Al Lateef

Luṭf is subtlety and gentleness at once — something so fine it works without being noticed. The root runs eight times through the Qur’an and only once as a verb, in the story of the sleepers of the cave: one of them is sent for food and told to be careful not to draw attention. The whole root is in that instruction.

Both ayat carrying this written form put al-Khabīr straight after it — the delicate and the fully informed — and one of them is the ayah saying that vision does not grasp Him though He grasps vision. Kindness does not have to announce itself in order to have arrived.