KNOWLEDGE
THE NAME OF ALLAH AL-‘ADHEEM is mentioned six times in the Qur’an.
WHO IS AL-‘ADHEEM?
1. ALLAH IS THE MOST MAGNIFIED HIMSELF
- All of Allah’s names, attributes and actions are magnificent and great. Allah’s mercy, ability, gifts, beauty and highness are all grand. People are not born great, but adopt the quality, though Allah is The Most Magnificent Himself.
- From the greatness of Allah, the heavens and the earth are smaller than a mustard seed in His Hands. The size of heavens and the earth compared to the Kursi of Allah are like a ring in a barren desert, and the size of Kursi of Allah compared to the Throne of Allah is like a ring compared to a barren desert, so how great is the One Who rose over The Throne?
- How awful is the injustice of the one who gives the right of Allah to other than Him or associates partners with Him. Whoever associates partners with Allah has not estimated Allah with His due estimate, and has not exalted Him with His due exaltation.
2. ALLAH MAGNIFIES WHATEVER HE WILLS
- Allah magnifies places such as Makkah, Madinah and the mosques. Allah magnifies times such as Ramadan, the sacred months and the last third of the night. Allah magnifies the provision and reward for good deeds.
MAGNIFICATION OF ALLAH INCLUDES:
- To obey Him and not disobey Him. To remember Him and not forget Him. To be grateful to Him and not be ungrateful. To submit to His commands, laws and rulings and not object His legislation. To magnify what He magnifies from times, places, people and deeds.
IMPACTS
- To always hope for great things from Allah Al ‘Adheem.
- To magnify and love Allah because this is the definition of attachment and devotion to Allah.
- To be humble and not make ourselves great.
- To respect and not mock the symbols of Islam such as the hijab, adhaan and hajj.
IN THE QUR’AN
لَهُ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الْأَرْضِ ۖ وَهُوَ الْعَلِيُّ الْعَظِيمُ
“To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth, and He is the Most High, the Most Great.”
[Surah Ash Shura [42:4]]
IN THE SUNNAH
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
"He who visits a sick person who is not on the point of death and supplicates seven times: I beseech Allah the Most Great, the Lord of the Great Throne, to cure you, Allah will certainly cure him from that sickness.
[Riyadh As Saliheen, Abu Dawud and At- Tirmidhi, Book 7, Hadith 906]