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Ayati is made up of nine sentences. Number one. Number two. Number three. What's number four? That's number four. Number five. Then number six. Then number seven. Number eight. Number nine. Nine sentences.
The first sentence is: "It's a beautiful sentence which ends with two of Allah's names." What are those two names? Al-Hayy, the Living, and Al-Qayyum, the Source of all establishment. Everything stands and exists and is maintained because of Allah.
What's incredible is that the last sentence, sentence number one, has something in common with sentence number nine. Which is: How many names of Allah in the last sentence? Two names of Allah in the first sentence. Two names of Allah in the last sentence.
Okay, before I go to the second sentence, let me tell you something about security. Security guards have a very hard job. But if you get a sec, you know, if you're in security, you have to stand, sit in your booth. You have to stare at the CCTV for hours and hours. And does it move? It's the same picture. And you have to look at it for 12 hours, 8 hours. What tends to happen when you're guarding something? You tend to get sleepy. You tend to get tired. Allah says about himself, "Drowsiness." Drowsiness happens when you're tired. And of course, what happens after that? What's the next step? No.
This is the second sentence. The second sentence is: "These are things that creation has." Creation gets tired and it starts getting drowsy and eventually it falls to sleep.
What was the second last sentence? When one's exhausted, what do they get? And the second sentence is actually connected to the second last sentence. He says, "He owns whatever is in the sky and the earth."
Now, before I tell you further, you need to understand the difference between two words, two names of Allah: Malik and Mulk. Malik is an owner. Mulk is an owner. Malik, what is Malik? King. Is there a difference between a king and an owner? Yes. Ownership is about property. But kingdom is not about, you know, you're not the king over a tree or the king over a piece of land. You're the king over the people who live in that land. Kingdom is about controlling people. Ownership is about controlling objects. This is the difference.
Now, Allah says, "He owns whatever is in the skies and the earth." What is the ayah about? Ownership.
What's the third last sentence? "His throne extends to the skies and the earth." When Allah talks about his throne, he's talking about his kingdom. One dimension of control is ownership. The other dimension is kingdom. Both completing the picture. Allah is Malik and He is Mulk. The Mulk part of Allah's attribute.
Third sentence: "The king, the kingdom of Allah."
Okay. What's the fourth sentence? "Let's understand this ayah first." "Who will come and make intercession with Allah except unless He gives permission?" In other words, what is shafa'ah? Shafa'ah means you got connections. Shafa'ah means that you were about to lose your job, but your uncle is the manager and he came and said, "No, no, no, no, no. He's with me." That's shafa'ah. On Judgment Day, we are in trouble, possibly, and then somebody comes and says, "No, no, no, no, no, no. They're they're with me. They're with me. Go easy on them, please." We beg Allah to qualify us for the shafa'ah of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
This ayah is about nobody having any authority unless Allah gives it to them. "They know nothing. They can control. They have they encircle nothing of His knowledge except what He wills."
The fourth sentence and the sixth sentence are both about a statement about Allah. And the only exception, the statement was: "Nobody has authority to make a case except whoever Allah gives permission. They have no knowledge except except whoever He wants to give knowledge to. Otherwise, they know nothing." The two, fourth and the sixth sentence, are correlated. The first and the ninth, the second and the eighth, the third and the seventh, the fourth and the sixth.
What's left? The middle sentence. He says, "Oh my God." He says, "He knows what is ahead of them and what is behind them." As though He knew what was coming ahead in the ayah and what was behind in the ayah. He put the "ba" and in the middle of it is: "I know what's ahead and I know what's behind." Who speaks like that? Who speaks like that? Subhan Allah.