This reflection is written to preserve clarity of belief, intellectual honesty, and inner peace — so remembrance remains free from fear, confusion, and waswās.
1. Allah is Beyond “How”
Asking how Allah hears or responds is a category error. Allah does not receive information, signals, or sound.
Allah knows not because we speak — but because we exist.
2. Meaning of Yā Subḥān
Subḥān means absolute transcendence — beyond form, mechanism, comparison, limitation, or imagination.
It does not add concepts about Allah; it removes false ones.
“You are beyond what my mind is trying to make of You.”
3. Allah’s Hearing and Seeing
As-Samīʿ and Al-Baṣīr are not processes. They are relations.
Allah does not hear through sound or see through light. Your voice does not travel to Him — you are already present to His knowledge.
4. Consciousness, Matter, and Meaning
Science explains structure, substrate, and data. But meaning does not emerge from matter alone.
Matter provides information. Allah provides intelligibility.
With Allah, perception becomes understanding.
5. About Yā Maʿānī
Yā Maʿānī is not a formal Name among the 99, but a Sufi name of meaning (ism maʿnawī).
It points to Allah as the Giver of meaning to perception, not meaning itself.
Allah is not inside meaning.
Meaning exists by Allah’s will.
6. Poetry About the Prophet ﷺ
Sufi poetry often says the universe “found its voice” through the Prophet ﷺ. This is metaphor, not theology.
The Prophet ﷺ is the means (wasīlah), not the source. Through him, the signs of creation became understandable.
“By Allah’s will, through the Prophet ﷺ, meaning became accessible.”
7. Technology, AI, and Gratitude
Tools are downstream of human intellect. Human intellect itself is created.
Gratitude is directed only to Allah — not to tools, systems, or mechanisms.
8. Dhikr Method for an Analytical Mind
- Do not imagine Allah
- Do not force emotion
- Anchor remembrance to breath
Exhale: Subḥān
Inner phrase:
“Beyond my mind. Beyond my fear.”
9. Rule Against Waswās
Never argue with doubt. When it arises, say once:
“He hears not because I speak,
but because I exist.”
Then return to remembrance.
10. Near-Death Anchoring
Near death, intellect weakens but breath remains. Use short, light phrases:
- Yā Subḥān
- Yā ʿAfūw
Words are reminders — meaning is already known.
Allah is not inside meaning.
Meaning exists by Allah’s will.
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