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You subbi huillahi maafis samawati wa maafil ardu il malikil kuddusil aazizil hakim

I'll briefly translate this for you. Everything in the skies and in the earth

declares Allah's perfection and will continue to do so. The king, the pure, the authority, the wise.

This is a simplified translation in which I'm going to emphasize the four names of Allah that have been mentioned and then

We'll dig a little bit deeper. Once again in brief translation, everything in the skies and everything in the earth

continues to declare and will continue to declare the perfection of Allah who is the king, the pure, the authority, the wise. In that order, the king, the pure, the authority, the wise.

Okay, so let's now talk about each one of these names a little bit and what I want to start with is actually an observation of Imam Fakhirul

Dina Razi, Rahimahullah who

pundered over these four names of Allah in this package together and

The thing that he felt ties them all together is the fact that all each one of these names in its own way

draws you closer to Allah

Each one of these names attracts you to Allah and keeps you in close company of Allah and he wanted to describe that

And so I'm taking some excerpts from from his commentary. I'll start with his commentary on the name the king

Anna l-Alimah la Yansarifu An Majlisim Ankanah Indahu Allah Indan Fidadi Majlisihi

Or Ithanihi Binsirafihim when you're in the company of someone great in this case in the company of the king

It's improper protocol for you to just walk away

You can't just you know, you've been given the the honor of

Being in the company of royalty being invited to the castle being invited to the inner quarters of a king

You it's you're not sitting in a restaurant

You're not sitting at a train station or in a movie theater or something you just get up and walk away

There's a there's an actual, you know, proper

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