According to Dr Sharib:
" 'Al-Wasi' is the One Who encompasses everything. There is nothing that
is beyond His knowledge."
Dr Sharib indicates that there is no limit to God's existence or the proof of
His unity. He is the One Whose being, name, attributes and authority cannot
be circumscribed or limited - unlike human knowledge and attributes which
have limits.
Dr Sharib further indicates that amongst men the quality refers to a
generous person whose kindness is alike to all, a rich person who does not
depend upon others.
"To emulate the name you should be just, kind, and merciful to the people.
Never give up norms and standards pertaining to courtesy, come what may."
Appropriate recitation secures inner and outer riches as well as honour and
respect.
see 'The 99 Most Beautiful Names of Allah' by Dr Zahurul Hassan Sharib
Some other references:
atan threatens you with
want, and orders you to
commit shameful acts.
But God promises
His pardon and grace,
for God is bounteous
and all knowing.
Al-Ghazali says that this name derives from expansiveness, which can incorporate
both knowledge of a multitude of things, or expansive generosity in blessings and
charity. The absolute in vastness is God, whose knowledge and generosity are
like a limitless ocean - whose words, if written down, would exhaust the ink, even if
every ocean consisted only of ink.
Expansiveness comes up against limits - but not the expansiveness of God, which
is without limits.
With regard to man, he is said to be 'vast' according to the extent of his
knowledge, and the freedom of his character from fear of poverty or being
dominated by anger or greed.
(Al-Ghazali - The Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of God. Trans. Burrel/Daher: ITS: 1992.)
If we focus our attention on the pleasures and treasures of this transient life we
find that they are limited and evanescent. We may love someone for their beauty
but it withers and fades, we may seek a momentary pleasure in sexual
gratification, or drug induced euphoria, but it passes, and even if we find
something that lasts a lifetime - even if we are a king or emperor of absolute
authority and power and can fulfill our every whim, this too passes. If we are the
master of a thousand languages still the time comes when we can not utter a
single word even of our mother tongue. Even those who seek to satisfy the
intellect by ordinary learning find their knowledge outdated and things they have
learned slipping from them and even their reason eventually departing. The fear
of this transience and of losing their material prosperity or intellectual talents
haunts the subconscious mind.
The spiritual life, or 'better living' as Dr Sharib calls it, by comparison grows and
grows as God bestows from His infinite bounties more and more. It's joys are
infinite, and timeless, and placeless. It allows us to pass through the ever open
door into a universe whose fascination expands in a myriad ways. Those who seek
and find divine knowledge find that it opens out to them in an ever expanding way
something of the eternal mystery of God, and is thus the essence from which
ordinary knowledge is derived. Such persons are not haunted by fear of loss,
whatever fades and passes they let it go - as Mevlana Rumi says so eloquently: "If
our days are gone, let them go! - tis no matter. Do Thou remain, for none is holy
as Thou art."
JMZ
" 'Al-Wasi' is the One Who encompasses everything. There is nothing that
is beyond His knowledge."
Dr Sharib indicates that there is no limit to God's existence or the proof of
His unity. He is the One Whose being, name, attributes and authority cannot
be circumscribed or limited - unlike human knowledge and attributes which
have limits.
Dr Sharib further indicates that amongst men the quality refers to a
generous person whose kindness is alike to all, a rich person who does not
depend upon others.
"To emulate the name you should be just, kind, and merciful to the people.
Never give up norms and standards pertaining to courtesy, come what may."
Appropriate recitation secures inner and outer riches as well as honour and
respect.
see 'The 99 Most Beautiful Names of Allah' by Dr Zahurul Hassan Sharib
Some other references:
atan threatens you with
want, and orders you to
commit shameful acts.
But God promises
His pardon and grace,
for God is bounteous
and all knowing.
Al-Ghazali says that this name derives from expansiveness, which can incorporate
both knowledge of a multitude of things, or expansive generosity in blessings and
charity. The absolute in vastness is God, whose knowledge and generosity are
like a limitless ocean - whose words, if written down, would exhaust the ink, even if
every ocean consisted only of ink.
Expansiveness comes up against limits - but not the expansiveness of God, which
is without limits.
With regard to man, he is said to be 'vast' according to the extent of his
knowledge, and the freedom of his character from fear of poverty or being
dominated by anger or greed.
(Al-Ghazali - The Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of God. Trans. Burrel/Daher: ITS: 1992.)
If we focus our attention on the pleasures and treasures of this transient life we
find that they are limited and evanescent. We may love someone for their beauty
but it withers and fades, we may seek a momentary pleasure in sexual
gratification, or drug induced euphoria, but it passes, and even if we find
something that lasts a lifetime - even if we are a king or emperor of absolute
authority and power and can fulfill our every whim, this too passes. If we are the
master of a thousand languages still the time comes when we can not utter a
single word even of our mother tongue. Even those who seek to satisfy the
intellect by ordinary learning find their knowledge outdated and things they have
learned slipping from them and even their reason eventually departing. The fear
of this transience and of losing their material prosperity or intellectual talents
haunts the subconscious mind.
The spiritual life, or 'better living' as Dr Sharib calls it, by comparison grows and
grows as God bestows from His infinite bounties more and more. It's joys are
infinite, and timeless, and placeless. It allows us to pass through the ever open
door into a universe whose fascination expands in a myriad ways. Those who seek
and find divine knowledge find that it opens out to them in an ever expanding way
something of the eternal mystery of God, and is thus the essence from which
ordinary knowledge is derived. Such persons are not haunted by fear of loss,
whatever fades and passes they let it go - as Mevlana Rumi says so eloquently: "If
our days are gone, let them go! - tis no matter. Do Thou remain, for none is holy
as Thou art."
JMZ
'Ash-Shay-taanu ya-'idu-kumul-faqra wa
ya'-murukum-bil-fahshaaa'. Wallaahu
ya-'idukum-maghfiratam-minhu wa fazlaa Wallaahu
Waasi-'un 'Aliim.
(Qur'an 2:268 trans. A.Ali.)
ya'-murukum-bil-fahshaaa'. Wallaahu
ya-'idukum-maghfiratam-minhu wa fazlaa Wallaahu
Waasi-'un 'Aliim.
(Qur'an 2:268 trans. A.Ali.)
| Bismillah ir Rehman ir Rahim |
| Al-Wasi' (Al-Waasi') Qur'an 2:268 |
| The All-Embracing The Vast, The One Whose Capacity is Limitless, The Extensive, The Capricious. |
