Suratul Fatiha - Hujjat Workshop

Starting our salaa by calling Allah with these attributes is inreality a form of displaying and reviewing our knowledge ofHim, with each name or attribute performing the role of asubject heading.The knowledge that He is Allah, the Perfect Essence deservingof all praise and to whom all creation is directed is torecognise and acknowledge that there is One who is absoluteperfection and all things are from Him, directed towards Himand headed towards Him.Knowing that He is Rahman means realising that the whole ofexistence is an expression of His mercy and that nothingcomes from Him except goodness and mercy. Anything thatrelates to the divine is nothing but mercy and goodness. Eviland adversities are negative and relative within things – notobjectively a part of them.When a human being calls on Him by the attribute Raheem,he/she is not only aware of that all creation is a manifestationof divine mercy but also that the order of the return of alltowards Allah is a system of mercy and kindness. And this isthe meaning of Allah’s mercy preceding His anger andpunishment, for adversities and afflictions are realised asmercy…Allah’s attribute A-Rahman signifies the coming from Him (thearriving aspect) and on the other hand Ar-Raheem denotesthe returning aspect (the towards Him dimension).Allah being Maaliki yawmid deen brings us a differentunderstanding. Here one understands that firstly that therewill be a day of accountability whose sovereign and owner issolely Allah,These ayaat are related to the categories of knowledge.Knowledge is a preparation for becoming. In order to becomewe must know and understand.www.qfatima.com Page 60