Allahs Beautiful Names #14 Get Ready To Be Amazed By Allah’s Blessings For You – Al Lateef

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

is so subtle that we don't see yet.

is so subtle that we don't see yet.