They May Have Another Name For You | The Other Side: Barzakh and Beyond Ep. 3

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The Other Side | Barzakh and Beyond

They May Have Another Name For You | The Other Side: Barzakh and Beyond Ep. 3

Dr. Omar Suleiman

Did you know that you have another name—a spiritual identity? We spend our lives building a name for ourselves in hopes for recognition and admiration, but the name that truly matters isn’t the one people call you here. It's the one you're known by in the heavens.

The Prophet ﷺ said that every servant has a reputation in the heavens. Some names are earned by deeds, some given by Allah, and some lost to hypocrisy. The world may call you one thing, but what is your name with Allah? Are you remembered among the angels or completely unknown in the realm that truly counts?

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00:00What is your name here? And what do they call you on the other side? We spend so much of

00:12our lives trying to build a name for ourselves. From a young age, there's this desire to be remembered. To make sure that when people mention us, it's with admiration. Psychology

00:27even tells us that your name is actually your strongest stimulant. Everyone wants to hear their name. Think about how excited people get to see their names get honorable mention by their favorite star, or on their favorite show, or on some sort of plaque or certificate.

00:42But have you ever thought, what's my name with Allah? What's my reputation amongst all the angels all around me, and the souls that have gone before me? Is it possible to actually

00:56have a different name there than the one we have here? Do I have a title in front

01:02of my first name? Or maybe a quality in place of my last name that they call me by? And when do I find this all out?

01:26In one of the du'as of the Prophet ﷺ, he says about Allah's names,

01:42أَسْأَلُكَ بِكُلِّ اسْمٍ هُوَ لَكَ سَمَّيْتَ بِهِ نَفْسَكَ أَوْ أَنزَلْتَهُ فِي كِتَابِكَ أَوْ عَلَّمْتَهُ أَحَدًا مِّنْ خَلْقِكَ أَوِ اسْتَأْثَرْتَ بِهِ فِي عِلْمِ الْغَيْبِ عِندَكَ

01:54I ask you, O Allah, by every name that you have named yourself, or every name that you have revealed in your book, or every name that you have taught to any one of your creation,

02:05or every name that you have kept unto yourself in the knowledge of the unseen that is with you alone. Meaning there are names that Allah has that perhaps he has taught to another

02:16creation other than us. Maybe his angels know him by other names beyond, and there are names that Allah has kept in the unseen that he has called upon that we still don't even

02:26have access to. So we know Ar-Rahman, Ar-Rahim, but imagine the many beautiful names that we haven't even heard yet. Our Prophet ﷺ also had many names. He said, إِنَّ لِي أَسْمَاءً I have several names.

02:40I am Muhammad, I am Ahmad, I am Al-Mahhi, the eraser by whom Allah erases disbelief, and I am Al-Hashir, the gatherer at whose feet the people will be gathered on the day

02:52of judgment, and I am Al-Aqib, the last, after whom there will be no other prophet. And in another narration he said ﷺ, وَنَبِيُ التَّوْبَةِ وَنَبِيُ الرَّحْمَةِ

03:04I am the prophet of repentance, and I am the prophet of mercy. Now some of these names were given directly to him by Allah ﷻ like Muhammad and Ahmad,

03:13and other names like As-Siddiq, the truthful one, or Al-Ameen, the trustworthy one. These were earned throughout his remarkable life ﷺ with his blessed character.

03:25Allah says about Yahya, the son of Zakariyya ﷺ, اسمه يحيى لم نجعل له من قبل سميا I have named him Yahya, and that name was not given to anyone before him.

03:38This was a glad tiding both of Yahya's character which would be defined by haya, modesty, as well as a glad tiding that he was going to be a shaheed, since Yahya means life, and the shuhada are ahya, the martyrs are alive.

03:52But those are prophets, what about the rest of us? The Prophet ﷺ said, مَا مِنْ عَبْدٍ إِلَّا وَلَهُ صِيتٌ فِي السَّمَاءِ There is not a servant of Allah except that they have a seet, which means a name or a

04:06reputation in the heavens. Now the first manifestation of that hadith is definitely referring to the reputation you have, because the Prophet ﷺ went on to say that if you have a good reputation

04:17in the heavens, it descends to those on earth, and if you have a bad one in the heavens, it also descends to those on earth. But what if that reputation doesn't just come with the name your parents gave you, but the name your deeds earned you?

04:31There's a beautiful story about Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz that gives us some incredible insight into this. Umar ﷺ says that one night I saw the Prophet ﷺ in a dream in a green meadow, and he said

04:43to me, you're going to take charge of my ummah's affairs, and when that time comes, do not spill the blood of the people. فَإِنَّ اسْمَكَ فِي النَّاسِ عُمَرٌ وَاسْمُكَ عِندَ

04:54اللَّهِ جَابِرٌ For your name among the people is Umar, but your name with Allah is Jabir, which means one who mends together and brings comfort. And subhan'Allah, as far as human names are concerned, being Jabir, which is one who brings

05:08comfort as a leader, is the opposite of being a Jabbar, which is a tyrant. But think about the implications of this dream for us. Umar was already named Umar after his grandfather in hopes that he would be like him, and he

05:22was. But then Allah put him in a situation to where he could unlock another name. And sometimes Allah will put you in a place to where you can unlock a new level or a new name for yourself as well, but you have to earn it.

05:36As for the name your parents gave you, it's only as good or bad as what you actually do with it. How many Muhammads in the world today act like the complete opposite of the man they were named after, salAllahu alayhi wasallam?

05:49You could be named Abdullah, the slave of Allah, but actually be known as what the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam said, Abd al-Dirham or Abd al-Dinar, the slave of wealth. There was once a tyrant who wreaked havoc on Medina in the past, and his name was Muslim

06:03ibn Uqba. But you know the people actually called him Mujrim instead of Muslim, which means criminal. Abu al-Hakam, the father of wisdom, was the original name of the man who became known

06:13by his rejection as Abu Jahl, the father of ignorance instead. On the other hand, you have Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, who earned the title as-Siddiq, the man of truth, because of Islam.

06:27But you have to put yourself in the school of Sidq, the school of truthfulness, in order to earn that name yourself. So the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam said, a person continues to manifest truth, until

06:39he's written with Allah as a Siddiq. Think how long you work on earth to earn a Ph.D. or an M.D. or some sort of other title. It takes time and effort to earn a name or title in the heavens as well.

06:54And how beautiful to even have your name mentioned so frequently with praise in the heavens. That's why the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam said, mention Allah often, do dhikr often.

07:04He said, verily, among what you remember Allah by is his tasbih, his glorification, his tahlil, the declaration of his oneness, and his tahmid, which is praise.

07:14And those athkar then go and circle around the throne, buzzing like bees with the mention of the one who said them. Would one of you not like to constantly be remembered this way?

07:26You see, the more good you do, the more mention you get by Allah, with all of his perfect beautiful names, calling you by your most beautiful names. Allah says, fadhkuruni adhkurkum, remember me and I will remember you.

07:40And if you make mention of him to yourself, he makes mention of you to himself. And if you make mention of him in a gathering, he makes mention of you in a greater gathering. And if Allah mentions your name with praise there, it really doesn't matter how much your

07:54haters mention your name with disdain here. No matter how much they called him mudhammam, he was always Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam, always praised, no matter what.

08:05And just like there's envy on earth, there's envy in the heavens as well. Iblis became jealous of Ayyub alayhi assalam. Why? Because his name kept getting mentioned in the heavens because of how righteous he was on earth.

08:18But that doesn't always have to be a prophet or someone well known. وَكَمْ مِنْ مَشْهُورٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ مَجْهُولٌ فِي السَّمَاءِ وَكَمْ مِنْ مَجْهُولٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ مَعْرُوفٌ فِي السَّمَاءِ How many famous people on earth are nobodies in the heavens?

08:33And how many unknown people on earth are celebrities in the heavens? But what if you're not spoken about here? What if you're a quote-unquote nobody? Know that it doesn't matter who knows you here if you're known there.

08:46As Umar radiAllahu anhu said to a man who returned from a battle and started to list the names of the casualties. The man says after all these well-known names and there are a bunch of people that Amir

08:57al-Mu'minin doesn't know and Umar radiAllahu anhu wept and he said and what does it matter if Amir al-Mu'minin doesn't know them so long as Allah knows them? So what's your name in the heavens?

09:09And how much are you spoken about right now in that world? What if your name is Farooq, the one who distinguishes between truth and falsehood because you're ushering in truth in an age of propaganda?

09:24What if your name is Adil, a man of justice because you're striving for justice in a world of oppression? Or what if they call you Tahira which means pure because you refuse to be stained by the

09:36sins of indecency and oppression? What are the headlines about you read in the Barzakh? It's not impossible to find out. Look at every good and evil quality in the Qur'an and ask yourself which one describes you best.

09:51Okay, but beyond our own introspection, when will we know what our name and reputation is over there? Well first, you find out as you live. It was said to the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam, what do you think of a man who does

10:04good deeds and people praise him for those good deeds? He said salAllahu alayhi wasallam, tilka ajalu bushra al-mu'min. They are early glad tidings for a believer.

10:14And then your janazah comes where the witnesses of the earth testify to who you were here. If today was the day of your funeral and people were speaking about you, what quality would everyone mention of you that's actually true of you?

10:28Because the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam said, you are the witnesses of Allah on earth. Antum shuhadaa Allahi fil ardi. Then after your janazah, your soul gets to hear it for itself.

10:39When we die, we will be called by those nicknames based upon what Allah knew of us and informed the heavens about us. And then the witnesses of the heavens, being the angels, will speak with those names.

10:51The Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam said about the good soul as it ascends, that they will not pass by a group of angels except that the angels would say, maa hadha roohat tayyibah? What is that sweet smelling soul?

11:05And the angel carrying you will say, so-and-so, the child of so-and-so. And they will call you by ahab al-asma'i ilayka, the most beloved of nicknames to you. On the flip side, if it's evil, the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam said that they

11:19will say, what is that filthy scent? And the angel will say, so-and-so, the child of so-and-so. And they will call it by all of the worst nicknames. So who are you really?

11:32When you were born, you had a spiritual birth certificate. And instead of male or female, it said you would be sa'eed or shaqee, blessed or wretched. And now you have a spiritual death certificate.

11:46And it says, tayyibah or khabithah, pure or filthy, based upon all that your soul accumulated during its time on earth. And that's the name that matters most at that moment.

11:58Not the name on your tombstone, but the reservation under your name on the other side of that stone. But before your soul fully enters your grave, is there a way to get a preview into what

12:10that reservation holds for you on the other side?

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