Why You Must Know This One Name of Allah

One of the names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala which every single Muslim knows. As a matter of fact, you have to know this name of Allah in order to become Muslim. And this is the first name we learn of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. It's his most unique name of the names that we have been taught. Now notice I say of the names that we have been taught. How many names does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala have? Somebody say something. How many names does Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala have? Huh? Usually people will the first thing that comes to mind is what 99 99 names the 99 names of Allah those are 99 names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not quantified by his creation or their vocabulary subhanahu wa'ta'ala nor is he quantified by their intellig igence or understanding. Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has an unknown amount of names. Allah. But of those names, he has taught us 99 in the Quran and Sunnah. And these 99 names, they're not all the same. They are of different types of different categories with different implications. However, of all those 99 names of Allah that he has taught us, two of them are his most prominent names. Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala mentioned them together in a closing verse of He said, "Subhan, those two names are Allah and Alman. Those are the two most prominent unique names of Allah. of those 99 names. All other names of Allah follow those two names. Even in grammar, even grammatically speaking, Allah, that name of Allah, Allah and Alman, when they are mentioned separately, they are never used as a description. They are always used as the name and subject of the sentence which all other names work to describe. So these two names of Allah are the most prominent which is why it is impermissible for anyone to name or have a derivative of these two names. We can name someone Abdul Rahman and we can we can name someone Abdul Rahim. We can also name the name. It's a name. However, we can also name someone Abdul Karim or Karim. However, we can never call someone Rahman and we can never derive from the name Allah any other name for anyone or anything else. Allah Subhanahu Waaala's most prominent name of all the 99 names that we have been taught by Allah in his book and in the Sunnah of the prophet sallall.aii alaihi wasallam is his name Allah is his name Allah but what's interesting about this name is that many Muslims don't we really take this name as a given we are taught the name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we refer to him as Allah but often times many of us do not stop and think what does the name Allah mean? What is the meaning of this name? What is its etmology? Where is it from? What are its implications? This name is the only name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala which a person must know in order to be a Muslim. It is found in the first pillar of Islam and that is that a person to become Muslim enters Islam with the testimony ofahill. Soahill what does it mean? This is upon which all of our actions and worship is going to be judged by Allah. The name Allah comes originally from the root word in Arabic alah. Elah alah literally translates to the one who is worshiped out of love and exaltation. Arab.

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The name means the one who is worshiped. But what's the difference between worshiped and what is the the na the meaning of mood and what's the difference between those two words in Arabic? Know that there are no two words in the Quran and in general in the Arabic language which are entirely completely synonymous from every angle. They mean exactly the same thing. There are no two words in the Arabic language which are completely synonymous from every aspect, from every angle. They may mean the same thing at their core, but there will always be a difference between any two given words. And it's really that in any language, honestly. Even in English. In English, we may have two words that mean the same thing. However, just by the way that they are said, the letters that are used automatically, those two words cannot be completely entirely synonymous from every aspect. But in the Quran, there are no two synonymous words. There are no synonymous words entirely synonymous from every aspect in the Arabic language. So what is the difference between the difference is means the one who is worshiped or something that is worshiped. This is referred to as a mud. However, alah or anah in the Arabic language is that which is worshiped with love and exaltation. That is the difference. The difference between mere worship and is that worship can be with love or without. With reverence without. However, anah is only that which is worshiped out of love and exaltation. So the Arabs refer to this as an something that is an meaning that it is worshiped out of love and exaltation. And we know that in Arabic is worship. The Arab The Arabs use this word in their poetry. For instance,.

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So is that which is worshiped out of love and exaltation. But the Arabs being a pagan society, they had many aliyah. They had multiple if you will. And so they wish to differentiate in their language between that which is a mere idol or that which is worshiped and that and and the one who is the creator of the heavens and the earth and the supreme one who is worshiped, the originator, the founder, the creator. And so they took and they used it to describe their idols. However, alah the one who is worshiped was only used to describe Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the creator of the heavens and the earth only. But just in every language when we use a phrase or a word and we say it a lot and it is used commonly we often times start to start to summarize the word or make it shorter or remove letters in the word that are kind of heavy on the tongue. So for instance in English we say could not. Could not. Could not. We say it all the time. Could and not. They go together all the time. So what did we start to say? Couldn't. Couldn't, right? We summarized it. would have, would have, would have, right? Etc. So naturally as time goes on and people use any language, they summarize. Well, the same thing occurs in Arabic unsurprisingly and that is that the hea the Hamza which comes from the very base of the throat is viewed as a letter that is very heavy especially it is cumbersome especially when it falls in the center or the middle of a word and the Arabs have an entire dialect based on removing ing the Hamza and referring it back to its original vowel. And so El and they also would use it with calling out Elah. And so they dropped the middle Hamza. Alah, they took that Hamza away. And now they have three lambs in a row and they put them together and they made one heavy lamb and it's the only time in the entire Arabic language where the lamb is considered to be a heavy letter. And so they made it one word Allah. And that is where Allah that word comes from. It captures not only the the nature of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's oneness but it as well captures the right of Allah over his servants and that is that he be worshiped alone out of love and exaltation without any partners. Subhanahu wa ta'ala. And so this name was affirmed by Allah Subhanahu Waaala in the Quran. The Arabs, they had names for Allah that they referred to Allah with. But then they would also take derivatives of that name and give those derivatives to their idols. So for instance, Allah, they took a derivative of that and called one of their idols. They had aliz and they took a derivative of that and called another of their idols alman and they took a derivative of that and referred to another of their idols as man. not only a derivative but in the feminine and in the female which is something that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala refuted throughout the pages and throughout the verses of the Quran. So having understood where this word Allah comes from, now we understand in a more deep and meaningful way the testimony that our prayer will not be accepted without, that our fasting will not be accepted without, that our zak will not be accepted without, that our hajj will not be accepted without, even putting our life down will not be accepted without and that is the testimony ofallah meaning none is rightfully worshiped out of love and exaltation except for Allah. That word which the Arabs used which inherently does not accept masculine or feminine that inherently transcends all other descriptions found in the rich language of the Arabic language. So we see that the Arabs subconsciously in the way that they spoke and being that the Arabic language is a seemetic language, it is an original language from which all other languages are derived. It's one of the original languages. We see that it is by design that the name Allah is only is only appropriate for one subala and no feminine can be taken of it. There's no feminine variable variant of it. Even though Arabic everything is female or male except for this word, there's no way to make it female. As well, we see that the Arabs in spite of all of their idols and in spite of all of their fables and in spite of all of their mythology, yet they conceded whether consciously or subconsciously that Allah is one alone without any partners. Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Which is why the Arabs never held a belief in their pagan times and in their pagan days never held a belief that there was ever anyone equal with Allah or similar to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the creation of the heavens and the earth. Yes, they worshiped other than Allah, but only for the desire of intercession. That if I get on the good side of this saint, this saint will put a good word in for me with Allah. That was the idea behind the worship of their idols. And they would even say this in their like we make for Hajj. They would say They would say at your service, oh Allah, no partners unto you, except for a partner that you own and he owns nothing. So this addition here of you have no partners except some partners over here. This part was an addition an innovation entered upon the religion of Ibraim. Otherwise, the original of Ibraim that he taught his followers and children and offspring and prophets and messengers after him was and so that part is correct. Islam retained that and that addition of that misconstrued and perverted belief that was done away with with the u with the revelation of the Quran and the sending of Muhammad Sam. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that he subhanahu wa ta'ala teach us his names and attributes that he teach us of the Quran what we are ignorant of that he remind us of it what we have been made to forget and that he benefit us from that which he teaches us of it which.