BISMILLAH HIR RAHMAN NIR RAHEEM
(In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful)
All praise is for Allah. Darood (Blessings) and Salaam (Peace) on Muhammad, his Family, and his Companions.
ALLAHUMMA SALLI ALA MUHAMMADIN WA ALA ALI MUHAMMADIN KAMA SALLAITA ALA IBRAHEEMA WA ALA ALI IBRAHEEMA INNAKA HAMEEDUM MAJEED
ALLAHUMMA BARIK ALA MUHAMMADIN WA ALA ALI MUHAMMADIN KAMA BARAKTA ALA IBRAHEEMA WA ALA ALI IBRAHEEMA INNAKA HAMEEDUM MAJEED
The Arabic letter
Alif (
) is equivalent to the letter 'A'
in the English alphabet. It is the first letter in the Arabic
character set. Alif () in Arabic numerology
which is known as Abjad, it is also the first letter and has the
value of 1. This article is about the spiritual meaning of the
letter Alif ().
Alif ()
is the first letter in the Name Allah
.
Everything is Created by Allah, and so everything begins in the
Name of Allah Most Gracious
Most Merciful. Because
Allah is Ahad - One, His Name, which is
Ism Zaat - Personal Name, Starts with the Letter Alif () which has a numerical value of
1.
When Allah Creates, there is no change in Him. He is as He was. Because of Allah's Existence, everything else exists. Nothing can exist without Allah's Existence.
To show a crude example:
0 - 0 = 0 = Nothing = No existence without '1'
0 + 0 = 0 = Nothing = No existence without '1'
1 - 0 = 1 = No change in '1'
1 + 0 = 1 = No change in '1'
Allah Named Himself Allah. He is Allah the One. Allah's Ism Zaat is Allah and not ilaha god. Why is that ? Why did Allah Name Himself Allah ?
The name Allah is Special. Allah is the one Name that has been openly shown in the Quran with all the Glory. If we start with the Name Allah as follows:
Allah
and take away the
first letter which is Alif ()
we arrive at:
Lillah
If we now take away
the first Laam (
) from Lillah we
arrive at:
Lahu
If we now take away
the next Laam () from Lahu we arrive
at:
Hu
which is essentially
In each of the above instances we are referring to Allah and no one else. Then how can we say that god is the translation of the NAME ALLAH ?
No one can justify substituting
the word god wherever the Name Allah is used in the Quran. The
Name Allah must be left alone as the Name
ALLAH
in all translations regardless of language. As stated in the article
on the Letter Ha (
) in the section
Asma ul Husna the sound of the Letters is very
important. If we say "God", we make a different sound to the
one when we say "Allah". Which sound would Allah
Himself Like to Hear ? After
all Allah is the One who is Samee
ud Dua the Hearer of
prayer.
Iman
is belief. Muslims are required to believe. Believe
what ?
285 The Rasool (Messenger) believes in what has been revealed to him from his Rabb (Lord) as do the men of faith. Each one (of them) believes in Allah His angels His books and His Rasools (Messengers) "We make no distinction (they say) between one and another of His Rasools (Messengers)." And they say: "We hear and we obey; (We seek) Your forgiveness Our Rabb (Lord) and to You is the end of all journeys."
[Quran: Al Baqara Chapter 2]
We have to believe in Allah because we have already agreed with Him that He is our Rabb ! That was in our spirit state. So how can we now deny that Allah exists now that we have hidden ourselves behind a physical body ?
172 When your Rabb (Lord) drew forth from the children of Adam from their loins their descendants and made them testify concerning themselves (saying): "Am I not your Rabb (Lord)?" They said: "Yea! we do testify!" (This) in case you should say on the Day of Judgment: "of this we were unaware."
[Quran: Al Aaraf Chapter 7]
When Allah created our
spirits He said Alastu
Bi Rabbi Kum
-
Am I not your Rabb ? We all answered
Balaa
Yes. Notice the first question
that Allah asked us starts with the Letter Alif (). The first words we spoke start
with the Letter Ba (
).
Those who believe in
Allah, His angels, His books, His Rasools are Muslims. The religion
chosen by Allah for a believer is Islam
.
3 Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat blood the flesh of swine and that on which has been invoked the name of other than Allah that which has been killed by strangling or by a violent blow or by a headlong fall or by being gored to death; that which has been (partly) eaten by a wild animal; unless you are able to slaughter it (in due form); that which is sacrificed on stone (altars); (forbidden) also is the division (of meat) by raffling with arrows: that is impiety. This day have those who reject faith given up all hope of your religion: yet fear them not but fear Me. This day have I perfected your religion for you, completed my favour upon you and have chosen for you ISLAM as your religion. But if any one is forced by hunger with no inclination to transgression Allah is indeed Forgiving Most Merciful.
[Quran: Al Maida Chapter 5]
The beauty of the above
verse is that it occurs in the first chapter with the name starting
with the Letter Meem (
) -
Maida. The word Islam
starts
with an Alif () and finishes
on Meem (). The
Deen religion
of Islam is perfected for Allah's Beloved
Muhammad
and his community -
Muslims.
And speaking of our Master Muhammad
,
he is the direct the descendant of Ibraheem (
)
.
)Ibraheem () is the only Messenger of Allah
whose name has been spelt in two different ways in the Quran.
Initially the name is spelt
Ibrahim
() then the spellings change to
Ibraheem
(). Why ?
Initially Ibraheem () was seeking the Truth. He was
seeking knowledge. He found the Truth. Then he asked Allah to
show him how Allah gives life. Allah showed him how. Allah bestowed
knowledge (
) on Ibraheem ().
Rasool Allah said, "We are more liable to be in doubt than Ibraheem when he said, 'My Lord! Show me how You give life to the dead."
[Sahih Bukhari]
65 People of the Scripture! Why do
you argue about Ibraheem, when the Torah and the Gospel were not
revealed till after him? Have you no sense?
66
You are those who argue about that which you have
some knowledge: Why then do you argue concerning that which you
have no knowledge? Allah knows. You do not know.
67 Ibraheem was not a Jew, nor yet a Christian; but
he was an upright man who had surrendered (to Allah), and he was
not of the idolaters.
68 Those of mankind who have the best claim to Ibraheem
are those who followed him, and this Nabee (Prophet) and those
who believe (with him); and Allah is the Protecting Friend of
the believers.
[Quran: Al Imran Chapter 3]
Islam is the religion
of Ibraheem () that has been perfected by the arrival of Muhammad in this world. How was Islam perfected ?
Jibreel () appeared in the cave Hira and
said Iqraa - Read. The first Letter uttered
by Jibreel was Alif ()
in the word
Iqraa
-
Read.
Muhammad
replied:
Ma ana bi qaree
"I do not know how to read."
The first Letter uttered by Muhammad
was
Meem (). And
Islam
is somewhere between Alif () and Meem ().
That is Islam begins from Alif () and completes on Meem ().
Another way of looking
at this is that Ibraheem () was on the religion of Islam.
Muhammad
is the direct descendant of Ibraheem
(). With Muhammad being
the Seal of Messengers, the religion of Islam had to start with
Alif () and finish on Meem (). Ibraheem () built the Kaaba in Makkah as the
first house and Muhammad
restored
it by removing all the idols from it.
The perfection of Islam
has been recorded in the Quran. The Quran is the perfection. The
Quran is packed with Verses or Signs or
Ayats
. Why are the verses referred to
as Ayats
?
The entire Quran is from
Allah () full of Knowledge (). The Letter Ya ()
leads us back to the Letter Alif ()
as it was stated in the Book on the Letter Ya ().
We must do
Tawba
(
) repent or turn
back and find Hu (
) and Hu is Allah
() !
Every
Ayat in
the Quran is perfect. Since Islam has been perfected by Allah
there is no room for another Messenger after Muhammad
.
Allah is the
Awwal First
and He is the
Akhir Last
. The First existence
was that of Allah and there was nothing with Him. In the end there
will be Allah and there will be nothing with Him. And as Hadrat
Ali Karam Ullah said: "This moment is that very moment".
May Allah have Mercy on us all. Ameen.
Only Allah Knows Best.
Khalid M. Malik Ghouri
Darood and Salaam on Muhammad, His Family, and His Companions
ALLAHUMMA SALLI ALA MUHAMMADIN WA ALA ALI MUHAMMADIN KAMA SALLAITA ALA IBRAHEEMA WA ALA ALI IBRAHEEMA INNAKA HAMEEDUM MAJEED
ALLAHUMMA BARIK ALA MUHAMMADIN WA ALA ALI MUHAMMADIN KAMA BARAKTA ALA IBRAHEEMA WA ALA ALI IBRAHEEMA INNAKA HAMEEDUM MAJEED
Allah, Al Ahad, Al Awwal, Al Akhir
3 October 1999
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Darood (Blessings) and Salaam (Peace) on Muhammad, His Family, and His Companions