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