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What is your name here?

And what do they call you on the other side?

We spend so much of our lives trying to build a name for ourselves.

From a young age there's this desire to be remembered.

To make sure that when people mention us, it's with admiration.

Psychology even tells us that your name is actually your strongest stimulant.

Everyone wants to hear their name.

Think about how excited people get

to see their names get honorable mentioned

by their favorite star or on their favorite show

or on some sort of plaque or certificate.

But have you ever thought,

what's my name with Allah?

What's my reputation amongst all the angels all around me and the souls that have gone before me?

Is it possible to actually have a different name there than the one we have here?

Do I have a title in front of my first name?

Or maybe a quality in place of my last name that they call me by?

And when do I find this all out? In one of the duas of the Prophet, he says about Allah's names,

I ask you by all this man he'll make,

Sommit by his nafsik, or anzleth who in your kithabik, or

allam t'em of your khalkik, or I ask you, O Allah, by every name that you have named yourself, or every name that you have

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