[SPEAKER_00]: Many of us, we grew up learning this really negative understanding of who Allah is.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that negative understanding of who Allah, Subhanahu Wa'Taul is has deeply impacted us.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's impacted us in a way where we only know the wrath of Allah, we only know the anger of Allah, we only know that side.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't understand Allah, Subhanahu Wa'Taul in a deep emotional way of the one who truly loves us more than anyone loves us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm reminded of a Hadith of the Prophet ﷺ, just so that we can understand that when the Prophet ﷺ when he taught about Allah, he didn't start off with the brimstone.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't start off with that aspect.
[SPEAKER_00]: He started with what everyone needs, which is that deep love for who Allah is.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's not just about love for Allah, that love begins by us understanding how much Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala loves us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I begin tonight with this Hadith, which is so profound because it shows us how he taught about Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a moment, there was a battle that was going on and it was like after the battle and there was a mother who had got separated from her young child, a young child three, four years old and this mother was running frantically through the battlefield just trying to find her mother, his mother and the mother is running as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: And finally, she sees the child, and it's this epic moment where the child comes to the mother, they meet each other, they embrace, and the mother grabs the child and holds on to the child.
[SPEAKER_00]: And just to depict how needy they were of each other, the prophesies that I said, I'm said that this was a suckling child, and her shirt was wet from the milk in her chest, like that knee she had for that child, but the child's need for her.
[SPEAKER_00]: and the Prophet saw this right in front of him so the light it was said to them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he said to the Sahaba, He said, You guys see this.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they said, Yes, He said, Do you ever imagine that this mother could throw this child into the fire?
[SPEAKER_00]: Could you imagine that?
[SPEAKER_00]: And they said, No, how could how could this mother ever harmed this child in the least?
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet said, He said, That is how a lot loves you if not more.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is how Allah loves you, if not more.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so the prophesies that begin our learning of who Allah is with this love element.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so many of us have this transactional relationship with God, that is devoid of that element of love.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so as we go through these names, your intention is to know who Allah is in a deeper way so that you can call on Allah by these names.
[SPEAKER_00]: As Allah says in the Quran, what Allah is asma al-Husnah, that indeed Allah has these beautiful names, beautiful names, Fadr-euhu-Bihah, they're not just to know, they're not just to be on the wall with that nice, like, you know, calligraphy.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not the objective, that purpose is Fadr-euhu-Bihah.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have to call Allah by these names.
[SPEAKER_00]: or use these names.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tonight, we're doing a name of a loss of panuata, Ida, which low key between us, like, I have really been anticipating this name.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just because I know what this name meant, but because I knew what the name meant, or I felt like I knew what the name meant, I was worried to do it, it's Huck.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, do justice to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, um,
[SPEAKER_00]: I was sitting there picking the names and I was like, it's time, man, let's do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's been a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you're never going to be ready.
[SPEAKER_00]: You just got to do what you got to do sometimes.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the name that we're studying tonight is Latith.
[SPEAKER_00]: Latith, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: This name is a profound name.
[SPEAKER_00]: And by the words in the room, by the gas in the room, some of us in the room like, where?
[SPEAKER_00]: Which I'll know that, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you know, in some of us have an ink link into what that word means, I'm going to try my best to share my connection.
[SPEAKER_00]: I called scholars from around the country and asked them, tell me what you know about the teeth go.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the moment they said it, they were like, yeah, the teeth.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's all they did, like, yeah, I can't do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, tell me what you know, I mean, open your heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this word, let's eat, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: First, we break down what the word means and then we connect it to our lives.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, this word, let's eat, comes from a root word, lamthla fa, which actually has a few deep meanings.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm a listy, so those take in those can take notes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number one, it has the meaning of to know things deeply.
[SPEAKER_00]: to know things extremely deeply, like what's going on behind the scenes?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like a lot of you guys are in computer science, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like for me, I turn on the computer, that's it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just see what's on the screen, but some of ya'll, you're like, no, the coding language behind it was going on in the back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like let's see if is the one who is aware of the most subtle aspects of everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: And one verse Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala, He says, Alayya alamumin khalak, does the one who created not know Wahoo al-Latif al-Habib.
[SPEAKER_00]: Indeed, He is Laatif, the one who knows the deepest elements.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll come back to this, because this understanding of Allah's knowledge of the deepest elements has a major transformational impact on who we are.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number two meaning of Laatif is to be gentle.
[SPEAKER_00]: to be gentle, the Rasussullah, it was said them, every aspect of his essence was strong but gentle.
[SPEAKER_00]: He as a human being was the pinnacle of strength.
[SPEAKER_00]: The pinnacle of bravery, but he never let that take away from the gentle side of who he was.
[SPEAKER_00]: Latif is the one who is gentle.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so when you say, yeah, Latif, you're asking for Allah, Allah, Allah, to be, Allah be gentle with me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Be gentle.
[SPEAKER_00]: This hit me because all of us had different parenting styles when we were raised.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I know not everyone in the room went through that, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And so when I think of gentleness in my mind, I can remember when, you know, I hear a thunder storm and I crawl and get into the bed.
[SPEAKER_00]: And my mom, a single mother, she's like, come on, get in the bed, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: That gentleness, that softness, Lutof is the meaning of to be extremely gentle with somebody, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the meaning of Lutof.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the second meaning of Lutof.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number three meaning of a lot of is benevolence.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just doing good for people, doing good till those around you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the last one, which is like that the heavy meaning is to be subtle, to be subtle.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to start with this one.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, this word came subtle.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that we use it, it's not a, you know, I mean, it's not a crazy big word.
[SPEAKER_00]: We use subtle all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I looked this word up, just like I understand it more deeply.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I found this something that is so delicate or precise, that is difficult to analyze or describe.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Something that is so delicate and so precise, that it's difficult to describe or analyze.
[SPEAKER_00]: When the scholars wrote about Latif,
[SPEAKER_00]: the earth science, like how seasons change and Allah subtly brings things into your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I heard one scholar Shiknab Aluszi he said, I was reading this in his book today.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, Elatith is the one, that on a hot day, you're hot and sweating, but you don't realize that the fruit that you're gonna eat in the fall is ripening.
[SPEAKER_00]: like that's the subtleness he's working in the back for you that's who the thief is he is the one that all that he does for you is subtle and he is subtle and that's this is the amazing thing like a musa he was talking to God and musa talking to Allah when you talk to someone Allah the next thing you want to do is see him.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Then that, well, why y'all laughing?
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, that's it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You start just talking.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then next thing is like, I wanna see you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wanna see, and that's what happened with Musa.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was, he was Kalima Law.
[SPEAKER_00]: But after a while, talking only does so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: It only scratches so much of the edge.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he said, y'all, Allah, I didn't need Android E-Lay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Y'all look, can I just see you?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's how you know he was in love.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, he couldn't have enough that, why y'all smile with somebody I can't even smile.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he had this desire to see a lussepanuatana, a lussepanuatana, he said, lendsarani, you can't see me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Meaning it's not time yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't see me.
[SPEAKER_00]: lendsarani, you can't see me.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's about a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because the eyes of this dunya cannot handle the splendor of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: It can't, you can't, it can't take that in.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Allah said, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's
[SPEAKER_00]: not stopping.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Musa, he said, Arini, Andor, I like y'all, let me see you, let me see you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he said, l'Antarani, you can't see me.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't see me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I want to stop here because this is important.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, Salihalan see them Muhammad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Salihalan Habib.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Salihalan say them Muhammad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Salihalan say them Muhammad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bismillahirrahim.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe the kids in the moustache hit something like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: No?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, all right, we're just going to keep going.
[SPEAKER_00]: This may not.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, we're good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah, oh, I caught.
[SPEAKER_00]: Somebody's doing what I was accepted in this joy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to do love.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he said, Len Torani, you can't see me.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't see me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now listen, this is important.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's another verse in the Quran where Allah says, La Tudoriko, hold up a sword.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sight can't reach God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wahoo, you did equal Abbasat, Wahoo Allah, see, notice Allah uses the same word.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sight can't see Him, Wahoo Allah, see, meaning He's so subtle.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's so subtle that you can't see Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if you become a person that is cognizant of His wealth of in your life, His subtleness in your life, you start to see God everywhere.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to repeat that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Eyes can't perceive Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: He can't be perceived, that's the verse,
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to stop here, because one of the scholars he said, one of the problems we have in this day and age with atheism is this materialist society we live in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything is based on what we see.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I meet these 16, 17 year olds, they took one philosophy class, you know, they're like, think they're smart.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, oh, you can't see it, you can't test it, it's whatever empiricism.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the reality is, man, you can't see love, but you have it, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't see hatred, but it's in your heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's so many realities to life that you can't see.
[SPEAKER_00]: When it comes to Allah, Allah says, Allah says, Allah, to the decad of a sword.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't use sight to see God.
[SPEAKER_00]: But this is what's next.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says, wahoo, you the decad of a sword.
[SPEAKER_00]: But He perceives everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: But here's the end of the verse.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wahoo and lathe, faqabib.
[SPEAKER_00]: But He's lathe, meaning you can perceive the subtlety of God if you open up your eye to that.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you become someone that opens their sight to that, that deeper sight, not this sight, that sight, then you start to see a lot everywhere.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as I speak, I want you to think of the subtle ways that God has blessed you and brought you to this point you are right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right now, we're a lot brought you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was talking to a shick today, big scholar in America.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a convertu.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was talking about this name.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, shit, do you know
[SPEAKER_00]: If once, right turn hadn't happened, if one phone call had been made, if one police officer actually got to pull me over, and check what he should have checked, life would have been a whole different.
[SPEAKER_00]: Meaning the subtleness of how God brought me to this point right here, how many things aligned in the stars, as we say.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it wasn't the stars, it was a law.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Moses says to Allah, let me see you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I talk to you enough, let me see you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah says, you can't see me.
[SPEAKER_00]: But just look at this mountain.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will show my splendor to the mountain.
[SPEAKER_00]: If the mountain stays still, maybe then you can see me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Moses looks at the mountain.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah reveals himself to the mountain.
[SPEAKER_00]: The mountain is crumbles.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Moses just by the reflection faints.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the beauty of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so Moses in this moment, he wants to see God and what I want it to highlight here is if you want to see God in your life, you need to know this name Latif because he is subtly in every moment in your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: In every single moment in your life, a Latif is there.
[SPEAKER_00]: It happens, man, my kids be sleeping on a couch.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he got a bed, he's sleeping on a couch.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll come out the middle of the night, he's sleeping on the couch, no cover.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm a dad, I'll take the cover of cover.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I thought to myself, how many times in my mom do that for me?
[SPEAKER_00]: Salatif, I'm not aware.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not aware of how he's been setting so much up for me in my life.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I can only share my experience.
[SPEAKER_00]: I shouldn't be sitting here right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I should be a statistic, y'all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Straight up.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's Latif.
[SPEAKER_00]: How did I find out about Islam?
[SPEAKER_00]: Latif, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sato, see Latif is subtle in how he sets things up for your goodness.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sato in how he sets things up for your goodness.
[SPEAKER_00]: I learned about Islam in a summer job that I just randomly took because I didn't get into college.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I thought I was good, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone's like, yeah, this dude, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, I'm taking a gap here.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you got to use the gap here.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I mean, so I'm taking a gap here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, yeah, take the gap here.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I mean, and in that gap, you're a random guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, you ever read the Quran, bro.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, Quran, yeah, I'm not.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, what?
[SPEAKER_00]: He even wanted those.
[SPEAKER_00]: What?
[SPEAKER_00]: As if it's weird, and from that moment,
[SPEAKER_00]: Just one thing after the next after the next after the next after the next after the next as I look at my life I just realize he is Latif but I need you to look in your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: The saying about me is about us And it's about us realizing the look of Allah What is the look of and I want to combine gentle and subtle how gently and subtly he takes you from one stage to the next stage That's Latif how
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, a child, look at the teeth in a child's mouth.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a simple example, but it hit me.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, look at the teeth in a child's mouth.
[SPEAKER_00]: If the child was born with adult teeth, they wouldn't fit them out.
[SPEAKER_00]: They would look weird, they would wouldn't fit.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the child is born with baby teeth.
[SPEAKER_00]: But those teeth can't stay there forever.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you can't pull them out when you want to.
[SPEAKER_00]: there'll be a mince pain.
[SPEAKER_00]: But somehow, slowly but surely, a lost Japan was out of himself, takes one tooth out bit by bit subtly, no pain.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he said, if you pulled it out, it would be painful.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that child bites an apple, tooth comes out, tooth very under the pill.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's Latif.
[SPEAKER_00]: Took you from one stage to the next subtly,
[SPEAKER_00]: But I need you to look in your life and see that little.
[SPEAKER_00]: I need you to look in your life and see where that exists.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this idea, I'm going to start with, I'm going to break down all of these different aspects of latheves so we can connect with this name tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: The first aspect that I want to look at is the aspect of gentleness.
[SPEAKER_00]: gentleness.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those teeth coming out had to come out gently in order for there to be no pain.
[SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of times our life is going stage by stage is moving too slow, but you don't understand that slowness is part of the gentle growth that Allah wants to give you.
[SPEAKER_00]: That slowness in gentleness is part of the process.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now about this gentleness, there's another name of Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not focusing on this name of Allah, but the names are so connected I have to mention it.
[SPEAKER_00]: A Rafiq.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Rafiq literally means the gentle one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now notice the difference.
[SPEAKER_00]: Latif has all these other meanings, but Rafiq means gentle.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a Hadith where Rasul al-Sai said, and he said, in the Allah al-Rafiq, indeed Allah is gentle, listen closely.
[SPEAKER_00]: You hip or riff, he loves when your gentle, he loves when your gentle, and now here's where I want to talk about how we act with ourselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: First thing first as a parent, as older brother, as older sister, as a mother, as a father.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Hadith says,
[SPEAKER_00]: that the prophesied Son of He said, while you'll talk, I let Rifq, Allah will provide and give through gentleness, Mala yotah al-Amasi wa, that which can't be given any other way.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does this had deep need?
[SPEAKER_00]: That Allah first of all, he says, I am gonna fake, I am gentle.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then He says, but I love to see gentle people.
[SPEAKER_00]: What I love about this is as I said before, the Suicide Son of a Strong.
[SPEAKER_00]: But at the same time that strength didn't stop him from being a gentle person.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll share a Hadith with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I came across a crazy Hadith today.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Hadith is there was a man.
[SPEAKER_00]: His name was Maawia bin Hakkam.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maawia bin Hakkam.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was in the early days of Islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now if you don't know in the early days of Islam, the Salah, the prayer reprate.
[SPEAKER_00]: It changed over time slowly.
[SPEAKER_00]: So in the early days, they used to talk in Salah.
[SPEAKER_00]: They used to literally buy y'all what we're cutting it.
[SPEAKER_00]: In prayer, we'll work on is it, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, they'll walk around everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: So while we had went, while we had been happy, he had went on a journey somewhere.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when he was gone, he didn't know but a verse had been revealed that was that prohibited talking in Salah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he comes back.
[SPEAKER_00]: The narration says that he comes back and he jumps in the prayer.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the moment he jumps in the prayer, he did what he always did.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a y'all, what we call we in.
[SPEAKER_00]: And every one around him is trying to make him quiet.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like, quieting him down, quieting him down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, they're signaling to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, these guys are like, from the desert, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're kind of rough people.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he starts making noise, like, why y'all quieting me down?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, he's getting loud, what's wrong?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why y'all quieting me down?
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're doing it more.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's realized they're trying to make me quiet.
[SPEAKER_00]: So then he says, he's loud three, four times.
[SPEAKER_00]: Low.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he realizes, all right, let me be quiet.
[SPEAKER_00]: After the prayer was over, this is what he says.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's profound Hadith.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, after the prayer was over, the prophesial Ladi was said to him, he came to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, he came over to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he sat down with me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he said,
[SPEAKER_00]: Yama Awea, Allah has created this sallah for the sake of Allah, for Tilaawaf Quran, for Tespi, and we're not allowed to talk in the prayer.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then, O Awea says, He didn't scold me.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't yell at me.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't hit me.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't curse me.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, while Laahi, I never saw a teacher more gentle after or before Him, ever.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was a little loss of Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: This gentleness, this gentleness that the prophesies of them had, I challenge us that as we want to change our siblings, we all got that knucklehead sibling, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: My name watching, so I'm good, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: One day in Shala, let me go up for you, and we all got that sibling.
[SPEAKER_00]: And maybe you are that sibling, but how do you change people?
[SPEAKER_00]: My man, looking at his brother right now,
[SPEAKER_00]: But the thing that we struggle with is we think that harshness is what's going to change people.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have two things I want to say about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have to learn to be gentle with yourself and you have to learn to be gentle with others.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of us are harsh on ourselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's why we're harsh on others.
[SPEAKER_00]: Learn to forgive yourself first.
[SPEAKER_00]: Learn to be gentle with yourself first.
[SPEAKER_00]: All to be enough sick of what and be gentle with yourself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Be forgiving to yourself.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so when I was putting my notes together, I realized something.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said, when we learned to see his gentleness with us, it will make us gentle with the other people around us.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when you think Allah is being harsh with you,
[SPEAKER_00]: Why this?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why didn't I get the job?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why didn't I get the wifey?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why didn't I?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why was my 20s away from the dean?
[SPEAKER_00]: These people memorized Quran and stuff?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why this?
[SPEAKER_00]: When you see everything that came to you as harshness and punishment from God, you become an embodiment of that and everyone around you can't stand to be around you.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it all begins by you seeing God's mercy upon you.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're here today, I'm here today.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is the biggest side that Allah has shown gentleness everything up to now was to bring us to this moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Was to bring us to this moment right here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know where we'll be tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_00]: We might not be alive.
[SPEAKER_00]: But this moment right now we're believers we're learning about Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's better?
[SPEAKER_00]: Right now in this millisecond, your heart is connected to God.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is Allah's gentleness and looked up with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the idea of gentleness, there's another Hadith I want to add, the profit-size system, one time said to Ayashara, the alautana, and our mother.
[SPEAKER_00]: Somebody had said something ill to the profit-size system, and Ayash was there.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Ayash, if you know her, see it, she doesn't play.
[SPEAKER_00]: She does not play.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so she said to the profit, like, getting them back,
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet taught her something so beautiful in that moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said to her, in the rift, laia kunu fiche in ilazana, gentunis is not added to anything except that it makes it more beautiful.
[SPEAKER_00]: Except that it makes it more beautiful.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what gentunis does.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now here's the problem we have.
[SPEAKER_00]: So many of us, I said it earlier, won't raise gentility.
[SPEAKER_00]: We won't raise with that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But guess what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes you've got to stop that generational trauma and become the change, yo.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've got to become that change for that next generation.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have to become that, or else you pass it on and pass it on and pass it on.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I've said this before, your children ain't going to take the excuse, my dad did this to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't say that, I can't say that's a awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because he's like, yo, but you, my dad, you supposed to get your stuff together.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't say we're in my dad wasn't there.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: So we have to learn this gentleness in us, even though it wasn't shown to us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you say, okay, shake how?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm telling you how.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number one, see the gentleness of God in your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number one, see it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look for it, search for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you guys are brilliant people.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there's doctors in here, surgeons, engineers, computer scientists, entrepreneurs.
[SPEAKER_00]: This room is filled with all type teachers, therapists.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, there's all types of people in this room.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah has blessed us so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when you see his gentleness with you, then you'll begin to embody that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And number two, look at the Canada Kung-fi Rasulullah, he is wa-tun, ha-sana-tun.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't have a father that imitated gentleness, guess what?
[SPEAKER_00]: The prophet said to you, and al-Akum-Kalwaadid, I'm your dad.
[SPEAKER_00]: I teach you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Learn it from me.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this gentleness is where I want us to begin with, see God's gentleness in your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I wanna move on to the next one because we have a lot to talk about in this name.
[SPEAKER_00]: The second aspect of this name is that word subtle, that word subtle.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the biggest place in the Quran where this is displayed is in the story of Joseph, you said, I say, I said, I have to a set up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just real quick, so we all on the same page.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not everyone here, I converted already, everyone's those different.
[SPEAKER_00]: Joseph's story is an epic story.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know the story, I'm gonna do the cliff notes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Joseph is loved by his father, like, like, next level of love.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that love causes jealousy of the brothers.
[SPEAKER_00]: The brothers come together, we'll kill them.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, don't kill them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's just get rid of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Traffic them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I mean, straight up.
[SPEAKER_00]: threw him in a well, got rid of him.
[SPEAKER_00]: The young boy, once in the arms of his father, is in a cold, wet, well, far away from the screams that his father couldn't hear.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's captured.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's taken from there, sold in the slavery, sold in the slavery, a son of a prophet, sold in the slavery, grows up in that bondage, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: from past from one place to the next place to the next place to the next place.
[SPEAKER_00]: He lands up in the house of the finance minister.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Joseph is on the next level beautiful.
[SPEAKER_00]: Next level.
[SPEAKER_00]: Man, SubhanAllah.
[SPEAKER_00]: SubhanAllah.
[SPEAKER_00]: What happens?
[SPEAKER_00]: The wife of the finance minister tries to seduce him.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he has in his heart this deep connection with God because that time he had with his father, that connection with God is still there.
[SPEAKER_00]: That connection is still there.
[SPEAKER_00]: So in that moment of Fithna, Walaqada hammatsbihi, Waha'am Mabihal Ola, Arra Aburhan Arabi.
[SPEAKER_00]: She tried to seduce him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Quran said that he's a human being.
[SPEAKER_00]: He would have fallen victim, had he not seen the sign of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: He saw his father in a vision.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, he saw his dad in a vision, which goes to tell me as a father that if I really want to be there for my son, I got to give that emotional support because that's what's really going to help in the time of fitness.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything goes down.
[SPEAKER_00]: They find out that he's innocent, but there's too much fitness because everybody knows about him now.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he makes dua.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Allah, I'd rather be in prison than be surrounded by the fitness that these women are calling me to.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fust a jab by the Hura-Buhu, Fussar-Fahin, who K-Dohunna, that his dual was answered, he was put in prison.
[SPEAKER_00]: But in prison, he still remained to be the righteous human being that he was.
[SPEAKER_00]: The crazy thing about Joseph's story is, right when you think it should get better, it don't get better.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, right when you thought like, in any Netflix, it would have got good by now.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the arc, the arc is long in this joint.
[SPEAKER_00]: the ark is long y'all feeling my vocabulary right like the the ark is long so what happens is he he's in prison he helps out his gelmates because he's a righteous man but they get out they forget he's there he stays but let me the decision he built our c. need innocent man forgotten in prison innocent man forgotten in prison what wrong did he do none righteous man
[SPEAKER_00]: At this point, where would our hearts be?
[SPEAKER_00]: Would you see God's mercy in this moment?
[SPEAKER_00]: Would you feel forsaken?
[SPEAKER_00]: Where would your heart be in that moment?
[SPEAKER_00]: May Allah protect us.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we saw it in the people of Raza, who were in a deep, deep trial, but they never lost hope in Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: They never lost hope in Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: We lose a job and lose hope.
[SPEAKER_00]: They lost house isn't possible in Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah is enough for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Finally, he's released from prison.
[SPEAKER_00]: And from that point on, the ark comes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the ascension begins.
[SPEAKER_00]: The ascension begins.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's primarily put up to the position of finance minister.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I've shared this before.
[SPEAKER_00]: The scholars up to fear say something deep.
[SPEAKER_00]: How did he know how to be a finance minister?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, where in prison was he taking that extracurricular course?
[SPEAKER_00]: Right, think about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where did he learn the economic, you know, a acumen in order to run the economics of an entire country?
[SPEAKER_00]: Mr. and there's no small place.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what they say?
[SPEAKER_00]: When he was a slave in the house of the finance minister, he was learning because he was a slave in that house.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does that tell you about me and you?
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes you get that gig and you're like, why do I got this gig?
[SPEAKER_00]: That gig is what's teaching you key element things that you need later on in life.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't even know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Cradie kid, wax on wax off, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't realize what God is teaching you in that tough moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's in that house as a slave that he learned what he needed to become a king.
[SPEAKER_00]: He couldn't have become a king unless he had become a slave first.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what he says at the end, everything is done.
[SPEAKER_00]: His parents come, his brothers who tried to kill him and get rid of them, traffic him, they come.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's the king of mislept.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you know what he says?
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the Quran speaking.
[SPEAKER_00]: What if I have a way, he brought his parents up onto his throne?
[SPEAKER_00]: Waharulah, who said Jada and they bow before him.
[SPEAKER_00]: He looks at his father.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, yeah, evity, how that taught we, Lord, yeah, I am in heaven.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the answer to the dream.
[SPEAKER_00]: God, the jahala, ha, ruph be hak-gah, indeed Allah has made the dream come true.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't stop dreaming, y'all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't stop dreaming and expecting great things from Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's why they say when you make dua, make great dua.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't why we be limited to dua.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, limited.
[SPEAKER_00]: I let me get in the gym.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, ask for fair dose.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ask for the highest levels.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ask for your company to 10X.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why is that hard for God?
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he says, God, the jala, the jala, the hop-up.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then look what he says.
[SPEAKER_00]: What God, the Ahsanabi.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, and God was good to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hold up, y'all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Separated from my dad, sold in the slavery.
[SPEAKER_00]: Put it in the prison, left in prison, and what is he say after that?
[SPEAKER_00]: God was good to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, God was good to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: What could a lot of it is what story you tell yourself?
[SPEAKER_00]: What's the narrative of your life?
[SPEAKER_00]: What story are you telling yourself?
[SPEAKER_00]: Tonight is about realizing, and I'm not done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look what he says next.
[SPEAKER_00]: My Lord was good to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: When he brought me out of prison, he doesn't even mention the well.
[SPEAKER_00]: My Lord was good with me when he brought me out of prison.
[SPEAKER_00]: What ya, Abiko, when he brought Shah from the desert, after Shaykh Bahn, not Allah, after Shaykh Bahn, caused conflict between me and my brothers.
[SPEAKER_00]: And look what he says at the end of his story.
[SPEAKER_00]: In Naurabhi, Latifon, Limayah Shah.
[SPEAKER_00]: My Lord is so subtle in his plans.
[SPEAKER_00]: in the Rabbi Latif on the Maya Shah.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you're going through a hardship, which we all are, we all are struggling right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are struggling.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm struggling.
[SPEAKER_00]: If we're going through hardship, the name of Allah you must call upon is Yalatifu.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what do you say?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oltuf B. Oltuf B. O Allah be gentle with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: or a lot be gentle with you, or a lot be gentle with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see if when you call this name, there's two things that I think happen to us when we call this name.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're in a hardship, just lost the job, going through divorce, children not listening to you, whatever, whatever you're going through.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you call this name, what does it do here?
[SPEAKER_00]: Number one, it forces you to realize God has a plan.
[SPEAKER_00]: It forces you to realize Allah has a plan for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: because that's his name, La Tipee Sato.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does Sato mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go back to the dictionary.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sato is something so delicate or precise that it is difficult to analyze and measure.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't measure God's plans for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're too subtle in it.