When you ask Allah for favours, address Him with his 99 names and have your prayers answered, worshippers at the Friday sermon will be told.
“The divine names of Allah are names of praise and glory ... and perfection, Allah has named Himself by them ... and no one resembles Him with them,” the sermon preaches.
Knowing Allah by his 99 names increases faith and strengthens belief and enhances one’s path to heaven.
As the Prophet Mohammed once said: “There are 99 names for Allah ... he who enumerates them would get into Paradise.”
By enumerating them, the person should memorise the names, learn the meanings of them and try to include the characteristics in their actions.
For instance Allah’s name “Al Salam” (The Source of Peace) when mentioned, should inspire worshippers to spread the peace greeting between them.
“Allah has ordered us to ask him by his good names,” continues the sermon.
It will cite incidents from the time of the Prophet Mohammed where he guaranteed his companions who started their prayers with Allah’s names that they would be granted their wishes.
So, the sermon will state, when one wants to ask Allah to cure them, one could start the prayer by addressing the name “Al Shafi” (the healer). Or when he wants to ask him for wealth, one could start by the name “Al Ghani” (the rich one).
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Stat of the day - 1 One six was hit on Day 1. The boundary was only breached 18 times in total over the course of the 90 overs. When it did arrive, the lone six was a thing of beauty, as Niroshan Dickwella effortlessly clipped Mohammed Amir over the square-leg boundary.
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There has been a longstanding need from the Indian community to have a religious premises where they can practise their beliefs. Currently there is a very, very small temple in Bur Dubai and the community has outgrown this. So this will be a major temple and open to all denominations and a place should reflect India’s diversity.
It fits so well into the UAE’s own commitment to tolerance and pluralism and coming in the year of tolerance gives it that extra dimension.
What we will see on April 20 is the foundation ceremony and we expect a pretty broad cross section of the Indian community to be present, both from the UAE and abroad. The Hindu group that is building the temple will have their holiest leader attending – and we expect very senior representation from the leadership of the UAE.
When the designs were taken to the leadership, there were two clear options. There was a New Jersey model with a rectangular structure with the temple recessed inside so it was not too visible from the outside and another was the Neasden temple in London with the spires in its classical shape. And they said: look we said we wanted a temple so it should look like a temple. So this should be a classical style temple in all its glory.
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