Al_Rashid
Al-Rashid is the Owner of good fortune in all matters through His Righteousness. In regard to material things, he is far removed from them. He is the All-Mighty in His wisdom and in His actions. His love of you beautifies your trust in Him until He makes you righteous in the godliness of the truth of your self.
From: The Children Around the Table of Allah by Shaykh Muhammad Sa’id al-Jamal ar-Rifa’i Head of the Higher Sufi Council in Jerusalem and the Holy Land Teacher at the Dome of the Rock (al-Aqsa)
AR-RASHID
Allah is the Righteous Teacher who ordains righteousness for all creatures. In His wisdom He leads all matters to their conclusion perfectly and in perfect order. He is the ultimate teacher who guides us to the straight path and salvation, who never fails in His wisdom or His actions. Everything done by Him has a clear and beneficial purpose. His teaching is so effective that it becomes the nature of everything in the universe that follows His will.
To humanity He has taught bliss, prosperity, and salvation is His Qur’an. Although He is All-Powerful, He does not enforce what He teaches, but leaves it for human will to act upon. He shows the way to peace as a reward for acting upon what we learn. He chooses to let us gain our rewards by our own decision through practicing what we are taught.
Every person, as a student, first has to be aware and conscious of what is being taught. Then we must use the intelligence that has been given to us by our Teacher to discipline and educate ourselves, our egos. Then we must learn Allah’s divine laws, and in accordance with them, drive the machine of our material being.
Islam is the religion in which learning is obligatory for all men and women. As we learn from Allah the ultimate Righteous Teacher, we see the perfect order within and outside ourselves. The Greatest Teacher makes His students see His Will, His Power, His Generosity, His Love, His compassion. He makes the student love Him, live to do what He says, love to work for His pleasure and to become righteous.
‘Abd ar-Rashids is the righteous one who has arrived at the right path that leads to Allah’s will and His Messenger’s orders. This is the station of the murshid, the great teacher who has come to know, to find, and to become close to Allah. Since he is on the straight path, he also has the license to lead others on the straight path.
Many blessed saints of Islam including Hadrat Hasan al-Basri, Ja’far as-Sadiq, Shibli and others have claimed as-Rashid as the greatest Name, the recitation of which makes prayers come true.
A faithful teacher who recites this Name 504 times will be safe both from passing on erroneous information and from being misunderstood.
Reciting this Name 152 times a day will improve both one’s worldly and inner life. The reciter’s words will be effective, his actions will be right.
From: The Name & the Named by Shaykh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti