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 also 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.”

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:04

You know, the best way to know Allah SWHA is the Quran. 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 Quran?

SPEAKER_00 0:17

And I always tell this to youth, especially is that when you're in the prayer and you forget you're, you're, you're, you know, you've you've went out, 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.

SPEAKER_01 0:34

You know, when Allah Azza refers to himself as Al-Mawlah in Surah Tahreem, like this loving, guarding protector. And who does Surah T-Tahrim end with? Mariam Asya. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala showed uh who uh they truly were, and more importantly, who he truly uh was. As salamu alaikum rahmatullah everyone. Welcome back to Qur'an 3430. Alhamdulillah Rahmeen. We are now in Juz 28. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to accept from us Layut al-Qadr. We ask Allah Azza to elevate our rank, we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to forgive us for our sins, Allah Ma'ameen. As we are in these final 10 nights and these final moments, inshaAllah ta'ala, we want to remind you all to please do support Yacheen as you come into an odd night bidna dahi ta'ala. Uh, make sure that you exert yourself to the maximum, inshaAllah ta'a, that you can. And insha'Allah, this work has been life-changing for you and hopefully after life-changing as well, and for many others. And we count on Allah Azzawajal, and then your support, of course, to make this happen. So please do, insha'Allah Ta'ah. Donate with whatever you can. And Bidna Na'i Ta'a, we have a very special guest uh with us, uh, truly fitting to the topic. Uh, Doctor Jinan Yusuf, may Allah bless you. How are you?

SPEAKER_02 1:48

I'm good, Alhamdulillah Shaykhna. How are you?

SPEAKER_01 1:50

Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah. Now, when it comes to like doing a series on the names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, I was actually like um 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, um, and across ages, uh, it's truly helped people connect to Allah. So may Allah bless you for that. And um and and sort of pioneering in in this field uh when it comes to the English language, especially and making it accessible. I'm gonna ask you just when did you write the book? What made you write the book?

SPEAKER_02 2:27

Uh, and and truly anything good is from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, um Alhamdulillah. Um so the book was published in 2020, uh, but I actually started writing it as a series way back when on virtual moss.com. This was 2012, 13, 14, something like that. Um, and um 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. Um and I was like, why? It's online, it's for free, there's no need. They said, no, no, a book is different. And so I said, on one condition, I have to have, you know, like uh my my teachers kind of like look over it and so on and so forth. And then it took another three years, uh, but alhamdulillah, and then 2020, kind of COVID time, uh alhamdulillah it came out.

SPEAKER_01 3:16

Alhamdulillah. So I'm gonna put you on the spot. What's your favorite name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?

SPEAKER_02 3:20

Oh, okay, Shaykh. Um, I mean, the it always changes, right? Because you connect to Allah in different ways in your life, um, depending on what you're going through, right? Depending um on subhanAlt, the things that are happening around you. But maybe right now I would say it's Allah al-Fattah, but also Al-Fattah al-Alim. So Allah is the one you know who opens everything, but also He's the 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-Alim, 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 name, the names that I've been connecting to a lot lately.

SPEAKER_01 4:06

My my grandfather's name was Abdul Fatah, rahmatullah. I never met him from Filastin, lived and died in Filastin. He never left Falastin. Uh, he's still buried there. And uh when I was a kid, I remember asking what fatah means because like obviously in falahi, just our our our overall language, like fatah, 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 uh my parents what that name meant, subhanAllah, and getting uh something that I couldn't comprehend at the time, but it truly is a beautiful name and one that we um uh we don't we don't take into uh our du'a, I think, nearly enough. May Allah Azura bless you, Zakmullah, for sharing that. Alhamdulillah, in Juz 28, um, there is actually, subhanAllah, the name Allah shows up in every verse. As we've said in previous seasons, in Sri Mujadira, Allah Azzah starts off with this uh surah qat sami Allahu kawalati to ja diru kefiz ojiha, wa tashta ki'irulla, right? So Allah has heard the plea of the woman who pleaded with you, O Messenger of Allah, wa tashtaki ilallah. But she was complaining to Allah, appealing to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. It's very powerful. Allah heard her and she was appealing to Allah, um, even though on the outset or at the exterior level, it looks like she's appealing to the Prophet, and only the Prophet is hearing her. But this is deeply connected uh to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And then the name of Allah is mentioned in every single verse in this surah, Surah Al-Mujadira. 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, uh, is something truly special. But one of the ways that we can sort of weave this through, this juz, um, 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, uh 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. You don't have to stand up and make this scene like Al-Sithul Rasulillah, 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-Mujadira to uh you have the Munafi kun in this, and then you also have uh Surah Al-Talak, which talaq exposes hypocrisy. Like on a personal level, talak 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 tarak. And then you have Surat 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 Tahrim, which by the way, subhanAllah, the uh the second page of Surah Tahrim is one of my favorite pages in the Quran. I love this page of the Quran where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is talking about first foremost, Yayyaladina Amutubu ilallahi tawbutsuha, 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, Rabbina Atmimlana Nu'rana, right? Oh Allah, keep our light for us. These are the sincere people who kindled an unseen light in this world. And Allah Azwajal saw it the whole time, and Allah Azwajal is preserving it, but the hypocrites have no light anymore. It's like now you already burnt 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 Azzaad are plenty here. Of course, uh, there is uh the verse that we will talk about inshaAllah in detail, but particularly like you know, when Allah Azzaad refers to himself as Al-Mawlah in Surah Tahrim, like this loving, guarding protector. And who does Surah T-Tahrim end with? Mariam Asiya, right? Like who felt more unheard than Asiya, right? From P as far as people are concerned. No one was around her to hear her pleaing when she was calling out to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as she was being killed, right? But Allah heard her. And Allah Azujal, in fact, quotes her, and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala promises his help and support and reward for her. And then Marya Mahdi, 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-Mujadira, all the way to these women who were pleading in their in their different situations, and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala showed uh who uh they truly were, and more importantly, who he truly uh was through this all. And of course, you have uh Surah Slaf, you have Surah Al-Hashr, you have uh other surahs within uh this juz that we'll talk about inshaAllah ta'ala. But that's the way that I personally, when I was kind of looking through this juz, like Allah Azza sees these, and then Allah Azura bringing the recourse at the end for both the victim as well as uh the victimizer.

SPEAKER_00 9:58

And it's it's beautiful how Allah is just really just mentioning certain people at this time to kind of show the manifestation of the name and how it actualizes with them with Khaula bin Talibah at the beginning of the beginning of Mujadullah. And I like how you mentioned subhanahu wa ta'ala, there was a plea with the Prophet and then there was the the call to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, subhanAllah, you know, even it which shows the level of iman of qhawlah at that time. And then Allah mentioning Asia and mentioning Mariah, you know, just how these women uh are the epitome of, you know, of chastity, the epitome of of uh ibadah, servitude. When what they what they went through and how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala showed that to all of us to show, look, the manifestation of a summer that Allah hears way beyond our hearing, but the capacity that we have, we 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, by the Prophet, and much lesser than him, but realizing that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with these beautiful names and attributes can always we always always call on him based on our particular situation. So that's a reminder for all of us to remember his beautiful names and attributes and the particular times and situations that we face in our life to try our best to remember him and dikr, to remember him and remember a particular name that coincides with our situation and to call on him with these asma'ulhsnah. 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 of the, 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 yet benefits us and benefits others around us, Strandilla.

SPEAKER_01 11:41

Allahikum. Any comments on sort of the overall of the juz?

SPEAKER_02 11:47

I mean, just uh one thing kind of to follow up on what you were saying, uh both of you actually, that you know, the best way to know Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala is the Quran. 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 Quran? How does He tell us about Himself, right? And I think then you really do connect, like you were saying, that you know, Allah, 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 Quran. 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 halas. It's like, no, Allah Himself is telling us about Himself in His book. And I think that's if you want to know Allah, just go to the Quran and inshaAllah you'll you'll you'll be introduced to who he is on his terms.

SPEAKER_01 12:36

I'm saying that Allah isik al-khair. On that note, so um subhanallah like Sriat al-Mujadilah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah. And then Surat al-Hashir has the most extensive list of the names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, those other names as well. And who allah illallah ali mu rabi wa shahadati who arrahman rahim, who allah dila illa allahu, al-malik al-kudduos, as-salam, al-mu'min. Um Al-Muhaiman. The sequence of those names and what they mean together, can you please elaborate, inshaAllah ta'ala, how they're uniquely used here in this context?

SPEAKER_02 13:12

Okay, Sahama al Rahim, Zazakumallahaylan. Um, 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, uh, Ya'uhaladina amanu taqullah. Right? So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is kind of calling us, right? Like when he says, Ya ayyuha, yauhal ladina amanu, wait, that's me, inshaAllah, right? I'm I'm inshaAllah of those who believe, right? So when he says a taqullah, 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? And let each soul look what it's presented for tomorrow. Like what have you, what have you given for the akhir? What have you given for Allah? And then what taqullah, 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 SWANT? You need to know Allah, right? You have to know Allah. That is the best antidote to forgetting Allah. That is the best way to bring about taqwa is to always be conscious of Allah. And as you mentioned, you know, these names, many of them are unique. They don't come anywhere else in the Quran. And the sequence that they come are also especially unique, right? So Allah, before the verses that you spoke about, you know, he tells us that he's Alim al-Rayba Shahada. So he is the knower of, you know, 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-Qadudu Sasala and Muhammad. So inshallah, very briefly, because there are there are obviously like a lot of names, and you know, this is um. Take your time.

SPEAKER_01 15:10

We have all night.

SPEAKER_02 15:11

InshaAllah. It's a shameless plug, but we have an article on Yaheen on the sequence of Allah's names in Surah Al-Hashir. 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 that's only that's only for Allah. No matter how knowledgeable a human being is, you don't have knowledge of the Gaib, right? And so that's kind of the first step. And this Allah who has all this knowledge is also the most the most intensely caring about you, right? And merciful towards you. And then he is the 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-melik, right? So Allah, no, no, this is not, 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-Qhuddus. Al-Qhuddus 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 a Malik, when you think of a Malik, a king, all of us have an image that comes to our mind when you think of a king. And even the Quran 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 you're you're scared, but not a good scared. You're a paralyzed scared. Maybe you think Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, you know, is is oppressive. So Allah follows it for, I mean, he proceeds it with Rahman Rahim, but then he follows it with qdus. Like, no, no, no. The way that you're imagining God in terms of imagining how he is, Allah is qdus. Allah is free from anything defective that you have actually attributed to Allah. So this qdus is actually when knowing Allah is al-quuddus, 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's Quddus. Right? Anything that I can imagine Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to be, no, no, Allah's al-Qhuddus. And once we, you know, 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, um, you can trust Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah invites you to the ways of peace, right? Allah actually tells us if you want to find peace, you find peace in Allah. 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 um, and there's so many so much more to say, inshallah, maybe we can go into it a little bit later. I know we we're we're you know uh tight for time, that you know, salam is really it when you look at our prayer, right? We start with Allahu Akbar and then we end with salam. And the point is like if you have really been connecting to Allah in your prayer and submitting to Allah and worshipping 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 Allah ma's salamu 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 quudduos 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 has 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 Qudduos. Now you're in a state where you feel like I can find peace in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 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 inshallah, you're a mu'min, I'm a mu'minah, right? And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is al-mu'min. And so Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala He gives us security. Allah says in the Quran, uh, right, that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave them security from fear. And the type of m that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives is really, I mean, it's different types, it's external and internal, but really it's that internal m 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 subhanahu wa ta'ala, the more security you have in your heart. You mentioned Shaykh Ammar Asi 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 dua and to smile before she passes away. And you think who is actually secure at that moment? Is it Furaun who is inflicting all types of oppression in order to be secure, right? Or Asia, who has this oppression inflicted upon her, but she has peace with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. She is safe and secure in her face with Allah. And that's how you can tell a person who really has this amn from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, because they don't need to inflict oppression because they're already secure in Allah. 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, new infants, newborns. And so subhanahu wa ta'ala, that's how we understand. We ask Allah for that um in our hearts. And then finally, inshaAllah to give us an opportunity to have a chat about it, but you know, Al-Mu'min al-Muhayman, right? So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, you know, al-Muhayman 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 can is basically watching over it. And so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, 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 subhanahu wa ta'ala is in control, right? And that knowing that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala 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 subhanahu wa ta'ala is in control. I mean subhanAllah, just to mention Allah Akbar about the flotillas, right? Like when you see the flotillas, like who is in control? You have this oppressive power that's in control. And if you think about it, nothing you can, 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, mashallah, 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 is in control. And even though, and maybe many of you have seen these clips kind of that come up on on you know 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 Razah 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 Z al-Muhaman. You might not know the wisdom right now. You don't might not know why there's all this suffering right now, but we go back to the beginning. Allah is alim al-Rayba shahad. There is a realm that you have no idea. It's in the rayb. You don't know what Allah is planning there.

SPEAKER_03 23:11

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 23:11

And so this is how we tie these names together. But I'll stop here to give you guys an opportunity, insha'Allah.

SPEAKER_00 23:16

No, masAllah, it's beautiful. I mean, uh, you know, uh just seeing the different ways that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is reminding us, the different angles of his perfection and of his of his authority and power, you know, 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, um, you're also a daughter, you're also an entrepreneur, you're all of these things, but in some way, 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 is 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 taqullah, 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, and Muhammad and Aziz of Jabbar and these beautiful names and the way that they're manifested in different ways, all under the name Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. That's what we say, that these attributes of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala serves as a huge opportunity for us to think, okay, how it 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 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 Muhammad? And as you provide, mashallah, the context of what's happening in Hazah. 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're, you're, you're, you know, you're you've went out, 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. 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. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:51

That's beautiful. Self-complexity.

SPEAKER_00 25:53

Self-complexity, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:54

SubhanAllah, like uh you think about what you just said, Allah, one element of perfection does not take away from the other. Um even within the verses themselves, there's tasbi'ah. SubhanAllah, right? SubhanAllah. Like you're even saying that how perfect is Allah, right? He is perfect. Uh, and these, of course, are within the Musadbihat, 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, in its attributes, and its actions. It's all imperfect. And so in the second verse, salamun wutminun muhammun azizul jabarun mutaqabr, subhahanallah. Right? So Allah declares his tasbih. Subhanallah, right? With you know how perfect is he, and nothing uh should be attributed to him, and he is greater than all that is attributed to him. The next verse, 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 tasbir, whether you like it or not, in your functioning within the order of Allah's creation, you are glorifying Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala by your very existence. Even subhanAllah, the most rebellious of his creatures, are still in their functioning, in their in their bare functioning, have some element of declaring the perfection of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 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? If he's humble, so with that humility, there's gonna come a shyness, might be come off as timid, unable to exert uh 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 has created us with different personalities. And one good quality almost always uh necessarily means that there is some level of deficiency in another good quality. But with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, it's all perfect. Lahul asma ulhisna, right? Uh perfect names, subhanAllah. Uh Dr. Ujinan, we want you to give us the last word, inshaAllah.

SPEAKER_02 28:13

Uh subhanAllah, I was thinking as you were mentioning also the self-complexity. It's also um, you know, I I can't remember which tafsir or one of the fassireen mentioned this. He said, you know, and when you look at these names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, 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-Muhayman, you know, if I'm a person who is inshallah trying to do good, this helps me to do good because Allah's in control. But if I'm a person who's an oppressor, knowing Allah's al-Muhayman should have a very different effect on my heart, right? Because if I think I'm c 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 they will you will understand them differently. So, you know, I'm sure that you know, Faraun, when he was drowned, right? Allah being Al-Muhaman at that moment being in control to Faraun looked very different because he was being drowned than to Musa alayhi salam and binni Israel 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 uh negate each other, right? There's always like a good kind of healthy fear because even if you're not faraun, 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 a Muhammad. But I actually also need to check myself. I need to check myself, like what am I doing? Something that I need to also fear Al-Muhaman for a good reason because I'm doing something that is wrong. And so subhanAllah says, you know, Surat al-Hashir gives us this insight into these beautiful, beautiful names of Allah that you know needs multiple episodes. So I hope that you know people watching and listening can uh 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.

SPEAKER_01 30:39

That's right, we got the Ramadan series and we got the series of the papers that you all have been writing in Ramadan. May Allah bless you and accept from you. And uh it was a pleasure to have you on, and may Allah Azaj accept your work.