BECAUSE OF YOU, ALLAH

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BECAUSE OF YOU, ALLAH:
JOURNEY TO THE SEVENTH HEAVEN

Ali Bin Gaber Al-Faifi

Dar Al-Hadara for Publishing and Distribution First Edition

Translated by:
Mr. Emad Elbanna Mr.Tariq Samy

Edited by:
Miranda Martin

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In The Name of Allah, The Most Merciful, The Most Gracious

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Table of Contents
Dedicated To… .............................................................................................................................................. 7
Preface .......................................................................................................................................................... 9
As-Samad (The Eternal Refuge) .................................................................................................................. 12
 In the Shadows of the Meaning of As-Samad ................................................................................. 14
 Waves… ........................................................................................................................................... 16
 The thoughts of disbelief ................................................................................................................ 17
 The Planets ...................................................................................................................................... 18
 And you forget Him…. ..................................................................................................................... 19
 Seek His Eternal Refuge .................................................................................................................. 21
 Compass .......................................................................................................................................... 22
 Don’t attribute equals to Allah ....................................................................................................... 23
 Steps ................................................................................................................................................ 25
 Pride … ............................................................................................................................................ 26
 A fact ............................................................................................................................................... 26
Al-Hafiz (The Ever-Preserving) .................................................................................................................... 29
 Heart, Feel at ease…........................................................................................................................ 31
 Roads of deviation! ......................................................................................................................... 32
 And we forget Allah! ....................................................................................................................... 33
 Successive Angels ............................................................................................................................ 35
 Between the brackets… .................................................................................................................. 35
 Water bottle… ................................................................................................................................. 36
 Greater, more, and bigger .............................................................................................................. 38
 He defends you …............................................................................................................................ 38
 The valley of the beasts .................................................................................................................. 40
 I am the Poor ................................................................................................................................... 42
 Oh lad… ........................................................................................................................................... 43
 Suffocation ...................................................................................................................................... 44
Al-Lateef ...................................................................................................................................................... 47
 Gentle in His subtle details ............................................................................................................. 49
 Breezes of kindness ......................................................................................................................... 50
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 The Rock .......................................................................................................................................... 52
 The concealed and hidden matters ................................................................................................ 53
 The distant dreams ......................................................................................................................... 55
 Allah’s mercy in the crucial moments ............................................................................................. 57
Ash-Shafi (The Healer) ............................................................................................................................. 60
 No illness after today ...................................................................................................................... 62
 He cures you without a reason! ...................................................................................................... 64
 You don’t know! .............................................................................................................................. 65
 The light returns back ..................................................................................................................... 66
 Return back to Him… ...................................................................................................................... 67
 A predetermined appointment ....................................................................................................... 68
 Satisfaction ...................................................................................................................................... 72
 Rivers of sins ................................................................................................................................... 73
Al Waki'l "The Trustee" ............................................................................................................................... 76
 Take Him as your Trustee................................................................................................................ 77
 An Annual Plan ................................................................................................................................ 79
 Submission to Allah ......................................................................................................................... 80
 Smiling tears .................................................................................................................................... 81
 The Oxygen of Life........................................................................................................................... 82
 Life is like Hell Without Him ............................................................................................................ 83
 Sufficient is Allah for me ................................................................................................................. 84
 Persuasive Reason........................................................................................................................... 85
 Watch out! ...................................................................................................................................... 86
 Things Threatening You .................................................................................................................. 87
Ash-Shakour (The Most Thankful) .............................................................................................................. 88
 He surprises you with His gifts ........................................................................................................ 89
 Mathematical Calculation ............................................................................................................... 90
 Mention in the Book ....................................................................................................................... 91
 An Atom .......................................................................................................................................... 92
 Give to be Given in Return! ............................................................................................................. 94
 Do Good deeds ................................................................................................................................ 95
 Keep your mouth shut! ................................................................................................................... 96
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 To where? ....................................................................................................................................... 98
 Relieving .......................................................................................................................................... 98
Al Jabbaar (The Compellor, The Restorer) ................................................................................................ 100
 Your broken heart… how did it break? ......................................................................................... 102
 And restore all of me .................................................................................................................... 103
 And loose a knot from my tongue ................................................................................................ 104
 He likes to see you smiling ............................................................................................................ 105
 The cart… ...................................................................................................................................... 105
 83 .................................................................................................................................................. 106
 The servant’s room ....................................................................................................................... 107
 The dream and the memory ......................................................................................................... 108
 A cup of coffee! ............................................................................................................................. 109
 Be prostrating ............................................................................................................................... 110
Al Hadi “The Guide” ................................................................................................................................. 111
 It is not a coincidence! .................................................................................................................. 114
 No! – No! ....................................................................................................................................... 115
 A Burning Brand of Light ............................................................................................................... 117
 A lost Compass .............................................................................................................................. 117
 Then Allah guides you ................................................................................................................... 119
 The Swamp .................................................................................................................................... 120
 A Paper!......................................................................................................................................... 120
 Lifeline ........................................................................................................................................... 121
Al Ghaffour “The Ever –Forgiving” ............................................................................................................ 124
 Imprisonment................................................................................................................................ 126
 Do you know? ............................................................................................................................... 126
 My Sins .......................................................................................................................................... 127
 Have you forgotten? ..................................................................................................................... 129
 Blessedness ................................................................................................................................... 130
 Do not Despair! ............................................................................................................................. 131
 The Greatest Will .......................................................................................................................... 132
 The Most Beautiful Ever ................................................................................................................ 133
 Do not Get Surprised! ................................................................................................................... 134
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 Start! ............................................................................................................................................. 135
Al Qari’b “The Near” ................................................................................................................................ 137
 Allah! ............................................................................................................................................. 139
 For you! ......................................................................................................................................... 140
 The Footfalls of Ants…................................................................................................................... 140
 He Sees You Now! ......................................................................................................................... 141
 Smile! ............................................................................................................................................ 143
 O Allah the Exalted! ...................................................................................................................... 144
 Have you Reached! ....................................................................................................................... 145
 If you Ask Him ............................................................................................................................... 146
 Among the smokes: ...................................................................................................................... 147
 Allah.. ............................................................................................................................................ 149
Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................. 150

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Dedicated To…

To the one who said to me one night
When I was at the age of seven:
Did you pray Al-Isha?
I replied –deceptively- yes!
Hence, she looked with suspicion, then she said:
Say whatever you desire,
But He saw you!
This “He saw you” frightened me,
Pushed me to go to pray…in spite of my false claim!

To my mother…

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Because You are Allah…there is neither fear, nor worry,
Nor sunset, nor night, nor twilight.
Because You are Allah, my heart with hope is overwhelmed.
Because You are Allah, my soul is set aglow.

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Preface
All praise be to Allah, and may prayers and peace be upon the Messenger of
Allah, his family, his companions, and those who have followed him.
These words are about some of the names of Allah. I wrote them with my
weak knowledge of the All-Strong, with my impotent soul about the Omnipotent,
and with my unawareness of the Omniscient—Glorious and Exalted is He...
I was keen on making these words understandable to the laymen, readable to
the patient one in his bed and to the one overwhelmed with sorrow and grief and to
the destitute one throughout his ordeals…
I am certain that tying the heart to Allah, believing, deliberating, loving,
fearing, and yearning for Him—as it is the secret to happiness in the Hereafter-- is
the secret to happiness in the worldly life as well. The stages of sadness, doubts,
and ordeals shall end completely if the slave of Allah directs the compass of his
interest to the One who did not create him except to worship Him...
The glorified names of Allah are a great component of belief. The slave
delves through them to a special sacred world which moves one to kneel down in
awe and inspires the soul to invoke Allah in a submissive and loving way…
This book was written out of my intention to show the way to Allah, even
though my knowledge and ability to describe Him is little compared to His true
description, and especially to remind myself and my brothers and sisters that Allah
has power over all things. His favor is great, and He is the Hearing, the Seeing...
I opt from this book to pat with these words on shoulders overburdened with
pain and to clear, with these words, minds from ordeals that have immersed them
with headaches. I desire to wipe away with my letters the tears and to put out the
fire of the ribs …
Without learning the meaning of the names of Allah, surely, we are at loss in
a vast desert, our days squandered under the heat of this desert and the whirlpool of
the dunes of psychological distress…
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Seek Allah: in knowledge, fully believing, worshiping, in submission, then
in comfort, happiness, and pleasure…
Or seek loss, destitution, suffocation, deep depression, and psychological
disruption …
In this book, neither knowledge nor science nor precedency I claim. What I
acknowledge is my impotence and my dire need to be rewarded the forgiveness
and satisfaction of the Exalted in the heaven…
If there is a mere seed of knowledge in this book, I plea for Allah to spread it
amongst the people. If the opposite is true—that there is no knowledge—the
Exalted in the heaven has known all of my impotence, and I hope to know some of
His forgiveness…
I supplicate Allah to purify my intentions and to forgive me for what my
hand may cause of wrong or any misconceptions in my heart…
Prayers and peace be upon the Messenger of Allah…and our last
supplication is all praise is due to Allah, The Lord of the worlds…

Ali Gaber Al-Faifi
27/7/1437 AH

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