Al-Jami’

The Gatherer

Exalted and Glorious

Surely, Allah will collect the hypocrites and disbelievers all together in Hell. (4:140)

 

Our Lord!  Verily, it is You Who will gather mankind together on the Day about which there is no doubt. Verily, Allah never breaks His Promise.  (3:9)

 

Allah is One who collects thins and gathers them anywhere He wants at anytime.

 

He who repeats this name will find the things that he has lost.  One who has been separated from his people, family or friends, may recite this sacred name of Allah, and He is all His kindness and mercy shall reunite them.

 

Al-Jami’ is the Gatherer Together.  It is Allah Who gathers together all perfections of essence, qualities, and deeds.  It is He Who unites all varying characteristics as He wishes.  It is He Who will bring together the ‘first ones’ and the ‘last ones’ in the One Master.  So knowing that Allah will gather you together on the Day of Reckoning, be prepared for that Day.

 

Allah Allah Allah

From: The Meanings of the Names of Our Lord 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)

 

AL-JAMI’

 

Allah is the Gatherer of whatever He wishes, wherever He wishes.  Jama’a means gathering things that are dispersed.  Allah gathers things together whether they are alike or different or even opposite.  Allah has gathered together within this universe spaces, galaxies, stars, earths, seas, plants, and animals, things whose nature, size, shape, and color are different.

 

In the bodies of the creatures He has created, Allah has gathered opposing entities, such as fire and water, air and earth, heat and cold, dry and wet.  He has gathered six million cells in a drop of blood.  The body has incalculable cells, each moving, seeking, finding, rejecting, growing, dividing, dying, each a life, an entity unto itself.  He has combined all those cells in the body by means of His knowledge and His power.  He can scatter them to the far corners of the universe and then gather them again.  That is how our bodies, decomposed, spread in earth, water, and air at death, will be gathered on the Day of Resurrection.  So will the bodies of billions and billions of people.  Their lives, their minds, their souls returned to them, they will be gathered in the field of ‘Arafat on the Day of Judgment. Allah will gather the sinner and the pure one, the tyrant and the tyrannized, the good and the bad face to face, and judge them all.  Then He will gather His friends into His Paradise and His enemies into His Hell.

 

As Allah combines the cells of a human body, He puts each person together with his or her actions on the path to eternity.  Our only comrades are our deeds. In our heedlessness we do not see the flesh, the heart, the mind, the soul gathered together, and the thousands of “me’s” and “I’s” and “mine’s” living together within us, any more than we see the billions of units combined in our bodies. We do not see our deeds, which are always with us, not the Hell or the Paradise that are around us.

 

Your preoccupation with this world – eating, drinking, seeking more and more to eat, to have, to enjoy; your slavery at the hands of your flesh and your ego have made you inattentive to everything else.  Only when the bird of the soul flies from the cage of the flesh will this dream evaporate, and you will find yourself alone with your deeds.  Then you will see that single companion whom you hug and press to your chest.  It is something warm and friendly, or is it full of snakes and scorpions and poisonous thorns?  Then you will know that what you presumed to be good was Hell, and what you thought was suffering was Paradise.

 

‘Abd al-Jami’ is the servant in whose being visible character and morals and hidden truths of the heart are combined into one.  Both his exterior and interior are beautiful. The manifestation of all the beautiful Names of Allah are gathered in him.  He is able to bring together all that which is dissimilar, different, and opposite inside and outside of himself.

 

Our father, the Prophet Adam (pbuh), found our mother Eve (pbuh) on the plain of ‘Arafat after they had been separated and sent from the Garden to Earth by reciting this Name.  If someone has lost something, or is separated from someone dear, recitation of ya Jami’ 114 times, followed by ya Jami’ an-nasi li-yawmin la rayba fiyhi ijma’ ‘alayya dalati (“O Gatherer of humanity for a Day about which there is no doubt, bring what I have lost together with me!) helps to find that which is lost.

 

From: The Name & the Named by Shaykh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti