Suzy Ismail – #02 ArRahman

Cemani Gump, we're back again for the first official episode of how

we can incorporate the 99 names of Allah subhanaw taala. And the

characteristics of the 99 names of Allah subhanaw taala into our own

lives in order to better our relationships, better our

marriages, better our connection with our children with our

families. Today, the very first name that we are going to discuss

and relate to our lives is the name of Allah when Allah subhanaw

taala commands us to call upon him frequently throughout the day with

Bismillah R Rahman Rahim. And those two names are recommended

Rahim are the first to have the name 99 Names of Allah subhanaw

taala that we are going to embark upon and begin to understand what

does the word or Rockman mean? It's often translated as the most

compassionate or the Most Gracious. But the word man, as in

many of the words in the Arabic language is very rich and has more

meanings and can be encompassed in just one word, as we would see

normally in the English language. So if we look at as a human, as

the Most Compassionate, The Most Gracious, what does that mean for

us on a day to day, in our day to day lives? What does it mean for

us and how we interact with others. Now, when we talk about

compassion, we will often equate the word compassion with kindness

will often say that oh, you know, be kind and compassionate. But the

reality is that compassion goes far beyond simply being kind.

Compassion is about having empathy. Compassion is about

understanding someone's situation, and being able to view it from

their perspective. So when you have a husband and a wife, for

example, who are consistently arguing, you know, in these days

of Ramadan when our fuses are a little bit short, and we try to

check our tempers, but sometimes our tongues may get the best of

us, maybe there is an argument that consistently occurs about

who's coming over for Iftar, or what food is being made for if

thought, now, if a husband is consistently asking for specific

food items, or for specific people to be over, or different

interactions, and the wife may be responding, and saying that, you

know, this is too much for me, or I can't, I've been cooking every

day, you know, this is the moment where compassion needs to come

into place. This is the moment where we can think of Allah

subhanaw taala, as a rough man, the one who is most compassionate,

Most Gracious, and we can bring it into our day to day lives. By

implementing compassion in that type of a scenario. How can the

compassion be implemented? In that moment, if the husband were to

look at the wife and to say, I understand, you have been doing a

lot these past few days that Amazon is hard on all of us, take

a break, let's order in food. If the wife looks at the husband with

compassion, and says, I understand you've been working hard, and you

enjoy breaking fast, not just with us as a family, but with others

from the community as well. Let's invite people but let's keep it

simple. In this way, both husband and wife are showing compassion to

each other. And it's just as important to show that compassion

to our children, as we're raising them as we're encouraging them as

they're growing, as they're learning how to fast as well to be

compassionate, which goes beyond just kindness and into the realm

of graciousness as well, which means we treat our family members,

our spouses, our children with that type of understanding that is

rooted in empathy, because this is one of the characteristics of

Allah subhanaw taala. However, Rockman does a common law here and

thank you so much for coming and joining me on our episode for

today in sha Allah I hope to see you in tomorrow's episode as we

look into the Name of Allah, where we say R Rahman r Rahim. Assalamu

Aleikum