بِسْم الله الرحمن الرحيم
The Name of Allah: المهيمن
If you do not repel a bad thought from the beginning it will grow until it becomes a resolution, then an action, then a habit. Your life will be good if your thoughts are good and your life will be miserable if your thoughts are evil. Do not belittle the thoughts that cross your mind, whether bad or good.
4) Believing in the name of Allah Al-Muhaymin will increase the love of a person towards Allah and encourage him to perform more good deeds.
When you are certain that Allah is watching you while you are doing something that He loves, it will encourage you to do the good deed more.
Whenever people do any good deed, they think about the reward on the Day of Judgement. That is good and a sign of sincerity, but even better than that is to want Allah to love you and be pleased with you in this world before the next; to be one of the allies of Allah. How many of us have asked Allah for His pleasure and love?
Allah said in Surah At-Tawbah [9:72]:
وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتِ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا وَمَسَاكِنَ طَيِّبَةً فِي جَنَّاتِ عَدْنٍ ۚ وَرِضْوَانٌ مِّنَ اللَّهِ أَكْبَرُ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ هُوَ الْفَوْزُ
الْعَظِيمُ
“Allah has promised to the believers -men and women, - Gardens under which rivers flow to dwell therein forever, and beautiful mansions in Gardens of 'Adn (Eden Paradise). But the greatest bliss is the Good Pleasure of Allah. That is the supreme success.”
Our relationship with Allah has only reached the extent of us asking Allah to give us, so He will give us. Take care of your relationship with Allah - so that you love Allah and Allah loves you; you are pleased with Him and He is pleased with you.
When a person is aware of Allah’s watchfulness, he will do more of the good deeds that Allah loves and abandon the deeds He hates. He will feel shy for Allah to see him doing something He does not like or be in a place He does not like. His concern will be for Allah not to hate him. Allah is Muhaymin over the heart of the one who believes in Allah Al-Muhaymin (I.e. He dominates his heart).
E.g. Allah said, as mentioned in the Hadith Qudsi:
إِنْ ذَكَرَنِي فِي نَفْسِهِ ذَكَرْتُهُ فِي نَفْسِي وَإِنْ ذَكَرَنِي فِي مَلإٍ ذَكَرْتُهُ فِي مَلإٍ هُمْ خَيْرٌ مِنْهُمْ
“And if he remembers Me in his self, I also remember him in My Self, and if he remembers Me in assembly I remember him in assembly better than his.”
[Muslim]
E.g. If you send Salat upon the Prophet ﷺ, Allah will send 10 Salat upon you.
What does it mean when Allah sends Salat upon you? Allah will praise you to the Angels.
If you are not concerned about the love of Allah, then the concern about other people will dominate your heart.
E.g. The child’s concern is to please his mother. When his mother is absent, the child misbehaves. When she comes back then he is obedient.
This shows us that we as human beings care about the watchfulness of others upon us. We seek their praise and love. Ever since we were children until we grow up we have certain people who dominate our lives depending on the stage we are in. When we are kids it might be our parents, then when we go to school it becomes our teacher, then at our jobs it becomes our boss, when we get married it becomes our husband. They may even become an إله من دون الله.
Allah is never absent from us. He is eternally watching us. It is not like people, when they are absent, the behaviour of a person changes. If your belief in Allah’s watchfulness is weak you will fluctuate in doing good deeds, but if it is strong you will be constant.
Riyaa (رياء) is the love of the praise of people. It’s when your concern is always about the people and their opinion of you. Why is رياء Shirk? Because instead of seeking the praise of Allah when doing worship, you are seeking the praise of people. The love of people competes with the love of Allah and they dominate (هيمنة) our hearts. We are transitioning from one dominating person in our hearts to another, until we die, and we find that we exhausted it all on people and did not do anything for Allah.
The name Al-Muhaymin gets rid of every person that dominates over your heart, until Allah loves you and supports you and becomes the eyes which you see, the ears which you hear; until you become one of the allies of Allah.
E.g. When a woman loves her husband her eyes are always on him and she wants to please him. She does everything he loves in order for him to love her. The day when he doesn’t praise her is a disaster for her. It is human nature to like appreciation but there are all types of believers - strong believers and weak believers. Whenever you seek appreciation you need to inspect your intention. If you are doing it for Allah, whether your husband appreciates you or not, you will be content with the appreciation of Allah.
E.g. A teacher always conducts activities to please her boss. If one day this boss is impressed with the work of another teacher she will feel unappreciated. She wants her boss to witness what she’s doing. She’s not satisfied with Allah’s watchfulness over her.
This is the problem with most people when they talk about their good deeds. They want others to be aware of what they are doing in order to gain status in front of their eyes. The problem is their weak belief in the name Al-Muhaymin, Ash-Shaheed.
We should be afraid that when seeking praise of people, we would be committing Shirk (Riyaa). What should be established in our hearts when we do a good deed? When Allah praised the pious in Surah Al-Insan [76:8-9], He said:
وَيُطْعِمُونَ الطَّعَامَ عَلَىٰ حُبِّهِ مِسْكِينًا وَيَتِيمًا وَأَسِيرًا
“And they give food, inspite of their love for it (or for the love of Him), to Miskin (poor), the orphan, and the captive”
إِنَّمَا نُطْعِمُكُمْ لِوَجْهِ اللَّهِ لَا نُرِيدُ مِنكُمْ جَزَاءً وَلَا شُكُورًا
“(Saying): "We feed you seeking Allah's Countenance only. We wish for no reward, nor thanks from you.”
When your state is like that, you will always do good deeds and never stop regardless if people appreciate you or not. Because the love of Allah dominates your heart.
E.g. Why do people break relations with their kith and kin? Because they offended them in some way or another.
The Prophet ﷺ said:
ليس الواصل بالمكافئ ولكن الواصل الذي إذا قَطَعت رحمُه وصلها
The person who perfectly maintains the ties of kinship is not the one who does it because he gets recompensed by his relatives (for being kind and good to them), but the one who truly maintains the bonds of kinship is the one who persists in doing so even though the latter has severed the ties of kinship with him".
[Al-Bukhari].
[Al-Bukhari].
Allah praised the Ulol Albab in Surah Ar-Ra’d [13:21]:
وَالَّذِينَ يَصِلُونَ مَا أَمَرَ اللَّهُ بِهِ أَن يُوصَلَ وَيَخْشَوْنَ رَبَّهُمْ وَيَخَافُونَ سُوءَ الْحِسَابِ
“Those who join that which Allah has commanded to be joined (i.e. they are good to their relatives and do not sever the bond of kinship), fear their Lord, and dread the terrible reckoning (i.e. abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds which Allah has forbidden and perform all kinds of good deeds which Allah has ordained).”
Not caring about compensation from others does not mean neglecting their rights. It means to give them their full rights but not wait for an even thank you from them. Give them their rights but don’t ask for your rights back. The believers wait for the recompense from Allah on the Day of Judgement and they know that nothing is lost or goes in vain with Allah.
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