Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Allaah

Allaah

"… And on the Day of Resurrection the whole of the earth will be grasped by His Hand and the heavens will be rolled up in His Right Hand…" [az-Zumar: 67]


"Allah will seize the earth on the Day of Resurrection and will roll up the heavens in His Right Hand, then He will say: 'I am the King! Where are the kings of the earth?" [al-Bukhari #6947]


"…(Musa said) 'O my Lord! Show me Yourself so that I may look upon You.' Allah said: 'You cannot see Me, but look upon the mountain. If it stands still in its place, then you shall see Me.' So when his Lord appeared to the mountain, He made it collapse to dust, and Musa fell down unconscious…" [al-A'raf: 143]. When the Prophet (peace be upon him) explained this verse, he said: "Like this," and gestured with his thumb on the highest knuckle of his little finger, then he said, "and the mountain trembled and collapsed." [at-Tirmidhi #3074, and it is sahih]


"..His veil is of light, and if He lifted it, the glory of His countenance would burn all of His creation as far as He could see." [Muslim#197]


"If Allah wants to create something, nothing can prevent Him from doing so." ['Sahih al-Jami'' #310]


Sa'ad bin 'Ubadah said: "If I saw a man with my wife, I would strike him with the blade of my sword (out of jealousy)." This news reached Allah's Messenger, who then said: "You people are astonished at Sa'ad's ghirah (protective jealousy)? By Allah, I have more ghîrah than he, and Allah has more ghirah than I, and because of Allah's ghirah, He has made shameful deeds and sins done in open and in secret to be forbidden." [al-Bukhari #6866]


"Indeed I see what you do not see and hear what you do not hear. Heaven has groaned, and it has a right to do so. By Him in Whose Hand is my soul! There is not in heaven a space equivalent to four fingers, except that an angel has prostrated his forehead to Allah in it." [Ibn Majah #4190, and it is sahih]


"Al-Bayt ul-Ma`mur is in the seventh heaven [directly above the Ka`bah]. Each day seventy thousand angels enter it (to worship Allah), and they will not return until the Day of Resurrection." [Abu Dawud #4727, and it is sahih]


Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have Mercy upon him) said: "There does not exist a need of the souls that is greater than their need for the knowledge of their Maker and Originator, and for possessing love of Him, mentioning Him, being delighted at Him, and for seeking a means and position with Him. However, there is no route to this except by way of knowledge of His characteristics and names. Thus, the more knowledgeable the servant is of these names and attributes, the more knowledgeable he will be of Allah, the more will be his pursuit of His Pleasure, and the nearer he will be to Him. Likewise, the more averse he is to the names and attributes, the greater ignorance he will have of Allah, the more will be his dislike for Him and the further away he will be from Him. Allah affords the servant a status with Him that is in accordance with the status that the servant gives to Allah with himself..." ['al-Kafiyah ash-Shafiyah' p. 3-4]