quran: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful: People often take the name of one of their great and
\npowerful personalities at the time of doing or beginning a work. By this association, it is believed, the work would achieve success, greatness and blessings; or that it would be a memorial to keep the named one’s memory alive for ever. This is also observed in naming a child, a project, a house or an association \u2014 they give it the name of a deeply loved or highly respected person, so that his name would continue in this form; for example, a man names his son after his father, in order to perpetuate the father’s memory. This verse runs on the same line. Allah began His speech with His Own name \u2014 Great is His name \u2014 so that the ideas taught in this chapter be stamped by, and associated with it. Also, it teaches a lesson to mankind, showing them the perfect manner of starting all their talks and actions; it guides them to put the stamp of the divine name on all their activities; doing every work for the sake of Allah, associating it with His good names and attributes. In this way that action would neither be rendered null and void, nor remain incomplete; it has been started in the name of Allah, and negation and annihilation cannot reach that sacred name. Allah has declared variously in the Qur\u2019an that what is not for His Person must perish, is in vain; He will proceed to the deeds not done for His sake and shall render them as scattered floating dust; He shall forfeit what they have done and shall nullify their deeds; and that nothing shall remain except His honored Person. Therefore, what is done for the sake of Allah and performed in His name, shall continue and will not perish. Everything, every work and every affair shall have its share of eternity \u2014 as much as it is related to Allah. It is this reality that has been hinted at in the universally accepted tradition of the Prophet: \u201cEvery important affair, not begun with the name of Allah, shall remain incomplete . . .\u201d The word al-abtar ( \u0627\u064e\u0644\u0627\u064e\u0628\u0652\u062a\u064e\u0631 = translated here as \u201cincomplete”) means a thing whose end is cut off, an animal whose tail is severed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Therefore, what is done for the sake of Allah and performed in His name, shall continue and will not perish. Everything, every work and every affair shall have its share of eternity \u2014 as much as it is related to Allah. It is this reality that has been hinted at in the universally accepted tradition of the Prophet: \u201cEvery important affair, not begun with the name of Allah, shall remain incomplete .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7775,7758],"tags":[13763,7563,10822],"class_list":["post-10473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamic-scholastic-theology","category-prophet","tag-ahl-al-bayt-a-s","tag-quran","tag-shaistudies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}