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Introduction

All praise and thanks are due to Allah; we praise Him, seek His help, and ask Him for forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides, none can misguide, and whoever Allah leaves to stray, none can guide. I bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah alone, who has no partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad (peace be upon him) is His servant and Messenger.

Translations and Explanations:

  1. Praise: Tareef - Expression of admiration or respect. (Hindi: प्रशंसा, Roman Urdu: tareef)

  2. Forgiveness: Maafi - The act of pardoning or excusing an error or offense. (Hindi: क्षमा, Roman Urdu: maafi)

  3. Stray: Bhatakna - To wander or go off the correct path or intended course. (Hindi: भटकना, Roman Urdu: bhatakna)

  4. Misguide: Gumraah karna - To lead someone in the wrong direction or cause them to make a mistake. (Hindi: गुमराह करना, Roman Urdu: gumraah karna)

  5. Bear witness: Gawah hona - To formally declare or affirm something as true. (Hindi: गवाही देना, Roman Urdu: gawah hona)

  6. Deity: Maabood - A being worshipped as a god. (Hindi: देवता, Roman Urdu: maabood)

Allah, the Exalted says,

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To Allah belong the most beautiful and perfect Names, so invoke Him by them. Abandon those who desecrate His Names; they will be recompensed for what they did.

[al-A'raf 7:80]

Translations and Explanations:

  1. Invoke: Pukarna - To call upon or appeal to someone, especially in prayer. (Hindi: आह्वान करना, Roman Urdu: pukarna)

  2. Abandon: Chhod dena - To leave or give up on someone or something. (Hindi: त्याग देना, Roman Urdu: chhod dena)

  3. Desecrate: Bay hurmati karna - To treat something sacred with disrespect. (Hindi: अपवित्र करना, Roman Urdu: bay hurmati karna)

  4. Recompensed: Badla diya jana - To be repaid or given a reward or punishment. (Hindi: प्रतिफल दिया जाना, Roman Urdu: badla diya jana)

From the most noble and lofty stations of cognisance is to know the Lord, the Glorious, through His beauty. This is the knowledge possessed by the elite of this creation. All of them know Him through an Attribute from amongst His Attributes, but those amongst them who have the most complete cognisance are those who know Him through His perfection, magnificence, and beauty. There is nothing comparable to Him in any of His Attributes. If you were to assume that the whole of creation was in its most exquisite form, and you were to try and compare their collective outward and inward beauty to the beauty of the Lord, the Glorious, the comparison would be more ineffectual than a faint torch being held against the blazing disk of the sun.

Translations and Explanations:

  1. Noble: Sharif - Honorable or having high moral qualities. (Hindi: श्रेष्ठ, Roman Urdu: sharif)

  2. Lofty: Aali - High in status or character. (Hindi: ऊँचा, Roman Urdu: aali)

  3. Cognisance: Maarifat - Awareness or deep understanding. (Hindi: ज्ञान, Roman Urdu: maarifat)

  4. Elite: Chuninda - The select or superior group within a larger group. (Hindi: उत्कृष्ट, Roman Urdu: chuninda)

  5. Perfection: Kamal - The state of being flawless or complete. (Hindi: पूर्णता, Roman Urdu: kamal)

  6. Magnificence: Shan o shaukat - Great beauty or splendor. (Hindi: भव्यता, Roman Urdu: shaan o shaukat)

  7. Ineffectual: Be asar - Unable to produce the desired effect; ineffective. (Hindi: निष्प्रभावी, Roman Urdu: be asar)

  8. Exquisite: Nihayat khoobsurat - Extremely beautiful and delicate. (Hindi: अति सुंदर, Roman Urdu: nihayat khoobsurat)

  9. Blazing: Chamakta hua - Extremely bright or shining intensely. (Hindi: चमकता हुआ, Roman Urdu: chamakta hua)

It is sufficient to know of His beauty that if His veil were lifted, everything upon which the splendor of His Face fell in His creation would be obliterated. It is sufficient to know that all beauty, external and internal, to be found in this world and the Hereafter is from the resultant effects of His work, so what then would one think of the beauty of the One from whom this beauty emanated? It is sufficient to know of His beauty that to Him belongs nobility in its entirety, strength and power in its entirety, generosity and kindness in its entirety, beneficence in its entirety, knowledge in its entirety, and grace in its entirety.

Translations and Explanations:

  1. Sufficient: Kafi - Enough or adequate. (Hindi: पर्याप्त, Roman Urdu: kafi)

  2. Splendor: Shan o shaukat - Magnificence or great beauty. (Hindi: भव्यता, Roman Urdu: shaan o shaukat)

  3. Obliterated: Mit jana - Completely destroyed or wiped out. (Hindi: नष्ट करना, Roman Urdu: mit jana)

  4. Resultant: Nateeja - Caused or produced as a result of something else. (Hindi: परिणाम स्वरूप, Roman Urdu: nateejay mein)

  5. Emanated: Nikalna - To come out from a source. (Hindi: प्रस्फुटित होना, Roman Urdu: nikalna)

  6. Nobility: Sharafat - Quality of being noble in character. (Hindi: कुलीनता, Roman Urdu: sharafat)

  7. Beneficence: Bhalai - Doing good or being kind and charitable. (Hindi: परोपकार, Roman Urdu: bhalai)

  8. Grace: Rehmat - Elegant beauty or kindness shown by a higher power. (Hindi: कृपा, Roman Urdu: rehmat)

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