Suzy Ismail – #03 ArRaheem

			Santa Monica.
		

			Nice to join you all again for the
third episode of learning how to
		

			incorporate the beloved Names of
Allah subhanaw taala and the
		

			characteristics of those names
into our relationships and our
		

			interactions with our spouses and
with our families. Yesterday we
		

			spoke about one of the first names
of Allah subhanaw taala, a rough
		

			man, and today we're going to talk
about the second name of Allah
		

			subhanaw taala Rahim. As we said,
we begin everything with Bismillah
		

			R Rahman Rahim, in the name of
Allah, the Most Compassionate, the
		

			most merciful, because the words
compassion and mercy truly go hand
		

			in hand. Now how can we
incorporate that Rahima that mercy
		

			into our interactions on a day to
day basis with our spouses and
		

			with our children. Mercy goes
beyond that element of empathy and
		

			compassion that we talked about
yesterday, and takes one to a
		

			place where you recognize that
there may be something going on in
		

			a situation and an interaction,
but you choose to be merciful
		

			towards that person. You choose to
overlook a fault. You choose to
		

			show kindness in the form of
giving from yourself for the sake
		

			of someone else, in order to
please Allah subhanaw taala one of
		

			my favorite narrations of
understanding Mercy comes from
		

			Sedona ishara Jolla and her who
spoke of a time when a woman with
		

			two children came to her home
asking for something to eat
		

			something in which to feed herself
and her children. And as we know
		

			in the month of Ramadan, now, we
know the beauty of breaking our
		

			fast upon dates of eating that
that first taste of dates that
		

			that sweetness to break our fast
with. And so certain I Aisha
		

			looked around the home, and found
three dates, and that was all that
		

			she had to give. In her generosity
and her compassion, she gave the
		

			three dates one to the mother and
one to each child. The children
		

			quickly ate the dates out of
hunger. And the mother looked at
		

			the children as the date was in
her hand about to go into her
		

			mouth.
		

			And one of the younger children
looked up at her, and he had
		

			finished the date already. And
what the mother did was break that
		

			day in half and give a half to
each of her children without
		

			tasting it herself. Despite her
hunger, despite her need for
		

			sustenance, as well, she showed
mercy to her children first. And
		

			in the narration of this hadith,
say that Isha explains to us that
		

			in that moment, she said to us
rules of Allah hottie was seldom
		

			Imagine if the mercy of a mother
to her children is like this,
		

			we're at the mercy of Allah
subhanaw taala is towards us. And
		

			He is the Most Merciful. And this
is how we incorporate it in our
		

			day to day lives, in being able to
look beyond ourselves to cross the
		

			edges of the neffs of feeding our
own desires in order to show mercy
		

			to those who love us and to those
who we love in our family. So this
		

			Ramadan, I pray that Allah
subhanaw taala allows us all to
		

			emulate that characteristic of
mercy towards one another, to be
		

			just a little bit kinder, to be
just a little bit more
		

			compassionate, to be just a little
bit more empathetic and to reach
		

			out towards our family members and
towards our loved ones with mercy
		

			and kindness and compassion for
truly Hello Rahman Rahim and we
		

			ask that he allows us to
incorporate Rama in all that we do
		

			as well. Does that come along here
for listening, and I look forward
		

			to seeing you again tomorrow. When
we look into the next name of
		

			Allah. STEM ohana.