You Know His Names. But Do You Know Him? | Ust. Hisham Abu Yusuf & Sh. Ammar AlShukry

Ustadh Hisham Abu Yusuf spent 7 years as a university chaplain sitting with students through anxiety, depression and doubt. One thread kept coming up. They didn't really know Allah. "The root of all pain is distance from Allah," he says, "and the root of all dysfunction is not truly knowing Him."
Sh. Ammar AlShukry chose the names of Allah for his very first AlMaghrib class and has taught it in around 30 cities since. In this episode, the 2 of them talk about how the names of Allah change the way you see your life and the way you make du'a.
They talk about:
• Christian students: what happened when Ustadh Hisham told a table of Christian students "we have a name for that".

• Names in the Quran: why the names at the end of a verse are often the point of the verse.

• Surah Al-Buruj: how the surah uses Allah's names to help believers make sense of a genocide, and why it ends on a Quran no one can touch.

• Their own names: Sh. Ammar keeps returning to Ash-Shakur, and Ustadh Hisham to Al-Latif and Al-Hayy Al-Qayyum.

• Surah Maryam: why Ar-Rahman appears 16 times in one surah.

• Atheism: how a wrong image of God leads people to it, and what to teach our children instead.

"If you know who the Commander is, the commands become easy."
Sh. Ammar's full course on the names of Allah, His Majesty, is on AlMaghrib Online. It teaches who you are calling on and how to call on Him.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:06 How each of them started teaching the names of Allah
7:05 "We have a name for that"
10:07 What happens when people meet Allah through His names
16:34 Why the names at the end of a verse matter
17:27 Surah Al-Buruj and making sense of suffering
26:10 They can't touch the Quran
27:43 Their go-to names: Al-Hayy Al-Qayyum and Al-Latif
31:32 Why Ar-Rahman appears 16 times in Surah Maryam
34:43 Ash-Shakur: so much for so little
38:30 "I know Allah, and you don't"
41:15 How a wrong image of God leads to atheism
45:11 Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem
Book mentioned: Ma'a Allah by Sh. Salman al-Awdah.
Host: Sh. Ammar AlShukry is a Director and instructor at AlMaghrib and the imam at Clear Lake Islamic Center in Houston. He studied Quran, hadith, aqidah, fiqh, and tafsir with teachers across the United States. He is known for courses such as A Mindful Salah, His Majesty, The Names of Allah and the Dhikr series, and for his poetry, collected in his book What the Pen Wrote.
Guest: Ustadh Hisham Abu Yusuf is a co-founder of Roots Academy and Chair of its Board of Trustees, and the creator of a widely watched YouTube series on the names of Allah. He holds a BA in Islamic Studies from Al-Azhar University and is a former Muslim Chaplain at the University of Nottingham.
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