Allah Perfected Everything About You | Allah’s Names | Dr. Omar Suleiman | Ep. 7

Adam.

Adam! Hey!

Get away from him! Whoa.

What are you doing pointing a gun at a child?

Child? Looks like a thief to me. Listen, man,

let's—let's calm down, let's. Oh, huh.

What a great idea. Never thought about that before.

Why don't I just calm down? What-what-what? I,

I, I— You fancy man in your fancy suit trying

to preach to me about how I'm supposed to protect

my God-given land? It's a misunderstanding.

What—listen, why don't you take this watch

and— What are you doing on my property?

Yosuf, His hand is trembling. He won't shoot. Enough!

What was that? You some kind of Arabs? Just

let the kid go, and we'll figure it out between

us. It's—it's okay. Don't move! I want to

see your hands.

Got a little mark on your face, boy. You tried

to rob somebody and got yourself busted up?

يوسف! Shut up!

Adam, run!

Before anything existed, He was. And when nothing

remained, He will be. But between those two realities,

He chose to create you. Out of everything He could

have brought into being, out of every possibility that

could have existed, He decided that you would be. كُنْ

فَيَكُونُ And there you were. Not by accident or by

chance, but by His choice. At this time, in this

place, with this face, to these parents, for a purpose

that only you can fulfill. And if you think about

what it took for you to be here right now, it's

almost unfathomable. Your ancestors survived wars and

plagues and famines. They crossed oceans and deserts,

generations apart, so that one day your parents would

meet in a world of billions of people. One glance,

one decision, one moment that could have gone so

differently but didn't. And out of a million

possibilities, you, just one cell, were chosen to grow

in your mother's womb. A million things could have

gone wrong, and a thousand chances could have been

missed, but they didn't. You're here. And that's not

random. And nothing is random. Because it all has a

خالق, a Creator. The Creator. الْخَالِقُ is the Creator

who creates out of nothing, but He creates nothing

without purpose. مَا خَلَقْنَا السَّمَاءَ وَالْأَرْضَ

وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا بَاطِلًا We did not create the sky

and the earth and what lies between them without

purpose. There's the story of a Bedouin who was once

asked, "How do you know there's a God?" And he

said, "When I see the footprints of a camel in

the sand, I know that a camel has passed through.

So when I see the sun and the moon and the mountains

and the rivers, how can I not know there's

a Maker?" Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala challenges

us with the most basic form of creation. The Prophet

صلى الله عليه وسلم said, "Let them create the tiniest

particle, or a grain of wheat, or a grain of barley."

This is similar to how Allah challenges you

to produce one Surah of the Qur'an like it, or even

a few Ayat. You won't be able to. Now, someone

might make something up and say, "Here, I did it."

But it would be nowhere near the perfection, the

beauty, the eloquence, or the depth of those verses.

And the discerning eye and ear would immediately

detect the difference. Same is true with this. He

didn't challenge us with mountains or galaxies, but He

said, "Make a seed." Because inside that seed is an

entire curriculum. When to sprout, how deep to root,

how much water to absorb without drowning, how to

harvest light and then restart the cycle. Only الخالق

can write DNA into dust. So you can't just say,

"Here, I made a seed." Because it's still nothing like

what He made out of nothing. Now, beyond that, what

about خَلْقِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ the heavens and

the earth? Every sunrise that paints the sky, every

drop of rain that falls on time, every heartbeat that

never asks you for instruction, all of it points to a

Maker who knows exactly what He's doing. And He

marries the beauty of it all with benefits that we

can see and can't see. That is الخالق, the Creator.

The One who brings existence out of nothing, which is

the only real form of creating. You and I rearrange

what already exists, whether it's metal or steel, into

cars and roads, or fabric into clothing. But we don't

create the metal or the fabric or the atoms

themselves. We work with what's given. And we had no

say in what was given. Your fingerprints formed

without your input. Your heart learned its rhythm

before you took your first breath. You opened your

eyes to colors you never chose. The bee builds its

hive in perfect hexagons, though it never studied

geometry. The child in the womb knows how to move

like it's programmed. Who taught them? Who taught you?

They all need a producer, not just a Creator. Because

you didn't program your heart to beat, and you didn't

remind your lungs to breathe, but they never stop.

Who's running that system? Because it's certainly not

you. That is البارئ, the Producer. Because the act

of bringing your body into being isn't only the

surface. It's deeper than that. He produced your soul

and your essence, all while perfecting the inner

design of your body with perfect balance of form and

function. Now, while الخالق speaks more to your

physical state, البارئ speaks more to your spiritual

state. The root word بَرَأَ means to heal and be

whole again. Hence, you'll notice that Allah Subhanahu

wa Ta'ala uses this name of البارئ in the spirit

of repentance. تُوبُوا إِلَىٰ بَارِئِكُمْ Return to

your Producer. He who restores you to that noble image

He intended you to be, His trophy creation. Because

when you're repenting to البارئ, you're not just

saying sorry for your wrongs. You're asking Him to

remake you right. Think about it this way. Who has the

manufacturer's warranty on your soul? Because the One

who made you knows how to mend you. He can

restore the purity you think you've lost, the

innocence that you miss, and the hope that you buried

in your despair. The One who made it knows how

to fix it. You might not even know what's wrong

inside of you, but He does. He knows which wound

needs time and which needs intervention. He knows what

strength is hidden under your scars. He knows what

your soul can still become, even if Shaitan tells you,

nothing. He can even repurpose your bad qualities and

turn them into good. So He took Umar ibn al-Khattab,

رضي الله عنه, and He restructured his soul, turning

his once reckless power into a force for justice that

changed the world. He didn't even discard his nature.

He rearranged it back to purpose. That's what al-Bari

does. He produces the inner reality, then He repairs

it when it breaks. And it's in that spirit that He

fashioned our outward reality as well. He is

al-Musawwir, the Fashioner. al-Musawwir is the Fashioner, the

Shaper, the artist of all detail. هُوَ اللَّهُ

الْخَالِقُ الْبَارِئُ الْمُصَوِّرُ ۖ لَهُ الْأَسْمَاءُ

الْحُسْنَىٰ ۖ He is Allah, the Creator, the Producer, the

Fashioner. To Him belong the most beautiful names,

SubhanAllah. هُوَ الَّذِي يُصَوِّرُكُمْ فِي

الْأَرْحَامِ كَيْفَ يَشَاءُ He's the One who fashions

you in the womb as He sees fit. Before anyone

could clothe your body, He clothed your bones with

flesh. Before anyone could feel you or hug you, He

attached you and suspended you by an umbilical cord

while He nurtured you in every way through that womb

that He fashioned to carry you. He sculpted your

features, from your eyes to your smile to the smallest

birthmark. Every detail was chosen by Him. Have you

ever seen something so beautiful that you just say,

SubhanAllah? The Prophet ﷺ was the

most beautiful human being. And when you would see

him, you would say, سبحان من سواه, how beautiful

is the One that crafted this beauty? But we marvel

at the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم today, and we

say the exact same thing, not because we can see

him, but because of what we know of his character.

Because the character is what truly beautifies a

person. And the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم used to

say, اللَّهُمَّ كَمَا أَحْسَنْتَ خَلْقِي فَأَحْسِنْ

خُلُقِي O Allah, just as You have made my outward

form beautiful, make my inward character beautiful.

Al-Musawwir fashioned Yusuf, عليه السلام, with half of all

beauty that captivated every heart that saw him. But

what made him truly beautiful was not his face. It

was his forgiveness. And that's what we marvel at now

and say, what a beautifully made man he was. But what

we don't always realize is that the same artist

that made them made you. Not so that you would

obsess over how you look, but so that you would

embrace your physical being as beauty and seek the

highest beauty standards for your soul. Allah is the

greatest artist, and you're an art piece. And one of

the tricks of Shaytan is that you seek to change

the creation of Allah, which distracts you from

seeking to change your spiritual state for the sake of

Allah. The modern world makes us prioritize the

external and completely warps it. Trends change so

quickly. Everyone starts buying products and doing

surgeries to look pretty much the same. But Allah

fashioned you with His own hands. Why do we do

this to ourselves? Is it because we want acceptance

and we want to be desired? If you accept and love

how Allah has made you, you're free from the idol

of beauty standards. So when you look in the mirror,

don't ask why you look this way. Ask instead

whether your heart reflects the beauty that المصور

already put on your face. But Shaykh, what about the

scars and the odd shapes and the things out of place?

When you see an art piece by Van Gogh or Da

Vinci, you assume that everything seemingly out

of place actually has a brilliance behind it because

of the genius of the artist. Maybe what you see

as an imperfection is the very thing that المصور

designed for a purpose you may not have yet figured

out. And real beauty isn't in symmetry. It's in

sincerity. But Shaytan wants to reverse that equation.

He wants you to obsess over the shape of your

nose while ignoring the shape of your soul. He wants

you to believe that your worth is measured by

compliments instead of deeds. Because if He can get