When Things Don't Go Your Way | Class 8: Al-Qabid & Al-Basit | Shaykh Mikaeel Smith

What if the days that feel heavy are not a sign that Allah is far from you, but a sign that He is calling you closer? In this powerful reminder on the names of Allah, Al-Qabid and Al-Basit — The One who constricts and The One who expands — we reflect on how Allah works through both ease and difficulty, joy and sadness, opening and withholding. This talk reminds us that not every hard day means something is wrong. Sometimes Allah pulls things back to protect us, humble us, awaken us, and bring our hearts back to Him. Class 8 of this series is a reminder to stop seeing sadness, delay, and loss as only negative, and to learn Allah’s love language in both the moments He expands and the moments He withholds.