Suhaib Webb – How to Emulate Allahs Response to Peoples Needs – Communication and Spreading the Message

			Taqawmus means to wear the shirt of a
		

			person from Qamees.
		

			Like just don't answer them, you know.
		

			But you need to know like who you're
		

			giving the answer to.
		

			So if you think about what I said,
		

			I gave you like actually interesting assignment.
		

			Go and find those verses where Allah responds
		

			to the needs of people and then evaluate
		

			yourself, evaluate your community, evaluate your institution.
		

			You know the longest verses in * Baqara
		

			about divorce.
		

			What kind of services do we have for
		

			divorcees?
		

			So in many ways we learn as Imam
		

			Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali said, you know, one
		

			of the things that Allah loves to see
		

			is his attributes that you recognize he's given
		

			to you, you give to people.
		

			So Allah is merciful to me.
		

			I'm merciful.
		

			Allah has guided me.
		

			I'm passionate about guiding others.
		

			So this chapter comes in a teachable moment
		

			and it tells us a lot about sort
		

			of how we should think about communication and
		

			spreading the message.
		

			There's this idea sometimes that, you know, to
		

			be religious you have to be anti-modern.
		

			No doubt modernity has a lot of issues,
		

			but we don't throw the baby out with
		

			a bathwater.
		

			The Prophet ﷺ came into a pagan society.
		

			They were freaking crazy and he didn't like
		

			throw out everything.
		

			He didn't get rid of their entire culture.