Ammar Alshukry – Allahs Beautiful Names #14 Get Ready To Be Amazed By Allah’s Blessings For You – Al Lateef
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The speakers discuss the meaning of LOP, a woman who describes herself as a woman of substance abuse and physical suffering, and the LOP, a woman who describes herself as a woman of substance abuse and a woman of physical suffering. They also touch on the concept of Jesus being a false accusations and the importance of not letting their family and friends know about high optimism in their future. The speakers stress the intricate knowledge of benefits that comes from bringing them about and how they use it to bring them about.
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Al Latif. It's a name that appears 7
times in the Quran, and is one of
the most popular pronounced on the tongues of
people of every generation as they go through
hardship. They call this name in weakness and
in fear, in pain and in tears. It's
simply a Latif.
Now, what does a Latif mean? Ibn al
Athir in his tafsir, he basically says that
a latif is the one who combines 2
things. Number 1 is a,
care
and gentleness in actions.
And he has knowledge, intricate knowledge
of benefits and how to bring them about
to whomever he decrees from his creation. And
so Latif combines these two pillars. The first
is gentle care, and that's why you'll find
that people call upon this name when they
are in need of gentleness and care, and
when they're going through hardship. And number 2
is intricate knowledge of benefits and how to
bring them about to whomever he wishes. This
name should inspire trust in Allah's
legislation
and in his decree, both his Qadr and
his Sharra. Trust in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's
legislation, even if you don't comprehend completely why
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would make something forbidden.
I remember once receiving a question from a
girl who was 14 years old, and her
question was, why can't I have a boyfriend?
It's not like I'm committing murder or anything.
You know, in her mind, she didn't see
what was wrong with maybe holding hands and
taking cute pictures with a boy that she
liked, the romance and excitement of having somebody
like you. But there's such a wide range
of consequences just beyond the limit of her
imagination
that she didn't see. And that can be
the case for all of us with a
wide variety of issues. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
says in Surah Al Mulk.
Does not the one who created know when
he is a Latif, he is the well
acquainted?
So, a Latif also means the subtle. Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
Allah says,
But let's go back to the meaning of
gentleness and care, and intricate knowledge of benefits,
and how to bring them about from where
you don't expect. Intricate knowledge and intricate care.
So we look at achazah, and we say,
You Latif. We don't see where the good
is. We don't have the knowledge of how
you'll bring this about, about, but we know
that you have more care for them than
we do, and you have better knowledge of
how to bring them about. You know, we
look at Sudan and we say, Yeah, Latif,
this country is collapsing by the day, but
we have reliance on you and belief in
you that you're able to bring them to
a praiseworthy consequence. We look at the ummah
of Muhammad
that's weak and silenced,
marginalized, and we say, You Latif, we don't
see where the light is at the end
of the tunnel because we don't have your
knowledge, but we know that there is light
because this is the world that you created.
Now, when discussing this name, scholar after scholar
after scholar points to the story of a
single prophet as an illustration of the name
Al Latif. And that's the story of Youssef,
alayhis salaam, a boy who's safe in the
company of a loving mother and father, who
has a dream that the sun and the
moon are prostrating to him, and his eventual
destiny. But on the way to that destiny,
what does he have to go through? He
has to go through being thrown in a
well, and that's horrible. And then he's sold
as a slave, and that's horrible. And then
he's brought to Egypt and sold as a
slave, and that's horrible. And then he's a
slave in a house where he's being seduced,
and that's horrible. And then there's this false
accusation against him, and then he goes to
prison. And you're looking at the story from
the outside in, and you're like, man, this
just keeps getting worse. It just keeps getting
worse. But Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, is maneuvering
him for his eventual destiny. And there might
have even been moments where Yusuf, alayhi salaam,
might have been deflated,
where he finally has a prisoner whose whose
dream he interprets. And Yusuf says to him,
Remember me with your Lord. And Allah, Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, says, But he forgot. And so,
Yusuf stays in prison for years more, years.
He's in prison
Every day that Yusuf is in prison is
a is an injustice. Every day, it's a
false accusation. Every day, he was falsely detained.
He was deserving of mobilization and hashtags, and
free use of campaigns. But we learned from
this name of Allah, is that Allah, Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, doesn't work on our time. He
works on his time. And Allah, Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, is delaying Yousaf to fast track him.
If
Allah allowed that prisoner to remember Yusuf and
get him out,
Yusuf might have gotten out, but he wouldn't
have gotten an audience with the king.
The king has no need for anybody at
that point in time, in that timeline,
for anybody with the skill of dream interpretation.
So at best, Yusuf might have been able
to get out. Maybe he would have went
back to his homeland. Maybe he would have
reunited with his family. But when does the
prisoner remember Yousef? When the king has a
dream that he's obsessing over. And And so,
when Yusuf comes out of prison, he's brought
into an immediate audience with the king. The
king gets to interview Yusuf personally and he
sees his integrity, he sees his talents, his
personality and he says,
He says, today you are with us, trustworthy,
and given authority.
And Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, delayed Yusuf to
fast track him. And Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
may be delaying us to fast track us.
Allah may be delaying what we love so
much, so that Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, can
raise us higher, that we can be stronger,
that we be presented with a better opportunity
tomorrow than what's available for us today.
Even if we're screaming ceasefire today, it may
be that
Allah is delaying us because Allah
wants to bring an end, not just to
the ceasefire, but to the entire occupation. And
that's not something that's too great for Allah
And so, Yusuf, when we continue in his
story, and his parents come from the desert,
and his brothers come, Yusuf alayhi salaam, what
does he say at the end? My Lord
was good to me when he brought me
out of prison and brought you out of
the desert. And then he says,
My lord is latif for whatever he wishes.
This is the interpretation of my dream that
my my lord made true.
My lord has made it true until he
says, my lord is latif
for whatever he wishes. My lord was able
to maneuver all of this to the interpretation
of the dream. And Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
tells us, we narrate the stories of the
prophets to you to grant your heart resolve.
You know, there undoubtedly,
there are those of us who are in
the prison of our own story, like Yusuf
was in prison, in the well of our
own story, like Yusuf was in the well,
in the house of Al Aziz of our
own story like Yusuf was in the house
of Al Aziz. But we have high optimism
in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that there will
come a day where we will look at
our lives, look at our communities, look at
our Ummah and say,
My This is my dream. My Lord has
made it true. Because my Lord is Latif.
Because my lord is Latif for whatever he
wishes. So we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
by his name of Latif to be gentle
with the Ummah of Muhammad, salallahu alayhi sallam,
and we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
guide us to the goodness that we see
and to guide us to the goodness that
is so subtle that we don't see yet.