Suzy Ismail – #08 AlMuhaymin

			Santa Monica, it's nice to see you
again for another episode of
		

			bringing the Divine Names of Allah
subhanaw taala into our daily
		

			lives to improve our relationships
with our spouses, and with our
		

			children. We've been talking about
several of the names in the past
		

			few days. And today we come to the
next name of Elmo Haman. When we
		

			look at the name and well, Haman,
we see that at the root word of
		

			Mo, Haman is an M, which means
security, the name and Haman can
		

			be translated as the guardian.
		

			When we think of guardianship,
we'll think of protection. We
		

			think of looking over someone
taking care of someone ensuring
		

			that there is a sense of security
or a sense of an in that
		

			connection.
		

			In our homes and our family lives.
That element of protection is such
		

			a core element in terms of
building trust, which we've spoken
		

			about in the past episodes.
		

			But it's not just an element
that's important in the husband
		

			wife relationship. It's also an
element that's important to
		

			children that's important in the
raising of children.
		

			Just last night, our communities
were all shaken by the news that a
		

			17 year old girl was killed,
murdered in Virginia, as she was
		

			returning to the mosque for
prayers with her friends.
		

			As the shocking news, rip through
our communities, we began to think
		

			of our own children, our own
teenagers, our own cousins, maybe
		

			our own siblings, maybe young
people that we know, who may have
		

			experienced the same type of
interaction, the excitement of the
		

			month of Ramadan, the going out
for a early you know, so who were
		

			afterthought are we grabbing a
snack between salah. And we've
		

			experienced these things. And
we've always thought that it was a
		

			fun rite of Ramadan. Yet here we
have a child, a 17 year old girl
		

			who left the measured with her
friends, and never returned.
		

			How does this relate to the
concept of protection? When we are
		

			raising our children, we all want
to have that sense of protection.
		

			We want to protect them and keep
them far away from any type of
		

			harm. But many times in doing so
we may find ourselves suffocating
		

			them.
		

			And many times in doing so we may
question how much is too much? How
		

			can we give our children a sense
of security a sense of protection
		

			without suffocating them without
stifling them?
		

			And the same can often go to
spouses as well. In many
		

			situations, there are spouses who
will say, Well, I don't want you
		

			going here. I don't want you doing
this, and I'm doing this to
		

			protect you. But where's the line?
How do we draw that balance?
		

			When we are thinking of em or
protection for our families, it's
		

			incredibly important to keep in
mind that the protection has to be
		

			from real dangers from reality
from recognizing what might truly
		

			harm them, and to try our best to
keep that protection there. But to
		

			also recognize that Allah subhanaw
taala is an MO Haman. He is the
		

			protector, he is the guardian. And
so yes, we must tie our camel, we
		

			must warn our children from
walking in the streets at night,
		

			maybe when it's late at night, or
maybe be with them during that
		

			period of time. Yes, we must warn
each other our friends, our
		

			relatives, and even our spouses.
But we can't cross that line of
		

			being so over protective that we
might become paranoid or that we
		

			might cause those around us to
become paranoid as well. So
		

			drawing that line in terms of
protection is important, but also
		

			recognizing that tragedy does
exist. And that as much as we may
		

			want to say it'll be okay, it's
fine. You know, I trust everyone
		

			around you. I trust everyone here.
That's not always the case. And
		

			that's where the protection comes
in. So I pray that Allah subhanaw
		

			taala Elmo, Haman does provide us
that and that security that
		

			guardianship always for us, for
our family for our children. I
		

			pray that Allah subhanaw taala
blesses the family of the 17 year
		

			old girl who was killed in
Virginia with Sabra with beautiful
		

			patience, and protects all of our
youth and protects us as well.
		

			Every step of the way. Does that
come Hello here, and I hope to see
		

			you again tomorrow as we discussed
the next name of the 99 names of
		

			Allah stemmata