something more then to thank Allaah and jsut tell, What more of Allaah's favour can we deny
No doubt after so much evidence in the first four verses if we humans cant understand and still deny verses, signs of Allaah its befitting any human.
Now people ask life is like a test to us, yes ofcourse when Allaah promises you heaven likewise promises you hell you are rewarded in both the cases. Allaah is just here.
Yes ofcourse Allaah is merciful because Allaah sent us messengers as warners that we should believe in Allaah and signs of Allaah, otherwise how would we know our creator.
Yes Allaah doest not directly throws into hell because Allaah is provided us a chance to think aobut our creator, if Allaah wanted Allaah would have thrown us into hell but no because Allaah is merciful and Allaah is just. This is because Allaah provides us with evidence, plenty of them, and again asks us to see the the signs of Allaah, then sends a warners to so that we can identify our own creator and after that we dont wanna accept it Allaah rewards you equally.
Allaah knows the best