# Juz 7: They Know Al-Lateef in Gaza | Dr. Farhan Abdul Azeez

**Author:** Dr. Omar Suleiman
**Series:** Qur’an 30 for 30 | Season 7
**Published:** 2026-02-24
**YouTube:** https://youtu.be/qPSelnHIsw8
**URL:** https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-7
**Topics:** Faith, Quran

## Summary
This episode of Quran 30 for 30 focuses on Juz 7, featuring Dr. Farhan Abdul Azeez, who has made multiple trips to Gaza as a physician. The discussion centers on the divine name Al-Latif (the Most Subtle) and Allah's attribute as 'Allam al-Ghuyub (the Knower of all unseen), drawn from verses in Surah Al-Ma'idah and Surah Al-An'am. Dr. Farhan shares profound firsthand accounts from Gaza, including the remarkable fact that in August 2023, 13,000 huffaz recited the entire Quran from Al-Fatihah to An-Nas in a single sitting from memory. He recounts harrowing stories of prisoners in Sde Teiman Prison who maintained their faith under extreme torture — including one imam who prayed with his eyes while blindfolded and zip-tied, and a surgeon named Khalid who witnessed his six-month pregnant wife killed in an airstrike while in captivity, yet maintained that Allah placed him in that situation for a greater good, citing the hadith 'Strange is the affair of the believer, all of his affairs are good for him.' The scholars reflect on the verse from Surah Al-An'am [Al-An'am 6:103]: 'No vision can encompass Him, but He encompasses all vision. He is Al-Latif, Al-Khabir,' explaining that lutf (subtlety) refers to goodness that comes in a form opposite to what one expects. The episode emphasizes that Allah's decree is always tied to His mercy (كَتَبَ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ الرَّحْمَةَ), even when that mercy is not immediately perceivable, and that the people of Gaza embody this understanding through their unshakeable connection to the Quran.

## Key Points
- The divine name Al-Halim (the Most Forbearing) came most strongly to Dr. Farhan's heart while in Gaza, echoing Abu Bakr's (رضي الله عنه) words after being beaten nearly to death: 'How forbearing You are, O Allah.'
- In August 2023, 13,000 huffaz in Gaza recited the entire Quran from Al-Fatihah to An-Nas in a single sitting from memory, reflecting the extraordinary depth of Gaza's connection to the Quran.
- The theme of Allah as 'Allam al-Ghuyub (Knower of all unseen) frames Juz 7, appearing in both Surah Al-Ma'idah [5:109] when the messengers are gathered, and in Surah Al-An'am.
- Al-Latif is defined by scholars as goodness or mercy that comes in a form opposite to what one expects — meaning Allah's care may be hidden within apparent hardship.
- The verse [Al-An'am 6:103] — 'No vision can encompass Him, but He encompasses all vision; He is Al-Latif, Al-Khabir' — teaches that while we see only fragments of reality, Allah encompasses all of it.
- A Gazan surgeon named Khalid, who endured five months in Sde Teiman Prison and witnessed extreme torture, maintained his iman by believing that Allah placed him in that situation because it was better for him.
- Allah has ordained mercy upon Himself (كَتَبَ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ الرَّحْمَةَ), meaning His decree is always connected to His mercy, even if that mercy is only fully realized in the akhirah.
- The people of Gaza who are on the deen do not question Allah's wisdom despite living through unimaginable suffering, while many outside Gaza who are not experiencing it do question it — highlighting the power of a deep relationship with Allah and the Quran.
- Connecting to Allah's names and attributes — especially as 'Allam al-Ghuyub — allows a believer to contextualize worldly suffering within the vastness of the unseen, making even the greatest pains bearable.
- The real challenge of Ramadan is maintaining one's connection to the Quran in the months that follow, as the people of Gaza demonstrate a year-round, life-sustaining bond with the Book of Allah.

## Chapters
- 0:00 Introduction
- 1:47 The Name of Allah that came to Sh. Farhan’s mind in Gaza
- 4:34 Spending Ramadan in Gaza
- 7:34 Allah sees what we don’t see
- 12:48 The limits of our perspective
- 17:02 Stories of Gaza: “Allah put us in this because it’s better for us”
- 25:49 The magnificence of the unseen compared to this world

## Transcript
**[0:05]** If you're going through a hardship, like the people of Gaza are, we find some of us questioning the wisdom of Allah, or we say, "Where is Allah?" But then you see the people of Gaza who are living it, going through it, and they're not questioning that. How do

**[0:20]** you reconcile the love of Allah with this pain that they're going through? But Allah عز وجل is عَلَّامُ الْغُيُوبِ; there are layers to this, and Allah سبحانه و تعالى knows all of the layers of the unseen. He sees and encompasses everything. You know, I may see a mountain, but I don't encompass it. When I see Uhud, I see one angle, one side, one shade of it,

**[0:35]** but I can't totally encompass it. I mean, when we see on our phone one particular scene that we see in Gaza, know that there's thousands of that.

**[0:51]** السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته everyone. Welcome back to Quran 30 for 30. الحمد لله رب العالمين. We are in Juz 7 now, so I want to remind you all, بإذن الله تعالى, to please donate, support the work of Yaqeen. If you haven't already, then please do, بإذن الله تعالى. It is in this time that we truly look for

**[1:08]** your support, and of course after the support of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. And we hope, إن شاء الله تعالى, you're finding this content to be beneficial to your heart, to your spirit, بإذن الله تعالى, to your deen. And I ask الله عز وجل to uplift us all with the Quran. اللهم آمين. We're joined, الحمد لله رب

**[1:25]** العالمين, by Dr. Farhan Abdul Aziz. حياك الله, Dr. Farhan. الحمد لله, it's always good to have you here. ما شاء الله, you're in Gaza, it seems, more than Dallas these days. So you've been back and forth multiple times. May الله سبحانه وتعالى bless you and accept from you all the times that you've been there, and you've witnessed

**[1:41]** these آيات of الله سبحانه وتعالى in person, right? These people of Quran and these people that manifest meanings of these verses that perhaps otherwise are usually not manifest. And so, first of all, just جزاك الله خيراً for

**[1:56]** going and for constantly being there with our brothers and sisters. May Allah accept it from you all. آمين. And all the doctors that go, الحمد لله, it's not a small deal. And secondly, جزاك الله خيراً for making the time to be with us, man. Finally get to be part of it, الحمد لله. Yeah, it's your first Quran. It's your

**[2:13]** inaugural Quran 30 for 30. Alright, it's not the last, إن شاء الله تعالى. And you came in the kufiya. Sheikh Abdullah, where's the kufiya, man? No, no, I have a makhraj for you. I'm not putting it on the spot. Your thawb. Your thawb, it's got the pattern. It's microscopic, yeah, yeah, ما شاء الله. That's what it is, right? Run with it, Sheikh. Own it.

**[2:30]** You know, mashallah, you have it. You have it, Sheikh. Sheikh Farhan, on a serious note, like I'm just going to start with this. On a personal level, what's the name of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala that kept coming to your heart and mind when you were there in Gaza? SubhanAllah. The most, honestly, was probably Al-Halim.

**[2:51]** Because of the statement of Abu Bakr (رضي الله عنه) when after one of the initial incidents of da'wah, when he was beaten to the point that he fell unconscious and his face was disfigured. When he awoke, he kept saying, يا ربي ما أحلمك ما أحلمك ما أحلمك. How forbearing you

**[3:08]** are to us, O Allah, despite going through what he went through, يعني, to the point of near death. Because you see the people of Gaza, سبحان الله, they, what they're going through, it's hard to, you know, you could, you see what's, you know, you see social media, you see everything, but when you see the people living it, it's very different,

**[3:24]** your day to day, you know, like every, every part of every part of your life. But then to still have full faith in Allah, full confidence, without any doubt, without any shaking, that Allah is with us, you know, that Allah loves us, it doesn't match,

**[3:39]** you know, like, well, this is your worldly state, but then at the same time you're saying Allah loves us, you know, so that same kind of thing of the حلم of Allah. And of course, a lot of other names too, but I mean, that one's come to my mind often. What do you think makes the people

**[3:55]** of Gaza—I don't want to say what makes them special—what could you say about their relationship with Allah سبحانه وتعالى that's very unique? I think without a doubt, without a doubt, every trip is the same theme comes up again and again, and it's the Quran.

**[4:11]** Their depth of the relationship with the Quran. I mean, August 2023, 13,000 huffaz in Gaza, this small little piece of land that Allah has created on earth. Not just 13,000 huffaz graduates. In that month,

**[4:28]** August 2023, 13,000 huffaz recited from Al-Fatihah to An-Nas in one sitting from memory. سبحان الله. I mean, that gives you an idea of like what in the world, what kind of people are we dealing with here, you know? I mean, one that I was actually

**[4:44]** recorded a brother, and I was interviewing him. He was used as a human shield when they—he was a nurse at Al-Shifa Hospital. He's a hafiz of the Quran himself. He was used as a human shield going room to room in the hospital because they thought the army was there, but they're not. Anyways, he told me that when I went back and listened to the audio, I said, "There's

**[5:00]** no way he meant recited Al-Fatihah to An-Nas in one sitting. Maybe he just meant 13,000 huffaz." So this last trip I got back from, I asked multiple people there at the Quran teachers, and they said, "No, it was 13,000 people who did Al-Fatihah to An-Nas in one sitting from memory." And there's so many stories about

**[5:16]** their connection to the Quran, but in a nutshell, it's their connection to the Quran. الله أكبر. And you spent last Ramadan in Gaza last 10 nights. In the last couple, الحمد لله. So you prayed Taraweeh there. What's it like praying Taraweeh in a hospital during bombings in Gaza? I would say salah in general. And

**[5:33]** Taraweeh, of course, Ramadan has a very special sweetness to it, being there because you're in the, you know, in a blessed land الذي باركنا حوله, around Quds, and specifically Gaza being the land the Prophet (ﷺ) spoke about. But then there's

**[5:48]** a—I don't know—there's a different level of enjoyment you get. And I don't know how to put it into words, but even like the meaning of the ayat that you recite, what comes to you—and I can't think of things particularly off the top of my head right now—but of when you hear the drones above you constantly, like I prefer to pray outside, not inside in the hospital.

**[6:05]** Like I would find a place outside, but they say don't go on the roof. It's dangerous. You know, if you're standing there, you know, shrapnel might hit you, even if they don't target you. So—but I would still find a place outside to pray. And when bombs go off, and sometimes like this last trip, there was literally a bomb that went off that the ICU door was right behind me. I'm on a balcony, and the blast wave

**[6:23]** blasted open the door, and I'm praying. And so when you're reciting the words of Allah—sorry—with bombs going off, and it's—I don't know—it just hits different.

**[6:38]** And so for the people there in Gaza, this is what they're living for two years. I remember the khutbah you gave, العبادة في الهرج كهجرة إلى You talked about the hadith that worshiping Allah in difficulty is like هجرة إلى النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم When you see their level of worship, you walk around the hospital, you see this corner, this corner, people are praying, you hear the

**[6:54]** recitation. When they're sleeping, they have the Quran playing, Sheikh Al-Ajami or whoever, you hear their voice. So there's like the people who are of the—and of course, there's all types of people everywhere. In the Sahaba, there was amongst them, amongst the time the Prophet (ﷺ) there were those who were hypocrites as well. But

**[7:09]** the people, the people of Gaza who are on the deen, man, they are just a different level of just—يعني, you just want to just soak in as much as you can from them and appreciate. And those are things that's really hard to put into words until you experience it. You know, like I don't know how to explain it, but when you see it, when you see these children

**[7:26]** reciting Quran as they have like limbs blown off, when you see surgeons in the middle of the night after operating all day, fasting with no food, they haven't broken their fast. It's 2 a.m. in the morning. They haven't broken their fast. They're still operating. And he's reciting with the most beautiful recitation. One of them I'm thinking about is still in the torture prisons right now, you

**[7:43]** know. But سبحان الله, you think even at that moment they're in prison, they're going through what they're going through. What's keeping them strong? It's the Quran. That's what will keep them. So their depth, their relationship with the Quran is incredible. And Ramadan, of course, in Gaza was a different experience. جزاك الله خيراً.

**[8:02]** May Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala continue to elevate them. May Allah Azza wa Jalla give them victory in this life and acceptance in the next, accept their shuhada, have mercy on them, and may Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala allow us to be activated towards them. Allahumma Ameen.

**[8:19]** In this Juz, SubhanAllah, there are a lot of gatherings, Allah Azza wa Jalla gathering people. There's the gathering of the shuhada, there's the gathering of the rusul, there's the gathering of the hypocrites, there's the gathering of the victims. And I actually want to start from that place, Surah

**[8:37]** Al-Ma'idah, verse 109. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says, يَوْمَ يَجْمَعُ اللَّهُ الرُّسُلَ فَيَقُولُ مَاذَا أُجِبْتُمْ قَالُوا لَا عِلْمَ لَنَا إِنَّكَ أَنتَ عَلَّامُ الْغُيُوبِ That consider the day when Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala will gather the messengers, and Allah will say, "What response

**[8:54]** did you receive?" And they will reply and say, "We have no knowledge compared to you. You alone are indeed the knower of the unseen, عَلَّامُ الْغُيُوبِ." And SubhanAllah, like that to me, like can you imagine Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala addressing the best of His creation, the

**[9:10]** prophets, the messengers, all at one time and speaking to them and interacting with them? And there are no people that knew Allah Azza wa Jalla collectively better than this group of people. And as Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala is addressing victims, right, on the Day of

**[9:25]** Judgment, there are various forms of victimization. The messengers, many of them were killed. They were almost all denied at some point in their mission. So they've been victimized physically, emotionally, spiritually. Some of them had no

**[9:40]** witnesses from humanity on earth, right, in the sense that some of these prophets died without followers. And Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala is talking about this moment where He's talking to the messengers. And SubhanAllah, you just imagine who's there. And مَاذَا أُجِبْتُمْ؟

**[9:56]** Tell me what the response was to what you did, what you went through. And they say, "We have no knowledge compared to you. You alone are indeed the knower of all unseen." SubhanAllah, it's like Allah knows what we're going through, and Allah Azza wa Jalla sees. And Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala knows the effect, one of

**[10:13]** the impacts of this verse that's very relevant to the moment that we're in right now. مَاذَا أُجِبْتُمْ؟ Like what happened after you passed away? Because sometimes the da'wah of that prophet or that messenger only really gained legs after they died. So how were you responded to? And well,

**[10:30]** we don't know. Only you know. So you don't know, or I don't know even what was happening to me, the extent to which things were in play. And I don't know after I left from the earth what you put into play, right? And I think for the people of Gaza,

**[10:46]** SubhanAllah, it's very relevant too. Like imagine Allah Azza wa Jalla addresses the people of Gaza collectively on the Day of Judgment, right? They don't know the present. They don't know the future to the extent that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala sees things that none of us are able to see.

**[11:02]** And so there's this immediate framing in this Juz in particular of Allah Azza wa Jalla as عَلَّامُ الْغُيُوبِ the knower of the unseen, the layers of unseen. Like you were talking about this, like at surface level, how do you reconcile the love of Allah with this pain that they're going through at

**[11:19]** the most surface of levels, right? Because this is what we all see and experience. But Allah Azza wa Jalla is عَلَّامُ الْغُيُوبِ there are layers to this, and Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala knows all of the layers of the unseen. And there's this common notion of the victim speaking.

**[11:34]** And again, there are various forms of victimhood here, right? Isa (عليه السلام) is a victim by not just what people tried to do to him, but what people tried to make him out to be after he passed or after he leaves from this world. وَإِذْ قَالَ اللَّهُ

**[11:50]** وَإِذْ قَالَ اللَّهُ يَا عِيسَى ابْنَ مَرْيَمَ أَأَنتَ قُلْتَ لِلنَّاسِ اتَّخِذُونِي وَأُمِّيَ إِلَٰهَيْنِ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ ۖ Did you tell them to do this? Did you tell them to form this Trinity? Did you tell them to take you as a God beside Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala? Did you tell them to worship you and your mother? Did you bring them this shirk? And Allah Azza wa Jalla knows

**[12:07]** the answer. And He says, سُبْحَانَكَ مَا يَكُونُ لِي أَنْ أَقُولَ مَا لَيْسَ لِي بِحَقٍّ You know, glory be to You. How could I say what I did not have the right to say? And He says, إِنْ كُنْتُ قُلْتُهُ فَقَدْ عَلِمْتَهُ ۚ تَعْلَمُ مَا فِي نَفْسِي وَلَا أَعْلَمُ مَا فِي

**[12:22]** نَفْسِكَ ۚ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ عَلَّامُ الْغُيُوبِ That if I had said such a thing, You would have certainly known it because you know what's hidden even within me. But I don't know what is within you. You alone are the knower of all of the unseen. So once again, this common thread of Allah Azza wa

**[12:38]** Jalla as عَلَّامُ الْغُيُوبِ like Allah knows all of the layers. So this is kind of going to frame much of the discussion within this Juz, which you started off with the reminder of our brothers and sisters. May Allah Azza wa Jalla give victory to all of the mustad'afin

**[12:55]** and the weak ones and the oppressed ones and the downtrodden ones. May Allah Azza wa Jalla reward them all and elevate them. Allahumma Ameen. But that's what it is. Like we are pained by what we see, but we also believe deeply that Allah sees what we don't see. And amongst those things that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala sees

**[13:13]** that we don't see is Himself, right? So you come to this verse, لَّا تُدْرِكُهُ الْأَبْصَارُ وَهُوَ يُدْرِكُ الْأَبْصَارَ ۖ وَهُوَ اللَّطِيفُ الْخَبِيرُ that no vision can encompass Him, but He encompasses

**[13:28]** all vision. For He is the most subtle, the all-aware. So let's start with this verse. This obviously comes into the next surah, into Al-An'am, of the layers of the unseen and brings in Al-Latif Al-Khabir in a very specific way. Sheikh

**[13:44]** Abdullah, I know you're still kind of collecting yourself after what Farhan shared with us, Sheikh Farhan shared with us before. So I don't want to put you on the spot, but if you'd like, insha'Allah, obviously to share any reflections, just to start us off, bi'idhnillahi Ta'ala. May Allah Azza wa Jal bless you and accept,

**[14:03]** accept it from you. Amin, Allahumma amin, insha'Allah. بِسْمِ اللَّهِ وَالصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ. So this verse, MashaAllah, is—I mean, when you think about what's happening in Gaza right now, that the One that has given us this beautiful religion and way of life,

**[14:18]** and the One that has given us this beautiful way of understanding Him and interacting with Him, particularly that of His predestination, of what we see happening every single day on our devices or hear from people such as yourself that have had enough connection with Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, enough courage,

**[14:35]** enough consistency to go back. And I think we hear it, but I mean, you know, SubhanAllah, you know, praying and not knowing what's going to happen to you at that moment. I mean, may Allah bless your family, your wife, you know, not knowing if you're going to come

**[14:50]** back. This is the closest that we can probably see to that for someone in America right now in these days. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala is well aware of what is going on, and He sees it, and He encompasses it all. And that's the beauty of this verse. لَّا تُدْرِكُهُ الْأَبْصَارُ You know, He talks about idrak from ru'yah,

**[15:06]** from actually seeing and encompassing. You know, I may see a mountain, but I don't encompass it. When I see Uhud, I see one angle, one side, one shade of it, but I can't totally encompass it. And Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, وَهُوَ يُدْرِكُ الْأَبْصَارَ That's why He said, وَهُوَ يُدْرِكُ الْأَبْصَارَ Allah is giving this contrast

**[15:22]** in all cases. And then in this particular situation, He sees and encompasses everything only when we see one aspect of it. So this immediately reminds me when we see on our phone one particular scene that we see in Gaza, know that there's thousands of that.

**[15:42]** جزاك الله خيراً There's a lot of that that goes on. And what's important is to hold firm to what Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has legislated, and it's not supposed to be easy. But when Allah legislates that, just as it has brought some of the hearts to stop

**[16:00]** and they're shuhada, insha'Allah, it should serve a means for us to bring our hearts to life, particularly with the Quran al-Kareem. I mean, how you said 13,000 people, they don't even look at the mushaf. What kind of connection

**[16:17]** do you have to have with Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala for that? To where when these things happen, you know, you really—Allahul-musta'an. May Allah protect us from being negligent in the months outside of Ramadan.

**[16:33]** Amin. When we come close to the Book of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, we try our best in Ramadan. The real challenge is three to four months after, are we connecting with this Book of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala to where it transcends everything that we are? This is the real challenge. I mean, when hearing that, SubhanAllah, you

**[16:49]** know, they're saying these verses, they're encountering all of these things, what's happening to them in Gaza. We witness it. Do we follow it up with the word of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala? Do we follow it with shatam, with cursing, belittling people rather than praising

**[17:04]** Allah and trusting in Him and honoring Him in that regard? So this beautiful verse reminds me of the greatness of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and His magnificence. And it reminds me of how small I am in every aspect and how that should result in me always turning to Him in every single situation because He knows the subtleties,

**[17:22]** and He is well aware of every single subtlety. اللطيف الخبير. So with knowing that reality of what's happening now in Gaza, Allah is well aware of it, but Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, with His predestination and knowledge of the subtleties and having every single

**[17:37]** understanding of what's going on, the test for us is to continuously stick to His word in the Quran and allow that to be our anchor for success, إن شاء الله تعالى. جزاك الله خيراً. Your reflections on that ayah, obviously building on what Sheikh Abdullah said, the Juz, your own

**[17:54]** experience, بسم الله, in any direction you'd like to take it. So I think when you mentioned the knowledge of Allah being a theme, I think that's so crucial to understanding the lutf of Allah when we say Allah is Al-Latif.

**[18:11]** Because, you know, some of the scholars define lutf to be presented with something in the image that's opposite to what you expect. You know, so like if you're going through a hardship, like the people of Gaza are, you

**[18:27]** know, we find ourselves, we find we, meaning as a community, as a whole, the whole Ummah, we find some of us questioning the wisdom of Allah or we say, where is Allah? But then you then you see the people of Gaza who are living it, going through it, and they're not

**[18:43]** questioning that. So it makes you wonder, like why we're not even living it and we're questioning the wisdom of Allah when we should be really questioning our belief in the wisdom of Allah? If we believe Allah's عَالِمُ الْغَيْبِ in the surah, Allah says, وَعِندَهُ مَفَاتِحُ الْغَيْبِ لَا يَعْلَمُهَا إِلَّا هُوَ. You know that Allah,

**[19:02]** to Him, belongs the keys of the ghayb, the unseen. that only Allah knows, no one else knows except for Him. The surah starts with يَعْلَمُ مَا تَكْسِبُونَ Allah knows what you earn and what you... So the knowledge of Allah is repeated in Surah Al-An'am as well as Surah Al-Ma'idah ends. Allah knows the difficulties we're

**[19:17]** going through, the feelings we have. قَدْ نَعْلَمُ إِنَّهُ قَدْ نَعْلَمُ إِنَّهُ لَيَحْزُنُكَ الَّذِي يَقُولُونَ Allah says in the surah that Allah knows, O Messenger of Allah, the feelings you have of sadness from what they're saying about you and character assassinating you and the like. How that ties into Al-Latif, though, is, you know, it's remarkable because if you

**[19:32]** have that belief in Allah, that trust in Allah, that relationship with Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, then whatever comes your way, you're able to see the mercy of Allah in it, even to understand, to believe the mercy of Allah, even if you don't, even if you don't see it, Mm-hmm, that's what's incredible. Uh, there was a

**[19:49]** brother who, uh, who's now, he's a graduated surgeon. When I met him, he was a final year of his residency in Gaza, and they still have the residency, MashaAllah. They're still going. They're still working. He was in prison for five months. And, um, one of the questions I asked him was

**[20:06]** because he described horrors. I mean, you know, you talk about how do you, how do you choose what to share? An Imam who would lead salah next to Shifa Hospital was arrested in his early twenties and was taken to Sde Teiman

**[20:25]** Prison, which is the worst prison. It's right outside Gaza. That's where they, that's where all the sexual abuse happens. That's where all the physical, the torture, the worst horrors happen there. And so when they took him for questioning and they beat him, of course, they, you know,

**[20:42]** sleep deprivation and loud music and beatings and humiliation. They would—and forgive me, I don't know how much I should share, but it shows you like the connection. Like, that's why I feel like I should share it. Um, they would, three

**[20:58]** times a day, they would make him get up and go in a corner and either urinate or defecate on himself to stand there and urinate on yourself. But it didn't break him. They tied him down, crucified him, and sexually assaulted him. It didn't break him. And then what they

**[21:14]** did was, you know, and then the brother, Dr. Khalid, the surgeon, he told me when they would sit him for questioning, you know what he would do? You know, if when you're a prisoner, you're not even allowed in Sde Teiman, you're not even allowed to move your lips. If they see your lips moving, they'll come in and they'll beat you because they

**[21:31]** don't want anybody talking to each other. So you're zip-tied and you're blindfolded. And so when he would sit in front of them for his questioning, you know what he turned to? He would pray, but he would pray with his eyes. He would literally pray with his eyes.

**[21:48]** And so that—I don't know if they realized it or not, but when when they weren't getting him to confess to being whatever crimes they wanted him to confess to, "Be you were a part of October 7th, this and that, whatever they say, they want you to—they'll try and force confessions out of you

**[22:05]** of innocent people. They brought a tablet of a live stream of his home with his six-month pregnant wife in it, and they called in a strike. They asked him first, "Do you recognize your home?" He said, "Yes, this is my home." They called in an airstrike, and he's livestream watching

**[22:22]** it, and his wife was killed in front of his eyes. And then not only that, they made him watch until the ambulance, the rescue crews came and pulled his dead wife's body out, six months

**[22:38]** pregnant. But SubhanAllah, Khalid, who's telling me this, is a hafiz of Quran, the brother who this happened to is a hafiz of Quran, and he's saying he would pray with his eyes.

**[22:54]** And you think about لَّا تُدْرِكُهُ الْأَبْصَارُ وَهُوَ يُدْرِكُ الْأَبْصَارَ. You know that our eyes cannot encompass Allah, but Allah's vision can encompass all things, the knowledge of Allah. Khalid, he was assigned to take care of this brother

**[23:11]** because the defecating on yourself and the urinating on yourself, they would assign Khalid to change his diapers. They would put diapers on him afterwards. So I asked Khalid, coming back to the question I asked him, but I want you to understand what he witnessed and lived through. I asked Khalid, "How do you stay strong?" And you know what he said? His

**[23:28]** response was, "How do you keep your iman strong?" He's like, he said, "You have to." He said two things. One, he said one, the quick answer, "Don't let your mind think too much about it." But he said the other thing he said was our belief in Allah, that Allah

**[23:43]** put us in this position because it's better for us. Can you imagine the horrors he's living, but he's saying Allah put us in this position because it's better for us. So he said, "Maybe if I wasn't in the prison, maybe I would have been bombed and maimed and paralyzed for the rest of my life, or my limbs blown off or whatever." So the fact that Allah put

**[23:59]** me here, I believe it's my belief. And then he started teaching me. He said the hadith, عَجَبًا لِأَمْرِ الْمُؤْمِنِ إِنَّ أَمْرَهُ كُلَّهُ خَيْرٌ. He's like, the hadith, and they said that strange is the affair of the believer, all of his affairs are always good for him. But to have that understanding that even in the worst of conditions

**[24:14]** that you can imagine possible, where every day you fear for your life and your personal safety and your personal honor, and despite that, you have belief that Allah is putting you here for a greater good. And what you have to understand is this greater good may—and that's why the Juz also, while it's emphasizing the knowledge

**[24:30]** of Allah, it also emphasizes the mercy of Allah. The verse comes in Surah Al-An'am: كَتَبَ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ الرَّحْمَةَ and also comes in Al-An'am: كَتَبَ رَبُّكُمْ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ الرَّحْمَةَ. Right, that Allah has ordained mercy upon Himself. So the decree of Allah is always tied to His mercy, even if it may

**[24:48]** not be in this world. And that's where the akhirah comes in, that okay, even if we don't perceive and Al-Latif, right, it means something that's very subtle, it's not perceived. So to understand that the mercy of Allah may not be perceived in this world, I may not understand

**[25:03]** what I'm going through right now as an individual, this diagnosis that I was given, this suffering that my family had, whatever it is, I may not be able to understand the wisdom of Allah. But my belief in Allah, that Allah is Al-Latif, it's going to turn out better for me, whether it's now or in the akhirah. That's something you see the people of Gaza, like it's

**[25:21]** just it's in their DNA, like it's embodied. Like, like how do you go through those tests? A sister, a widow, 33 years old, whose husband was martyred six months after she got married. And she said in her words, "I got married late," you know, in the culture, 33 to get married, 32 to get married, whatever she was, 32, 33 when she

**[25:36]** got married is considered like late in the culture. And so she said, but she said, she said, "I have full belief in Allah because Allah says, إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُدَافِعُ عَنِ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا Allah defends those who believe. My husband's shahada is my—he can intercede for me now. He can intercede for 70 of his

**[25:52]** family members." So this is this is her like perception of the difficulties, but it's it's painted—there's their perception of their life, their perception of their difficulties, what they're going through day to day is painted in the lutf of Allah and understanding what that means. You know, so when Allah says, لَّا تُدْرِكُهُ الْأَبْصَارُ وَهُوَ يُدْرِكُ الْأَبْصَارَ وَهُوَ اللَّطِيفُ الْخَبِيرُ Allah is all

**[26:07]** اللطيف and He's all aware. All these things that we go through, every subtlety, Allah is aware of it. And the ultimate decree of Allah's mercy that will that will eventually come to us, whether in this dunya or the akhirah, the khair that's going to come out of it, we'll we'll all witness it. I mean, there's so many

**[26:23]** stories from Gaza to share about Al-Latif and and also many other names of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, but just some thoughts that come to mind. الله يبارك فيك. It's hard to talk about anything else after

**[26:38]** what you shared, but what I'll just say, SubhanAllah, is you can't see Allah yet. You also can't see the other side of death, right? That was a huge emphasis of last Ramadan. Yeah. عَيْنُ الْيَقِينِ Right? عَيْنُ الْيَقِينِ Like you go from عِلْمُ الْيَقِينِ to

**[26:55]** عَيْنُ الْيَقِينِ the knowledge of what's certain and then to seeing it. And right when you're dying, you're seeing the angels that you're hoping to be surrounded by in Ramadan. You're seeing you're already getting a perception into something like, "Oh, okay, this is reality," right? عَيْنُ الْيَقِينِ

**[27:10]** And it's real, right? And I think SubhanAllah, like we kind of package like Al-Ghayb into everything. So there's Al-Ghayb as in the unseen of divine decree. There's Al-Ghayb as in the unseen time to come or the life that's after this life.

**[27:28]** And then there's the greatest part of Al-Ghayb, which is Allah Azza wa Jalla Himself. And it's all packaged, right? And once someone comes to عَلَّامُ الْغُيُوبِ, right, like that Allah Azza wa Jalla, the greatest part of the unseens is the one

**[27:45]** who knows all of the unseens. And if I know His names and attributes and I connect to that reality rather than the one that I'm I'm living in at surface level, then I can deal with whatever this surface

**[28:02]** has to present to me because I know that it's at the end of the day a thin layer of the layers. Like when you just compare the magnificence of Al-Ghayb compared to this world, it's like SubhanAllah, like look at the size of the Earth

**[28:17]** compared to the size of the galaxies that we can see, the smallness of what we see to the greatness of what we don't see, right? Then the greatest pains inflicted upon us within what we see can be put into the perspective of what we don't yet see.

**[28:34]** So this element of Allah knows best, Allah knows best because أَنتَ عَلَّامُ الْغُيُوبِ you are the knower of the unseens, the all-knower of all of the unseens, the layers of the unseen is deeply profound, SubhanAllah. So jazakAllah

**[28:49]** khair for sharing those reflections, for giving us a little bit of insight into these people who, SubhanAllah, no matter how many times you read about them, see them, hear about them, you can't help but find yourself within this double,

**[29:08]** you know, reality, this dual reality of how amazing are they and how deficient are we, right? How amazing are they and how deficient are we? So may Allah forgive us for our deficiency in regards to them in regards to all of the believing

**[29:23]** men and women and the oppressed ones around the world. اللهم آمين. Sheikh Abdullah, if you want to share a last word, you can. May Allah bless you. بارك الله فيكم. إن شاء الله تعالى, we'll see you all tomorrow. والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته.

## Other Episodes in "Qur’an 30 for 30 | Season 7"
- [Juz 30: Love Al-Razzaq More Than Rizq | Sh. Navaid Aziz](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-30.md)
- [Juz 29: Your Spiritual Report Card  | Dr. Nazir Khan](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-29.md)
- [Juz 28: How To Truly Be Conscious of Allah | Dr. Jinan Yousef](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-28.md)
- [Juz 27: The Night You Give Everything | Sh. Abu Bakr Zoud](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-27.md)
- [Juz 26: Don’t Run From Struggle | Sh. Mikaeel Smith](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-26.md)
- [Juz 25: God Is Not A Mystery | Sh. Ibrahim Hindy](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-25.md)
- [Juz 24: Candid Conversations with Allah | Mufti Abdul Rahman Waheed](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-24.md)
- [Juz 23: Facing Your Trials With Honor | Dr. Farah Islam](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-23.md)
- [Juz 22: Appreciating Muhammad ﷺ | Sh. Omar Hajjaj](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-22.md)
- [Juz 21: Allah Is The Author of History | Sr. Sarah Sultan](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-21.md)
- [Juz 20: Allah’s Loud and Silent Revelations | Sh. Hisham Abu Yusuf](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-20.md)
- [Juz 19: What Makes You Valuable to Allah? | Ust. Roohi Tahir](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-19.md)
- [Juz 18: The Qur’an Is A Cure | Dr. Tesneem Alkiek](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-18.md)
- [Juz 17: When Allah Chooses You, How Will You Respond? | Sh. Yousef Wahb](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-17.md)
- [Juz 16: Can You Be Patient With Allah? | Ust. Lobna Mulla](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-16.md)
- [Juz 15: Join the Heavens in Glorifying Allah | Sh. Mohamud Mohamed](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-15.md)
- [Juz 14: The Surah of Blessings | Ust. Taimiyyah Zubair](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-14.md)
- [Juz 13: What Is 1% of Allah’s Mercy? | Dr. Mohamed AbuTaleb](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-13.md)
- [Juz 12: Allah Is Not Far | Sh. Omar Hedroug](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-12.md)
- [Juz 11: Stop Playing Games | Dr. Ovamir Anjum](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-11.md)
- [Juz 10: When Allah Goes To War For You | Dr. Suleiman Hani](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-10.md)
- [Juz 9: How To Memorize Allah’s Names | Dr. Haifaa Younis](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-9.md)
- [Juz 8: Whose Validation Do You Need? | Sh. Shabbir Hassan](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-8.md)
- [Juz 6: Signs of A Hypocrite | Sh. Asim Khan](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-6.md)
- [Juz 5: You Can’t Fight Fire with Fire | Ust. Fatima Lette](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-5.md)
- [Juz 4: The Final Moments of This Life | Ahmad Hraichie ( The Muslim Undertaker)](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-4.md)
- [Juz 3: How The Qur’an Makes You Rich | Dr. Tahir Wyatt](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-3.md)
- [Juz 2: The Lord of Rituals | Mufti Menk](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-2.md)
- [Juz 1: Allah’s Names in the Qur’an | Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/quran-30-for-30-season-7/quran-30-for-30-season-7-juz-1-mohammad-elshinawy.md)
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