Why Allah Doesn’t Tell Us Everything - Surah Al-Jinn
Sep 23, 2026 · 21 min · 12 segments
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Sep 23, 2026 · 21 min · 12 segments
Nouman Ali KhanHost
Can you give us like a ballpark, ten years, a hundred years? Can you give us a rim? We're not asking for the exact date like the Mayans, right? We don't need a calendar.
Allah says, "Alimul Ghayb." The-- By the way, again, the rhetorical device where the sentence is incomplete.
It's not Hua Alimul Ghayb or Allah, Innam Allah Hua Alimul Ghayb, right? Instead, just Alimul Ghayb.
And why? Because this is an exclamation mark as if how can I answer a question about, about something that only and only the knower of all there is to know about the unseen knows? And Al Ghayb here is ghalam al-istiqraq as if, you know, imagine the, there's the world of the known, right? The physical universe, which seems endless by itself.
Then imagine the unknown, the unseen, the world of the jinn, the world of the angels, the world of history, the world of the future, all of that unknown, and he knows every last bit of it entirely.
This is a, um, not only a humbling realization about Allah, it's also a very telling realization about the Quran itself.
Can you give us like a ballpark, ten years, a hundred years? Can you give us a rim? We're not asking for the exact date like the Mayans, right? We don't need a calendar.
Allah says, "Alimul Ghayb." The-- By the way, again, the rhetorical device where the sentence is incomplete.
It's not Hua Alimul Ghayb or Allah, Innam Allah Hua Alimul Ghayb, right? Instead, just Alimul Ghayb.
And why? Because this is an exclamation mark as if how can I answer a question about, about something that only and only the knower of all there is to know about the unseen knows? And Al Ghayb here is ghalam al-istiqraq as if, you know, imagine the, there's the world of the known, right? The physical universe, which seems endless by itself.
Then imagine the unknown, the unseen, the world of the jinn, the world of the angels, the world of history, the world of the future, all of that unknown, and he knows every last bit of it entirely.
This is a, um, not only a humbling realization about Allah, it's also a very telling realization about the Quran itself.
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