KNOWLEDGE
THIS GREAT NAME of Allah has been mentioned over 500 times in the Qur'an.
WHO IS AR-RABB?
Ar Rabb is the Owner of Lordship, He is the All-Able, The Creator, The Maker, The Fashioner of Forms, The Ever-Living, The Sustainer of All, The All-Knowing, The All-Hearing, The All-Seeing, The Good-Doer, The Bestower, The Ever-Generous, The Giver and The Withholder, The Repeller of Harm and The Grantor of Benefit, The Expediter and The Delayer. He guides and leads astray whomever He wills, He honors and humiliates whomever He wills. Note that “He wills” is not random but according to His perfect knowledge and wisdom.
He nurtures us from a state of shortcomings to a state of completion through His blessings and decrees so that we may be suitable for paradise.
TYPES OF NURTURING
GENERAL NURTURING: This includes all the creation, the believer and non-believer, by granting them worldly blessings to exist and survive in this life.
SPECIAL NURTURING: This is for the believers. He takes them out from darkness to light. He guides them to belief and to do good deeds, He opens beneficial knowledge for them to know Him and turn to Him.
IMPACTS
- Accept and be pleased with Allah’s nurturing because He wants to make you a better person. Blaming others only makes the nurturing longer.
- Do not place anything above Allah because nurturing will take place to bring it down.
- Invoke Allah by His Name “Ar-Rabb” as this was the way of the prophets to receive His special nurturing.
IN THE QUR’AN
الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ
“All the praises and thanks be to Allah, the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, Jinn, and all that exists).”
[Surah Al-Fatihah [1:2]]
IN THE SUNNAH
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “He has found the taste of faith (Iman) whoever is content with Allah as his Lord, with Islam as his religion (code of life) and with Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) as his Prophet.
[Sahih Muslim 34]