This audio is brought to you by Muslim Central.com. Now a couple quick things, we're almost done with al-hmm d'I, in

now a couple quick things.

And we're almost done with al-Ham-Dah, in-

now the two things or maybe one or two, I don't know.

Yeah, I'll make it one.

Let me recite Fathicha incorrectly and you tell me what's missing.

Alhamo the Rabi al-A-Lamin.

Al-Lahhi, Rabi.

You know that Rab is one of the names of Allah, yes?

So why I even mentioned the word Allah? You could just mention any, he has lots of names.

He has lots of names.

And Fatiha has a number of them.

Arhman, or Rahim, Malik. Why even mention Allah? You could say al-Hand-Lhalek,

Hamd belongs to the Creator. You could say Al-Hamd-Rahman,

hamd belongs to the most merciful, the most loving and caring. You can say

al-Hakim, ham belongs to the most wise, isn't it? Those are all correct.

Why use the word Allah? The thing is, every one of those is a description of one of the attributes of Allah, isn't it?

So when you say that Hamd belongs to the Creator, the only thing you appreciate appreciated is what?

That he's a Creator.

But you said you appreciated nothing about his wisdom or his knowledge

or his mercy or his guidance.

If you said, if you said, al-Ham-Dulil-You know, if you said al-Ham-Dul, you know, if you said al-Hakim,

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