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TRAILER | Qur’an 30 for 30 Season 7 | Dr. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Abdullah Oduro
Juz 1: Allah’s Names in the Qur’an | Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy
Juz 2: The Lord of Rituals | Mufti Menk
Juz 3: How The Qur’an Makes You Rich | Dr. Tahir Wyatt
Juz 4: The Final Moments of This Life | Ahmad Hraichie ( The Muslim Undertaker)
Juz 5: You Can’t Fight Fire with Fire | Ust. Fatima Lette
Juz 6: Signs of A Hypocrite | Sh. Asim Khan
Juz 7: They Know Al-Lateef in Gaza | Dr. Farhan Abdul Azeez
Juz 8: Whose Validation Do You Need? | Sh. Shabbir Hassan
Juz 9: How To Memorize Allah’s Names | Dr. Haifaa Younis
Juz 10: When Allah Goes To War For You | Dr. Suleiman Hani
Juz 11: Stop Playing Games | Dr. Ovamir Anjum
Juz 12: Allah Is Not Far | Sh. Omar Hedroug
Juz 13: What Is 1% of Allah’s Mercy? | Dr. Mohamed AbuTaleb
Juz 14: The Surah of Blessings | Ust. Taimiyyah Zubair
Juz 15: Join the Heavens in Glorifying Allah | Sh. Mohamud Mohamed
Juz 17: When Allah Chooses You, How Will You Respond? | Sh. Yousef Wahb
Juz 16: Can You Be Patient With Allah? | Ust. Lobna Mulla
Juz 18: The Qur’an Is A Cure | Dr. Tesneem Alkiek
Juz 19: What Makes You Valuable to Allah? | Ust. Roohi Tahir
Juz 20: Allah’s Loud and Silent Revelations | Sh. Hisham Abu Yusuf
Juz 21: Allah Is The Author of History | Sr. Sarah Sultan
Juz 22: Appreciating Muhammad ﷺ | Sh. Omar Hajjaj
Juz 23: Facing Your Trials With Honor | Dr. Farah Islam
Juz 24: Candid Conversations with Allah | Mufti Abdul Rahman Waheed
Juz 25: God Is Not A Mystery | Sh. Ibrahim Hindy
Juz 26: Don’t Run From Struggle | Sh. Mikaeel Smith
Juz 27: The Night You Give Everything | Sh. Abu Bakr Zoud
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Juz 28: How To Truly Be Conscious of Allah | Dr. Jinan Yousef
Juz 29: Your Spiritual Report Card | Dr. Nazir Khan
Juz 30: Love Al-Razzaq More Than Rizq | Sh. Navaid Aziz
Qur’an 30 for 30 | Season 7
Juz 28: How To Truly Be Conscious of Allah | Dr. Jinan Yousef
“How do I get to know Allah?”
Dr. Jinan Yousef has the answer. She joins Dr. Omar Suleiman, and Sh. Abdullah Oduro to explore verse 23 of Surah Al-Hashr: “He is Allah, other than whom there is no deity, the King, the Most Holy, the All-Perfect, the Source of Serenity, the Watcher over all, the Almighty, the Supreme in Might, the Majestic.”
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.
You know the best way to know Allah SWT is the Qur'an. I mean sometimes I think we try to list, we like to list the names and then just get the name and the definition. But
if you really want Allah, how does Allah talk about himself in the Qur'an? And I always tell this to youth especially, is that when you're in the prayer and you forget, you went somewhere else and you're not thinking about Allah, whatever you're
thinking about, think about a name of Allah that applies to that particular situation that took you out of the prayer and that will bring you back inshallah ta'ala. You know when Allah SWT refers to himself as Al-Mawla in Surat Al-Tahrim, like this
loving guarding protector. And who does Surat Al-Tahrim end with? Maryam, Asiyah. And Allah SWT showed who they truly were and more importantly who he truly was.
As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh everyone. Welcome back to Qur'an 30 for 30.
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a very special guest with us, truly fitting to the topic, Dr. Jinan Yusuf, may Allah bless you. How are you? I'm good, Alhamdulillah Shaykh, how are you? Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. Now when it comes to like doing a series on
the names of Allah SWT, I was actually like, I shouldn't do a series on the names of Allah because you already wrote the book. You literally wrote the book on it, Alhamdulillah, living with the names of Allah. So many people have benefited from that book, subhanAllah. So
many people have taught that book, read that book and across ages, it's truly helped people connect to Allah SWT. May Allah bless you for that and sort of pioneering in this field
when it comes to the English language, especially in making it accessible. I'm gonna ask you just, when did you write the book? What made you write the book? Jazakumullahu khairan, personally and truly anything good is from Allah SWT, Alhamdulillah.
So the book was published in 2020, but I actually started writing it as a series way
back when on virtualmosque.com. This was 2012, 13, 14, something like that. And yeah, and it took like around four years to write. And then the publishers got in contact with me
and said, you know, you need to turn this into a book. And I was like, why? It's online, it's for free, there's no need. They said, no, no, a book is different. I said, on one condition, I have to have, you know, like my teachers kind of like look over it and
so on and so forth. And then it took another three years, but Alhamdulillah. And then 2020 kind of COVID time, Alhamdulillah, it came out. Alhamdulillah. So I'm gonna put you on the spot. What's your favorite name of Allah SWT?
Ooh, okay, Shaykh. I mean, it always changes, right? Because you connect to Allah in different ways in your life, depending on what you're going through, right? Depending on, subhanAllah,
the things that are happening around you. But maybe right now I would say it's Allah Al-Fattah, but also Al-Fattah Al-Aleem. So Allah is the one, you know, who opens everything,
but also he's all-knowing. Because a lot of times we want the opening on kind of our schedule the way that we want it, like it has to look like this. But when Allah pairs these names together and he says, he's Al-Fattah Al-Aleem, Allah says, he does open and he will open,
but he actually knows things that you don't know. So that's kind of the names that I've been connecting to a lot lately. MashaAllah. You know, subhanAllah, my grandfather's name was Abdul Fattah, rahmatullahi alayhi. I
never met him from Palestine, lived and died in Palestine. He never left Palestine. He's still buried there. And when I was a kid, I remember asking what Fattah means because
obviously in Falahi, our colloquial language, like Fattah, Iftah, we're just thinking about like, open, open this, open the door, open, turn the light on. Iftah, you know, it says Iftah, Iftah, Iftah. So I remember asking my parents what that name meant, subhanAllah,
and getting something that I couldn't comprehend at the time, but it truly is a beautiful name and one that we don't take into our du'a, I think nearly enough. May Allah Azza wa Jal bless you. JazakAllah khair for sharing that.
Alhamdulillah, in Juz 28, there is actually, subhanAllah, the name Allah shows up in every verse. As we've said in previous seasons, in Surah Al-Mujadilah, Allah Azza wa Jal starts off with this,
قَدْ سَمِعَ اللَّهُ قَوْلَ الَّتِي تُجَادِلُكَ فِي زَوْجِهَا Right? So Allah has heard the plea of the woman who pleaded with you, O messenger of Allah, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. وَتَشْتَكِي إِلَى اللَّهِ
But she was complaining to Allah, appealing to Allah, subhanAllah. It's very powerful. Allah heard her and she was appealing to Allah, even though on the outset or at the exterior level, it looks like she's appealing to the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
and only the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, is hearing her. But this is deeply connected to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And then the name of Allah Azza wa Jal is mentioned in every single verse in this Surah, Surah Al-Mujadilah. And one of the benefits is like Allah hears the cry of the one
who's oppressed, right? So for him to use his name, and this is the only Surah that has that distinction, is something truly special. But one of the ways that we can sort of weave this through,
this juz, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala hears the oppressed. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala also hears the nonsense claims of the oppressors. And so it's really interesting because you go from
the pleading woman to the hypocrites. And what are the hypocrites doing? They're raising their voices and they're making a scene, right? They're showing themselves to be something they are not. They are, you know, elevating themselves. They are propping themselves up, speaking in a certain way,
right? And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Allah already knows he's the Messenger of Allah, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. You don't have to stand up and make this scene like, Oh, I bear witness the Messenger of Allah, right? Everyone sit and listen to the Messenger of Allah like you sit down. You don't have anything to do with this. Stop trying to make your voices
heard. Stop trying to make yourself seen. Allah sees you, but he sees you for who you truly are. So you kind of go from al-mujadilah to you have the munafiqun in this. And then you also have
Surat Al-Talaq, which talaq exposes hypocrisy. Like on a personal level, talaq truly exposes the hypocrisy of people, right? People fear Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so little when it comes to
the matters of divorce. That's where promises are broken. Covenants are broken. Secrets are shared. That's where all the dirt is thrown. That's where, you know, like the character of a person comes out, right? In times of talaq. And then you have Surat Al-Tahrim, right? And obviously that's not
all of them, but I'm jumping through sort of this message that is sort of laced throughout of Allah sees, Allah sees, Allah hears, Allah hears, and that is either to your benefit or to your great
harm. And Surat Al-Tahrim, which by the way, subhanAllah, the second page of Surat Al-Tahrim is one of my favorite pages in the Qur'an. I love this page of the Qur'an where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is talking about, first and foremost,
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا تُوبُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ تَوْبَةً نَّصُوحًا Right? And then it kind of goes down. Allah calls us to repentance, but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions the believers going ahead with their light. And they're saying, رَبَّنَا أَتْمِمْ لَنَا نُورَنَا
Right? Oh Allah, keep our light for us. These are the sincere people who kindled an unseen light in this world. And Allah Azza wa Jal saw the whole time and Allah Azza wa Jal is preserving it. But
the hypocrites have no light anymore. It's like now you already burned yourself out in this dunya. Like Allah heard you and saw you the whole time. Now you can't be like, you know, we were with them the whole time and you can't make a scene anymore. You can't cover it up anymore. Like Allah saw it
for what it truly was. And now you're being treated for what it truly was the entire time. And you're out of light. Now you're out of light, right? The believers have their light and you're out of light. So it's like you have the personal scenarios and then you have the grand scenarios
all weaved into this juz where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala brings it to light and exposes darkness on the day of judgment. And the names of Allah Azza wa Jal are plenty here. Of course, there is
the verse that we will talk about inshallah in detail, but particularly like, you know, when Allah Azza wa Jal refers to himself as Al-Mawla in Surat Al-Tahrim, like this loving guarding
protector. And who does Surat Al-Tahrim end with? Maryam, Asiyah, right? Like who felt more unheard than Asiyah, right? As far as people are concerned, no one was around her to hear her pleading
when she was calling out to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala she was being killed, right? But Allah heard her and Allah Azza wa Jal in fact quotes her and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala promises his help and support and reward for her. And then Maryam alayha salam, can you imagine how lonely she felt
when she walked and she was surrounded by all of these people that were condemning her and chastising her and admonishing her. No, Allah saw you. So you have the woman who pleads, al-mujadilah, all the way to these women who were pleading and they're in their different situations.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala showed who they truly were and more importantly, who he truly was through this all. And of course you have Surat Al-Saff, you have Surat Al-Hashr, you have
other surahs within this juz that we'll talk about inshallah ta'ala. But that's the way that I personally, when I was kind of looking through this juz, like Allah Azza wa Jal sees these and then Allah Azza wa Jal bringing the recourse at the end for both the victim as well as the victimizer.
It's beautiful how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is really just mentioning certain people at this time to kind of show the manifestation of the name and how it actualizes with them, with Khawla bint Tha'labah at the beginning of Al-Mujadilah. And I like how you mentioned, there was a plea with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And then there was
the call to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, subhanAllah, which shows the level of iman of Khawla at that time. And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioning Asiyah, mentioning Maryam alayhima salam, just
how these women are the epitome of chastity, the epitome of ibadah, servitude. When what they went through and how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala showed that to all of us to show, look, the manifestation
of As-Sami', that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala hears way beyond our hearing, but the capacity that we have, it's our responsibility to call out to him and to be vulnerable to him in these times, even
though we may go to creation to help the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and much lesser than him, but realizing that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, these beautiful names and attributes can always, we always, always call on him based on a particular situation. So that's a reminder for all of us to
remember his beautiful names and attributes in the particular times and situations that we face in our life, to try our best to remember him, to remember him and remember a particular name
that coincides with our situation and to call on him with these Asma' al-Husna. And all of that is pondering and thinking of Allah and thinking about life and tying the two together because sometimes what we do is we just stop at the physical and the tangible life and we forget about Allah being
that he's the one that is Qadir and he is the Khaliq, you know, he is the creator of time and the creator of the situation. When we connect that, that's the dhikr that is beneficial and that benefits us and benefits others around us, alhamdulillah.
Allahumma barik to you. JazakumAllahu khairan. Dr. Jinan, any comments on sort of the overall of the juz? I mean, just one thing kind of to follow up on what you were saying, both of you actually, that, you know, the best way to know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the Qur'an. I mean,
sometimes I think we try to list, we like to list the names and then just get the name and the definition. But if you really want Allah, how does Allah talk about himself in the Qur'an? How does he tell us about himself? Right? And I think then you really do connect,
like you were saying that, you know, Allah listens, Allah hears, right? How Allah opens things, how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives victory. What does a victory look like? All of that is through the Qur'an. And so in a sense, it's not us kind of, you know,
coming here and just having a dictionary definition of a name and khalas, it's like, no, Allah himself is telling us about himself in his book. And I think, and that's, if you want to know Allah, just go to the Qur'an and inshallah you'll be introduced to who he is
on his terms. Absolutely. On that note, so, you know, subhanAllah, like Surat Al-Mujadilah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, and then Surat Al-Hashr has the most extensive list of the names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
those other names as well. هُوَ اللَّهُ الَّذِي لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ الْمَلِكُ الْقُدُّوسُ السَّلَامُ الْمُؤْمِنُ الْمُهَيْمِنُ الْعَزِيزُ الْجَبَّارُ الْمُتَكَبِّرُ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ عَمَّا يُشْرِكُونَ هُوَ اللَّهُ الْخَالِقُ الْبَارِئُ الْمُصَوِّرُ
the sequence of those names and what they mean together, can you please elaborate inshallah ta'ala how they're uniquely used here in this context? I think just before commenting on those in particular, I think we need to take a step
back to the few verses before, right? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, you know, he tells us, you know, who are kind of reading his speech, reading his words, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ
right? So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is kind of calling us, right? Like when he says, wait, that's me inshallah, right? I'm inshallah of those who believe, right? So when he says he's calling us to have reverence for him, right? Have reverence for
Allah, to be conscious of Allah, to fear Allah, healthy type of fear, right? And Allah repeats it twice, right? وَلْتَنظُرْ نَفْسٌ مَّا قَدَّمَتْ لِغَدٍ
And let each soul look what it's presented for tomorrow. Like what have you, what have you given for the akhirah? What have you given for Allah? وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ And then, right? And so Allah then reminds us and have taqwa of Allah. And those few verses,
Allah kind of tells us and don't be like those who forget Allah because they, then Allah will make them forget themselves. And the people of paradise are not equal to the people of the hellfire. So the verses where Allah tells us about his names are intimately related to,
obviously, the verses that came before, right? Because how do you have taqwa? How do you be a person who doesn't forget Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? You need to know Allah, right? You have to know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. That is the best antidote to forgetting Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
That is the best way to bring about taqwa, is to always be conscious of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And as you mentioned, these names, many of them are unique. They don't come anywhere else in the
Qur'an. And the sequence that they come are also especially unique, right? So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala before the verses that you spoke about, he tells us that he's Alim Al-Ghaybi Wa Ash-Shahada. So he is the knower of the unseen and the witness. And he is Rahman Rahim. He is the entirely merciful,
the especially merciful, right? And then Allah tells us that he's Al-Malik and then Al-Quddus As-Salam Al-Mu'min Al-Muhaymin. So inshallah, very briefly, because there are obviously like a lot of names
and you know, this is a shameless plug, but we have an article on Yaqeen on the sequence of Allah's names in Surat Al-Hashr. So hopefully that will be more detailed. But subhanallah, it's, you know, the sequence of the names really shows us how Allah actually knows us. When Allah, he kind of builds up, you know, first he tells us that he is, you know, the knower of the unseen
and the witness. That's only for Allah. No matter how knowledgeable a human being is, you don't have knowledge of the ghayb, right? And so that's kind of the first step. And this Allah who has all this knowledge
is also the most intensely caring about you, right? And merciful towards you. And then he is Al-Malik, because, you know, if you think of human beings, even if you have a person who's knowledgeable and who's nice, if they can't do anything with that, they can't really help you.
So then Allah is Al-Malik, right? So Allah, no, no, this is not a human being. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is knowing. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is so merciful, but he's also Al-Malik. He's also the sovereign, the king. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala controls everything.
And then the beautiful thing is Allah, so now we come to Al-Quddus. Al-Quddus is like the sacred, the holy. So Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is purified, right? From anything blameworthy. And it's so interesting, the sequence,
because Al-Malik, when you think of Al-Malik, a king, all of us have an image that comes to our mind when you think of a king. And even the Qur'an itself doesn't talk very positively about kings. Kings usually do bad things. So as a human being, when you hear king, maybe, maybe, subconsciously,
you start to attribute to Allah negative attributes of kings. Maybe you're scared, but not a good scared. You're a paralyzed scared. Maybe you think Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, you know, is oppressive. So Allah follows it for,
I mean, he precedes it with Rahman Rahim, but then he follows it with Al-Quddus, the way that you're imagining God in terms of imagining how he is, Allah is Quddus. Allah is free from anything defective
that you have actually attributed to Allah. So this Quddus is actually, when knowing Allah is Quddus, it helps you to, in a sense, reframe the way you think of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. There's this reframing that happens every time I might attribute something negative,
or I say, why did Allah do this? Like it comes up sometimes, these thoughts, right? No, Allah is Quddus, right? Anything that I can imagine Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to be, no, no, Allah is Al-Quddus. And once we have all of these attributes, right? And we know, or we know these names, right?
Al-Quddus and then As-Salam. As-Salam is also, in a sense, Allah is perfect, but Allah is also the source of peace. And you can only have literally peace in Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala when you know that Allah is free from defect, because Allah is not going to do anything.
Allah keeps his promise, right? Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, you can trust Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah invites you to the ways of peace, right? Allah actually tells us, if you wanna find peace, you find peace in Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, right?
And so Allah, in a sense, he calls us to not, in a sense, look at this world, searching for ways of peace, but actually to turn to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, right? And then, and there's so much more to say, inshallah, maybe we can go into it a little bit later.
But, you know, I know we're, you know, tight for time, but, you know, salam is really, when you look at our prayer, right? We start with Allahu Akbar, and then we end with salam. And the point is, it's like, if you have really been connecting to Allah in your prayer
and submitting to Allah and worshiping him, you will actually have salam at the end, right? Like, you will actually have the sense of peace. And that's why we say, Allahumma anta salam wa minka salam, right? Like, you are peace. We don't say it at the beginning, right? We say it at the end, because that's almost the result
of turning to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, right? And so, and it's really, and the sequence here, Allah being Quddus, and then being Salam, because it's almost like Allah's building up, right? If I tell you, you know, you need to have peace, but you don't have any of the prerequisites,
you're like, you're telling me this, but it doesn't help. But Allah's told you all of these things, that how Allah is so merciful towards you. He knows everything. He's the owner of everything. He's Quddus. Now you're in a state where you feel like, I can find peace in Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la.
And then you have al-mu'min that comes after. And you know, al-mu'min comes from the root like amn, right? Which means safety and security. And in a sense, it's one of these few names that in a sense we share with Allah, that Allah Himself has chosen, right?
Because insha'Allah, you're a mu'min, I'm a mu'mina, right? And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is al-mu'min. And so Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, He gives us security. Allah says in the Qur'an, a-ta'amuhum min joo'in wa amanahum min khawf. Right? That Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
gave them security from fear. And the type of amn that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la gives is really, I mean, it's different types. It's external and internal. But really it's that internal amn that you have in your heart.
That Allah al-mu'min, He secures your heart through faith in Him. The more faith you have in Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, the more security you have in your heart. You mentioned Sheikh Omar Asiyah Alayhi Salam. And I love her story so much, right?
Because you think, you know, she's standing in front of, you know, the tyrant of tyrants. And she's able to make this du'a and to smile before she passes away. And you think, who is actually secure at that moment?
Is it Fir'awn, who is inflicting all types of oppression in order to be secure, right? Or Asiyah, who has this oppression inflicted upon her, but she has peace with Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la.
She is safe and secure in her faith with Allah. And that's how you can tell a person who really has this amn from Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, because they don't need to inflict oppression because they're already secure in Allah.
Fir'awn, you can see, even though he's, you know, projecting this power, he has no power. He's so insecure that he has to kill baby boys, infants, newborns.
And so, subhanAllah, that's how we understand. We ask Allah for that amn in our hearts. And then finally, insha'Allah, to give us an opportunity to have a chat about it, but you know, al-mu'min al-muhaymin, right? So Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la,
you know, al-muhaymin is like the all-controlling kind of guardian, right? Like they would be like, oh, if a soldier, for example, haymana over a city, took control of it and is basically watching over it.
And so Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, again, like I think this is such a beautiful name for especially our time today, because Allah's in control. Even when you feel you're out of control, you feel that the world is out of control, you have to know that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is in control, right?
And that, knowing that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is in control, that helps us to, in a sense, do what we need to do for His sake. We don't say, there's no apathy here, right? That there's no point because they're in power. They are in control, right?
No, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is in control. I mean, subhanAllah, just to mention, Allah Akbar, but the flotillas, right? When you see the flotillas, who is in control? You have this oppressive power that's in control. And if you think about it, nothing, you can't, there's no way you can get through.
There is no way you can get through. And you have these people, these people of conscience, masha'Allah, may Allah bless all of them, right? But they do it because there's something inside them, and especially the Muslims of them, that you know that Allah's in control. And even though, and maybe many of you have seen
these clips that come up on social media, even though they were intercepted, right? They were intercepted. They were not allowed to, quote unquote, break the siege. But the people in Gaza were actually able to fish for the first time in years,
because the Navy was so distracted. So who's really in control? Are they in control? Can they be everywhere at the same time? They can't. And so, subhanAllah, it's to know that Allah is Al-Muhaymin. You might not know the wisdom right now. You might not know why there's all this suffering right now.
But if we go back to the beginning, Allah is 'Alim Al-Ghayb wa Ash-Shahadah. There is a realm that you have no idea. It's in the ghayb. You don't know what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is planning there. And so, this is how we tie these things together. But I'll stop here to give you guys an opportunity,
insha'Allah. No, masha'Allah, that's beautiful. I mean, you know, just seeing the different ways that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is reminding us at different angles of His perfection and of His authority and power. You know, it reminds me of a term. I think they use it in psychology.
It's called self-complexity. And self-complexity is an expression of a person having different roles. So, for instance, you know, if you're a mother, you're also a sister in Islam.
You're a sister to your biological brother or sibling. You're also a daughter. You're also an entrepreneur. You're all of these things, but in some realm, you may not be performing well
because it has an effect on the other, right? So, for instance, a father that comes home from work, he's not doing well because he's excelling at work, but he's not excelling at home. But with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, in each one of these roles, it's perfect. There's not even an aspect of, you know,
not excelling in any one of them. And that's an important aspect to remember. You know, when Allah gives a command for taqwa, and He says it again with taqwa Allah, and then He mentions the ones that don't have this taqwa of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, they forget themselves.
What are one of the ways that you can remember Allah to obtain that taqwa? Because the taqwa is the mindfulness of God. When you have that mindfulness, insha'Allah, it will bring forth actions that will cause you to remember yourself and not forget yourself, to remember Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So one of the ways is, remember all these names who Allah, you know, Al-Muhaymin, Al-'Aziz, Al-Jabbar, it's gotta be these beautiful names and the way that they're manifested in different ways, all under the name Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. That's why we say that these attributes of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
and that serves as a huge opportunity for us to think, okay, how is 'Aziz different from Jabbar? Although they're both talking about Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, what are the stories to where 'Aziz, who would think of 'Aziz? Well, Allah mentions 'Aziz at the end of this verse
for this particular context. So what about my life? What context in my life took place towards Al-Muhaymin? And as you provided, masha'Allah, the context of what's happening in Gaza. You know, for us to think about these moments and it creates an opportunity for us to remember the name of Allah. And I always tell this to youth,
especially to all of human beings, that when you're in the prayer and you forget, you know, you went somewhere else and you're not thinking about Allah, whatever you're thinking about, think about a name of Allah that applies to that particular situation that took you out of the prayer
and that will bring you back insha'Allah to Allah. So that's one way that the names and attributes of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, whatever we're facing, we can easily, when remembering Him, it brings us back to thinking of Him, to further think about ourselves and our deficiencies, to be more vulnerable, to call on Him.
And this is the process. This is the process of servitude. That's beautiful. Self-complexity. Self-complexity, yeah. SubhanAllah, like you think about what you just said, Allah 'Azza wa Jal, one element of perfection does not take away from the other.
Even within the verses themselves, there's tasbih, subhanAllah, right? SubhanAllah, like you're even saying that, how perfect is Allah, right? He is perfect. And these of course are within the musabihat, even like these surahs that start off
with the declaration of the glory and the perfection of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and everything else is imperfect in its essence and its attributes and its actions. It's all imperfect. And so in the second verse, wa allahu alladhi la ilaha illa hu,
al-malikul quddus, as-salam, al-mu'min, al-muhaymin, al-'aziz, al-jabbar, al-mutakabbir, subhanAllahi 'amma yushrikoon, right? So Allah declares His tasbih, subhanAllahi 'amma yushrikoon, right? With, you know, how perfect is He
and nothing should be attributed to Him. And He is greater than all that is attributed to Him. The next verse, wa allahu al-khaliq, al-bari, al-musawwir, lahul asma al-husna, yusabbihu lahu ma fi as-samawati wa al-ard, right? So when Allah mentions His attributes,
His names and attributes as a creator, and by the way, all of His creation does tasbih of Him as well, declares His perfection as well. And of course, one element of that tasbih, whether you like it or not,
in your functioning within the order of Allah's creation, you are glorifying Allah subhanAllah by your very existence. Even subhanAllah, the most rebellious of His creatures are still in their functioning, in their bare functioning,
have some element of declaring the perfection of Allah subhanAllah. So nothing takes away from the other. Like as human beings, even when a human being has one good quality, that is almost always to the detriment of another quality, right? He's humble.
So with that humility, there's gonna come a shyness, might become off as timid, unable to exert a certain form of power in this particular domain. And that's the way that that person is. And then you have the other side of that, right?
Allah 'azza wa jalla has created us with different personalities and one good quality almost always necessarily means that there is some level of deficiency in another good quality. But with Allah subhanAllah, it's all perfect.
Lahul asma ul-husna, right? Perfect names, subhanAllah. Dr. Jinan, we want you to give us the last word, insha'Allah ta'ala. SubhanAllah, I was thinking as you were mentioning also the self-complexity, it's also,
I can't remember which tafsir, one of the mufassirin mentioned this. He said, you know, when you look at these names of Allah subhanAllah, when you ponder over them, they also manifest differently depending on who you are. So when we say that Allah is, let's just say we're talking about Allah being al-muhaymin,
you know, if I'm a person who is insha'Allah trying to do good, this helps me to do good because Allah is in control. But if I'm a person who is an oppressor, knowing Allah is al-muhaymin should have a very different effect on my heart, right? Because if I think I'm in control,
but Allah is actually in control, that really needs to put this fear of God in my heart, right? And so the way that subhanAllah, Allah's names are so comprehensive that also depending on who you are,
they will look differently, right? And you will understand them differently. So, you know, I'm sure that, you know, Fir'awn when he was drowned, right? Allah being al-muhaymin at that moment,
being in control, to Fir'awn looked very different because he was being drowned than to Musa 'alayhi salam and Bani Isra'il who was seeing him being drowned, right? And so we have to always ask ourselves, where am I, right? Like, am I in this position
where I actually have to fear the anger of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala or am I in a position where I am actually really comforted by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and they're not, you know, they don't negate each other, right? There's always like a good kind of healthy fear
because even if you're not Fir'aun, but maybe in your own life, you're hurting someone, you're oppressing someone, like we always like to think about it's other people, it's not us, right? But it's also us, right? And so knowing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is kind of having that vigilance as well that like, I'm having, I'm comforted by Allah being al-Muhaymin, but I actually also need to check myself. I need to check myself, like am I doing something that I need to also fear al-Muhaymin
for a good reason because I'm doing something that is wrong. And so subhanAllah it's just, you know, Surah al-Hashr gives us this insight into these beautiful, beautiful names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that, you know, needs multiple episodes. So I hope that, you know,
people watching and listening can, you know, actually take this as an opportunity to go reflect themselves, right? To reflect on these names and really see the manifestations of Allah's names in their own lives. Insha'Allah they'll see the series that you keep put out.
That's right. We got the Ramadan series and we got the series of the papers that you all have been writing. May Allah bless you and accept from you. And it was a pleasure to have you on and may Allah accept your work. Jazakumullahu khairan everyone. Insha'Allah ta'ala we'll see you all tomorrow.
Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. you
