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.