al-Ikhlas is one
of the most important Surahs in the holy Qur’an.
In this surah Allah
described Himself by Himself. He said, “Say (O Muhammad): He is Allah the
One, the Self-Sufficient master whom all creatures need; He neither eats nor
drinks.”This was revealed when
the Prophet (s) was calling the people to believe in the Creator and to
disbelieve in the idols, he said, “What you are worshipping is wrong. Come
to the worship of Allah swt.” So the mushrikīn asked him, “Then describe for
us what you are calling us to and speaking about. “Siff la na rabbuka.”
How can someone
describe Allah? The Prophet (s) was asked by Jabir,
“What did Allah create
first?” “Awwala ma khalaq Allahu nurī ya Jabir!”
( He created Nūr.)
What is nūr?
how can we describe nūr? Is it like the electric light? You can see by means
of it. Now if you turn off all the lights, you can see nothing. It has
becoming dark. Nūr ash-Shams we say, light of the sun.
If the sun
doesn’t appear the day doesn’t come. Then what is it? Night.? You cannot see
anything.
Nur al-Qamar,
the light of the moon, if it does not appear, then you can see nothing.
So why then did
Allah
create the Prophet's)’s light first?
What do we understand
from the Hadith,
“Awwala ma khalaq
Allahu nurī ya Jabir!” – “the first thing that Allah created was my
light.”
It
is dark. It is not existing.
If you go now and you
turn off all the lights in this mosque, you can see nothing. It ‘is
non-existent, because you cannot see.
When
the light comes, then you see existence coming.
So why then did the Prophet (s) say, “Awwala ma khalaq Allahu nurī ya
Jabir!” what does this tell us? {Noon, wal Qalam, ALR, HM, N}
Why did Sayyidina
Jabir ask this brilliant question? Allah inspired him to ask this so that
the Sahaba would understand. Allah wants to bring
everything into existence. So to do that he must bring light. He must bring
the magnificent light that makes everything appear. That is why you can see
throughout this universe. { Nur-I-Muhammad}
So
Allah’s first creation was “My Light”.
Muhammadu Rasulullah is everything
created.
That is wrapping all
of the creation. La ilaha ill Allah is for heavens, describing the
Creator. Muhammadu rasulullah is a description of creation.
Allahu nūr us-samawati wal-ard.
With this light you are able to see.
So
when the Unbeliever asked Muhammad (s) to describe Allah, that was not an easy
task. So Allah said to the Prophet (s),
“Ya Muhammad say to
them. Hū Allahu Ahad.” no one understands except the Prophet (s).
When He says to them
“Say” it is Allah saying it. It is Allah that is saying that. You cannot
understand that word Allah.
You
cannot describe them, but you can tell them not to worship what is false.
Tell them Allah is one. Everything you are doing, we cannot accept, but we
have to tell you that Allah is One. That is for unbelievers to understand. How
can they understand deeper than that?
But Allah
is saying to him, Qul hū
Allah.
Say Hū
– that unknown.
We say, when we want
to express something in Arabic, regarding something that is not present, we
say Hū, in the absent form.
Qul:
Hū. That
one who is absent, whom no one can describe, His name is Allah.
No
one knows that identity, hūwīyya, that Essence.
It
cannot be described in ordinary words. It can only be described in the most
beautiful Names and Attributes. No one can know the reality. Who can know
the reality of it except Allah swt?
Hū Allahu Ahad.
Allah is the name that encompasses all the beautiful names. All beautiful
Names come under Allah,. Allah is the name of the essence. All the Names and
Attributes describe the essence but no one knows the Essence. That Allah, about whom
there are 99 Names, but in fact, in reality, the Names are infinite. Under
one Name all those Names are encompassed. That Name is one and that Name is
Allah. All those Attributes refer to One, nothing else.That name that is
encompassing all names and attributes. How many letters is it composed of?
Alif Lam Lam Hah.
Allah.
Four letters.
Always
Alif represents, being the first letter of the name Allah, if you
look at al-asma’ al-husna. What is the first letter of al-asma’
al-husna. You cannot say Rahman, you say ar-Rahman. You cannot say
Razzaq, you say ar-Razzaq. All of them begin with Alif. Alif
is always standing. In the form of up, never down. It describes akhirah.
Islam. Alif. Iman, Alif. Ihsan, Alif. Everything related to
akhirah must begin with Alif.
If you take
away the Alif, what is left remaining of
the Beautiful Name of Allah:
lam Lam hah – lilahi.
What does it mean: for the sake of Allah, or He
has this, it belongs to Him. So that first letter shows you the
meaning of the name Allah.
If
you take it away it shows you ma sīwallah, what is other than Allah,
the Creation{lam, lam ,ha}. Without him it cannot be. Alif refers to Allah.
If
you take it away, it becomes dunya,
all that is other than Him. When you say to them Allah, you think He did not
describe that information about that beautiful Name Allah from beginning to
end.
If now you remove the
first lam,
what is left? La hah. Lahu.
Everything
is for Him. You don’t own yourself, or anything He owns it.
When the
Prophet (s) is being revealed, He understands these meanings.What then is left if you
take away Hah?
It is Hū.
Back to
Hū. Whatever
you knew you still are back to where you were – you know nothing, He is
completely unknown.
Kuntu kanzan
makhfīyyan,
fa aradtu an ‘urif fa-khalaqtul khalq.If you take the
first letter which belongs to akhirah
The “Alif”
it is lillahi
{remains is for Dunya}.
“ALIF”
For Allah-
“LAM”=
Heavenly Kingdom, lam
al-malakut {subtleties
and Energies Unseen}, the kingdom of akhirah. if you take away the
first lam, then
“LAM”=
Earthly Kingdom second LAM which represents Earthly kingdom, {all Mass of
Planets etc..}lam al-Mulk
and earthly kingdom,
When you take
away these two kingdoms what is left –
“Hu”. =
That means
there is nothing except him. {Al-Hadi}
In between Alif
and Hah, it means that between the beginning and end, the kingdoms of
dunya and akhirah.
Between the
Alif and the hah. Between the akhirah and the hidden.
That is “tell them O
Muhammad what you are describing is One.” Ahad.
He did not say
Wahid.
Ahad.
More strong than Wahid. Unique one, no resemblance to Him.
Laysa
ka-mithili shay.
That word "Allah"{
Value Alif=1 Lam=30, Lam=30 Ha=5 =1+60+5=66,}{
66th name of Rasul is Sayedena Haqq}
is the name encompassing all beautiful names.
When
it is revealed to the Prophet (s) it comes to Him with all its
manifestations.
With
all the knowledge that it contains and the infinite description of infinite
names are produced and given to the Prophet (s) Muhammad (s) and he is
dressed with each and every one of them.
Allah
dressed him showing the importance of Qul hū Allahu Ahad.
I
am the one with no partner he is telling Muhammad (s).
Now
when Allah is telling him is he not showing him as well?
Did
he not take him up on ascension?
Every verse of Qur’an
is a dress, is a tajalli and it is a light, Allah’s Ancient Words. When we
recite Qul hū Allahu Ahad. We are reciting what the Prophet (s)
recited. You are opening in the same way that the Prophet (s) has showed us
as revealed to Jibraeel. What kind of pleasure do you want more than that?
When you follow what was revealed to the Prophet (s) and through the same
voice to Jibraeel from Jibraeel to Sayyīdina Muhammad. We are saying “Qul
hū Allahu Ahad.” When a person has read the way the Prophet (s) revealed
it, can Allah punish that one? He will send a tongue, [used] to produce a
sound that recited the sound of the Qur’an that Allah [?? to hell] - you
cannot imagine it?That is why the
Prophet (s) said, “There will not be a house left in a civilized place, or
madar, a tent in jungle or desert, except that Islam will enter it.”
Look now, everywhere people are saying the name of Allah and the name of
Muhammad (s). People are now taking about the Qur’an and reading it, and
they are not Muslim. How did the Prophet (s) know that? ? He said that Islam
is going to enter every place. Sayyīdina Musa did not say that. Sayyīdina
‘Isa did not say that. Who told the Prophet (s)? Qul hū Allahu Ahad.
When Allah
revealed that surah to him,
He
dressed him with all that – ‘ulūm al-awwalīn wal akhirīn.
{Secret of Rasuls Soul between Al-Ahad-
Ahmad
the difference between is the
Meem
of Muhammad}
Sūrah
al-Ikhlas. There is no other Sūrah called Ikhlas, it means sincerity.
Anyone
who can understand that Surah of Sincerity is given the title ‘abd.
Everyone except the
Prophet (s) ‘That is because the real servant is the one who can understand
the limits of a servant before his lord. That is what the Prophet (s)
understood. He understands the limits. That is why He specified our Prophet
(s). Wa annahu qama ‘abduhu…
He did not
address anyone except the Prophet (s) in that way ‘Abd Allah.
It
means he is the real person I have created perfect chosen to be worthy of
that title, the servant of Allah { Ihsan Kamel}. It means if he did not
understand the knowledge and the secrets from the time he was revealing
Qul hū Allahu Ahad.
He would never have
named him ‘Abd Allah. That is given to our Prophet (s). That is a name for
someone who can dress all these lights and that was given only to him, in
truth that name was only given to him.
Now people can
call themselves ‘Abd Allah, Abdur Rahman, they are imitation. Allah did not
call anyone else ‘Abd Allah except Sayyīdina Muhammad. You can call yourself
anything you like. But Allah only gave that title to the Prophet (s).O Muslims, the reality
is not easy to understand. Normal tafsir normal commentaries are easy. We
recite. We understand Allah is One – that is it. Is that what the Prophet
(s) was supposed to understand.Awlīya’ullah,
Grandshaykh and Mawlana Shaykh say that what Allah revealed to the Prophet
(s) on each letter of the Qur’an, he revealed it in 12,000 oceans of
knowledge.And they say that all
that is written in bookstores, libraries, from ‘ulama, etc., if you add
together and know it is but a drop in the ocean of the knowledge of the
Prophet (s).
Huual-Wahidal-Ahad.
There are two different names.
Ahad
describes the Essence. There is no description of the essence, it is
described as Ahad.
All
the other names al-Karīm, ar-Ra’uf, etc. all describe One Ahad.
Wahid
all the names that describe the essence point to Wahid.
All these names
point to Wahid.
That
Wahidpoints to is Ahad.
There is no way
to have a description there.
As
many names as there are to describe an entity Wahid. That entity is
Ahad. If you have all these worlds and heavens as oceans of ink and
trees becomes pens, you cannot describe Allah swt’s Name or lack thereof.Allah’s words and
Allah’s knowledge will never end, and the ink and trees will disappear and
end and Allah’s Knowledge will
never end.
That is huge. So what is our knowledge then?
If
people go now to all five oceans { 5 Oceans
5 Levels of Heart
}and turn them to ink,
and how many billions of trees, are in the world? Allah knows. If we make
them into pens, and use that ink and write it in the knowledge of dunya.
Will it finish or not? Today we have super computers, and all that is
written today can be put into one super computer. So it means our
knowledge ends, it ends, it is limited. Allah’s knowledge with all its ink
and pens will never end. So how can we think we know something? We know
nothing.
Wal Ahad ismun li man
la yusharik fī mulkihi? Al-Wahid li man la yusharik fīhi?Al-Ahad Hū al-dhat
wahduha.
Al-Ahad is the real Essence by
itself.
Al-Wahid,
the One, is a description of may different Names that describe that
existence.
It is the
Divine Presence of the Names.
Not
the Divine Presence of the Essence.
The
Essence of the Creator no one knows.
You know that
thru His Names. So He described His Names only. Not His Divine Essence. That
is why he said,
“wa ilahukum ilahun Wahid.”{Illaha
not Allah} He described the Names. He did not describe the Essence.
That
is
ghaybun mutlaq. He is describing the names, not the essence.
Wa ilahukum
ilahun Wahid.
Your Lord is one Lord.
There
is no ilah except Him, the Merciful, the Beneficent.
So what are we then
running for? That is why in old
times, when sitting and studying, this was the science. Not the science of
today. I’m not saying don’t study. But that is what was important for
everyone. Sitting after
midnight, learning these words, entering into this knowledge.
Is
there any possibility of dunya after that?
They
are swimming in the Divine Presence.
Now
we know there is a presence of Divine Names and
Presence of Divine
Presence.
So what are we running
after in this dunya? That is why you see them in the past, pious and
sincere.
Not like today.
Today you go to a mosque to sit, you hear this and that. It does not help
you to make your mind understand how small you are compared to creation.
Not to Allah, hasha. You cannot compare him to anything.Even when they were
showing two astronauts trying to fix a satellite . I was looking at it, and
at first I could not see the astronauts. Then I saw something like an ant
on an elephant. The astronaut looked like an ant when compared to something
very huge. What do you think about yourself, tiny miny, micro, nano,
compared to this huge world, to the universe. That is why if we
Muslims will go back to our tradition, our sincerity our love of Allah swt
and His Prophet (s), do you think that Allah will let us down. Do you think
that Allah will not support us? Today we are down, others are stepping on
us, why? Because we have lost our tradition. There is nothing to think about
except dunya, dunya, dunya. What did Sayyīdina Ali
say, “Do for the dunya as if you are living forever and lie for akhirah
as if you will die tomorrow.
We are losing our children, our culture, our
heritage, our Islam. How are we going to face our Lord?That is why the
mushrikīn came and asked the Prophet (s) show us Allah. That is why
Sūrah al-Ikhlas was revealed.I am skipping
something but my eyes went there.
The tawhīd, to repeat
it on one’s tongue, the tawhīd of the Essence, the repetition of the
kalimat at-tawhīd,… it is in reality praise itself by itself.
The Servant of the One (al-Ahad),the one who
gave him understanding of that knowledge, and dressed him with it, [Ahad
refers to the Essence] Hūwahīdun.
He is unique in
his time and he is sahib az-zaman, owner of the time wa lahul
qutbīyyat al-kubra he is the highest of Qutubs and he is standing by that
name that Allah described him by that.
Abd al-Wahid is the one whom Allah unveiled to him His Beautiful Names. And
we leave to whom was that ‘ilm given tomorrow.Allah swt said,
“Say O Muhammad! He is Allah the One!” and we have explained last session
that Allah is revealing to the Prophet (s) to tell the idol-worshippers “Ya
Muhammad, Say! Explain about Me.” Allah is introducing something to the
unbelievers about Himself. If you look at the
Surahs that are after it,
Sūrah
al-Falaq and
Sūrah
al-Nas , he is not introducing himself there.
In
Ikhlas He is describing Himself as the One without partner.
In Sūrah al-Falaq He
says, “Say: I seek refuge with Allah” there is no description there of the
lordship.
Also
Sūrah an-Nas is the same, saying “say I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind.”
No description of ??
That is
completely different - Sūrah al-Ikhlas. That is special. From what Awlīya’
have inherited, they have inherited a drop from an ocean.We
reached the explanation of ismuAhad. Ahad is the name
that cannot accept anyone to share anything in that essence. That is the
name of the Essence of the reality of Allah swt.
That Essence is only
known, when Allah said, “Ya Muhammad, the complete absent, the unknown
reality that is unknown is known by the name Allah.” He is only known by His
Name.
How
can someone with limited eyes see the one who created above you, impossible?
This whole world, this
whole planet earth, Allah has made every human being on this planet to make
a prostration to one direction.
To
the direction of Ka‘aba. Wherever you are on the planet.
Those
who are in the west pray east and those in west pray east, those in the
north pray south and those in the south pray north.
That means there is
something, a center for this whole planet, that everyone on it has to direct
himself in prostration, worshipping his Lord swt.
Look
this world, if you look at the map, and you have a map, and the picture of
the world, can the Ka‘aba be seen? Although you have to know that it is
there existing and make a prostration in that direction, but because
physically compared to the earth, you cannot see it. You can only see the
mosque here where you are.
So
you, compared to this earth, are not even a point on this earth planet.
This
whole earth is not a point or might be epsilon, the smallest
imaginable entity is epsilon. {The Dot
Under the BA}
This
whole earth compared to the universe is epsilon, that means it does not
exist.
The whole universe
compared to the Greatness, not of the Essence of Allah swt, to the greatness
of the Name only is like an epsilon that does not exist. It is nothing.
So
Ahadiyya
is not like Wahidiyya.
Ahad
is the description of the Essence and its Name and that essence cannot
accept anyone to share with it anything. That Essence is described, to
understand that is given the name Allah, the Creator.
The
name
ism al-jami‘ al-asma’i was-siffat. The reality of Wahidīyya,
in Holy Qur’an is mentioned as: wa
ilahukum ilahun Wahid.
That Name can describe
all these Attributes and infinite numbers of Names.
As we said, al-Wahid,
wailahukum ilahun Wahid, your Lord is One Lord, it
directs you and describes for you the Divine Presence of the Names and
Attributes. Only to understand His Beautiful Names.
Thru His Names you can
understand His Signs.
Al-Karīm sending you
favors.
Al-Hakīm, sending you
wisdom.
Al-Wasi‘, al-Razzaq,
through these Names you can understand the description wa ilahukum ilahun
Wahid – “He your Lord is One.”
So wa ilahukum
ilahun
Wahid,
that Wahid
Is a
relationship between human beings, Allah wants human beings to know Him.
So thru that Name they
know Him. That is where the relationship is built.
So
you are worshipping that One to be worshipped,
al-Wahid.
So
Wahid shows the relationship between Creator
and created.
Ahad
is complete unknown, you cannot understand it or reach it and no one can
understand or share form that reality. That is ghaybun mutlaq,
absolute unknown/unseen.
From
that name Wahid, creation appeared. { Number 11 describes the Mirror
Allah Creation in His Image Divine Mirror}
Not
from the name Ahad. Ahad is beyond that.
From
Wahid which describes the names and attributes.
From
that name al-Qadir { AQL , A= Al-Aleem , Qaf=
Al-Qadir L= first LAM Mulk Malakut} appeared and creation is created.
So Wahid is the
center of everything that cannot accept any description.
You cannot understand. That was given to the Prophet
(s), say to them He is
Ahad.
That is what Sayyīdina Bilal was saying when in torture. He was saying “Ahad,
Ahad.”
Because the Prophet
(s) took the Sahaba from the dunya, they sought the love of Allah and sought
that reality fro the name that was hidden. So they want to ascend further,
so He was saying, “Ahad, Ahad!”
If
you have a circle{Circle represents Creation Huwa
Awwal=1, Huwa Akhir=9 between 1-9 is all creation , All creation is in
Quran, All Quran is in
Bismillah
Al-Rahman Al-Raheem 19 Letters }and you have a line { represents
Infinity},
How many points on
that line are equal to each other? Infinite number.
If
you have a circle, how many points in the center are similar
to each other.
One.
So
the center and focus is one{ One Allah,
One Ahmad}.
There is no way to
have partners.
Circumference
how many points are equal to each other?
They
are all the same. These are asma’ was-siffat.
These are Attributes
and Names.
They
all form the center, they have equal
relationship but the center cannot be described in the circle. We are
speaking only in order to understand. You cannot understand the center.
It
is one, unique. { La Illaha IlAllah Muhammad RasulAllah}
The
whole circumference are Names and Attributes. How many are there on the
circumference. You cannot limit their number.
There is no limitation
to Allah’s Greatness. So asma’ ul-husna have no limitation. Most
people know 99 but there are more. Some scholars know 1000 but no one can go
to infinite. But Allah is greater than Names and Attributes. Therefore there
are infinite Names and Attributes.
What kind of ocean are
you entering?
You think that when Allah revealed to the Prophet (s) it is what they
translate, “Say: He is Allah the One.” When you enter these scholars’ oceans
or these Awlīya’-ullah’s oceans in these meanings, you will be
drowned. You cannot emerge.
What is this dunya it is nothing. We are running day and night. No problem you run - but
don’t forget akhirah. One leg in dunya and one in akhirah.
That is for balanced
people.For unbalanced people
there are two types: those who are completely crazy in dunya life. And then
those who are crazy in Allah’s love. And in the middle are the majority.
Half and half. Not
many are going to give up everything for akhirah.Some scholars say we
are working for akhirah. But you see they are still connected [to
dunya].Those who are
vagabonds in the way of Allah. Gypsies. Where do they go? How they lie? They
lie anywhere. These ascetics lie anywhere also. You see a lot of homeless on
the streets. He was telling me one day, Dr. Qaysar . they sell spaces on the
street. They have shifts. Every street is monitored by one wrestler, mafia.
So he gives him 8 hour shift. They sell the street.
But you might not know that one of these homeless on the street is a
waliullah. Monitoring who is going and who is coming.Allahu
akbar.So what happened. When
these kummel,
those endowed with
perfect Knowledge of Allah, ma'rifa ullah, seekers of the way,
when they entered the Oceans of the Attributes,
Wahidīyya,
and Ahadiyya, their minds explode.
They cannot continue.
They were bewildered - hayyara.
They saw themselves
nothing. All their knowledge is nothing. Because their knowledge of 60 or 80
years of age they will leave hear and go to eternal life and see knowledge
that will drown them.
Why
do they have to suffer in the dunya ad-deniya. Tell me one person
here who does not have a problem. If anyone has no problem raise your hand.
So that is why these
perfect sincere people they acknowledged, their helplessness. Aqarar al-‘ajz
to reach the reality of knowledge.
They knew that the
only one that can understand the reality of tawhīd, the only …??
No one can understand
the reality of tawhīd except the Creator. And that is why He Called the
Prophet (s) Muhammad on the night of Ascension.
To tell him the
reality of that oneness,
la
ilaha ill-Allah muhammadu rasulullah
that is written on every leaf in paradise.
That is there reality
given to the Prophet (s) Muhammad (s) from tawhīd.
That is why Allah gave that reality to ‘Abd al-Ahad, ‘Abd al-Wahid
and ‘Abd us-Samad. And He said, “Qul Hū Allahu Ahad. Allahu as-samad.
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“What did Allah create
first?” “Awwala ma khalaq Allahu nurī ya Jabir!” 
