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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
🚫 Bringing Awareness about a common mistake made by many of Our Muslim brothers and sisters in Sri Lanka and elsewhere in their Conversation ⚠️
✒️A brief advice written by our Noble Brother:
Abu Abdir Rahmaan Nawwas Al-Hindi ( حفظه الله)
🗓️28/6/1439
الحمد لله حمداً كثيراً طيباً مباركاً فيه كما يحب ربنا ويرضى، وأشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له، وأشهد أن محمداً عبده ورسوله صلى عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه وسلم، أما بعد،
One of the major mistakes made by many of our brothers and sisters in Sri Lanka, South India and Suburbs,is that they call or address their family members or Friends as:
▪Oh RAZZAQ.!!
▪Oh GAFFOOR!!
▪Oh RAHMAAN!!
▪RAZZAQ APPA or RAZZAQ UNCLE"
▪GAFFOOR NANA or GAFFOOR KAKA or GAFFOOR BROTHER
▪RAHMAAN MAMA or RAHMAAN UNCLE
▪RA'OOF SACHCHA OR RA'OOF UNCLE
▪FATTAAH THAMBI OR FATTAH BROTHER
And like of these words, while their actual names are:
عبد الرزاق A'bdurRazzaaq
عبد الغفور. A'bdulGaffoor
عبد الرحمن A'bdurRahmaan
عبد الرؤوف A'bdurRa'oof
عبد الفتاح A'bdulFattaah
Also other islamic names which are combined together with two arabic nouns:
1- The first is عبد (A'bdu) which means SLAVE ( of) attributed to,
2- The second noun which would be; one of الأسماء الحسنى
"THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NAMES OF ALLAH" تبارك وتعالى like :
الرزاق (Ar-Razzaaq)
الغفور (Al-Gaffoor)
الرحمن (Ar-Rahmaan)
الرؤوف (Ar-Rau' f)
الفتاح (Al-Fattaah)
and other names of Allah which He subhanah loves and loves us to attribute those names to Him alone.
When we choose names for ourselves or our children, specially
عبد الله (Abdullah) and عبد الرحمن (AbdurRahmaan) , as in the hadeeth:
عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " إِنَّ أَحَبَّ أَسْمَائِكُمْ إِلَى اللَّهِ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ وَعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ " .
▫️ Ibn 'Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said:
"The dearest names of yours to Allah are 'Abdullah and 'Abd ur-Rahman." (Sahih Muslim - 2132)
🚫 We must avoid imitating
"THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NAMES OF ALLAH" as in the hadeeth: that Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) said :
▫️The Prophet (ﷺ) said,:
" أَخْنَعُ اسْمٍ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ رَجُلٌ تَسَمَّى بِمَلِكِ الأَمْلاَكِ "
"The most disgraceful name to Allah is a man who calls himself (or likes others to call him) Malikul-Amlaak (i.e., king of kings)."
[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
In another narration in Sahih Muslim(2143)
▫️The Prophet (ﷺ) said,:
" أَغْيَظُ رَجُلٍ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَأَخْبَثُهُ وَأَغْيَظُهُ عَلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ كَانَ يُسَمَّى مَلِكَ الأَمْلاَكِ لاَ مَلِكَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ " .
"The most wretched person to Allah on the Day of Resurrection and the worst person and target of His wrath would of the person who is called Malik al-Amlaak (the King of Kings) for there is no king but Allah."
▪️Imam Ibnul-Qayyim says:
"Thus, this is his wrath and anger upon whomever imitates Him in His Name which none deserves expect Him, however He is the King of kings alone, and He is the Ruler of Rulers alone, and He will rule on all the rulers, and He will judge upon all of them no one else".[ Ad-Da wa-Ddwa]
▪️Also Imaam Ibnul-Qayyim says:
"And since the true actual Al-Mulk (Kingdom) belongs to Allah Alone, it is the most wretched of names in Allah's Sight; and even more vexing to Him is the name: Shahan Shah (King of Kings) and Sultan of Sultans, because none has the right to such names except Allah, the Almighty, the All-Powerful.
Therefore calling anyone other than Him by these names is false and invalid and Allah loves not that which is false and invalid. And some have added to this the title:
Qadi Al-Qudah (Judge of Judges) and it is followed (in the list of hateful names ) by the ugly appellation:
Sayyid An-Nas. (Master of the People), because this belongs to no one except the Messenger of Allah صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ."
(the Abridged Zaadul-Ma'aad)