Beautiful Names of God
The Virtuous (Cemil)
The Near (Garib)
The Responder to Prayer (Mucib)
The Near (Garib)
The Responder to Prayer (Mucib)
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Friday, June 16, 2006
Attributes of God, continued...
8- In His hand all good
He is the only One who has all good and the only One who guides you to do good. He records any good and righteous deed that you do. So, do not think that when you die everything is destroyed and all your efforts are lost and pass away with you. Everything is preserved, all your deeds and services are recorded.
99:6 On that Day will men proceed in groups sorted out, to be shown the deeds that they (had done).
99:7 Then shall anyone who has done an atom's weight of good, see it!
99:8 And anyone who has done an atom's weight of evil, shall see it.
He will keep you underground for a temporary time and then bring you to his presence. Thus, don’t worry that you leave such a beautiful world and enter into the grave. It is only for a temporary time. God is all-Merciful that will not let you dissolve and ruin. Instead, The Almighty God, in whose hand is all good calls you to reward your service. You can feel relieved as you completed your duty and service here and you are now free from any duties! You are on the way to ease and mercy.
The re-creation you see every spring is one perfect example to illustrate His power that He brings out living from the dead. He preserves seeds and grains as records of last spring’s activities and then unfolds them in the following spring in the most magnificent way. Thus, he preserves your actions and deeds and services, whatever you do, in the same way he preserves seeds and grains. As you certainly know that next spring he will create the spring from those seeds, he will give life back to you and reward your services as well.
30:19 It is He Who brings out the living from the dead, and brings out the dead from the living, and Who gives life to the earth after it is dead: and thus shall you be brought out (from the dead).
9- He is powerful over everything
He is one and unique and has power over everything. As everything is easy for him, creating spring is as easy as creating a flower, and creating heavens is as easy as creating the spring. The innumerable creatures He sends continuously to this world bear witness to his limitless power. As He creates a small garden, He can also create heavens.
His power contains no defect. As He promised you through all his revealed books a life hereafter and promised you the paradise, He will fulfill his promise. Since all his acts are performed with truth and seriousness; since the perfection of all his works testify to his infinite perfection, which contains no flaw or defect, and since breaking a promise and lying are certainly signs of weakness, He will not break his covenant. And as He promised, He will open the door to the eternal life for you.
He already creates samples of heavens every year in perfect order (just look around you in the spring!) and we see it. This is enough to be assured that he can create heavens for us.
36:82 Verily, when He intends a thing, His Command is, "Be", and it is!
10- unto Him is the homecoming
All people are sent to this world, which is a world of trial, for specific purposes. After fulfilling these purposes they return to the presence of their Creator, who sent them in the first place.
By leaving this temporary world, we are actually going to the peaceful presence of the One who is All-Beautiful. While an hour of paradise is superior and preferable to a happy life of thousand years in this world, an hour’s vision of God’s countenance of utmost beauty is superior to thousand years in the paradise. All the beauty and love seen and felt in this world are only shadows of one manifestation of his beauty and love. Heavens are merely manifestations of his mercy; everlasting, all longing. So, we don’t need to worry about death. Death is not nothingness, darkness and dissolution. In fact, it is the world of permanence, eternal existence and the world of his light. Death opens the door for us to return to our true Owner. It bounds us for union and not separation.
21:35 Every human being is bound to taste death; and We test you [all] through the bad and the good [things of life] by way of trial: and unto Us you all must return.
He is the only One who has all good and the only One who guides you to do good. He records any good and righteous deed that you do. So, do not think that when you die everything is destroyed and all your efforts are lost and pass away with you. Everything is preserved, all your deeds and services are recorded.
99:6 On that Day will men proceed in groups sorted out, to be shown the deeds that they (had done).
99:7 Then shall anyone who has done an atom's weight of good, see it!
99:8 And anyone who has done an atom's weight of evil, shall see it.
He will keep you underground for a temporary time and then bring you to his presence. Thus, don’t worry that you leave such a beautiful world and enter into the grave. It is only for a temporary time. God is all-Merciful that will not let you dissolve and ruin. Instead, The Almighty God, in whose hand is all good calls you to reward your service. You can feel relieved as you completed your duty and service here and you are now free from any duties! You are on the way to ease and mercy.
The re-creation you see every spring is one perfect example to illustrate His power that He brings out living from the dead. He preserves seeds and grains as records of last spring’s activities and then unfolds them in the following spring in the most magnificent way. Thus, he preserves your actions and deeds and services, whatever you do, in the same way he preserves seeds and grains. As you certainly know that next spring he will create the spring from those seeds, he will give life back to you and reward your services as well.
30:19 It is He Who brings out the living from the dead, and brings out the dead from the living, and Who gives life to the earth after it is dead: and thus shall you be brought out (from the dead).
9- He is powerful over everything
He is one and unique and has power over everything. As everything is easy for him, creating spring is as easy as creating a flower, and creating heavens is as easy as creating the spring. The innumerable creatures He sends continuously to this world bear witness to his limitless power. As He creates a small garden, He can also create heavens.
His power contains no defect. As He promised you through all his revealed books a life hereafter and promised you the paradise, He will fulfill his promise. Since all his acts are performed with truth and seriousness; since the perfection of all his works testify to his infinite perfection, which contains no flaw or defect, and since breaking a promise and lying are certainly signs of weakness, He will not break his covenant. And as He promised, He will open the door to the eternal life for you.
He already creates samples of heavens every year in perfect order (just look around you in the spring!) and we see it. This is enough to be assured that he can create heavens for us.
36:82 Verily, when He intends a thing, His Command is, "Be", and it is!
10- unto Him is the homecoming
All people are sent to this world, which is a world of trial, for specific purposes. After fulfilling these purposes they return to the presence of their Creator, who sent them in the first place.
By leaving this temporary world, we are actually going to the peaceful presence of the One who is All-Beautiful. While an hour of paradise is superior and preferable to a happy life of thousand years in this world, an hour’s vision of God’s countenance of utmost beauty is superior to thousand years in the paradise. All the beauty and love seen and felt in this world are only shadows of one manifestation of his beauty and love. Heavens are merely manifestations of his mercy; everlasting, all longing. So, we don’t need to worry about death. Death is not nothingness, darkness and dissolution. In fact, it is the world of permanence, eternal existence and the world of his light. Death opens the door for us to return to our true Owner. It bounds us for union and not separation.
21:35 Every human being is bound to taste death; and We test you [all] through the bad and the good [things of life] by way of trial: and unto Us you all must return.
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Sunday, June 11, 2006
Attributes of God, continued...
4- To Him belongs all the praise
Only God deserves praise and glory as all the bounties around us come from Him. This fact implies that the bounties you enjoy now, never leave off as they all come from God’s inexhaustible treasury. They haven’t exhausted for millions of years, and will not so.
This remarks a great fact for us, because even we get everything we want and feel fully delighted, there is still something bothers. At least we are concerned about the idea of “what if one day I lose all these?”
Your current enjoyment and pleasures never comes to end, for every joy you have in your life is in fact a fruit of infinite mercy. The tree of mercy is everlasting and each exhausted fruit is replaced with a new one. Today you might be granted with one pleasure, tomorrow with another. It is better for you not to rely upon the fleeting nature of pleasure. The more important and enjoyable is to realize that these all come from the One who is All Generous and be able to feel the true pleasure within giving your thanks for all you receive.
Thus, offering your thanks and praise to God for what you currently enjoy makes your pleasure deepened and grown greatly since every joy and pleasure is, in essence, a favor from the Divine Mercy and therefore hundred times more enjoyable than the enjoyment itself. Think about this example: if a glorious king gives you an apple, your pleasure at such a royal favor will be hundred times more than just receiving a simple, ordinary apple from a humble person.
5- He alone gives life
Only he gives and sustains life and provides all its necessities, and that life’s sublime goals and important results pertains to Him.
This fact says us:
"Do not trouble yourself by taking the heavy responsibilities of life onto your own shoulders. Do not think of the transience of life and worry about it. And do not see only its worldly and unimportant fruits and regret that you are here, on earth. Rather, your life belongs to the Ever-Living and Self-Subsistent One, and it is He Who provides for all its expenses and requirements. Also, your life has many great purposes and results which all pertain to Him, too.
As for you, you are just a steersman on the ship, so do your job well and take the wage and pleasure that come with it. Think just how precious the life-ship is and how valuable its benefits; then think just how Generous and Merciful the Owner of the ship. So, rejoice and give thanks and know that when you perform your duty righteously, all the results the ship produces will in one respect be transferred to your account that will secure an immortal life for you.”
6- and makes to die
He discharges you from life’s duty, changes your residence from this transient world to an eternal one and releases you from the burden of service.
Here is good news for you! Death is not destruction, or nothingness; it is not eternal separation, or non-existence, or a chance event. Rather, it is being discharged by the Author Who is All-Wise and All-Compassionate; it is a change of residence. It is being transferred to your true home. It is the door of union to the Intermediate Realm, which is where you will meet your loved ones.
7- He is living and dies not
This fact proclaims to all lovers that The Eternal Beloved will heal your pains caused by your separation from your loved ones. Since He is living and everlasting, do not worry about all others. You loved them because of their beauty, and goodness and grace and perfection. But those are only dim, shadow-like manifestations of the Everlasting Beloved’s eternal beauty. So do not sorrow when they are gone for they are only mirrors. Mirrors change and when they change Eternal Beuty’s reflection is renewed and becomes more radiant. When you find Him, you find everything.
Only God deserves praise and glory as all the bounties around us come from Him. This fact implies that the bounties you enjoy now, never leave off as they all come from God’s inexhaustible treasury. They haven’t exhausted for millions of years, and will not so.
This remarks a great fact for us, because even we get everything we want and feel fully delighted, there is still something bothers. At least we are concerned about the idea of “what if one day I lose all these?”
Your current enjoyment and pleasures never comes to end, for every joy you have in your life is in fact a fruit of infinite mercy. The tree of mercy is everlasting and each exhausted fruit is replaced with a new one. Today you might be granted with one pleasure, tomorrow with another. It is better for you not to rely upon the fleeting nature of pleasure. The more important and enjoyable is to realize that these all come from the One who is All Generous and be able to feel the true pleasure within giving your thanks for all you receive.
Thus, offering your thanks and praise to God for what you currently enjoy makes your pleasure deepened and grown greatly since every joy and pleasure is, in essence, a favor from the Divine Mercy and therefore hundred times more enjoyable than the enjoyment itself. Think about this example: if a glorious king gives you an apple, your pleasure at such a royal favor will be hundred times more than just receiving a simple, ordinary apple from a humble person.
5- He alone gives life
Only he gives and sustains life and provides all its necessities, and that life’s sublime goals and important results pertains to Him.
This fact says us:
"Do not trouble yourself by taking the heavy responsibilities of life onto your own shoulders. Do not think of the transience of life and worry about it. And do not see only its worldly and unimportant fruits and regret that you are here, on earth. Rather, your life belongs to the Ever-Living and Self-Subsistent One, and it is He Who provides for all its expenses and requirements. Also, your life has many great purposes and results which all pertain to Him, too.
As for you, you are just a steersman on the ship, so do your job well and take the wage and pleasure that come with it. Think just how precious the life-ship is and how valuable its benefits; then think just how Generous and Merciful the Owner of the ship. So, rejoice and give thanks and know that when you perform your duty righteously, all the results the ship produces will in one respect be transferred to your account that will secure an immortal life for you.”
6- and makes to die
He discharges you from life’s duty, changes your residence from this transient world to an eternal one and releases you from the burden of service.
Here is good news for you! Death is not destruction, or nothingness; it is not eternal separation, or non-existence, or a chance event. Rather, it is being discharged by the Author Who is All-Wise and All-Compassionate; it is a change of residence. It is being transferred to your true home. It is the door of union to the Intermediate Realm, which is where you will meet your loved ones.
7- He is living and dies not
This fact proclaims to all lovers that The Eternal Beloved will heal your pains caused by your separation from your loved ones. Since He is living and everlasting, do not worry about all others. You loved them because of their beauty, and goodness and grace and perfection. But those are only dim, shadow-like manifestations of the Everlasting Beloved’s eternal beauty. So do not sorrow when they are gone for they are only mirrors. Mirrors change and when they change Eternal Beuty’s reflection is renewed and becomes more radiant. When you find Him, you find everything.
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Words to remember – General Terms
Tawhid: Divine Unity, God’s Oneness
Sovereignty: Royal authority, kingdom
Sovereignty: Royal authority, kingdom
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Words to remember – Names & Attributes of God
In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
The Beneficent, The Merciful
The Compassionate, The Merciful
Ar-Rahman - The All-Merciful
Ar-Rahim - The All-Compassionate
Al-Qadir - The All-Powerful
Al-Alim - The All-Wise
Al-Azim - The Almighty
The Beneficent, The Merciful
The Compassionate, The Merciful
Ar-Rahman - The All-Merciful
Ar-Rahim - The All-Compassionate
Al-Qadir - The All-Powerful
Al-Alim - The All-Wise
Al-Azim - The Almighty
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